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SEC. 3. A majority of all the votes given shall be necessary to elect Majority a Senator.

to elect.

SEC. 4. The Joint Convention shall do no Act except to adjourn, Restriction. during the absence of a majority of all the members elect of either the Senate or Assembly; and the withdrawal of such majority shall cause a Dissolution. dissolution of the Joint Convention.

SEC. 5. When the election is made, the President of the Senate, and Certify election. the Speaker of the Assembly, shall certify the same to the Governor.

SEC. 6. The Governor shall cause a credential to be made out, with Credential. the great seal of the State affixed thereto, certifying the said clection, and shall deliver it to such Senator.

SEC. 7. Whenever the Executive of this State shall by virtue of the Appointment. Constitution of the United States, make a temporary appointment of a Senator, he shall deliver to such Senator a credential under the great seal of the State, certifying said appointment.

SEC. 8. An Act entitled "An Act prescribing the manner of elect- Repeal. ing United States Senators," passed January 30, 1852, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER XCII.

AN ACT

To attach a portion of El Dorado County to the County of

Amador.

[Approved April 16, 1855.]

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

Description

and boundary.

SECTION 1. All that portion of El Dorado county lying south of line beginning at a point in the middle of the Consumues river, at the eastern boundary of Sacramento county, running thence in an easterly direction, on an air line, to the mouth of the South Fork of the South Fork of the Consumnes river, thence up the middle of the South Fork of the South Fork of Consumnes river to its source, and thence due east to the present county line dividing El Dorado county from the county of Amador is hereby detached from the county of El Dorado, and at- Attached to. tached to, and made a part of Amador county.

Compensation.

Repeal.

Take effect.

CHAPTER XCIII.

AN ACT

To fix the Compensation of the County Judge of Sierra County, and to repeal, in part, the first section of an Act entitled "An Act to fix the Compensation of County Judges and Associate Justices of the Courts of Sessions," passed May 17th, 1853.

[Approved April 16, 1855.]

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

SECTION 1. The County Judge of Sierra county, shall receive for his services annually, the sum of three thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. The first section of "An Act to fix the compensation of County Judges and Associate Justices of the Courts of Sessions," passed May seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, is hereby repealed, so far as the provisions of said section extends to the county of Sierra.

SEC. 3. This Act to take effect and be in force from and after the commencement of the ensuing term of office.

When held.

Order of business.

Records.

CHAPTER XCIV.

AN ACT

Fixing the time of Holding the several Courts authorized to be held by the County Judge in the County of Tuolumne.

[Approved April 16, 1855.]

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

SECTION 1. The Courts authorized to be held by the County Judge in the county of Tuolumne shall hereafter be held, all at the same time, viz.: On the first Monday of February, April, June, August, October and December of each year.

SEC. 2. At said terms the business pertaining to the Courts of Sessions shall first be disposed of, and after that the business of the County Court, and Probate Court, in such order as the Judge may determine. SEC. 3. The records of each of said Courts shall be kept separately, as required by law.

SEC. 4. The County Judge of said county may call and hold special Power of terms of the Probate Court, and the Court of Sessions, whenever the County Judge. public interest may require it.

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SEC. 5. An Act concerning the Courts of Justice of this State, and Judicial Officers," passed May 19th, 1853, so far as the same relates to the county of Tuolumne, and controverts the provisions of this Act, is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER XCV.

AN ACT

Concerning the Records in the Office of the County Recorder of San
Francisco County.

[Approved April 16, 1855.]

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

to sign name

SECTION 1. John A. Clark, late Deputy County Recorder of the Clark authorized county of San Francisco, is hereby authorized and empowered to sign of Russum. the name of Thomas B. Russum, County Recorder, by him as Deputy, to the note at the foot of each of the records made during the term of office of said Russum, and left unsigned by him at the expiration of his said official term.

evidence.

SEC. 2. The records so signed and copies thereof certified by the Records as Recorder, shall be received in all the Courts of this State, and shall have the same force and effect as evidence in said Courts, as if the same had been signed by said Russum during his official term.

county.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. Said John A. Clark shall, for the signing of each record, Recome as provided by the provisions of this Act, receive the sum of forty cents; and the whole expense of so signing such records, is hereby made a charge upon the county of San Francisco, and shall be allowed, Charged to audited and paid, in like manner with other charges against said county. SEC. 4. Provided, that before before being entitled to receive any compensation for services performed as prescribed by this Act, the said John A. Clark shall, before some competent officer, subscribe to an Deeds already affidavit, stating the account is just, for services rendered under this Act, and that no charge is made for deeds already signed by him, before the passage of this Act.

