of moneys. paid. Seventy-five cents of the extra dollar collected on poll taxes after the first Monday in August, shall be paid to the County Treasurer, for the School Fund of the county, and twenty-five cents be retained by the Collector as fees, in addition to fifteen per cent on the first two dollars, which it shall be lawful for him to retain, as compensation for the collection of said poll tax. In the County of El Dorado, each Collector shall Disposition be allowed, at each monthly settlement, five per cent upon all moneys collected for property tax; twenty per cent upon all moneys collected for foreign miners' licenses; fifteen per cent upon all moneys collected for poll taxes; and for State and county licenses, the Collector shall be entitled to demand and receive as a fee, the sum of one dollar for each license sold, one half of which shall go to the Auditor, to be paid by him into the County Treasury, for county purposes. Said sum of one dollar shall be paid by the person to whom the license is sold. The Collector shall also receive the fees now allowed by law for enforcing the collection of said taxes and licenses in said County of El Dorado. Seventy-five cents of the extra dollar collected on poll taxes after the first Monday in August, shall be paid to the County Treasurer, for the School Fund of the county, and twenty-five cents to be retained by the Collector as fees, in addition to fifteen per cent on the first two dollars, which it shall be lawful for him to retain, as compensation for the collection of said poll tax. SEC. 3. Section fifteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Equalization Section 15. The Board of Equalization in and for said County Meetings of Amador is hereby required to meet in said county, on the of Board of second Monday of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and on the same day annually thereafter; and in the County of El Dorado, on the second Monday of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and on the same day annually thereafter. Said Boards of Equalization shall continue in session in their respective counties from time to time until the business of equalization presented to them is disposed of; provided, said Boards of Equalization shall not con- Proviso. tinue in session after the first Monday in July following. During the session of the Board, the Clerk thereof shall enter upon the assessment roll of each township, all changes and corrections made by the Board, and shall, on their adjournment, forthwith deliver the assessment roll, so corrected, to the County Auditor, whose duty shall be to add up the columns of valuation of each description of property on the assessment roll of each township, and on or before the third Monday in July, he shall deliver a true copy of the corrected assessment roll of each township, to be styled a "duplicate assessment roll," with State, county, and other taxes, and totals of taxes, to each person, carried out in separate columns, with his certificate and seal attached thereto, to the Collector for whom the assessment roll was made. SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage, so far as the same relates to Amador County. Consolidation of School Funds CHAP. XLIV.-An Act to consolidate the School Funds of the City of San José. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All moneys set apart by the Common Council of of the City of San José," which City Treasurer, subject to the order of the Board of Educat.on of said city, in like manner as hereinafter provided. Payment of SEC. 2. When any person shall be entitled to receive pay for salaries, etc. services rendered as Teacher in any of the Public Schools in San José, or for expenses incurred, or labor performed in the erection of School-houses, repairing School buildings, yards, or fences, furnishing fuel, School apparatus, or necessary fixtures, as may be authorized by vote of the qualified electors of said city, or by the Board of Education, as now provided by law, it shall be the duty of said Board of Education, or a majority of them, to draw an order upon the City Treasurer for such sums as may be due, and in favor of the person or persons justly entitled to the same, which order shall state the nature of the services rendered, or expenses incurred, and shall be certified to by the City Superintendent of Public Schools; provided, that no such order shall be issued by said Board, unless there is sufficient money in said Common School Fund to meet the same. Duty of Duties of Board of SEC. 3. The Treasurer of the City of San José shall pay out any money in the Common School Fund in his hands upon the certified orders of the Board of Education, as provided in section two of this Act, and in no other manner and for no other purpose than those designated in said section. SEC. 4. The Board of Education of the City of San José shall, at their last regular meeting in each fiscal year, prepare a statement in writing of the amount of money necessary to be raised by tax for School purposes, to meet the expenses of the Public Schools of said city for the ensuing fiscal year, which statement shall be certified by the City Superintendent of Public Schools, and submitted to the Common Council of the City of San José, and said Common Council shall be required to assess and levy said tax in like manner as now provided by law. SEC. 5. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage. CHAP. XLV. An Act conferring Jurisdiction upon the State Courts in certain cases arising under the Act of Congress. