Result of election and duties of Supervisors of Tuolumne County. If the result of the election in Stanislaus County shall be favorable to the issue of such bonds, then the Board of Supervisors of said county shall immediately choose some person to serve as Road Commissioner under the provisions of this Act, and shall forthwith certify such action to the Board of Supervisors of Tuolumne County. SEC. 21. In the event that San Joaquin County alone of the counties mentioned in section eighteen, shall elect to issue bonds, Supervisors. and shall choose a Commissioner, or in the event that San Joaquin County, together with Stanislaus County, shall have elected to issue bonds and choose Commissioners, then it shall be the duty of the several Boards of Supervisors of the Counties of Mono and Tuolumne, and they are hereby required, on or before the twentieth day of May next, or as soon thereafter as may be, to each choose some suitable person to serve as Commissioner under the provisions of this Act; but in the event that the County of Stanislaus alone shall elect to issue bonds as hereinbefore provided, then it shall be optional with the Boards of Supervisors of the Counties of Mono and Tuolumne as to whether they will each choose a Commissioner, issue bonds, and proceed to construct the road. Validity of missioners. SEC. 22. If, under the provisions of the last two preceding acts of Com- sections, three Commissioners be chosen, the acts of any two of them, acting jointly and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall be, in all respects, as effectual and binding as if done and performed by all of such Commissioners. If four Commissioners be chosen, three shall unite in the making of all contracts provided for in section eight, and in the making of monthly reports and apportionments, as provided for in section nine, of the expenditures incurred in the construction of said Merced Act road. SEC. 23. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Merced shall cause to be submitted to the voters of said county, at the next general election for State and county officers, the question of issuing the bonds of said county, in the amount of twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said road mentioned in this Act. Those voting on said proposition shall have written or printed on their ballots the words "Sonora and Mono Road Bonds-Yes," or "Sonora and Mono Road Bonds-No." The Board of Supervisors shall canvass said votes, and immediately certify the result to the Board of Supervisors of Tuolumne County. If a majority of the votes so polled shall be in favor of the issuing of said bonds, the Board of Supervisors shall immediately appoint a Commissioner, who shall act with the Commissioners heretofore mentioned, and the said Commissioner, Board of Supervisors, and County Treasurer of Merced County, shall be governed in all respects relating to the said "Sonora and Mono Wagon Road," by the provisions of this Act, and shall issue and redeem their county bonds the same as the other counties mentioned herein. SEC. 24. An Act entitled an Act to authorize the County repealed. Auditor of the Counties of Mono, Tuolumne, and San Joaquin, to issue certain bonds, and provide for the construction of a road herein named, approved April twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, is hereby repealed. SEC. 25. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CXVII.-—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning the Receipts and Expenditures of the State, passed February serenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. [Approved March 31, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: contingent Section 3. All officers or others to whom contingent ex- Reports upon penses are allowed, shall annually, in the month of December, expenses. make a statement in writing to the Governor, verified under oath, of the manner in which the various contingent funds allowed them have been expended during the year ending November the thirtieth next preceding, specifying the items; and all officers, as above named, going out of office previous to the said time of making said statement, shall make the same up to the time of their going out of office. SEC. 2. Section six of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Controller. Section 6. Between the first and fifteenth days of Decem- Duty of ber in each year, the State Controller shall present, in writing, to the Governor, a specific statement of the warrants on the Treasury drawn by him during the year ending the thirtieth day of November preceding, showing the date of the warrant, the service or liability for the payment of which the warrant is drawn, the time when such service was performed, as the liability accrued, out of what appropriation drawn, and its amount. CHAP. CXVIII.-An Act for the relief of purchasers of Swamp and [Approved March 31, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All interest due and unpaid, or that may become Remission due within one year after the passage of this Act, on all Swamp of interest. and Overflowed, Tide, and Marsh Lands, which have been sold under the provisions of any Act providing for the sale of said Swamp and Overflowed, Tide, and Marsh Lands of this State, is hereby remitted; provided, that there shall not, in any case, be Proviso. more than one year's interest remitted by virtue of this Act on any of the said lands; but all subsequent payments shall be due on the same day and month of the year in which they would have been due, had not one year's interest been remitted. SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby suspended for one year, and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Appropria CHAP. CXIX.