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Incorporated.

Name.
Privileges.

Boundaries.

Powers of
Trustees.
When elected.

Term of office.

CHAPTER XCVI.

AN ACT

To Incorporate the Town of El Dorado.

[Approved April 16, 1855 ]

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

SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the district of country hereinafter described, are hereby declared to be incorporated under the provisions of an Act to provide for the incorporation of towns, passed March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty, with the style and name of the Town of El Dorado," and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, and may purchase, receive and hold property for their common benefit, and sell, or otherwise dispose of the

same.

SEC. 2. The boundaries of said "Town" shall be as follows: Commencing at a point half a mile north from the southeast corner of the Oriental Hotel, in the township of Mud Springs, El Dorado county, thence north half a mile, thence west one mile, thence south two miles, thence east one mile, thence north half a mile, thence east one mile, thence north one mile, thence west one mile to the place of beginning, containing three square miles.

SEC. 3. The corporate powers in and of said "Town" shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, to consist of five members, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of said "Town," on the third Monday of April in each year, and shall hold office for the term of one year, and Compensatio... until their successors are qualified; and they shall receive a compensation for their services, which shall not exceed one dollar per day, for each day's actual service. Their sittings shall be public, and they shall keep a Journal of their proceedings, and the yeas and nays on any question shall be taken and entered on said Journal at the request of any member.

Sittings.

Power of
Trustees.

Same.

SEC. 4. The Board of Trustees shall have power to open, alter, extend, pave, grade or otherwise improve and to regulate streets, lanes and alleys; to construct and keep in repair bridges, fences and public places. They shall have power to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the common property, but all sales or leases shall be by public auction, after ten days' notice, posted in three of the most public places within said "Town." They shall have power to organize and support Common Schools and Academies; to make regulations for securing the health, cleanliness, ornament, peace and good order of the Town, and for preventing and extinguishing of fires; they shall have power to levy taxes, not exceeding one half of one per cent. per annum on the assessed value of the real and personal property within the Town, for the support of Free Schools, and for defraying the ordinary expenses of the Town; to license exhibitions, shows, amusements and billiard tables; to suppress all gambling houses, dram shops, and all occupations, places, houses and exhibitions, which are against good morals, and contrary to

public order and decency; to regulate and change the location for the storage of gunpowder, slaughter-houses and tanneries, and to remove and abate nuisances; they shall also have power to appoint some suitable person to assess property, and collect the taxes, as the Board of Trustees may determine.

SEC. 5. No member of the Board of Trustees shall be directly or indi- Contracts, etc. rectly interested in any contract, or sale of anything belonging to said

Town, or any work, or business, ordered to be exccuted by the authori

ty of said "Board."

SEC. 6. The elections and returns under this Act, shall be regu- Collections, etc. lated in the same manner as is prescribed in the Act to provide for the incorporation of Towns.

SEC. 7. This Act shall commence and be in force from the passage Take effect. thereof.

CHAPTER XCVII.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled "An Act amendatory of ant supplementary to an Act entitled an Act concerning the Courts of Justice of this State and Judicial Officers," passed May 15th,

1854.

[Approved April 16, 1855.]

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

Judicial districts

SECTION 1. The twelfth section of the Act entitled "An Act con- section 12 cerning Courts of Justice of this State and Judicial Officers," passcd amended. May nineteeth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, is amended, so as to read as follows: Section Twelfth. The State shall be divided into fifteen Judicial districts, which districts shall be composed of the several How composed. counties, and numbered as follows: First, The [First] Judicial District First. shall be composed of the counties of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Bernardino Second, The Second Judicial District shall be composed of Second. the counties of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo; Third, The Third. Third Judicial District shall be composed of the counties of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey and Alameda; Fourth, The Fourth Judicial Fourth. District shall be composed of that part of the northern portion of the county and city of San Francisco, lying north of a line described as follows: commencing at the western boundary of said county, at a point in a line with the centre of Clay street, in said city, thence running east in a line with and through the centre of said Clay street to the western line of Kearny street, thence north along the western line of Kearny street to the City Hall or Court House between Merchant and Washington streets of said city, at a point in a line with the northern wall of said building, thence east to the northwest corner of said

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