moneys out upon warrants drawn upon the Road Fund, by order of the Board of Supervisors, and in no other manner. SEC. 8. The Road Masters shall each receive for their ser- Pay of Road vices while in actual employment such compensation as the Masters. Board of Supervisors may deem just, not to exceed five dollars per day; provided, that the Board of Supervisors may limit the time to be occupied by each Road Master in the performance of the duties of his office in his District, and also limit the amount to be expended in each District. towns SEC. 9. This Act shall not be applicable to the incorporated Cities and cities and towns in Tuolumne County, only so far as relates to exempted. the assessment of the tax on property for road purposes. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby made inapplicable to the County of Tuol umne. CHAP. CXXXII.-An Act to authorize Married Women to execute [Approved April 3, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and attorney. SECTION 1. A married woman may make and execute powers Execution of attorney for the sale, conveyance, or encumbrance of her of power of real or personal estate; provided, her husband joins in the execution of the instrument, and the same be acknowledged and certified in the manner heretofore provided by law for the conveyance of her real estate. etc. SEC. 2. Any conveyance executed under and by virtue of Acknowlsuch power of attorney, shall be executed, acknowledged, and edgment, certified, in the same manner as if the persons making such powers of attorney were unmarried. SEC. 3. A married woman shall have the right to revoke Revocation. such power of attorney by any revocation thereof made and executed by her, and acknowledged and certified in the manner that conveyances by married women are required to be acknowledged and certified; and it shall not be necessary, for the validity of such revocation, that her husband shall join in the execution thereof. attorney. SEC. 4. All powers of attorney heretofore made and executed Validity of by any married woman, with her husband, and acknowledged powers of and certified in the manner provided in section one of this Act, and all conveyances heretofore and hereafter executed under and by virtue of such powers of attorney, and acknowledged and certified in the manner provided in section two of this Act, shall be valid and binding; provided, that no rights already Proviso. vested in third persons shall be affected by anything in this section contained. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Term of office. CHAP. CXXXIII.-An Act explanatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide Revenue for the support of the Government of this State, approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved April 3, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Nothing in said Act to which this is supplementary shall be construed so as to abridge the terms of office of the several officers in the counties of this State whose election and terms of office were determined by section one hundred and eleven 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. Common Council authorized. Amount. Form of bonds and necessary CHAP. CXXXIV.-An Act to authorize the Common Council of the [Approved April 3, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Common Council of the City of Placerville are hereby authorized to issue bonds of said city to the amount of six thousand dollars, and no more, for the relief and benefit of the Fire Department of said city. Said bonds shall be made payable within five years from the date of their issue, and shall draw interest at the rate of one per cent per month, payable semi-annually. Said bonds, both principal and interest, shall be payable at the office of the Treasurer of said city. SEC. 2. Said Common Council may, by an order to that effect entered upon their journal, determine the number of said bonds and the amount of each, and the time and manner of the payment of the same; provided, the aggregate amount of said bonds shall not exceed said sum of six thousand dollars, and the time of payment shall not exceed said period of five years. SEC. 3. Said bonds shall be signed by the Mayor and Treasurer of said city, in their official capacity, and shall be countersignature. signed by the Clerk of said Council, in the presence of a quorum thereof, and when so signed and countersigned, said Clerk shall affix to each of said bonds the seal of said city. Coupons for the interest shall be attached to each of said bonds, in such a manner that the same can be removed without mutilation to the bond. Said coupons shall each be signed by the Mayor, Treasurer, and Clerk of said city, in their official capacity. Payment of interest. SEC. 4. When the Treasurer shall pay any interest on said bonds, he shall carefully separate the coupons for the interest so paid from the bond, and shall file the same with the Clerk of said city, taking his receipt therefor, and said Clerk shall report the same to the Common Council at their next meeting. When said Treasurer shall pay any of said bonds, he shall file the same with the Clerk of said city, taking his receipt therefor, and said Clerk shall report the same to the Common Council at their next meeting. Said Common Council shall thereupon Cancellation cause said coupons and bonds to be marked "Cancelled," and filed in the office of said Clerk. ment. SEC. 5. Said bonds shall be apportioned among the companies Apportionof said Fire Department as follows: To Confidence Engine Company, Number One, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; to Neptune Engine Company, Number Two, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; to Young America Engine Company, Number Three, one thousand dollars. SEC. 6. An Act entitled an Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Placerville, approved March the seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, is hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CXXXV.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning the Office of Controller, passed January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty. [Approved April 3, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section fifteen of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 15. The office of Controller shall be open for the office hours. transaction of business every day in the year, except Sunday, New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the days on which the General Election and Special Judicial Election are held, from ten o'clock A. M., to four o'clock P. M. CHAP. CXXXVI.