The maximum number of large cattle and horses shall be twelve hundred head to the square league of land of such owner or legal occupant, or in that proportion for a greater or less quantity of land. SEC. 2. Section third of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. This Act shall apply to the Counties of Santa Applies to Barbara, Monterey, and San Luis Obispo. certain counties. CHAP. CCCLX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate Fees in Office in the County of Yuba, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty. [Approved May 2, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty-five of the Act entitled an Act to regulate Fees in Office in the County of Yuba, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby amended so as to read: Supervisors, mileage of. Section 25. The Supervisors of the County of Yuba shall each be allowed eight dollars per day for each day's actual at- per diem and tendance at the meetings of the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Equalization, and mileage, at the rate of twenty cents per mile, (in going, only,) from their residence to the County Court House, to be paid out of the General Fund of the county; provided, that they shall receive no other or greater compensation for any services rendered the county. CHAP. CCCLXI.-An Act entitled an Act to prevent Non-Residents of this State from Selling Goods without a License. [Approved May 2, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any non-resident, domi- Unlawful act ciled within this State, either directly or indirectly to peddle, hawk, sell, barter, or exchange, any description of goods, wares, or merchandise, in any town, city, or county, of this State, except after having obtained a license as hereinafter provided; provided, that the provisions of this Act shall only apply to gold and silver ware manufactured out of this State. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any person wishing to sell, or barter, as stated in the first section of this Act, to pay to the License. Penalty. County Treasurer of the county where such person is domiciled, for the use of the State, the sum of five hundred dollars, upon the receipt of which it shall be the duty of such Treasurer to grant such persons a license to sell, barter, or exchange, during six months, within the limits of this State; for each license the Treasurer shall demand and receive, from the party applying, the sum of five dollars, for the use of the county. SEC. 3. All such persons shall be bound to exhibit their license, when so required, to any householder of this State. SEC. 4. If any person shall act contrary to and in violation of any of the provisions of this Act, shall, on conviction before any Court of competent jurisdiction, be fined a sum of five hundred dollars, and be liable to imprisonment for a term not to exceed six months, nor less than thirty days. It shall be the duty of the District Attorneys of this State to prosecute all persons contravening the provisions of this Act, on information of any householder. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. May make promises and CHAP. CCCLXII.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to empower M. G. Vallejo to convey certain Real Estate, approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. [Approved May 2, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the purpose of fixing and definitely estabcertain com- lishing the boundary lines of the tract of land mentioned in the agreements. Act to which this is a supplement, Mariano G. Vallejo is hereby authorized and empowered to make all such compromises and agreements as may be proper to locate the said tract of land, and establish the boundaries thereof, and for that purpose the said Mariano G. Vallejo is hereby authorized and empowered to accept and receive, in the name of his son, Uladisloe Vallejo, a minor, under the age of twenty-one years, a conveyance or conveyances of lands, and also, by a proper deed or deeds, to remise, release, and quitclaim, such part or parts of said lands, claimed under the deed mentioned in the Act to which this is a supplement, to such person or persons as may be entitled thereto in the compromise and settlement herein mentioned and provided for; provided, said deed or deeds, to be executed by the said Mariano G. Vallejo, shall, before delivery thereof, be approved by the Judge of the Probate Court of the County of Napa, by his indorsement thereon, in writing, and acknowledged by him before an officer authorized to take the acknowledgments of deeds, which indorsement and acknowledgment thereof shall be recorded with said deed in the office of the Recorder of said County of Napa. Proviso. CHAP. CCCLXIII.-An Act to provide for issuing Arms and Accoutrements to Colleges and Academies, for the use of the Youth, and to prescribe the Tactics to be used by them. [Approved May 2, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and arms. SECTION 1. The Governor of this State may, upon presenta- Governor tion of a petition showing the number and age of the male may issue youth of any college or academy of learning in this State, issue to the Trustees or other managing agents of the institution, the arms, ordnance, camp and garrison equipage, and other military property, of this State, not to exceed one piece of light artillery and caisson, or forty stand of small arms, with accoutrements, and the side arms, and camp and garrison equipage necessary for forty men, to any such college or academy, to be used by said youth, under the supervision of said Trustees, or other managing agents, for their improvement in military science. SEC. 2. Before issuing the property of the State referred to Bond. in section one, the Governor shall require of said Trustees, or other managing agents, a bond, on the part of the same, payable to The People of the State of California, in the penal sum of double the value of the property so required, conditioned