CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act to provide Revenue for the Support of the Government of this State, approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Assessor to prepare a Duties of tax list or assessment roll of real estate, with an alphabetical Assessor. index connected therewith, in a well bound book or books, in which book or books shall be listed or assessed all the real estate within the city and county, and in the said book or books he shall set down, in separate columns: First-The names of all inhabitants taxable for real estate. Second-All real estate taxable to each, describing the lots, or fractions of lots, by number or otherwise, in any city or incorporated town, and giving the number of acres, as near as possible, of each tract outside such city or town, and the locality and township where it is situated; provided, that whenever two or more parties claim or give in a description of the same land, it shall be assessed to each party making such claim or giving such description. Third-The cash value of the same. Fourth-The Assessor shall also, in another book, make a map or plan of the various blocks within any incorporated city or town, when directed so to do by the Board of Supervisors of the county in which such town or city is situated, and shall mark thereon the various subdivisions as they are assessed, and in each subdivision he shall mark the names of the persons to whom it is assessed; provided, that in the City and County of San Francisco, it shall not be required to describe the lots or parts of lots by metes and bounds, but any numerical description that may be approved by the Board of Supervisors shall be sufficient for assessment purposes. It shall be the duty of the Assessor to prepare a tax list or assessment roll of personal property, alphabetically arranged, in a well bound book or books, in which book or books shall be listed or assessed all the personal property within the city and county, and in the said book or books he shall set down, in separate columns: First-The names of all the inhabitants taxable for personal property. Second-All personal property taxable to each under the classification provided for in section second of this Act; provided, that all storeships and hulks, all steamers, vessels, and water crafts, of every kind and name, may be listed or assessed in the alphabetical order of the names of such storeships, hulks, steamers, vessels and water crafts, instead of the order of the names of their owners, and in a separate book, at the discretion of the Assessor. Third-The cash value of all personal property. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage. Act repealed CHAP. XXXIV.—An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Incorporation of the City of San Bernardino, passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That an Act entitled an Act to authorize the incorporation of the City of San Bernardino, passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Supervisors CHAP. XXXV.-An Act creating a Contingent Fund for Trinity County. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors for Trinity County are authorized. hereby authorized and empowered to, in each year, set aside from any money in the County Treasury, belonging to the General Fund, any sum, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, which shall be known as the Contingent Fund of said county, and shall be subject to the order of the Board of Supervisors in payment for repairing of public buildings, rent, and furnishing rooms for county purposes, stationery, books, fuel, lights, clothing, and ironing of prisoners. CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to fund the indebtedness of the County of Los Angeles now existing in the form of County Auditor's Warrants, or that may be outstanding on the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or Warrants issued for indebtedness accruing prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and to provide for the payment of the same, approved April fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section ten of said Act shall be so amended as to read as follows: upon certain Section 10. Claims against the county of Los Angeles, and Restrictions entitled to be funded by this Act, shall be paid in no other man- claims. ner than hereinafter provided, and all claims entitled to be funded shall have interest allowed to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, on the same, at the rate of ten per cent per annum, from the date of the protest of the same by the County Treasurer, which interest shall be paid in the same manner as the principal; and all claims remaining unfunded on the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be presented to be funded by the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the same shall be funded and have the same force, effect, and validity, as if the same had been presented before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or the same shall, from and after that date, cease to draw interest, and the claim or claims shall not be paid until after the entire liquidation of the debt herein funded. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its final passage. CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate the Settlement of the Estates of Deceased Persons, passed May first, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and other Acts amendatory thereof. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty-seven of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section 27. All wills which shall have been duly proved and wills. allowed in any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or in any foreign country or State, may be allowed and recorded in the Probate Court of any county in which the testator shall have left any estate; provided, it has been executed in conformity with the laws of this State. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Powers of Same. CHAP. XXXVIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to re-incorporate the City of Sonora, approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section nine of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 9. The Trustees shall have power to levy, on or before the first Monday in April, an annual tax, for the necessary expenses of said city, on all the real and personal property therein, not to exceed one per cent per annum. SEC. 2. Section ten of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 10. The Trustees shall have power to levy, at the time specified in section nine of this Act, an additional tax on all such real and personal property, not to exceed one and one half per cent per annum, for the purpose of liquidating the city debt. The collection of all taxes shall be governed, so far as practicable, by the State laws existing at the time in relation thereto. SEC. 3. Section eleven of said Act is hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. XXXIX.-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act concerning certain Salaries and Fees of Office in the County of Monterey, approved April nineteenth, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to revive an Act entitled an Act to regulate Fees in Office in certain counties of this State, approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred fifty seven. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act concerning certain salaries and fees of office in the County of Monterey, approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred sixty-two, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. An Act entitled an Act to regulate fees in office in certain counties of this State, approved April twenty-eighth, Anno Domini eighteen hundred fifty-seven, so far as the same relates to the County of Monterey, is hereby revived. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XL-An Act to separate the office of Collector of Taxes from the office of Sheriff in the County of Trinity. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the first Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the office of Collector of Taxes in the County of Trinity shall be separate from the office of Sheriff. SEC. 2. At the general election to be held in the year one Election. thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and at the general election every second year thereafter, there shall be elected in the said county, a Collector of Taxes, who shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first Monday in March next thereafter, and shall hold said office for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. SEC. 3. The Collector of Taxes elected under the provisions Duties. of this Act, shall collect all State and county taxes, all foreign miners' license taxes, and all kinds of public dues, which by law shall be required to be collected by the Sheriff of said county, on the first Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four; and all duties and liabilities imposed by law upon the said Sheriff in the collection of said taxes and public dues, shall attach to the office hereby created; and all authority and power possessed by said Sheriff for the enforcement of the said collections, is conferred upon said Collector; and the said Collector elected under the provisions of this Act shall qualify for said office, and shall give such bond or bonds as shall be by law required to be given by the Sheriff for like responsibility. SEC. 4. The Collector of Taxes hereby created shall have Deputies. the power of appointing one or more Deputies to aid him in his official duties, for whose official conduct he shall be responsible; and each and every such Deputy, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, shall make and subscribe, in writing, upon the back of his certificate of appointment, the oath of office required of his principal, modified to suit his position, and shall immediately thereafter file the same with the County Recorder of said county, and he shall not be considered qualified to act until the same is done. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the pro- Acts visions of this Act are hereby repealed so far as they relate to repealed. the County of Trinity; provided, that nothing in this Act shall be held to affect the office of Sheriff in said county until the first Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour. |