city, out of any moneys in his hands being the proceeds of any fines and penalties. to contract SEC. 5. This Act shall not be construed so as to authorize Trustees not said President and Trustees to contract any debt against said debt. city. SEC. 6. All ordinances, resolutions or orders, as aforesaid, Publication. shall be published by posting the same in writing at three public places within said city ten days before the day on which they may take effect. statements. SEC. 7. The President of said Trustees, semi annually, shall Annual make out a statement, in writing, of the amount of all fines recovered and received under this Act, with the amount thereof expended, and the objects of said expenditure, and forward said. statement to the Secretary of State of this State. CHAPTER CCCCXX. An Act for the relief of W. B. Ross, Sheriff of Kern County. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and from payment. SECTION 1. The Controller of the State is hereby authorized Released and required to receipt and release to W. B. Ross, Sheriff of Kern County, for the receipt of thirteen foreign miners' licenses, at four dollars each, the same having been lost. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCCCXXI. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to fix the terms of the County Court and Probate Court of the County of Sonoma, approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The regular terms of the County Court in and County for the County of Sonoma shall be held at the county seat of Court. said county, commencing on the first Monday of January, April, July and October in each year. It shall be lawful to summon the trial jurors to attend said terms of said Court on the second Probate Mondays of said months of January, April, July and October, for the trial of issues which may be for trial at said terms. The regular terms of the Probate Court in and for said county shall commence to be holden at the county seat of said county on the first Monday of every month in each year. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. This Act shall take effect from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. May close stores on Sunday. CHAPTER CCCCXXII. An Act to confer additional powers on the Trustees of the City of [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Trustees of the City of Sacramento are Titles of Acts. CHAPTER CCCCXXIII. An Act to make certain Acts take effect immediately. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to take and subscribe the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company, in the County of Los Angeles, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating thereto, approved February first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, approved March twenty-fifth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and an Act entitled an Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act to authorize the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Los Angeles to take and subscribe seventy-five thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company, in the County of Los Angeles, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating thereto, approved February first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, approved March twentyfifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall both take effect and be in force from and after their passage. CHAPTER CCCCXXIV. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to authorize the formation of corporations to provide the members thereof with homesteads, or lots of land suitable for homesteads, approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and to amend an Act supplementary to the aforesaid Act, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of an Act entitled an Act to authorize the formation of corporations to provide the members thereof with homesteads, or lots of land suitable for homesteads, approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Association. Section 2. Such persons shall severally subscribe articles of Articles of association, in which shall be set forth the name and object of the corporation; the time, not to exceed ten years, for which the . same is limited to exist; the amount of the capital stock and the number of shares into which it is proposed to be divided; the number of Directors and other officers, their terms of office and duties; and such other regulations as may be necessary to enable the corporations to carry on its business and accomplish its objects, and how amendments thereto may be made. SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. A certificate, in writing, duly signed and acknowl- Certificates edged by three or more of the persons proposing to form such to be filed. corporation, before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, in which shall be set forth the corporate name of the association, its objects, the amount of the capital stock and of the fund to be raised, the number of shares, the time of its existence, not to exceed ten years, the number of Trustees or Directors who shall manage the concerns of the association for the first three months of its existence, and their names, and the name of the city, town or county in which the office or principal place of business is to be located, shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk of the county in which the office or principal place of business is intended to be located, and a copy thereof, duly certified under the hand and seal of such County Clerk, in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of California; and thereupon the persons who have subscribed the said certificate, and such other persons as shall become members of such association, and their successors, shall be a body corporate by the name specified in said certificate, 540 Powers and and shall possess the power and privileges, and be subject to privileges. the provisions of an Act concerning corporations, passed April Sale of for twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the various Acts amendatory of and supplemental thereto, so far as the provisions therein contained are consistent with the provisions of this Act, and no further; and they shall, by their corporate name, be capable in law of purchasing, holding and conveying any personal property or estate whatever which may be necessary to enable said association to carry on the operations named in such certificate. SEC 3. Section two of an Act supplementary to said Act, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. Whenever, after publication of notice for thirty feited stock. days, as provided for in section four of the Act to which this is supplementary, any shares of stock shall be declared forfeited by resolution of the Board of Trustees, it shall be lawful for the Trustees to advertise the same for sale, giving the name of the subscriber and the number of shares, by notice of not less than three weeks, to be published at least once a week in one newspaper of general circulation in the city, town or county where the office or principal place of business of such corporation is located, or in case no newspaper shall be there published, then in the newspaper published nearest to the place where said office or principal place of business shall be carried on as aforesaid, and such sale shall be made at auction under the direction of the Secretary of the company. At such sale the corporation may be a bidder, and the shares shall at such sale be disposed of to the highest and best bidder for cash. No defect in the organization of the corporation, and no informality or irregularity in the proceedings respecting the sale, shall affect the validity thereof; provided notice shall have been given by publication as herein provided. After said sale is made, the Secretary shall, on receipt of the purchase money, transfer to the purchaser the shares sold, and, after deducting from the proceeds of such sale all instalments then due and all expenses and charges of sale, shall hold the residue of said proceeds subject to the order of the delinquent subscriber. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER CCCCXXV. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create a Board of Supervisors in the counties of this State, and to define their duties and powers, passed March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section fourth of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: meetings. Section 4. The regular meeting of the Boards of Supervi- Regular sors shall be held at the county seats of their respective counties on the first Monday of May, August, November and February of each year, and shall continue from time to time until all the business before them is disposed of; and meetings shall be held by them to canvass the election returns in their respective counties, at such times as are or may be prescribed by the laws regulating elections; provided, that in the In Santa County of Santa Clara the regular meetings of the Board of County. Supervisors shall be held on the second Monday of February, April, June, August, October and December of each year. SEC. 2. This Act to take effect from and after its passage. Clara CHAPTER CCCCXXVI. An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County, in a certain contingency, to issue bonds of that county for fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising a fund to construct a wagon and turnpike road from some point near Hydesville, in that county, to the southern boundary line of that county, and from near the Town of Arcata, in that county, to Redwood Creek; to authorize the electors of said county to vote on the matter of the issuance of said bonds; to provide for the payment of the interest thereon and the principal thereof. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It is hereby made the duty of the Board of Elections. Supervisors of Humboldt County to submit to the qualified voters of said county, on the day and at the same times and places the Presidential election is held in said county, on of November, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the proposition for said county to issue, as hereinafter set forth, the bonds of said county to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raising a fund to construct a wagon and turnpike road in said county from some proper point not remote from the village of Hydesville, in said county, to be designated |