said county, shall credit the said Tax Collector with the sum of four hundred dollars, being the amount of one hundred foreign miners' license receipts, which receipts were lost in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two; and the County Treasurer of said Siskiyou County, in making his settlement with the County Auditor, and the Controller of State, in making his settlement with the County Treasurer of said county, shall credit the said Auditor and Treasurer, respectively, with the sum of four hundred dollars, being the amouut of the foreign miners' license receipts above named. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. LIX.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Trinity County are Special tax. hereby authorized to levy a special tax of one fourth of one per cent on the taxable property in said county, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-three and sixty-four, in addition to other taxes authorized by law, for the purpose of building or purchasing suitable buildings for the county. SEC. 2. Said tax may be levied at the annual meetings of said Levy. Board in each of said years at which State and county taxes are authorized to be levied, and shall be collected in the same manner as other county taxes, and the money arising therefrom shall be devoted exclusively to the construction of or the pur- Disposition chase of such buildings as shall be necessary and suitable for the of moneys. use of the county, under the direction of the said Board of Su pervisors. SEC. 3. The above tax may be levied on each succeeding year Annual levy after eighteen hundred [and] sixty-three and eighteen hundred [and] sixty-four, and until sufficient fund shall have accrued for the purposes as specified in the first section of this Act; but if any surplus thereof shall remain, after the expenses of construct- Surplus. ing or the purchase of such buildings, and the fitting and repairing of the same, such surplus shall be placed in the Redemption Fund of said County. Powers of Council. CHAP. LX. An Act authorizing and empowering the Common Coun cil of the City of Stockton to vacate parts of certain Streets in said City. [Approved March 16, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Common Council of the City of Stockton is hereby authorized and empowered to vacate parts of certain streets in said city, to-wit: All that part of Flora Street that lies between Aurora Street and José Jesus Street, and between Stanislaus Street and American Street; and also, all that part of José Jesus Street and that part of Stanislaus Street that lie between Park Street and Flora Street. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. To keep office at CHAP. LXI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act defining the duties of County Clerk, passed April eighteenth, eighteen hundred [and] fifty. [Approved March 16, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section seven of an Act entitled an Act defining the duties of County Clerk, passed April eighteenth, eighteen hundred [and] fifty, is hereby amended so as to read as fol lows: Section 7. The County Clerk shall keep his office at the County seat. County seat of his county, and shall take charge of and safely keep or dispose of, according to law, all books, papers, and records, which are or may be filed or deposited in his office; Office hours. and shall keep his office open, for the 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 the Special Judicial Election are held, from and including the hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon, to the hour of five o'clock in the afternoon. CHAP. LXII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning [Approved March 16, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The title of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "An Act concerning hogs found running at large in certain counties in this State." SEC. 2. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. All hogs found trespassing upon the premises of Hogs found any person in the Counties of Marin, Alameda, Sacramento, trespassing. San Francisco, Stanislaus, Yuba, Santa Clara, and Butte, the owner or proprietor of such premises may take up and safely keep, at the expense of the owner or owners thereof, all such hogs so found trespassing. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. LXIII.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning the Office of State Treasurer, passed January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty. [Approved March 16, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section five of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 5. He shall deliver to the Governor, on the first Mon- Duties. day of November, annually, a full exhibit of all moneys received by him into and paid out of the Treasury, showing, under separate and appropriate heads, on what account, and from what sources received, and for what particular services or object the same has been paid out by him, and shall give information, in writing, to either House of the Legislature, whenever required, upon any subject connected with the Treasury, or any duty of his office. 8 Office hours. CHAP. LXIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning County Recorders, passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. [Approved March 16, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of an Act entitled an Act concerning County Recorders, passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Recorder of each county to keep his office open, for the transaction of business, every day in the year, except Sunday, New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the day on which the General Election and the Special Judicial Election are held, from and including the hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon, to the hour of five o'clock in the afternoon. Wilful injury to property. Penalty. CHAP. LXV.-An Act to amend Section One Hundred and Forty of an Act concerning Crimes and Punishments, approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty. [Approved March 16, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SEC. 1. Section one hundred and forty of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section 140. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously cut, break, injure, or destroy, any bridge, mill, dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, levee, embankment, reservoir, or other structure erected to create hydraulic power, or to drain or reclaim any Swamp and Overflowed, Tide, or Marsh Land, or to conduct water for mining, manufacturing, reclaiming, or agricultural purposes, or any embankment necessary to the same, or either of them, or shall wilfully and maliciously make, or cause to be made, any aperture in such dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, reservoir, embankment, levee, or structure, with intent to injure or destroy the same, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor in the State Prison not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment. CHAP. LXVI.-An Act amendatory of an Act relating to the Indenturing of Minors, passed May twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved March 16, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: cisco Protec may inden Section 1. The Board of Lady Managers of the San Fran- San Francisco Ladies' Protection and Relief Society, by their President tion and Reand Secretary, may bind out any child under their care, or who lief Society shall come under their care, until such child shall become of age, ture minors. or any shorter time, to serve as clerk, apprentice, or servant, in any profession, trade, or employment, and such binding shall be as valid and effectual as if such child had bound himself, with the consent of his father or mother, or either of them. The Board of Supervisors of the several counties of this State shall have similar powers to indenture all children within their respective counties who are destitute of parents or Guardians, or means of support; provided, that the power conferred by this section on the Board of Supervisors, shall, in those counties in which the township law is in force, be exercised by the Board of Township Trustees. SEC. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: indentures. Section 2. The binding out of any child under the provisions Validity of of this Act, shall be by indenture, in writing, executed in triplicate, by the President and Secretary of said Board of Lady Managers, under the direction of said Board, or by the Board of Supervisors of any county, and the person or persons to whom such child shall be bound, and acknowledged before the County Judge, District Judge, or Notary Public, and one copy of said indenture shall be filed with the County Clerk of said City and County of San Francisco, or the County Clerk of the county wherein the indenture is made. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. |