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CHAP. LXIV.-An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the Funded
Debt of the County of Contra Costa to re-issue certain Bonds to
Erastus Bartlett.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

The Commissioners of the Funded Debt of the debt author County of Contra Costa, upon receiving satisfactory proof that ized to issue seven original funded bonds of the County of Contra Costa, of bonds. the denomination of five hundred dollars each, numbered re

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less to be given.

spectively seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, one hundred and forty-six, one hundred and forty-seven, have not been paid, and were lost at sea in the steamer Central America, are hereby authorized and directed, as hereinafter specified in this Act, to re-issue, at any time prior to the first day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, to Erastus Bartlett, duplicates of seven original funded bonds of the County of Contra Costa, of the denomination of five hundred dollars each, payable to him or bearer, numbered respectively numbers seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, one hundred and forty-six, one hundred and forty-seven, 'with all the coupons attached, except one, to replace seven original bonds of said County, of said numbers and amounts, lost at sea in the steamer Central America.

SEC. 2. Across the face of each bond so re-issued shall be written "Re-issued in place of an original bond of same date, number, and amount, lost at sea in the steamer Central America;" and each coupon shall also be marked "re-issued," in the face thereof; Provided, that the said Erastus Bartlett shall first deposit with the said Commissioners his bond, payable to the County of Contra Costa, in a sum not less than five thousand dollars, with at least two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the County Judge of the County of Contra Costa, and conditioned that he will indemnify and save harmless the County of Contra Costa against the reappearance of said bonds and coupons so alleged to have been lost, or any part of the same. Said duplicate bonds and coupons shall be signed by the present acting Commissioners of said funded debt, or such of them, or their successors, who shall be in office at the time the same shall be issued, and shall be dated at the date of the original bonds.

SEC. 3. The Commissioners aforesaid shall receive, for the service performed under this Act, a sum to be paid by Erastus Bartlett, or assigns, not to exceed the sum of ten dollars each.

CHAP. LXV.—An Act concerning Jurors in the County of Humboldt.
[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

allowed.

SECTION 1. In addition to the fees now allowed by law to Mileage jurors in the County of Humboldt, all persons summoned to attend the District Court, County Court, or Court of Sessions therein, shall receive the sum of twenty cents for every mile necessarily traveled in obedience to such summons, from his place of residence to the County-seat.

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Clerk.

SEC. 2. The mileage fees of grand-jurors and trial-jurors in Grand jurors criminal cases shall be paid by the County Treasurer of said mileage on County upon allowance by the Board of Supervisors and war- certificate of rants of the County Auditor; Provided, that no warrant shall be issued for mileage under the provisions of this Act, except upon the certificate of the Clerk of the Court before which such juror shall have attended as such, giving the number of miles traveled. SEC. 3. The mileage of trial-jurors in civil cases, in the District and County Courts of said County, shall be assessed pro rata by the Courts, respectively, against all suitors in said Courts at each term demanding a jury-trial, which assessment shall in all cases be paid before the jury is sworn; the assessment for mileage made by the Court may be embraced in the costbill of the party paying the same, and shall be taxed as other costs, with the judgment, in all cases tried by jury.

Jury fees

how paid.

CHAP. LXVI-An Act concerning the County Judge of the County of Solano.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

County

SECTION 1. The County Judge of the County of Solano is Residence of hereby allowed to reside away from the County-seat of said Judge. County, at any point within said County, until the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

warrant.

SEC. 2. The County Auditor of the County of Solano is Auditor to hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the County Treas- draw his urer of said County, in favor of said County Judge, for the Salary. amount of his salary, up to the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, the same as if said County Judge had resided at the County Seat of said County of Solano.

Salary.

CHAP. LXVII.—An Act to fix the Compensation of the County
Judge of Tuolumne County.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The salary of the County Judge of Tuolumne County, from and after the first Monday in October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, shall be three thousand dollars per annum.

SEC. 2. All Acts, or parts of Acts, conflicting with the provisions of the foregoing section, are hereby repealed.

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Court of
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County
Court.

Repealing clause.

CHAP. LXVIII.-An Act fixing the Time of holding the Court of
Sessions and County Court, in the County of Nevada.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The terms of the Court of Sessions of Nevada County, shall be held on the first Mondays of January, March, May, July, September, and November, in each year, and shall continue until the commencement of the next term, unless all the business of said Court be sooner disposed of.