—An Act in relation to the collection of Poll Taxes in the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved April 3, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Tax Collector of the City and County of San Feos. ages allowed by law for the collection of poll taxes, for the purpose of paying his Deputies who collect the same. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. H. Deuel. M. Miles. Hall of Fourth of July. Election expenses. Cleaning streets, etc. Cisterns, etc. Rent of fire CHAP. CXXXVII.-An Act to confer additional Powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and upon the Auditor and Treasurer thereof, and to authorize the appropriations of money by said Board. [Approved April 4, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, allow, and order paid, the sums of money, and to exercise the powers following: First-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, to H. Deuel, for repairs made on the County Jail of said city and county, not to exceed one hundred and six dollars. Second-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund to Michael Miles, for arching cisterns' tops in said city and county, not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars. Third-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollars, for repairs to the Hall of Records of said city and county. Fourth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars in any year, for the celebration in said city and county of the Anniversary of our National Independence. Fifth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, for the election expenses of said city and county, not to exceed seventy-five dollars for each Election District for each election in said city and county. Sixth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed eight thousand dollars per annum, in addition to the sum now allowed by law, for cleaning the streets, sewers, crosswalks, and highways of said city and county. Seventh-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars for the current year, and ten thousand dollars annually thereafter, for the erection and construction of hydrants and cisterns in said city and county. Eighth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not companies. to exceed six thousand dollars annually, for rent of buildings. for hose and engine companies in said city and county. Fire Department. Purchase of Ninth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed four thousand dollars per month, for the entire expenses of the Fire Department of said city and county. Tenth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not certain lot. to exceed sixteen thousand dollars, for the purchase of the lot judgments. and buildings now occupied by the Monumental Engine Company of said city and county, and three feet front, by a sufficient depth, of land in addition and adjoining thereto; the judgments Payment against the members of said company, and each of them, hereto- of certain fore obtained in the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District of the State of California, in and for said city and county, in the cases of James W. Morse vs. The City and County of San Francisco et als., Daniel W. Coit vs. The City and County of San Francisco et als., and J. B. Thomas vs. The City and County of San Francisco et als., to be satisfied of record upon the completion of said purchase, and all claims of damages against said defendants, and each of them, to be released. Eleventh-To appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars, in Counsel fees. payment of so much money agreed to be paid by said city and county to John W. Dwinelle, and Delos Lake, pursuant to the terms of a contract in that behalf, bearing date on November tenth, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for conducting certain special litigation in behalf of said city and county; which said contract is hereby confirmed, and the said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to appropriate, and allow the Auditor of said city and county to audit, and the Treasurer of said city and county to pay, the sums of money so appropriated and allowed by said Board in discharge of such contract, as fast as they become due, out of the General Fund of said city and county. Twelfth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, Repairs and, not to exceed the sum of three thousand one hundred and dry goods. twelve and thirty-seven one-hundredths dollars, for repairs made and dry goods furnished to the City and County Hospital, as follows, that is to say: To Jansen, Bond & Co., not to exceed two thousand and fifty-nine and forty-nine hundredths dollars; to G. A. Lloyd, not to exceed five hundred and seventeen and fifty-three hundredths dollars; to David Mulvain, not to exceed five hundred and thirty-five and thirty-five hundredths dollars. Thirteenth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, Indigent not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars per month, for sick and the support of the indigent sick, and the contingent expenses Hospital. of the City and County Hospital of said city and county; and out of the same Fund, not to exceed the sum of six thousand Small Pox dollars for any one year, for the support of the Small Pox Hos- Hospital. pital of said city and county. County Fourteenth-To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, Salaries of to the Clerk of the Auditor of said city and county, the sum of Clerks. one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; to the Clerk of the City and County Attorney of said city and county, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; to the Clerk of the District Attorney of said city and county, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; and to the Clerk of the Treasurer of said city and county, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; to the Clerk of the Mayor of said city and county, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; and to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, the sum of two hundred |