The Empire County argus., 1856-05-17

i" ct entitled n" 'G t" Submit the Question of
the Removal Of the County Seat of FL Dorado
county 10 the Qua'ii'd Voter thereof.
The People of the State Of California. represented
IN Senate and Assembly. do enact as follows:
sec l. thirty days after the passage IF this
Act an election shall be held in the County of RI
Dorado to locate and establish the County Seat of
sad County. and to determine hy n majority of all
the votes cast AT said election. whether the said
County Seat shall he and remain at tho town Of
C"l"ma. or be removed tn the city Of acerville
The ballots uSrl at said election shall be written or
printed ami shalt read thus: For County Seat
C"l"ma or "tor County Seat acervillr" The
Board of Supervisors of said County or n majority
of them. shall cause notices Of said election to be
posted IN each OF the election precincts at least six
days previous to the day "f holding said election
and the inspectors and Judges shall conduct said
election count and make return of the votes cast
in strict accordance with the provisions Of an Act
entitled AN Act to provide for rlrctions''
Sec. =. After the votes shall have been canvass
cd the Board of Superb ic"rs of said County shall
declare the place having majority of all the votes
cast for County Seat and cause the same TO be GER
titled and forwarded to the Secretary of State
Sec ). If it shall appear from the returns Of
SAID election that the city Of acerville has been
chosen the County Seat of said County. the Board
"f Supervisors of said County shall immediately
make the necessary provisions for the removal If
all books. papers. furniture and movable property
and offices in which TO transact the hnsnpsS uf the
County. at lacervr, until the Court House and
other County buildings shall be erected
Sec. 4. In the event of removal Of the County
Seat from the town of Cuoma in pursuance Of this
Act the Board Of Supervisor, shall have lowcr
and it shall be their duy t. levy dirrc, tax upon
the property OF said Couny ra'ably it shall ap-
pear on the assessment rll in per centage upon
the one hundred dollars sufficiently large to ensure
net receipts int" the Treasury of said County of
sum in cash equal to Fifty ho,>nnd Dollars to he
appropriated and cxpende, hy and under the dircc-
ti"n of the Board of Supervisors of said County.
exclusively for The erection of public buildings nee.
e>>ary for the holding of Courts County Offices,
and the confinement IF prisoners.
Sec s. When the Board If Supervisors of said
County have declared the city Of lacerviIlr to be
the County Seat of said County. the District Court.
the County Court the Court of Sessions and The
lr"bate Court for said County shall thereafter be
held at the County Seat. and all process which may
at the time Of said removal be made rpturnahl. at
C'l ma. shall be deemed rcturnable ut the civ of
lacerville.
See e. No contract for the erection of perma-
nent County buildings shall he made until after
nr' poSals for such contract shall have been publish
ed hv the Board of Supervisors If said County for
at least twenty days in each newspaper printed in
said County. con-enting to publish the Samr. which
proposals shall state the time and manner Of con-
>truction and the material to he used. and no mem
her ut the Board of Supervisors other County
Officers. shall he interested in any manner in the
contracts made.
Sec /. All Acts and parts of Acts conficting
with the provisions Of this Act hereby repealed
Approved April Il. 1856.
MATE OF AIIFoRNIi.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF Mate
certify that the foregoing is ii true copy Of an
original Act ON file in this "hcr
- Witness my hand and the Seal Of State.
I - at Sacramento. this the Eighteenth day of
I 80 April, A. D. 1856.
DAVID F. DorGlAss.
Secretary 1T State.
By VIM II. Il. " ooD Deputy