SEC. 2. The terms of the County Court of said County shall be held on the first Mondays of February, April, June, August, October, and December, in each year, and shall continue until the commencement of the next term, unless all the business of said Court be sooner disposed of.

SEC. 3. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

Legalizing

Davis.

CHAP. LXIX.-An Act Legalizing the Acts of D. W. Davis.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All the acts of D. W. Davis, as Deputy Clerk and acts of D. W. Recorder of the County of San Bernardino, are hereby declared legal and operative, as if the said D. W. Davis was, at the time of acting as such Deputy, a citizen of the United States.

CHAP. LXX.-An Act to Confirm and Legalize the Tax-Lists or Assessment-Rolls of the County of Marin, for the years eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and to authorize the Collection of unpaid Taxes in said County.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

Legalizing

for 1857.

SECTION 1. The tax-list or assessment-roll of Marin County, as made and completed by Warren Dutton, County Assessor, assessment dated San Rafael, August third, eighteen hundred and fiftyseven, is hereby confirmed and declared to be legal and binding as a good and valid tax-list or assessment-roll for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and that all taxes mentioned in the duplicate assessment-list for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and the delinquent taxes for preceding years therein mentioned, as filed with the Auditor of Marin County on the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and by said Auditor certified to on the twenty-third of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, are hereby declared to be legal taxes.

.SEC. 2. The tax-list or assessment-roll of Marin County, as 1858. made and completed by Warren Dutton, County Assessor, dated San Rafael, August second, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and delivered to and filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Marin County on the same day, is hereby confirmed and declared to be legal and binding as a good and valid tax-list or assessment-roll for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, except so far as the same has been changed or corrected by the Board of Equalization of said County; and all changes or corrections made by said Board are hereby confirmed.

SEC. 3. In all cases in which the Tax-Collector of Marin Injunctions County shall have been, or shall hereafter be, restrained from dissolved. collecting taxes by injunction, and the injunction shall be dissolved, and the taxes remain unpaid, and the time allowed by law to collect the taxes shall have expired, authority is hereby given to the Board of Supervisors of said County to make an order directing the Tax-Collector to collect such taxes, particularly specifying the same, and to make his return thereof in sixty days after the receipt of such order, which order shall be a good and sufficient authority to such Tax-Collector to collect said taxes, and to take all legal means to enforce the collection thereof; and all statutes now in force relating to the collecting of taxes and the sales of property for unpaid taxes, and the TaxCollector's returns, are made to apply to the taxes herein mentioned, as far as the same can be made applicable.

CHAP. LXXI.-An Act to authorize John McDougal, Administrator of the Estate of George McDougal, deceased, to sell and convey Real Property at Private Sale.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. John McDougal, administrator of the estate of George McDougal, deceased, is hereby authorized, upon filing sufficient bond, to the approval of the Probate Judge of the City and County of San Francisco, to sell, at private sale, all the real property belonging to the estate of said George McDougal; Provided, that any sale made in pursuance of the power herein granted shall be first approved by the Probate Judge of the City and County of San Francisco.

County expenses.

Funding by issuing bonds.

Revenue

execution.

Bonds to be is sued.

CHAP. LXXII-An Act to provide for Funding the Debt of Tulare County, for the Payment of the Interest thereon, and for the gradual Liquidation of the Debt.

[Approved February 26, 1859.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All moneys accruing to the Treasurer of Tulare County on and after the first day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, shall be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to the payment of the disbursements and expenses of the County accruing on and after that date.

SEC. 2. The Supervisors of Tulare County are hereby authorized to fund all outstanding indebtedness of the County of Tulare, which accrued prior to the first day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by issuing bonds in payment thereof, payable in not less than one, nor more than ten years, bearing interest, payable semi-annually, which shall not exceed the rate of ten per cent. per annum, to be issued in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 3. The income and revenue of said County of Tulare, of every nature and description whatever, shall be, and the same are hereby, exempt from attachment, execution, and proceedings suplementary to execution.

SEC. 4. Within sixty days after the passage of this Act, the Board of Supervisors of said County shall cause to be made out, bonds for the amount of said indebtedness-the said bonds to be in sums of fifty, one hundred, two hundred and fifty, five hundred, and one thousand dollars, at the option of the parties accepting the same. Every holder of County warrants or scrip,

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