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Whenever any impost tax, license tax, stamp Jurisdiction tax, income tax, or other tax or revenue whatever, may become conferred. and be due and payable to the United States of America, or to any of its officers or Collectors, under and by virtue of the provisions of the Act of Congress, apprord July first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tweised an Act to provide internal revenue to support the Gove. tent, and to pay interest on the Public Debt, or of any amendment thereto, or of any other Act imposing the same kind or similar taxes, or imposing any forfeiture or penalty, suit may be brought therefor in the name of the United States of America, as plaintiff, in any Court of otherwise competent jurisdiction of this State; and all the provisions of the third proviso of section seventy-seven of an Act, approved May seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, entitled an Act to provide revenue for the support of the government of this State, shall be and they are hereby made applicable to every suit brought by or on behalf of the United States of America for the recovery of any tax or revenue, forfeiture, or penalty, due as aforesaid. SEC. 2. Every Court in this State shall have and it is hereby same. given the same jurisdiction and control over any suit brought by or on behalf of the United States for any matter or thing mentioned in section one, that such Court would have in any other civil case brought against the same defendant for the same amount. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from its passage. CHAP. XLVI.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to legalize certain grants and sales made by the Ayuntamiento of the Pueblo, and by the Mayor and Common Council of the City, of Santa Barbara, of Lands belonging to the said Pueblo and City, approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. Certain books of record kept by the former Ay- Records untamiento of Santa Barbara, entitled "Actas ó Acuerdos del legalized. Ayuntamiento y Libro de Solares y Terrenos de Labranza," shall be deposited by the custodian thereof in the office of the Re corder of the County of Santa Barbara, where they shall remain as a part of the records of said county, and anything contained therein may thereafter be read as prima facia evidence of the Acts recited therein without further proof of authenticity; and such books of record shall be, in like manner as legally recorded conveyances, notice to all persons of the contents thereof, from the time of such deposit. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Exceptions. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act to amend the Twenty-First Section of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and protection of Public and Private Roads, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved March 6, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and protection of public and private roads, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, is amended so as to read as follows: Section 21. The Counties of Klamath, Sacramento, Sutter, Placer, San Joaquin, Humboldt, Sierra, Plumas, Nevada, Trinity, Mendocino, and Butte, and all incorporated cities and towns, are excepted from the provisions of this Act, and the Counties of Sonoma and Marin from the provisions of the thirteenth to the twentieth section, inclusive. This Act shall not apply to the City and County of San Francisco, except so much of it as provides for the location, alteration, or vacation of any road or highway; and said portion of this Act shall only apply to road districts which may be established in the eleventh and twelfth election districts in said city and county. Terms fixed. CHAP. XLVIII.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to fix the time of holding the County Court and Court of Sessions in Solano County, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty. [Approved March 6, 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: Section 1. The terms of the County Court and the Court of Sessions of Solano County shall hereafter be held on the first Monday of April, August, and December, of each year, and shall continue until all the business of each Court shall be disposed of. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XLIX. An Act supplemental to an Act to incorporate a State Agricultural Society, approved May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and amended March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. [Approved March 12, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The general prudential and financial affairs of Board of the Society shall be intrusted to a Board of Agriculture, to Agriculture consist of a President and nine Directors, five of whom shall constitute a quorum. created. SEC. 2. Said Board of Agriculture shall be elected at a Election. general State Agricultural Convention, to be held at Sacramento City, the Capital of the State, in the month of January of each year, to consist of the life members and annual members of the State Agricultural Society, and four delegates from each County Agricultural Society within this State, incorporated under the general law of the State for such corporations, and an equal number from each District Agricultural Society, also incorporated under the general law of the State for such purposes. SEC. 3. The Board of Agriculture shall, at its first meeting Term of after its election, be divided by lot into three equal portions, office. (omitting the President,) one portion to continue in office one year, one portion two years, and one portion three years; one third of the number, together with a President, to be elected at the State Agricultural Convention, annually thereafter; the Directors to hold office three years. SEC. 4. The Board of Agriculture may in the absence of Powers of the President choose one of its other members temporary Board. Chairman. They shall elect a Treasurer and Secretary, not members of the Board, prescribe their duties, fix their pay, and the said Treasurer and Secretary shall be subject to removal at any time by a majority of said Board. SEC. 5. The Board of Agriculture shall use all suitable means Duties. to collect and diffuse all classes of information calculated to aid in the development of the agricultural, stock-raising, mineral, mechanical, and manufacturing resources of the State; shall hold an Annual Exhibition of the industry and products of the State, and on or before the first day of January of each year in which the Legislature shall be in regular session, they shall furnish to the Governor a full and detailed account of all its transactions, including all the facts elicited, statistics collected, and information gained, on the subject for which it exists; and also a dis |