Act extended to CHAP. CCCLXXXIX.-An Act to extend the provisions of an Act [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The provisions of an Act entitled an Act concertain cerning hogs found running at large in the Counties of Marin, townships in Sacramento, San Francisco, Alameda, Stanislaus, Yuba, and Sonoma County. Santa Clara, approved April twenty-first, one thousand eight SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are Appropria. tion. Warrants. CHAP. CCCXC.-An Act to appropriate money to pay certain Claims [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum, one thousand and ten dollars and SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, in favor of the persons hereinafter named, for the sums allowed them, respectively, to wit: Clark & Jenkins, for eighty-two dollars and seventy-five cents ($82 75); Shafer & Company, for one hundred and seventy-one dollars ($171 00); Lewis & Company, fifty-six dollars and sixty-three cents ($56 63); Margaret Jennings, for fifty dollars ($50 00); J. C. Bradley, for six hundred and fifty dollars ($650 00). SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCXCI.—An Act for the Relief of Doctor S. M. Mouser. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) Approis hereby appropriated, out of any money in the State Treasury priation. not otherwise appropriated, to pay S. M. Mouser for professional services rendered at the State Prison in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and the Controller of State is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of the said S. M. Mouser for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, and the Treasurer to pay the same; provided, the said S. M. Mouser receipts in full for all demands against the State. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCXCII.—An Act relative to the Terms of the District Courts in the Eleventh Judicial District of this State. [Approved April 25, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The July term of the District Court of the Eleventh Judicial District in and for the County of Placer, and the August term of the same Court in and for the County of El Dorado, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, need not be held. CHAP. CCCXCIII.-An Act concerning Estrays, and Animals found running at large in the County of Santa Clara. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Any person finding at any time an estray horse, Estrays. mare, mule, jack, jenny, or any estray cattle, sheep, hogs, or goats, or any number of such animals, upon his farm, or other inclosed premises, or any person finding any or all of said animals running at large during the months of April, May, June, July, August, September, October, and November, of any year after the passage of this Act, whether the owners of such animals are known or unknown, may take the same up, and proceed therewith as hereinafter directed; and no person shall remove such animals from the possession of the taker up, or Persons taking up animals. notice. from the possession of the officer into whose hands they may be placed for the purposes of sale, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The person taking up such animal or animals, shall confine the same in a secure place, within the township where they are taken up, and shall post notices, containing a description of them, with the marks and brands, if they have any, and a statement of the place of finding, and the place where such Duties and animals are confined, as follows: one notice at the door of the School-house of the School District wherein they were found, one at the door of the nearest Post Office, and shall file one with the County Recorder of Santa Clara County; and if the mark or brand of the owner or owners of such animals is recorded in the office where such notice is filed, the Recorder shall, within three days after the filing of such notice, deposit a copy thereof in the nearest Post Office, with the postage paid thereon, addressed to the owner or owners of said animals, or if owned by a company, to the President or Managing Agent of such company, at his or their place of residence. The fee of the Recorder shall be twenty-five cents for filing the notice, and fifty cents for serving a copy thereof, as required by the proviDamages to sions of this section. If the owner of the animals posted by virtue of this Act fails to appear within twenty days thereafter and prove his property, and pay damages to the taker up, as follows: for every sheep, the sum of fifty cents, for every hog or goat, one dollar, and for other animals mentioned in this Act, two dollars per head, also, the fees of the Recorder, then the finder of such animals may give notice to any Constable of the county of the posting of such animals. Fee of taker up. Failure of owner to pay. Constable to sell. Proviso. Fees of Constables. Surplus. SEC. 3. The Constable notified shall immediately proceed to sell such animals at public sale, in conformity with the law concerning sales on execution; provided, that said owner or owners may redeem said animals at any time before sale, by paying the aforesaid damage, and such costs as may have accrued, to the officers; and, provided, further, that such owner or owners may redeem such animals at any time within six months after such sale, by producing satisfactory evidence of his right thereto, and paying to the purchaser the amount of the purchase money, with five per cent added thereto, together with the necessary expenses incurred by said purchaser in keeping said animals. SEC. 4. The Constable making such sales shall be entitled to the same fees as are provided for by law for sales on execution. SEC. 5. The Constable making such sales shall pay the surplus in his hands, if any remain after payment of costs and damages as above prescribed, to the owner, if he be present and demand the same, and produce satisfactory evidence of his right thereto; and if not, then said Constable shall pay such surplus to the County Treasurer, and take his receipt therefor, which receipt he shall file with the County Recorder of Santa Clara County. If any person or persons shall, within one year thereafter, prove, to the satisfaction of the Board of Supervisors of said county, that he or they are entitled to such sum, or any part thereof, said Board of Supervisors shall order such sum to to be paid over to such person or persons, and if not so ordained, the same shall become a part of the Common School Fund of said county. SEC. 6. No sale made by virtue of this Act shall be valid unless the provisions of section two thereof in regard to notices, be fully complied with. SEC. 7. When more than ten of such animals belonging to one man are posted at one time, under the provisions of this Act, the damages for all above that number shall be one half of that specified in section three [two] of this Act. SEC. 8. