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upon the road over Mission Bay bridge, unless by and with the consent of the owners of said bridge; provided, that the said railroad company shall be required to construct a draw in the bridge on Kentucky street, at its intersection with Tulare street, whenever parties interested shall pay the expense of constructing such draw and provide for maintaining the same.

SEC. 4. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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Section 7. The franchises and privileges hereby granted Duration of shall continue for the period of twenty-five years, to date from the completion of said railroad; provided, that said railroad, at least upon a single track, shall be completed and passenger cars running thereon within two years from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the grantees shall, within one year from the passage of this Act, commence the construction of said road.

CHAPTER CCCLXXXVIII.

An Act authorizing Elijah Beebe to construct a chute and moorings, and charge and collect toll for the use thereof.

[Approved March 28, 1868.]

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

SECTION 1. Elijah Beebe and his assigns are granted the Authorized. right to construct a chute and moorings at Beebe's Landing, in Mendocino County, and charge and collect such toll for the use thereof as shall be fixed by the Board of Supervisors of Mendocino County; provided, that said chute and moorings shall in no wise interfere with navigation.

SEC. 2. The rights above granted shall extend for a term of twenty years.

SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER CCCLXXXIX.

An Act to provide for the transfer of certain funds in the County of
Placer.

[Approved March 28, 1868.]

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

SECTION 1. The Treasurer of Placer County is hereby directed and empowered to transfer to the fund called the Railroad Fund, in the Act of April second, eighteen hundred and

From Toll Road Redemption

road Fund.

sixty-three, authorizing said county to subscribe to the capital stock of the Central Pacific Railroad of California, the sum of Fund to Rail- four thousand and twenty-one dollars and sixty-two cents, now in the fund called the Toll Road Redemption Fund, created by the Act of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, concerning roads and highways in Placer County; and he is also empowered and directed to transfer to said Railroad Fund the sum of two thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty cents, now in the District Road Fund of Township Number Eleven of said county; and said moneys, when thus transferred, shall become a part of said Railroad Fund, and be in all respects treated as said Railroad Fund as [is] required to be treated by said Act of April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

SEC. 2. From and after the passage of this Act all moneys coming into the Treasury of Placer County which would go into the said Toll Road Redemption Fund, under said Act of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be placed by said Treasurer in said Railroad Fund, and become a part of the same.

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

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

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CHAPTER CCCXC.

An Act to amend section three of an Act entitled An Act providing for the government of the County of Sacramento, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

[Approved March 28, 1868.]

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

SECTION 1. Section three of an Act entitled An Act providing for the government of the County of Sacramento, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 3. The county is hereby divided into five Supervisor Districts, to wit:

The First consisting of the First and Second Wards of the City of Sacramento.

The Second consisting of the Third and Fourth Wards of said city.

The Third consisting of American, Brighton, Centre, Cosumnes, Lee and Sutter Townships.

The Fourth consisting of Granite, Mississippi and Natoma Townships.

The Fifth consisting of Alabama, Dry Creek, Franklin, Georgiana and San Joaquin Townships.

The electors of each Supervisor District shall elect one person

who is a resident of the district as a Supervisor, and the five Election of persons so elected shall constitute the Board of Supervisors, Supervisors. any three of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. The Board of Supervisors shall organize by electing a President, who shall hold during the term of office. The. Supervisors from the First and Second Districts shall be elected Term of at the general election in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and office. shall hold office for four years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The Supervisors from Districts Numbers Three, Four and Five shall be elected at the general election in eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and shall hold office for four years, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The present Supervisors from the First and Second Districts shall hold office until the first Monday in October, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; and the present Supervisors from the Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts shall hold office until the first Monday in October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

CHAPTER CCCXCI.

An Act to amend section eighteen of an Act entitled an Act to establish and maintain Public Pounds for the better securing of estrays and other stock in the County of Alameda, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

[Approved March 28, 1868.]

