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CHAP. XXIX.-An Act submitting to the People of the City and County of Sacramento a proposition to appropriate Money for the purchase and construction of suitable Grounds and Buildings for the use of the State Agricultural Society, and for other purposes, in the City of Sacramento.

[Approved February 10, 1859.]

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

SECTION 1. An election is hereby directed to be held in the City and County of Sacramento, on the nineteenth day of FebProposition ruary, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. At such election there shall be submitted to the voters of said City and County of Sacramento, a proposition to appropriate money to be applied sole.y to the purchase of suitable grounds and the erection of appropriate buildings, in the City of Sacramento, for the use of the State Agricultural Society, and for other purposes, as herein provided for.

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SEC. 2. The ballots at such election shall contain either the words, "For tax for the State Agricultural Society," or "Against tax for the State Agricultural Society," and if there be a majority of all the votes cast on this question at such election for tax for the State Agricultural Society, then the Board of Supervisors of said City and County of Sacramento shall levy, and cause to be collected, a tax of one-fourth of one per cent. upon all taxable property in the City and County of Sacramento, for the purposes aforesaid.

SEC. 3. The said Board of Supervisors, in making said levy, shall take the assessment-roll for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and the same is hereby made the basis of levy, and the tax thus levied shall be collected by the TaxCollector of the said City and County of Sacramento, in the same manner as the State and County taxes are required to be collected. Said Tax-Collector shall keep said taxes thus collected by him, separate and apart from the other taxes. He shall pay the same over to the County Treasurer, to be held by him as a separate fund, which shall be denominated the Agricultural Fund.

SEC. 4. Jerome C. Davis, of Yolo County, and A. P. Smith, and D. W. Welty, of Sacramento County, are hereby constituted and appointed a Board of Commissioners, with power to select and contract for the purchase of suitable grounds for the purposes herein set forth. Said Commissioners, after making said contract, and before the same shall have any binding effect on the City and County of Sacramento, shall submit the same to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of Sacramento, and, if approved by them, said grounds shall be purchased and paid for from the money in said Agricultural Fund, by warrants drawn in favor of the vendor, in manner and form as other moneys are drawn from the treasury of said City and County of Sacramento. The title to the premises thus purchased shall

vest in said Board of Supervisors, and be and remain under their direction and control, for the use of the State Agricultural Society; and when not in use by said Society, then to be used by other agricultural, horticultural, mining, or mechanical so

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to examine accounts.

SEC. 5. The Board of Managers of the State Agricultural Supervisors Society shall have power to cause to be erected all suitable and needful buildings, and all proper improvements to be made on said grounds which they shall deem necessary for the purposes aforesaid. The accounts accruing for the erection and making said buildings and improvements shall be submitted to the Board of Supervisors aforesaid, and, if allowed, shall be paid out of the Agricultural Fund, in the same manner as other accounts are now directed by law to be paid out of the appropriate fund; Provided, that no account shall be allowed which shall make the aggregate amount allowed greater than the amount in the Agricultural Fund.

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SEC. 6. The Treasurer shall receive one per cent., and no Treasurermore, as his compensation for receiving, keeping, and disbursing tion of. of said fund; and it shall be the duty of the said Board of Supervisors to ascertain the amount due him, and to order the same to be paid in the same manner as is now directed for like services.

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SEC. 7. No compensation shall be allowed to the Board of CommissionCommissioners, or to the State Board of Agriculture, or to any no pay. member of either of said Boards, for any services which they or either of them may perform under this Act.

CHAP. XXX.-An Act amendatory of an Act "to change the Times of holding the Court of Sessions and County Court of the Counties of Los Angeles and Yolo," approved April eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

[Approved February 11, 1859.]

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

SECTION 1. Section first of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows;

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Section first-The Court of Sessions in and for the County of Court of SesLos Angeles shall be held on the fourth Monday of February, and Angeles. the first Mondays of May, July, September and November.

SEC. 2. Section second of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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Section second-The County Court in and for the County of County Los Angeles shall be held on the second Monday in February, Angeles. and third Mondays of April, June, August, and October.

SEC. 3. The Court of Sessions in and for the County of Yolo County shall be held on the first Monday of April, July and December, Court and of each year. The terms of the County Court of Yolo County sions of Yolo

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shall be held on the first Monday of January, May and Septem
ber, of each year.
The terms of the Probate Court of Yolo
County, shall be held on the second Mondays of January, March,
May, July, September and November.

