Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-05-17
As the overseers Of Roads are now en-

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AS the Overseers of Roads are now en-
gagged in collecting the tax, we publish the
following for the benefit of all whom it con-
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An Act to amend an Act entitled IAN Act
concerning Roads and Highways" passed
April 2sth, 1856.
s /. Section Of said act is hereby amend
ed SO as to read as follows: Section 6-The
Board of Supervisors shall have power to
levy a road tax on all able-bodied men be-
tween the ages Of twenty-one and fifty years,
which shall not exceed four dollars per an
mum. and property tax which shall not ex-
ceed FIVE cents on each one hundred dollars
for road purposes, to be levied and collected
Mt the same time and in the same manner as
other property taxes are collected: Provided,
that the provisions Of this section, as far as it
relates to the road tax, shall not apply to
any of the incorporated cities Of this State:
Provided further, that any person liable to
pay road tax as herein provided may at his
option, pay the same in labor on the road,
under the direction of the oyerseer at the
rate of two dollars per day.
50. Section tenth of said act is hereby
amended so as to read as follows: Section 10
Each road overseer shall report to the
Board of Supervisors quarterly the amount of
money collected and paid out by him, and to
whom, and for what paid the number of days
he himself has been in actual service, and
also list of delinquents and the said over
seer shall make an affidavit before Justice
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to administer oaths, that the said report and
delinquent list are correct to the best Of his
knowledge and belief; and any person refu-
sing or neglectlng to pay the road tax requi-
red by this act to the overseer, within three
days after the said tax shall have been de-
manded in writing of him by such overseer,
shall be considered a delinquent, and the
overseer shall proceed to levy and sell, at
public vendue to the highst bidder after Civ
ing public notice as required by law on sales
under execution, the property of such deln-
quents, or so much thereof as shall be neces-
sary to satisfy such delinquent road tax, and
costs of making such sale
Sec. 3. Section eleventh of said act is here
by amended so as to read as follows: Section
1.-THE oyerseers shall each receive for their
services while in actual employment, such
compensation as shall be allowed by the
Board Of Supervisors, not to exceed six dol
lars per day.
Approved April 10Th, 1856.
WHEAT CRoP.-A farmer writing from
Heath & Emery's ferry, on the Stanslaus
river, to the San Francisco Herald, informs
that paper that the failure of the crops of
this year is general throughout the counties
of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced Marpo-
sa and Tulare. He says further:
There was this year considerable grain
sowed along in the low hills bordering the
mountains extending from Calaveras county
through to MaripoSa, but in consequence Of
the extreme drouth nine-tenths of the grain
never will be harvested.
along the Calayeras river, (the granary
Of San joaquin counties there will be con
ciderable grain raised. Reid 4 Campbell
have in some 500 acres of wheat, which
may probably turn out seven or eight bush
els to the acre. Kelly 4 Reynolds will have
a fair crop of barley, few of their neighbors
may have five TO eight and ten bushels to the
acre. There are few fields around French
Camp, and a few on the Sonora road from
Stockton, that may, if cut for thrashing, turn
out five or six bushels per acre
ii was told to-day by very intelligent
gentleman from Los Angeles, who has just
come up by land, that he had sown $50 acres
Of wheat, but he never would cut ten acres
Of it. My opinion is, that not fourth part
Of crop will be raised in the State, aud be-
tween Stockton and Tulare there will not,
this fall, be as much grain cut and thrashed
as was sown."