that they will safely keep, have in readiness for use, and return, the same, if at any time required so to do by the Executive of the State, to supply public necessity, or on violation of any of the provisions of this Act, which shall be duly approved, as to the sufficiency of the security, by the County Judge of the county in which said college or academy may be located. SEC. 3. The said Trustees, or other managing agents, having, Trustees" by virtue of this Act, obtained the property of the State, are duties. required to organize said youth of the institution, by them represented respectively, into companies, appointing therefrom, from time to time, the officers thereof, prescribe the hours and place of drill, or encampment, and shall cause them to be taught such tactics only as, for the time being, are prescribed by proper authority for the Army of the United States. They shall, annually, on or before the fifteenth day of December, make return to the Adjutant-General, setting forth the number of scholars, and condition of that branch of the school, the kind and quantity of military property in their hands belonging to the State, and the condition thereof. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Terms. CHAP. CCCLXIV.—An Act to fix the Terms of the Court of Sessions, [Approved May 2, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The terms of the Court of Sessions, County SEC. 2. The County Judge of said county is empowered to hold special terms of the Probate Court, for the transaction of any probate business. SEC. 3. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from its passage. Unlawful acts. CHAP. CCCLXV.-An Act to prevent the Adulteration of Food and Liquors.. [Approved May 2, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It is hereby forbidden, and declared a misdemeanor, to adulterate, with any poisonous substance, any article to be used as food or drink by persons, or to sell or give away any article so adulterated. SEC. 2. It is hereby forbidden, and declared a misdemeanor, to manufacture or prepare for sale, any adulterated article, to be used as food or drink by persons, without affixing on every package so prepared, a plainly printed English label, stating distinctly that the article is "adulterated," using that very word, and stating also the common English name, if it have one, of every substance used in the adulteration; the word "adulterated," and the names of the substances used in the adulteration, to be printed in type as large and clear as any used on the label; and no label, lacking in these requisites, shall be placed on such package. SEC. 3. It is hereby forbidden, and declared a misdemeanor, to break any original package marked with a label, as required in the preceding section, and sell any part thereof without affixing a similar label upon it; or if the article sold be a liquor, to be drank at the time of sale, without showing the label. SEC. 4. It is hereby forbidden, and declared a misdemeanor, to sell or give away any adulterated article, to be used as food or drink by persons, without a distinct accompanying notification of the adulteration. SEC. 5. It is hereby forbidden, and declared a misdemeanor, to sell any article, to be used as food or drink by persons, under a false name, with intent to deceive the purchaser as to the real nature of the article. SEC. 6. The commission of any misdemeanor forbidden in Penalties. this Act, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 7. This Act shall be in effect on and after the first day of July, of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. CHAP. CCCLXVI.-An Act to legalize the Assessment and Levy of City Taxes, and to authorize the Collection of the same, in the City of Oakland. [Approved May 2, 1862.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The assessment of property in and for the City Assessments of Oakland, made during the fiscal year ending on the first Mon- legalized. day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and equalized by the authorities of said city, are hereby legalized, and rendered, in every particular, as valid in law as if all the forms of law had been complied with, in such cases required. SEC. 2. The Common or City Council are hereby authorized City tax. and empowered to levy, by ordinance, and cause to be collected, in said city, a city tax of not more than one per cent. upon the assessed value of all real and personal property and improvements in said city so assessed, for the purpose of paying the interest on the funded debt of said city, and defraying the current expenses of the same for the fiscal year aforesaid. roll. SEC. 3. The assessment roll shall be immediately delivered Assessment to the City Marshal, upon the reception of which, he shall post three notices in conspicuous places in said city, that the city Marshal, taxes for the fiscal year ending on the first Monday of March, duties of. A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, are due and payable; and he shall, at the expiration of ten days after said notices have been posted, proceed to collect said taxes. On the last Saturday in June, he shall make out a complete list of delinquent tax payers and property so delinquent, in the manner and form prescribed by law, which, when duly certified to by him under oath, shall be delivered to the Clerk of said city upon said last Saturday of June, at which time he shall pay over all moneys collected by him, and in his hands, for taxes, to the City Treasurer. The City Clerk and Treasurer shall thereupon settle with the officers' City Marshal, and shall immediately deliver said certified delin- duties. quent list to the City Attorney, who shall immediately post three notices in conspicuous places in said city, setting forth that the delinquent list has been placed in his hands, and, unless the taxes are paid forthwith, suits will be brought to recover the same; and it shall be the duty of the City Attorney, after |