Council. SEC. 2. The Common Council of said city may, from time to Collection. time, by ordinance, provide for the collection, by civil action or otherwise, of all taxes levied or assessed by them or under their Powers of authority, for the purposes authorized in the charter of said city, that have or may hereafter become delinquent; and in case such taxes be collected by civil action, the Courts of Justice shall have the same jurisdiction, and the summons and other process of said Courts shall be issued, served, and returned in the same manner as is or may be provided by law in case of the collection of delinquent taxes levied for State purposes; and all sales and Sales. conveyances of property, made and executed for the non-payment of such delinquent taxes, shall have the same force and effect as when made and executed for the non-payment of delinquent taxes levied for State purposes. SEC. 3. The laws of the State of California for the enforce- Laws made applicable. ment of the collection of revenue, so far as practicable and applicable, are hereby made applicable to the levy, assessment, and collection of taxes in said city; provided, however, that this Proviso. section shall not abridge, and is not intended to abridge, any of the powers relative to the collection of taxes which said city may now have under its charter or may derive under the other sections of this Act. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLXXX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act fixing the Salaries of State Officers and Clerks, passed May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: State Section 4. Every officer herein enumerated shall annually Duties of make out and transmit to the Governor a statement, under oath, officers. giving the items of all necessary expenses of their respective offices, for furniture, books, stationery, fuel, and lights. The Secretary of State, Controller, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall also include in their respective statements the amounts actually expended by them for payment of postage and express charges connected with their respective offices. All of Vouchers. the statements required by this section shall be accompanied by the necessary vouchers, otherwise they shall not be allowed. Conditions. CHAP. CCCLXXXI.-An Act supplemental to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to grant to certain persons the Right of Way for a Railroad Track within the corporate limits of the City and County of San Francisco, and to run horse cars thereon, approved April seventeenth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of the above recited Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. Through each street, one track shall be laid on each side of the centre of said street, and as near the centre as will permit the cars to pass and repass with safety; on Kearney, the other street named, a single track only; provided, that on said Kearney street the said parties, their associates and assigns, shall, with the written consent of a majority of the owners (estimating per front foot) of the property on the line of said street along that portion of which the same shall be laid, have the right to lay a double track on said street, if said street shall be widened, and to lay the said track as fast as said Kearney street shall be widened. The rails shall be of the most approved pattern used in eastern cities, with the proper and necessary switches and turnouts along the entire route; and to run cars thereon, not exceeding twenty-four feet in length, at convenient hours of every day and night, for the transportation of passengers and freight. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Section repealed. CHAP. CCCLXXXII.-An Act to repeal Section Six of an Act entitled an Act concerning Roads and Highways in the County of Alameda, approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of an Act entitled an Act concerning roads and highways in the County of Alameda, approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLXXXIII.-An Act to amend an Act to authorize and require the Board of Supervisors of the Counties of Napa and Lake, respectively, to levy a Special Tax for the purpose of improving and repairing the Public Highway connecting Napa City and Lakeport. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The money raised by virtue of this Act shall be Disposition appropriated in pursuance of contracts made in conformity to of moneys. an Act to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and protection of public and private roads, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the proper officers of Napa County and Lake County shall, within six months from the passage of this Act, make contracts for the improvement and repair of that portion of said public road within the limits of their respective counties lying between Pope Valley, in Napa County, and Coyote Valley, in Lake County, on the route that passes through Butte Cañon. CHAP. CCCLXXXIV.-An Act to provide for the Election of a [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors chosen on the next general election shall consist of five members, one to be elected in each township. of county. SEC. 2. The present Board of Supervisors shall, on or before Re-division the first Monday in August next, re-divide the said county into five townships, and one of said Supervisors shall be elected from and reside in each township. SEC. 3. Each Supervisor shall be paid from the County Treasury two hundred dollars per annum, as Supervisor. SEC. 4. All laws in conflict with this law are hereby repealed. Pleadings. Demurrer. Proviso. CHAP. CCCLXXXV.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the Courts of Justice of this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section thirty-eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 38. The only pleadings on the part of the plaintiff. shall be the complaint or demurrer to defendant's answer, and the only pleadings on the part of the defendant shall be the demurrer or the answer. The demurrer or answer of the defendant and the demurrer of the plaintiff shall be filed with the Clerk, and a copy thereof served on the adverse party or his Attorney; provided, the adverse party or his Attorney live. within the county where the action is pending. Tolls. CHAP. CCCLXXXVI.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to authorize Hiram Thorne and others to reconstruct and make a Wagon Road in the Counties of Contra Costa and Alameda, approved April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Said Hiram Thorne, and others who now are or hereafter may be associated with him, and his or their assigns, are hereby authorized and have the right to erect upon said road a toll gate, either within the limits of Alameda or Contra Costa County, and shall be allowed to charge and collect such rate of toll as the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County shall Forfeiture. authorize from time to time. A failure to keep the road in good repair shall work a forfeiture of the franchise herein granted. Nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed or taken to authorize the erection of more than one toll gate upon said road. CHAP. CCCLXXXVII.-An Act concerning the Terms of Courts of the Sixth Judicial District. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The terms of the Court of the Sixth Judicial Terms. District shall be held until the business of the terms are fully disposed of, or until the day fixed by law for the commencement of some other term in the same district, and may be adjourned from time to time, in the discretion of the Court; provided, that Proviso. the Court, by order entered on the minutes thereof, may adjourn the Court to a day certain, within the time fixed by law for the commencement of the next term in such county, notwithstanding a term or terms within the same district may intervene. CHAP. CCCLXXXVIII.—An Act to provide for the better maintenance of the Indigent Sick of Sonoma County. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors in and for the County Branch of Sonoma are hereby empowered to set apart so much of the Hospital Fund, together with all moneys collected for the benefit of said Fund, as properly belongs to the Townships of Petaluma and Vallejo, in said county, as provided for in the Act to provide for the indigent sick, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and apply the same to the building, furnishing, and maintaining of a Branch Hospital, to be located in the City of Petaluma. com SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors shall employ such officers Officers and for the Hospital specified in this Act, as they may deem proper, pensation. and fix the compensation of the same, subject to all the restrictions and qualifications embraced in the Act of March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. SEC. 3. The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the Board for the purposes specified in this Act, at any time after the passage of the same. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. |