CHAPTER CII. An Act for the relief of certain deputies and assistants of the County [Approved March 3, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and benefited. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are authorized and empowered to allow and order paid out of the General Fund, to the following named persons, viz: Wm. R. Satterlee, or to his legal representative, Persons Giles C. L. Letcher, Paul Neumann and Octavius Bell, such sum or sums, not in the aggregate to exceed the sum of seven thousand dollars, as, upon investigation and inquiry, in the opinion of the said Board, they respectively may be justly entitled, and in full of all demands and claims for services rendered or performed by them, and each of them, as Clerks, or Assistant or Deputy Clerks of the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, in said city and county, or otherwise, prior to the passage of this Act. be audited SEC. 2. The Auditor of the said city and county is directed Awards to to audit, and the Treasurer thereof to pay, to the aforesaid and paid. persons respectively, such sum or sums, not in the aggregate to exceed the said sum of seven thousand dollars, and in such share or proportion as by said Board may be awarded and ordered paid to them respectively under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CIII. An Act to authorize Z. B. Heywood and J. H. Jacobs to construct a The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Z. B. Heywood and J. H. Jacobs are hereby authorized and empowered to construct, build and use a wharf in front of their property at Jacobs' or Ocean View Landing, in Alameda County, for the term of twenty years, commencing at high water mark and running into the Bay of San Francisco to deep water, provided said wharf shall in no manner interfere with the navigation of said bay, and that it shall be completed within one year from the passage of this Act; and said wharf shall not exceed in width one hundred feet. Description of wharf. land. SEC. 2. The State of California hereby grants to the said Z. Grant of B. Heywood and J. H. Jacobs the use of the overflowed lands May charge toll. on both sides of said wharf, for the distance of one hundred and fifty feet on each side of it, for the free ingress and egress of water crafts to and from said wharf, for twenty years from the passage of this Act SEC. 3. The said Z. B. Heywood and J. H. Jacobs, or their assigns, may, if they see fit, when said wharf shall be fully completed, collect such rates of toll and wharfage as may be fixed upon by the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Declared of lawful age. CHAPTER CIV. An Act to declare Thomas Jefferson Clunie, a minor, of lawful age. [Became a law by operation of the Constitution, March 4, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Thomas Jefferson Clunie, a minor, of Sacramento County, and State of California, is hereby declared of lawful age, and competent to contract, and to sue and be sued, buy and sell, lease, mortgage and convey real and personal property, and do all acts and things, in all respects, as if he were twenty-one years of age. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted), and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has become a law, this fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. H. L. NICHOLS, Time extended and Act revived. CHAPTER CV. An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to grant E. H. Perry and others the right to construct and maintain a turnpike road from a point on the Sonora and Mono Road, near West Walker River, to a point in Antelope Valley, and the right to collect toll for travel thereon, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Became a law by operation of the Constitution, March 4, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for completing the construction of the road contemplated by the Act to which this Act is supplementary is hereby extended for the period of two years; and all the powers, rights, privileges, franchises and immunities granted by said Act are hereby revived, re-enacted and extended to the West Walker Turnpike Company, a corporation organized pursuant to said Act. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted), and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has become a law, this fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. H. L. NICHOLS, Secretary of State. CHAPTER CVI. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act supplementary to an Act to incorporate the City of Los Angeles, approved May first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, amendment approved January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 5, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: limited. Section 7. The direct tax imposed by the Mayor and Com- Direct tax mon Council of said city in any one year shall not exceed one dollar and twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars worth of property within said city. SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts conflicting with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CVII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to define the compensation of certain officers in the County of San Mateo, and to amend existing laws on the subject, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 5, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The Act entitled an Act relating to the office of Act repealed Sheriff in the County of San Mateo, approved April thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, is hereby repealed; and the Sheriff of San Mateo County shall receive such fees and Fees of compensation as are allowed in the Act entitled an Act to regulate fees in office in certain counties of this State, approved April twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. Sheriff. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Fee for locat ing school lands. In lieu of. CHAPTER CVIII. An Act to provide for the payment to the Registers and Receivers of the United States Land Offices in this State certain fees. [Approved March 5, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The purchaser of any school lands of this State, when the same shall be located as provided by law, in the Register's office of the United States, shall be required, upon making such locations, for each one hundred and sixty acres of land so located, to pay to the United States Register and Receiver of the district in which such location shall be made, a fee of one dollar each; which fee shall be considered in lieu of the fee which they are authorized to charge the State for such locations, under an Act of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour. SEC 2. The Secretary of State is hereby directed to transmit a copy of this law to the Registers and Receivers of the several Land Offices of the United States in this State. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after twenty days after its passage. Tax for gen CHAPTER CIX. An Act to amend section two of an Act entitled an Act in relation to the levying of county taxes in the County of San Joaquin, approved March twenty-fourth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 5, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The Board of Supervisors shall have power to eral county levy, for general county purposes, a tax not to exceed seventy cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property upon which the State taxes in said county is levied. purposes. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage. CHAPTER CX. An Act to continue in force an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Amador County to levy a special tax for bridge purposes. [Approved March 5, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Authorized. Supervisors of Amador County to levy a special tax for bridge purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, be and the same is hereby continued in full force and effect for the period of two years from and after the passage of this Act. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CXI. An Act providing a survey for an additional outlet for the waters of the Feather, Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries. [Approved March 5, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and General to SECTION 1. The Surveyor-General of the State of California Surveyoris hereby directed to examine into and report to this Legisla- examine and ture upon the practicability of opening an outlet for the waters report. of the Feather, Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries into Suisun Bay or an inlet thereof; and he is hereby authorized and directed to have the necessary additional surveys made for the purpose of acquiring information as to the practicability of the same and the benefit to arise therefrom. SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of Yolo County are directed Copies of to transmit to the Surveyor-General copies of such surveys, plats, surveys, etc. maps, books or other papers made by authority of the laws of this State as he may require in making such examination. tion. SEC. 3. The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropri- Appropriaated out of any money in the General Swamp Land Fund, and the Controller is hereby required to draw his warrant in favor of the Surveyor-General for the cost of said survey, examination and report; provided, the aggregate amount does not exceed the sum appropriated by this section; the bill for the cost of said examination to be certified by the Surveyor-General. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately after its passage. |