CHAPTER X. An Act to fix the terms of the Probate Court in and for the County of Tuolumne. [Approved January 16, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. A regular term of the Probate Court in and for Probate the County of Tuolumne shall hereafter be holden on the fourth Court to be Monday in each month during each year. SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, so far as the same relate to the County of Tuolumne, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. held monthly. CHAPTER XI. An Act to amend an Act to regulate the salaries and compensation of certain officers in the County of Tehama, approved March thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved January 16, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of said Act, of which this is amendatory, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. The Sheriff, for all services as jailer or otherwise, Sheriff's except for the board of prisoners, shall receive two thousand salary. dollars per annum, to be paid out of the General Fund of said county, the same as other indebtedness is paid. CHAPTER XII. An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act supplementary to an Act to provide for the funding of the indebtedness of the County of San Louis Obispo outstanding on the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved January 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act supplementary to an Act Repealing to provide for the funding of the indebtedness of the County of Funding Act. San Luis Obispo outstanding on the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty three, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby repealed; provided, Balance to be that the balance of the taxes already levied and assessed under paid into fund for current expenses. the provisions of said Act, and remaining unpaid, shall be collected and paid into the fund for current expenses for said county; and all moneys now in the treasury of said county, which have been collected under and by virtue of the provisions of said Act, shall be transferred to said fund for current expenses. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Repealing CHAPTER XIII. An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to exclude traitors and alien enemies from the Courts of Justice in civil cases, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the Acts supplemental thereto and amendatory thereof. [Approved January 17, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to exclude traitors and alien enemies from the Courts of justice in civil cases, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and all Acts supplemental thereto and amendatory thereof, are hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Convey lands CHAPTER XIV. An Act to authorize the President and Trustees of the City of San [Approved January 17, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The President and Trustees of the City of San SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER XV. An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an six. [Approved January 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: to issue Section 1. The County Auditor of the County of Fresno is Authorized hereby authorized, upon the order of the Board of Supervisors bonds. thereof, to issue the bonds of said county for any amount not exceeding twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Said bonds. shall be signed by the County Auditor, and countersigned by the County Treasurer of said county; shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars each; shall bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, and shall be payable in not less than one, nor more than ten years. Converse. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of Fresno County are hereby authorized and directed to order the issuance of said bonds for the amount of two thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to those amounts by them already ordered, in favor of Charles P. Converse, upon his first executing and delivering to In favor of said Board his final release, acquitting and discharging Fresno Charles P. County of and from all claims, demands, debts and suits growing out of the construction and furnishing of a Court-house and Jail for said county, the same having heretofore been accepted and received from said Converse, as contractor, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of which this is amendatory and supplementary. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER XVI. An Act to continue in force in Humboldt County a certain Act therein named, and to regulate the disbursement of road moneys in said county. [Approved January 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tax. SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Levy road Supervisors of Humboldt County to levy an additional tax for road purposes, approved December the twenty-seventh, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby continued in force in said county until the twenty-seventh day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-one. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors, in disbursing the moneys received in the County Treasury, under the Act named in the preceding section, to keep in view, as far as practicable, the wants of the several road districts or townships of said county, so that each road district or township may receive, as nearly as practicable, the benefit of the taxes paid therein under said Act; provided, it may be lawful for said To appropri- Board to appropriate a sum not to exceed eight hundred dollars for one year to the improvement of the road now passing over Humboldt Hill in said county. ate money for road. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Fixing salary. CHAPTER XVII. An Act to fix and determine the salary of County Judge in and for the County of Santa Cruz. [Approved January 23, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County Judge of the County of Santa Cruz shall receive, and his salary is hereby fixed at, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the expiration of the term of the present County Judge elect of said county. Care of indigent sick. CHAPTER XVIII. An Act in relation to the indigent sick in the County of Humboldt. [Approved January 29, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County to make provision for the care, keeping and medical attendance of the indigent sick of that county, as follows: First-For all indigent sick whose diseases are natural or the result of unavoidable accidents, and who, when in health, had some lawful and visible means of support; Second-For all indigent sick of that county whose diseases are not venereal or the result of intemperance ; Third-For all other indigent sick of said county; provided, the Board of Supervisors shall not provide for the indigent sick of the third class unless there is an unexpended balance in the "Indigent Sick Fund" after providing for all the indigent sick of the first and second classes in the section named. unless bal SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors shall not, for any purpose, Not to audit audit or allow any account, claim or demand, or authorize or ance in fund. permit the issuance of any order or warrant payable out of the Indigent Sick Fund, unless at the time of auditing or allowing such account, claim or demand, and the issuance of such order or warrant, there is an unexpended balance in the Indigent Sick Fund of said county to meet the payment of such order or warrant on presentation. report. other fund. Violation punished. SEC. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the County Treasurer Treasurer to of said county to report to said Board of Supervisors, on the first day of each regular meeting of said Board, the amount of money remaining and then on hand in the Indigent Sick Fund of the county subject to their order; and in no case shall the Board of Supervisors at any meeting audit or allow any demand, account or claim, or direct the issuance of any order or warrant, which will singly, or in the aggregate, exceed the sum reported by the Treasurer, as aforesaid, to be subject to their order at said meetings; and in no case shall any order or warrant be Not payable issued payable out of any other than the Indigent Sick Fund, out of and for any service or supplies rendered or furnished for or on behalf of the indigent sick of said county; and any member of said Board of Supervisors consenting to the issuance of any orders or warrants in violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum double the amount of such order or warrant, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned in the County Jail for any time not exceeding sixty days; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the Board of Supervisors from auditing any just claim, account or demand, and directing the issuance of warrants for the payment thereof Payable out out of the General or County Fund of the county (in case there Fund. is a deficiency in the Indigent Sick Fund of said county), for the payment and discharge of any and all indebtedness, whether in the form of accounts or claims, or demands, or warrants, which may have been lawfully incurred or issued for the care and maintenance of the indigent sick of said county prior to the time that this Act takes effect; and provided, that all moneys in the Indigent Sick Fund of said county at the time this Act takes effect shall be applied to the payment, in the order of In order of registration, of outstanding warrants, as far as it will go, drawn heretofore on said fund. of General registration. maintenance SEC. 4. The Board of Supervisors of said county shall have Provides for power, and it shall be their duty, under such rules and regula- of sick by tions as said Board may prescribe, to contract for the care, contract, maintenance and medical treatment of the indigent sick of the county; but all contracts shall be in writing, and shall particularly specify that the party or parties agreeing to keep said indigent sick will not charge or demand for that service any other or greater sum than shall be received into said Indigent Sick Fund during the continuance of said |