thirty-five dollars; provided, that before said warrant shall be Bond to be drawn, the said Matthew Bird shall deliver to the Controller his executed. bond, in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two good sureties, who shall be resident freeholders of this State, properly indemnifying the State against the future presentation of said coupons which are alleged to be lost. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCCXCVIII.—An Act to punish Offences against the Peace of the State. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and speech. SECTION 1. Every person who shall, in time of actual war Abuse of waged against the United States, whether by a foreign or domes- freedom of tic foe, profess adherence to the common enemy, or, maliciously abusing the freedom of speech, shall publicly wish evil to the national cause, or that disaster may befal the national arms, or who shall in any manner rejoice at any reverse of the national army, or any part thereof, or who shall in any manner by word indorse, or defend, or cheer any overt attempt, or any person engaged in such overt attempt, to subvert and destroy the lawful authority of the United States in any State thereof, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term Penalties. not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. CHAP. CCCCXCIX.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eight of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 8. It shall be the duty of the Justices of the Peace, Indian Fund. once in six months, in every year, to make a full and correct statement to the Board of Supervisors of their county of all moneys received for fines imposed on Indians, and all fees allowed for services rendered under the provisions of this Act, and said Justice shall pay over to the County Treasurer of their respective counties all money they may have received for fines and not appropriated on fees for services rendered under this Act, and the Treasurer shall keep a correct statement of all money so received, which shall be termed the "Indian Fund" of the county. The Treasurer shall pay out any money of said Funds in his hands, on a certificate of a Justice of the Peace of his county, for fees and expenditures incurred in carrying out the provisions of this law. Appeal. CHAP. D.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate Pro- [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three hundred and thirty-six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 336. An appeal may be taken: First-From a final judgment in an action or special proceeding commenced in the Court in which the judgment is rendered, within one year after the rendition of the judgment. Second-From a judgment rendered on an appeal from an inferior Court, within ninety days after the rendition of the judgment. Third-From an order granting or refusing a new trial, from an order granting or dissolving an injunction, and from an order refusing to grant or dissolve an injunction, and from any special order made after final judgment, within sixty days after the order is made and entered in the minutes of the Court. SEC. 2. Section three hundred and forty-seven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 347. An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court from the District Courts in the following cases: First-From a final judgment rendered in an action or special proceeding commenced in those Courts, or brought into those Courts from other Courts. Second-From an order granting or refusing a new trial, from an order granting or dissolving an injunction, and from an order refusing to grant or dissolve an injunction, and from any special order made after final judgment. CHAP. DI.-An Act to audit and allow the Claim of J. H. Sullivan and E. C. Cromwell. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of nine hundred seventy-nine and forty Approhundredths dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money's priation. in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the claim of J. H. Sullivan and E. C. Cromwell, for writing done for the Assembly, twelfth session, subsequent to adjournment, and the Controller of State is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant in favor of J. H. Sullivan for eight hundred and nineteen dollars and forty cents, and in favor of E. C. Cromwell for one hundred and sixty dollars, and the Treasurer of State to pay the same. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DII.—An Act to pay the Claim of Gregory Yale. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000 00) is Approhereby appropriated, out of any money in the General Fund in priation. the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim of Gregory Yale, for professional services rendered as assistant Counsel in contesting the will of the late David C. Broderick. SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of Gregory Yale for the said sum of three thousand dollars, and the Treasurer of State to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DIII.—An Act appropriating money to pay the Claim of the [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and forty-seven dollars Approand twenty-eight cents is hereby appropriated, out of any money priation. in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim of the San Francisco Gas Company, for gas furnished the Senate and Assembly during the months of April and May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in their chambers on Battery street, San Francisco. Rates of toll. CHAP. DIV.-An Act to amend an Act concerning Public Ferries and Toll Bridges, passed April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section nineteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 19. The Board of Supervisors shall establish the rates of toll to be charged and received for crossing all licensed ferries and toll bridges, but such tolls shall not be fixed at a rate so low as to make the net income to the owners thereof less than twenty four per cent per annum on the assessed taxable value of such ferry or toll bridge, and such rates shall be posted up, either written, printed, or painted, at each licensed ferry or toll bridge in the State, by the owner thereof. Any questions arising as to the cost of keeping and maintaining any such ferry or toll bridge, or of the revenue thereof, shall, if the Board of Supervisors and the owners thereof disagree as to the amount, be at once submitted to three Commissioners, chosen as follows: One by the Board of Supervisors, one by the owners of such ferry or toll bridge, and the third by the two so chosen; and the verdict of such Commissioners, or a majority thereof, upon the evidence submitted, shall be final and conclusive as to such question or questions. Trespass property. CHAP. DV.-An Act to provide for the better Protection of Private [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful in the County of Santa upon private Clara, for any person or persons to enter upon any inclosure belonging to, claimed, or occupied by another, and build, light, or in any manner or way whatsoever, kindle or carry any fire within said inclosure; nor shall any person or persons discharge any fire-arms, of any kind or description whatever, within any inclosure belonging to, claimed, or occupied by another; provided, that the provisions of this Act shall only apply to and be in force in cases where the owner, claimant, or occupant of the lands in said inclosure shall have posted, in conspicuous places upon such inclosure, a written or printed notice prohibiting persons from violating any of the provisions of this Act. SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person to pull or tear down, deface, obliterate, or otherwise injure or destroy, in whole or in part, any notice posted as provided in section one of this Act. SEC. 3. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions Penalty. of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DVI.—An Act to amend Section Eleven of an Act entitled an Act concerning the Office of County Treasurer, passed March twentyseventh, eighteen hundred and fifty. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eleven of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: drawing Section 11. When there shall be sufficient funds in the Redemption Treasury of the county to redeem the warrants drawing inter- of warrants est, the County Treasurer shall give notice in some newspaper interest. in his county, or if no newspaper be published in his county, then by written or printed notice, posted upon the Court House door, stating therein that he is ready to redeem said warrants, and from the date of such notice said warrants shall cease to bear interest. In advertising warrants under the provisions of this section in any newspaper, the Treasurer shall not publish the warrants in detail, but shall give notice only that county warrants presented for payment prior to such a date, which shall be stated in the notice, are redeemable; provided, however, that when a part only of the warrants presented for payment on the same day are redeemable, the Treasurer shall designate such redeemable warrants in the advertisement. |