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Duration of franchise.

to an Act of the Legislature of this State entitled an Act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies, and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto, approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

SEC. 4. The rights hereby granted shall continue for the term of twenty-five years from and after the passage of this Act; provided, however, that the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo shall have the right, whenever they may deem it necessary for the public good to make said road free, to purCounty may chase the same from the owners thereof, at a value to be ascerpurchase. tained by the persons, one to be chosen by said Board of Supervisors, and the other by the owners of said road, and in case they cannot agree they shall have power to appoint a third party, and the appraisement of any two of said parties shall be considered the value of said road; and at any time after the completion of the same, should said Board of Supervisors pay to the owners of said road the amount of the value so ascertained, it shall operate as a complete extinguishment of the franchise herein granted. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Tax

receipts.

CHAP. XCII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning Roads and Highways in the County of Placer, approved April twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

[Approved March 26, 1863.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section twenty-eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 28. The Board of Supervisors shall cause blank road tax receipts to be issued, numbered, and signed by the President of the Board, and countersigned by the Treasurer of said county; said receipts, when so prepared, shall be delivered to the Auditor of said county by the Treasurer of said county, and by him charged in a book kept for that purpose. The Auditor shall deliver such numbers of said tax receipts to the Collector or Collectors, from time to time, as may be required, and the Auditor and Collector or Collectors shall account for the same as so much cash.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAP. XCIII.-An Act to require the County Judges of Colusa, Tehama, and Sutter, to reside at the County Seat.

[Approved March 26, 1863.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The County Judges of Colusa, Tehama, and Sutter Counties, shall reside at the county seat.

Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful for the County Auditor to draw salaries of his warrant in favor of the County Judges of Colusa, Tehama, Judges. and Sutter Counties, for their salaries as such Judges, until section first of this Act shall have been complied with.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour.

CHAP. XCIV.-An Act concerning the Independent Order of Good

Templars.

[Approved March 26, 1863.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Corporate Good Templars, or any subordinate lodge thereof, which now is powers. or may be hereafter incorporated under the laws of this State, may acquire and hold such property, real and personal, as may be deemed necessary to carry out the charitable purposes of said institution, and may sue and be sued, and shall have such other general powers as are granted to corporations under the law entitled an Act concerning. corporations, passed April twentysecond, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

CHAP. XCV.-An Act fixing the Salary of the District Attorney of the County of Siskiyou.

[Approved March 26, 1863.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The District Attorney of the County of Siskiyou Salary. shall receive for his services rendered in the discharge of the duties imposed upon him by law, one thousand five hundred dollars, and such fees as the statutes provide.

SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, particularly an Act entitled an Act fixing the salaries of Dis

trict Attorneys of certain counties in this State, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to the County of Siskiyou; provided, nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to effect the salary of the present incumbent. But this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the expiration of the term for which the present incumbent was elected.

Name changed.

CHAP. XCVI.—An Act to change the name of: Anderson Walker to Anderson Monroe Walker,

[Approved March 26, 1963.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The name of the person heretofore known as
Anderson Walker, an Attorney at Law, a resident of Gibson-
ville, Sierra County, in this State, is hereby changed to that of
Anderson Monroe Walker.

SEC. 2. This Act to take effect from and after its passage.

Special
Election.

Notice.

CHAP. XCVII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Joaquin to take and subscribe One Hundred Thousand Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 26, 1863.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Joaquin to order a special election to be held in said county, at the several places for holding elections therein, on or before the twelfth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said county the proposition for said Board of Supervisors to take and subscribe one hundred thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company, by which a railroad communication shall be formed between Stockton and Copperopolis.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the said Board of Supervisors to cause notice of at least twenty days to be published in one or more newspapers printed and published in the said county, stating the proposition to be submitted to the said electors, and the time and manner of voting thereon. It shall be the further duty of said Board of Supervisors to cause ballots to be

returns.

