An act supplementary to the foregoing act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sev enty-four.

[Approved April 1, 1876; 1875-6, 797.]

Apportionment of assessments.

Section 1. County treasurers to whom a list is sent from the county of Calaveras, under the provisions of the above-mentioned act, shall make out a demand against the treasurer of the county of Calaveras for such a portion of one-half of the tax assessed and collected for county purposes as Iwould have been assessed and collected at the rate of taxation in the county making the demand, had the property been assessed therein.

Sec. 2. This act shall be in full force from and after its passage.

An act in relation to moneys belonging to the state derived from taxes assessed on mortgages.

[Approved March 30, 1872; 1871-2, 762.] Disposition of moneys.

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Section 1. All moneys belonging to the state now in the hands of tax collectors, which were received as taxes on promissory notes secured by mortgage assessed and collected in the eighteen hundred and seventy and eighteen hunyears dred and seventy-one, and all moneys that may be derived from taxes now were assessed on promissory notes secured delinquent, which mortgage in the years eighteen hundred and seventy and eighteen hundred and seventy-one, are hereby directed to be retained for the use of the several counties which levied such taxes. The tax collectors of the several counties in which such property was assessed are authorized and required to pay over all such moneys to the county treasurer in the same manner as other taxes are paid. General fund.

Sec. 2. All moneys which by this act are remitted to the several counties in which such assessments were made shall be placed to the credit of of the general fund.

Sec. 3. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall be in force from and af ter its passage.

An act prescribing the form of complaint in ac tions to recover delinquent taxes, and to authorize the bringing of suits therefor.

[Approved April 23, 1880; 1880, 136 (Ban, ed. 402).] Form of complaint in action for delinquent taxes. Section 1. In any action that may be hereafter commenced in any county, or city and county, in this state, for the collection of delinquent taxes for any fiscal year, the complaint may be in the following form, and shall be legally sufficient, and on the trial thereof the duplicate assessment roll for any said fiscal year, of said county, or city or county, or a copy of any entry therein duly certified, showing unpaid taxes against the defendant, or in cases where the defendant is sued in a representative capacity against any person or estate he represents, shall be prima facie evidence of the plaintiff's right to recover:

(Title of court.) (Name of plaintiff) vs. (name of defendant.) Plaintiff avers that defendant is indebted to plaintiff in the sum of $- (naming the amount for county, or city and county), taxes, with five per cent penalty added thereto for the non-payment thereof, and interest thereon at the rate of two per cent per month from the (date), and fifty cents costs of advertising. Plaintiff further avers that defendant is indebted to plaintiff in the further sum of $- (naming amount), for state taxes, with five per cent penalty added thereto for the non-payment thereof, and interest thereon at the rate of two per cent per month from (date), and fifty cents costs of advertising, which said taxes were duly assessed and levied upon (the real or personal) property of said defendant, to-wit (describe property as assessed), for the fiscal year (naming the year). Wherefore, plaintiff prays judgment against said defendant, for said several sums, with interest and penalty as aforesaid, and costs of suit.

(Signature of attorney.)

And in any case where the defendant is sued in a representative capacity, such other further or additional allegations as may be necessary to charge him in such capacity; and it is further provided, that any county, or city and county, where such taxes are delinquent, may sue in its own name for the recovery of delinquent taxes, whether the same be for county, or city and county, and state purposes, or taxes, or either of them.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

An act to protect the county treasuries of certain counties.

[Approved March 16, 1874; 1873-4, 393.]

This act provides that the assessors of certain counties should pay the salaries of deputies employed by them.

This act was probably repealed by the County Government Act.

An act approved March 27, 1874; Stats. 1873-4, p. 731, exempting firemen in Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Alameda, and Siskiyou counties from the payment of poll tax was repealed by an act approved March 15, 1876; Stats. 1875-6, p. 287.

TITLE 282.

TEHAMA COUNTY.

A reference to special and local laws affecting Tehama county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 722, 723.

See, in addition to those enumerated, an act to amend certain sections of the act incorporating Red Bluff, approved March 17, 1891; Stats. 1891,

TITLE 283.

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

Act granting franchise for line between Asia and America: See Stats. 1871-2, 97.

TITLE 284.

THEATERS.

An act making it unlawful to refuse admission to places of amusement.

[Approved March 23, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 220.] Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any corporation, person, or association, or the proprietor, les see, or the agents of either, of any opera-house. theater, melodeon, museum, circus, caravan, race-course, fair, or other place of public amusement or entertainment, to refuse admittance to any person over the age of twenty-one years who presents a ticket of admission acquired by purchase, and who demands admission to such place; provided, that any person under the influence of liquor, or who is guilty of boisterous conduct, or any person of lewd or immoral character, may be excluded from any such place of amusement.

Sec. 2. Any person who is refused admission to any place of amusement contrary to the provisions of this act is entitled to recover from the proprietor, lessee, or their agents, or from any person, association, corporation, or the directors thereof, his actual damages and one hundred dollars in addition thereto.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

TITLE 285.

THISTLE.

An act to prevent the propagation of the Scotch or Canada thistle in the counties of Humboldt, Siskiyou, Klamath, Del Norte, and Alameda.

[Approved March 2, 1872; 1871-2, 214.] Consult Stats. 1871-2, p. 214, for the act.

TITLE 286.

TIA JUANA SUFFERERS.

An act to appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars for the benefit of the sufferers from the Tia Juana flood of the twenty-second of February, 1891, and to provide for its payment to the board of supervisors of San Diego county and its distribution to the sufferers.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 450.] The nature of the act appears from the title.

TITLE 287.

TORRENS LAND SYSTEM.

An act to create a special commission for the purpose of examining and reporting to the thirty-first session of the legislature on the Torrens land transfer act of Australia, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved March 9, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 121.] Section 1. A special commission of five persons, four of whom shall be members of the legal profession, is hereby created for the purpose of examining the methods of land transfer and registration as existing under the Torrens land transfer act of Australia, and of preparing a system