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to the County of Santa Clara; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to deprive any person of the right to sue and recover damages for trespass by any animals mentioned in this Act. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCXCIV.-An Act to Provide Bonds for Completing the [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. For the purpose of completing and furnishing the Bonds. State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, the Treasurer of State shall cause to be prepared suitable bonds of the State of California, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year, at the office of the Treasurer of State. of bonds. SEC. 2. The said bonds shall be signed by the Governor, Form and countersigned by the Controller, and indorsed by the Treasurer of State, and shall have the seal of the State affixed thereto, and shall date from the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and be made payable at the office of the Treasurer of State within twenty years after the date of their issue. interest. SEC. 3. The coupons for interest shall be attached to each Coupons for bond, so that each one may be removed without injury or defacement of the bond or the remaining coupons. The said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the Treasurer of State, and shall represent the semi-annual interest on the bond to which they are attached. SEC. 4. The Treasurer shall furnish the Controller of State Record with the number and amount of each bond prepared for issue, of bonds. and each of the above named officers shall keep a careful and correct record of the number and denomination of each bond issued under this Act, the whole amount of which bonds, to be styled the "Asylum Bonds," shall not exceed seventy-five thou- Amount to sand dollars ($75,000.) be issued. Appropriation. Tax for payment of principal SEC. 5. The sum of seven hundred dollars is hereby appropriated from the Fund arising from the sale of the "Asylum Bonds" to pay such expenses as may be incurred by the Treas urer in the preparation of the said bonds. SEC. 6. For the payment of the principal and interest of the "Asylum Bonds" authorized by this Act, there shall be levied, and interest on the first Monday in March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, and each year thereafter until the interest and principal of said bonds shall be fully paid, an annual tax of three fourths of one per cent on each one hundred dollars of value of all the taxable property in this State, which tax shall be assessed and collected as other State taxes, and by the Treasurer of State set apart in a Fund, to be designated the "Asylum Bond Redemption and Interest Fund," to be applied exclusively to the payment of the interest of the "Asylum Bonds," and for the redemption of the same; and the faith of the State of Califor nia is hereby pledged for the payment, as herein provided, of the principal and interest of the said "Asylum bonds." Surplus in Treasurer to report monthly. Notice for sale of bonds Proviso. SEC. 7. Whenever on the first day of January or the first of July of any year, there remains in the "Asylum Bond and Redemption Interest Fund," a surplus of five thousand dol lars, or more, after the payment of interest as herein provided, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of State to advertise ten days in one daily newspaper published in the City of Sacramento, and in one daily newspaper published in the City of San Francisco, for sealed proposals, to be opened one month after the expiration of the time of publication, in presence of the Governor, State Controller, and Treasurer, at the Treasurer's office, for the surrender of Asylum Bonds; and the advertisement shall state the amount of moneys in the Fund to be applied for the redemption of the said bonds, and the lowest proposals for surrender shall be accepted at such rates, not exceeding par value, as will redeem the largest amount of bonds, until the money in the Fund is exhausted. SEC. 8. The Treasurer of State shall keep a full and particular account of interest paid and bonds redeemed, and render the same to the Controller, monthly, and it shall be his duty to pay the interest on the said bonds, when the same falls due, from the Fund provided by this Act. SEC. 9. When this Act shall have been ratified by vote of the people, as hereinafter provided, the Treasurer of State shall advertise twenty days in one daily newspaper published in the City of Sacramento, and in one daily newspaper published in the City of San Francisco, for sealed proposals for the purchase of the whole or any portion of the "Asylum Bonds," and on the day named in the advertisement for opening said proposals, they shall be opened at the office of the Treasurer of State, in presence of the Governor, Controller, and Treasurer, and the sums bid for awarded to the highest bidder; provided, that no bid shall be accepted at more than ten per cent discount upon the amount represented by the bonds bid for; and any portion of the amount of bonds authorized to issue under this Act, which shall not be disposed of by bid as above provided, shall be sold by the Treasurer of State, with the approval of the Governor and Controller; provided, that no sale shall be made at more |