-An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors for [Approved March 31, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County tion author- are hereby empowered and directed to make a special appropri ized. Trustee. ation of the sum of one thousand dollars, for the purpose of opening and improving the road leading from the Santa Anna Eagle Coal and Marble Mines, to a point on the west bank of the Santa Anna River, in front of the old mill of Prudencia Yorba. SEC. 2. And William G. Dryden is hereby made a Trustee for the disbursement of said appropriation, to determine when the work shall be done, and procure the same to be done at the most reasonable cost, at his discretion; and the County Treasurer of said county is hereby authorized, upon the presentment of the warrant of the County Auditor in favor of said Trustee, to pay, out of the Road Fund of his said county, the sum of one thousand dollars from any moneys in said Fund not specially before appropriated. SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act for this special appropriation are hereby repealed. This Act to take effect from and after its passage. Franchise. CHAP. CXX.-An Act granting the right to construct and maintain a [Approved March 31, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The right to erect and construct, and to have, enjoy, and maintain, for twenty years, a public toll bridge across the American River, near Rattlesnake Bar, in the Counties of Placer and El Dorado, is hereby granted unto William Gwynn, together with such associates as he may admit, and their assigns, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned. SEC. 2. Said bridge shall be a wire suspension bridge, and Conditions. shall be constructed of the best and most durable material, and shall be completed within six months after the passage of this Act. SEC. 3. The said William Gwynn and his associates are Tolls. authorized and empowered to charge and collect such rates of toll as the Board of Supervisors of the County of El Dorado may fix, annually; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to exempt the owners of this franchise from the payment of license, as required by the laws of this State. SEC. 4. Said William Gwynn and his associates may regulate Rights of and determine the speed of travel, riding, or driving, upon said company. bridge, and may require the speed to be not faster than a walk. Notice of such regulation shall be kept posted upon some conspicuous part of each end of said bridge, and for each violation of said regulation, the parties offending may be fined in any Court of competent jurisdiction, in any sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars; provided, also, that parties violating such regulations shall be liable for any actual damage sustained by reason of such violation. SEC. 5. No ferry or toll bridge shall be established within one mile immediately above or below said bridge, unless it be required by public convenience. SEC. 6. It is also further provided that nothing in this Act Proviso. contained shall in anywise diminish the rights and privileges which said William Gwynn and his associates now possess and enjoy under the laws concerning ferries and toll bridges. This Act shall take effect from and after its SEC. 7. passage. CHAP. CXXI.—An Act authorizing the Construction of a Wagon [Approved March 31, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. P. A. Forrester, or his assignees, are hereby Franchise. authorized to construct a wagon road, not to exceed the width of eighty feet, commencing at a point on the Pacific Coast, at or in the vicinity of the Bay of San Simeon, in San Luis Obispo County, and running across the Coast Range of Mountains, to a point on the Salinas River, as may be determined upon by said Forrester or his assignees. SEC. 2. Said road shall be completed at any time within two years after the passage of this Act. SEC. 3. The Act of May twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty- Acts made three, authorizing the formation of corporations for the con- applicable. struction of plank or turnpike roads, and the Act of April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to provide for the incorporation of wagon road companies, are made applicable to this Act, except so far as they may conflict with the provisions hereof. SEC. 4. The franchise herein granted shall cease and determine within twenty years after the passage of this Act. CHAP. CXXII.-An Act to change the Name of Victor Desere to [Approved March 31, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the person heretofore known as Victor Desere, of Shasta County, in this State, to change his name to William Henry Roberts. Powers and Road CHAP. CXXIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act in relation to Public Roads in the County of El Dorado, and to the Road Fund of said County, approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved March 31, 1863.] 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: Section 7. It shall be the duty of each Road Overseer to procure from the Auditor as many road tax receipts as there are inhabitants in his township liable to pay road tax, and he shall visit all such persons during the months of October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, and June, and collect from each of them the sum of two dollars for the current year, and from and after the first day of October, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents. Upon the payment of this sum, he shall give such person a road tax receipt, writing thereon, with ink, the date and name of the person paying the same, and signing thereto his name. If any person liable to pay road tax shall fail or refuse to pay the same upon demand, the Road Overseer may enforce the collection thereof in the same manner in all respects as is provided for in the collection of poll taxes by sections sixty-six and sixty-seven of an Act entitled an Act to provide revenue for the support of the government of this State, approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. |