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

SECTION 1. Section eighteen of an Act to establish and maintain Public Pounds for the better securing of estrays and other stock in the County of Alameda, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 18. The provisions of this Act shall not extend Amended, nearer than three miles of the County of Contra Costa, except in Oakland Township, in which said districts may be located within three quarters of a mile of the boundary of Contra Costa County; and no Pound District shall be established within three miles of the county boundary of Contra Costa County, except in said township.

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SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately from and after passage.

Repealed.

Proviso.

CHAPTER CCCXCII.

An Act to repeal parts of an Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Plumas County to aid in constructing certain wagon roads in said county, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

[Approved March 28, 1868.]

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

SECTION 1. So much of an Act entitled an Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Plumas County to aid in constructing certain wagon roads in said county, approved March thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as authorizes the Board of Supervisors of said county to issue the bonds of said county to aid in the construction of the Quincy and Indian Valley Road, and the Oroville and Beckwourth Pass Wagon Road, is hereby repealed; but nothing in this Act shall be construed as in any manner affecting the provisions of said Act, so far as the same apply in any manner to the issuance or payment of the bonds in aid of the construction of the Quincy and Laporte Wagon Road, or as affecting any provisions of said Act relating to said last mentioned road or the company owning it.

SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Record to be kept.

CHAPTER CCCXCIII.

An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act concerning the officers of Calaveras County, and the collection of poll taxes, license taxes and foreign miners' taxes in said county, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and an Act amendatory thereof, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

[Approved March 28, 1868.]

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

SECTION 1. Section six of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 6. Each Collector shall keep a book in which he shall

enter:

First-The name of all persons or firms who are engaged in any business, the carrying on of which is by law required to be done under a license from either State or county, and shall correct such list from time to time as any persons or firm shall cease to be engaged in such business, and shall add to such list the name of any person or firm who shall engage in any busiress, trade, occupation or profession for which, before engaging therein, they shall have procured a license.

Second-The name of each individual or company of foreigners,

specifying the number in such company who are engaged in mining and liable to pay a foreign miner's license tax, and shall correct such list monthly as any person or company shall cease to mine in or remove from his township, and shall monthly add to such list the name of any and all persons and companies, and the number in such company, who shall move into his township and engage in mining and are liable to pay said tax.

SEC. 2. Said book shall be the property of the county, and shall be open for public inspection at the office of the Collector on the Saturday after the first Monday in each month, from eight o'clock A. M. to five o'clock P. M., and shall be by said Collector delivered over to his successor in office. Said book shall be presented monthly to the Board of Supervisors, for inspection, by each Collector at the time of making the settlement provided in the seventh section of the Act of which this is amendatory.

SEC. 3. Each Collector shall monthly, and before making his Delinquents. settlement with the Treasurer, file with the County Auditor a statement, in writing, containing a list of the names of all persons or firms in his township doing business and liable to pay a license tax who have failed or neglected to pay such tax; also a list of the names of all persons or companies specifying the number in such company engaged in mining in his township who are liable to pay foreign miners' license tax and from whom he has been unable to collect such tax, and shall specify, in writing, opposite the name of such person or company, the reason for such tax not being collected; and it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors, every month, to compare the above statement with the book mentioned in section one of this Act. The monthly statement mentioned in this section shall be subscribed by the Collector, and sworn to before the Auditor, to be true and correct according to the best knowledge, information and belief of the Collector.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the County Auditor, within five days after the filing of the statement mentioned in the next preceding section of this Act, to make out a list from said statement of all persons or firms who are doing business and are liable to pay a license tax and who have failed to pay the same, and the amount due from each, and certify said list to the District Attorney of the county; and the District Attorney shall immediately commence suit in any Court in the county having competent jurisdiction, for the recovery of the amount due; and in addition thereto, each and every person so returned by any Collector as delinquent shall be forthwith prosecuted by the District Attorney, in the name of The People of the State of California, before any Justice of the Peace of said county, and upon conviction of having been engaged in any business, Penalties. trade, occupation or profession for which, before engaging therein, he or they should have procured a license, shall be fined in a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, with cost of prosecution, for each and every offence; and upon the trial of any criminal action under the provisions of this section, the defendant shall be deemed not to have procured such license unless he produce the license, or

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