Salary Fund" of Shasta County, and said fund shall be devoted exclusively to the payment of the salary of said District Attorney; provided, that for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight the Board of Supervisors shall transfer the fifteen hundred dollars at the first regular meeting of said Board after the passage of this Act. draw war SEC. 2. The Auditor shall draw his warrant for the payment Auditor to of the salary of the District Attorney of said county monthly rant. upon said District Attorney's Salary Fund for the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, commencing on the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and on the first Monday in each month thereafter; provided, that the aggregate amount of such warrants shall not exceed annually the amount of the salary of said District Attorney as provided for by law. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the first Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. CHAPTER LXXVI. An Act to exempt from taxation certain lands belonging to the United States, in San Francisco, and ceding jurisdiction over the same to the United States. [Approved February 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the one hundred vara lot, numbered one Vara lot hundred and ninety-eight, situate on the northwest corner of exempt. Fifth and Mission streets, in the City of San Francisco, lately purchased by the United States of Eugene Kelly, and to be used as a site for a Mint of the United States, shall be exempt from State, county and municipal taxation and assessment so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States; and jurisdiction over the said lot is hereby ceded to the United States; Jurisdiction. provided, that the State of California shall have and retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over the said lot for the execution therein of civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the State of California against persons charged with crimes and misdemeanors against the laws of the State of California, except in so far as such process may affect any of the real or personal property of the United States within the limits of said lot of land. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Deputies. Salaries. How paid. Copyists' pay. Duties of Repeal. CHAPTER LXXVII. An Act concerning the office of County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved February 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Clerk of the City and County of San One Register Clerk, who shall receive a salary of one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month; One Court-room Clerk, who shall receive a salary of one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month; and One Copying Clerk, who shall receive a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month; Which salaries shall be audited and paid as the salaries of other Deputy Clerks in said city and county are audited and paid. SEC. 2. In addition to the deputies allowed by law, the said County Clerk of said county is hereby authorized to employ, from time to time, as many extra copyists as may be necessary to perform the duties of his office, who shall severally be paid such reasonable compensation as their services may be worth, not to exceed six cents a folio of one hundred words for the matter copied or recorded by them, respectively; provided, the amount paid to such extra copyists in any one month shall not exceed three fourths of the amount received by said Clerk for the copying and recording done by them during such month. SEC. 3. The said County Clerk shall certify monthly, under oath, the number of folios copied by each one of said extra copyists, the amount agreed to be paid therefor, and the amount received by him for the work done by them, respectively; and such certificate of said Clerk shall be conclusive and sufficient evidence to authorize and require the Auditor of said city and county to audit severally the accounts of said extra copyists monthly, and the payments of such demands by the County Treasurer, out of the Special Fee Fund, as is provided for the payment of other officers of said city and county. SEC. 4. The Act entitled an Act concerning the office of County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and all Acts amendatory thereof, are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXXVIII. An Act to authorize the several Counties of this State to receive grants of land from the United States Government, for the purpose of constructing Public Roads in said Counties. [Approved February 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Any county in the State is hereby declared com- Authority petent to take, hold, receive, sell and dispose of, all lands that given. may be granted to said county by the General Government for the purpose of constructing roads in said county. ment of. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of the several counties Manageshall take charge of the management and control of such lands as may be granted said counties, as they are now authorized to do of other county property, and sell the same, or any part thereof, as they may see fit. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER LXXIX. An Act to amend section five of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the incorporation of Colleges, passed April twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty. [Approved February 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section five of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. The Trustees of every such college shall not be Number of more than twenty-four, nor less than five, in number; and when Trustees. the number is more than ten Trustees, seven shall constitute a quorum; and when less than ten, four shall constitute a quorum. SEC. 2. This Act to take effect from and after its passage. Act extend counties. CHAPTER LXXX. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act to prevent Stallions running at large in the County of Sacramento, approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtysix, so as to extend the provisions thereof as in this Act provided. [Approved February 21, 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. An Act to prevent stallions from running at large ed to certain in the County of Sacramento, approved March twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, is hereby extended to and made applicable to the Counties of Sutter, Alameda, Yuba, El Dorado, Placer, Santa Cruz, Calaveras, Amador, Santa Clara, Mariposa, Merced, Yolo, Stanislaus, Butte, Mendocino, Shasta, Colusa, Tehama, Sonoma, and Sierra Township, in Sierra County; provided, that no stallion under the age of twelve months shall be taken up under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Appropriation. CHAPTER LXXXI. An Act to appropriate money to pay a certain claim. [Approved February 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of four hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated from any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim of William W. Merrihew for services as Clerk of the Board of Examiners of Indian War Claims, from January first to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER LXXXII. An Act to ratify and confirm an Ordinance passed by the Mayor and [Approved February 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and and con tract ratified SECTION 1. That an ordinance entitled an ordinance confirm- Ordinance ing a contract and a previous ordinance for establishing gas works in the City of Los Angeles, passed January twentysecond, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and approved January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, ratifying, confirming and approving a previous ordinance, and a contract relating to the same subject, be, and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed in all its provisions. SEC. 2. That the ordinance and contract referred to and ratified by the said ordinance of January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same are hereby approved and ratified in all their provisions. CHAPTER LXXXIII. An Act to authorize the Controller of State to issue a Duplicate Warrant to Justus Brooks. [Approved February 25, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and issue duplicate. SECTION 1. The Controller of State is hereby authorized to Controller to issue to Justus Brooks, or to his heirs or assigns, a duplicate of Controller's warrant number thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-four, for the sum of one hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-three cents, in lieu of the original, being lost. SEC. 2. Before said warrant shall be delivered to the person Bond. above named or his legal representatives, the Controller shall demand and receive from him or his heirs or assigns a bond of indemnity in a penal sum double the amount of said warrant, said bond being payable to The People of the State of California, conditioned against the appearance of the original warrant, and the said bond shall be approved by the Controller. SEC. 3. The duplicate warrant herein provided to be issued shall be as effectual, to all intents and purposes, as though it was the original warrant; provided, that if the original warrant here- If original after be found, the duplicate thereof herein directed to be issued found. shall be null and void. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. |