prepared with the words "Subscription of one hundred thou- Duty of sand dollars to the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Com- Supervisors pany" printed thereon. Every ballot in favor of said propo- Ballots. sition shall have the word "Yes," written or printed thereon, and every ballot against said proposition shall have the word "No," written or printed thereon. Said election shall be con- Election ducted in the same manner as other elections for county officers, and sealed returns shall be made of the vote cast on said proposition, within five days after the said election, and in the same manner as provided for in the case of the election of county officers, to the Clerk of said county, of the number of voters voting "Yes," and the number voting "No;" which returns shall be, on said fifth day, or on the sixth day following the day of said election, opened and counted in the same manner as the returns of the votes for county officers; and when so opened and counted, the result thereof shall be declared officially by the said Board of Supervisors, who shall, at the time prescribed for the opening and counting of the returns of said election, meet as a Board for that purpose, and for perfecting the subscription of stock as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 3. If, at the said election, a greater number of the elect- Subscription ors of said county, voting upon said proposition, shall vote "Yes" for stock. than shall vote "No," then, and in that event, is the Board of Supervisors of said county, in the name of said county, hereby authorized, empowered, and directed, immediately after the result of said election is so officially declared, to take and subscribe, for the use, benefit, and advantage of said county, to the capital stock of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of this State, on the eighth day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, for the purpose mentioned in section one of this Act, stock to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, and therefor to pledge the faith of said county for the payment of the same, in the manner hereinafter provided.

SEC. 4. The said subscription shall be made by a committee Same. of two members of said Board of Supervisors, to be appointed by an order of said Board for that purpose, and who shall perform that duty immediately thereafter.

of bonds.

SEC. 5. The said subscription shall be made, and so received, same. conditioned to be paid in the bonds of said county, issued as hereinafter directed, and not otherwise; and for such subscription said bonds shall be received at par, dollar for dollar. SEC. 6. The said Board of Supervisors of said county, from Issuance time to time, as the payment of said subscription to such capital so subscribed shall be required to be made by the Board of Directors of said railroad company, not exceeding at any one time, however, an instalment of ten per cent upon the amount of said subscription, in the same manner and upon the same terms as other stockholders, shall, by order, direct the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors, the Auditor and Treasurer of said county, who, for that purpose, in addition to their other duties as such officers, and their successors in office, shall constitute a Board of Commissioners, to be styled the "Loan Commissioners" of said county, as such Loan Commissioners, to issue bonds in the sums of five hundred and one thousand dollars, in

Interest.

signing

bonds.

equal proportions, for such amount of such subscription to said capital stock as said Board of Supervisors may direct. Said bonds shall draw interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum from the date of their issue, and the principal thereof shall be made payable on a specified day, to be named in the bonds, which shall be fifteen years after the date of their issue, at the office of the Treasurer of said county; the interest accruing on said bonds shall be due and payable semi-annually, so long as such bonds are outstanding and unpaid, and shall be made payable on a specified day, to be named in the coupons, at said Treasurer's office, as before provided for the payment of the Manner of principal of said bonds. Said bonds shall be signed by the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors, the Auditor and Treasurer of said county, as such officers, and ex officio Loan Commissioners, and when so signed, shall be presented by the Chairman of said Board of Supervisors to the Clerk of said county, who shall countersign the same, as such Clerk, in the presence of a quorum of such Board, at a meeting thereof; and it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors, to cause the fact of such countersigning of said bonds to be entered upon their journal, together with the number, date, and amount of each bond. so countersigned by such Clerk; and upon the countersigning of said bonds, it shall be the duty of said Board of Supervisors to cause the seal of said county to be affixed to each bond, and appoint a committee of two of their number to deliver said bonds to the said railroad company to whom the same shall be issued; and it shall be the duty of such committee to take a receipt from the Secretary of said railroad company for the bonds so delivered by them, setting forth the number, dates, and amounts of the bonds so delivered, and report the same to the Board of Supervisors.

Coupons.

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SEC. 7. Coupons for the interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the coupons may be removed without mutilation to the bond; said coupons shall be signed by the said Loan Commissioners. When any interest shall be paid upon a bond issued under the provisions of this Act, the County Treasurer shall detach the coupons for the interest then due and paid, and deliver the same to the Clerk of said county, taking his receipt therefor, whose duty it shall be to write the word "cancelled" across said coupons, and file the same in his office, and make a report thereof at the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 8. The bonds issued from time to time in payment of bonds to be such stock subscription by virtue of the provisions of this Act, the county. and at least an equal amount of any other funds that may be obtained by said company from other stockholders, or otherwise, or that may be furnished and supplied by the contractors who are or may be engaged in the construction of said road for said company, shall be expended from time to time, as the said bonds are required to be issued, in the actual construction of that portion of said company's road situated in the said County of San Joaquin to the extent and amount of the graduation and full preparation of said road for the superstruction thereof; and thereafter the said company may lay out and expend any balance or overplus of said bonds, if any there should be, after the graduation of said road in said county, as before stipulated, on

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