SEC. 4. An Act entitled "An Act to change the times of holdRepealing ing the Courts in Yolo County," approved February twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, is hereby repealed.

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Warrant to be drawn.

CHAP. XXXI.-An Act to provide for the Payment of Volumes Nine and Ten of the Reports of the Supreme Court of the State of California.

[Approved February 11, 1859.]

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

SECTION 1. The sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated from the General Fund, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied to the payment of three hundred copies of the ninth, and three hundred copies of the tenth volumes of the Reports of the Supreme Court of the State of California.

SEC. 2. Upon the delivery to the Secretary of State of three hundred copies of volume nine, and three hundred copies of volume ten of said Reports, bound in law style as heretofore published, by Harvey Lee, Reporter of said Court, the Controller of State is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant or warrants on the Treasurer of State, in favor of said Harvey Lee, for the sum of four thousand dollars.

CHAP. XXXII.-An Act to amend an Act passed February seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An Act to amend an Act concerning the Courts of Justice of this State and Judicial Offices," passed May nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

[Approved February 11, 1859.]

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

SECTION 1. The Act passed February seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, entitled "Act to amend an Act concerning the Courts of Justice of this State and Judicial offices," passed May nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section one-Section seventeen of the Act entitled "An Act

concerning the Courts of Justice of this State and Judicial offices," passed May nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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Section seventeen-Each Judge shall reside in his District, Judges—eliexcept that the Judges of the Fourth and Twelfth Judicial Dis-gibility and tricts may reside in any part of the County of San Francisco, and no person shall be eligible to the office of District Judge who shall not have been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for two years, and of the District six months previous to his election. But a residence in any part of the City and County of San Francisco shall be deemed a residence within the Fourth or Twelfth Judicial Districts, within the meaning of the last clause of this section.

CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act to extend the Time for Collecting Taxes in the County of Napa.

[Approved February 12, 1859.]

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

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SECTION 1. The Sheriff of the County of Napa is hereby au- Time exthorized and empowered to continue the collection of State and County taxes due thereon, until the first Monday in May next; and, for such purposes, he shall have all the powers given to Sheriffs by the Act to provide revenue for the support of the general government of this. State, and in said collection he shall be governed in all respects by said Act; and he shall not be required to make his final settlement, or to return his delinquentlist until the first Monday in May next; Provided, he shall make settlement, in accordance with the provisions of said Act, of all taxes collected before proceeding under this Act.

SEC. 2. This Act shall expire on the fifteenth day of May Limitation. next; and, during its continuance, all provisions of laws in conflict or inconsistent with this Act are hereby suspended,

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SEC. 3. Before the extension herein given or granted shall sheriff to take effect, the said Sheriff shall file with the Clerk of the Board give new of Supervisors a new bond, conditioned in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of the duties imposed upon him by this Act.

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CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act to amend "An Act concerning the Office of Public Administrator in the Counties of Nevada, Sacramento, Monterey, and Amador," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

[Approved February 12, 1859.]

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

SECTION 1.

Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section one-The Public Administrator of the Counties of Nevada, Sierra, Sacramento, Monterey, and Amador, shall hereafter be entitled to receive for his services the same fees as are allowed executors and administrators by an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the settlement of the estates of deceased persons," passed May first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

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CHAP. XXXV.—An Act to authorize the Location of the Town-Site of Crescent City.

[Approved February 12, 1859.]

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

SECTION 1. The Common Council of Crescent City, in Del Norte County, in this State, shall be, and they hereby are, authorized to locate, at the proper Land Office, in trust for the several public lands. parties entitled to portions of the location, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act for the relief of citizens of towns upon the public lands of the United States, under certain circumstances," approved May twentythird, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and the Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for the survey of the public lands in California, the granting of pre-emption rights therein, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the following mentioned tracts of land, or such portions thereof as they may be entitled to under the laws of the United States, to wit:-Fractional section number twenty-nine, and the west fractional half of the north-west quarter of section number twenty-eight, containing four hundred and sixty-seven and seventy-one one-hundredth acres in township number sixteen north, range number one west of the Humboldt meridian-the same being the legal subdivisions necessary to include, in the town-site location, all that portion located by the original settlers of said town, under the Act of this State entitled "An Act to provide for the disposal of the five hundred

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