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The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

Amendatory of and supplementary to "An Act
to establish, support and regulate Common
Schools, and to repeal former Acts concerning
the same" approved May Sd, 1855.
The People Of the State of CoHfornia, repre-
Sented IN Senate and .4ssem6iy, do enact as
foNo,cs;
Sec. L. Section tenth of said "Act to establish
support. and regulate Common Schools and to
repeal former acts concerning the same" is here
by amended so to read as follows: Sec. TO-
Unless otherwise provided by special law a Su-
pcrintendent of Common Schools shall be elected
in each county at the general election before the
| offices of the present incumbents have expired
and shall enter on the duties of his office on the
first Monday of the month subsequent to his elec
ton. He shall hold office for two years, or until
his successor is qualified, and shall take the oath
of Office and give official bonds in a sum to be
fixed by the Board of Supervisors, which bond
shall be in sum not less than double the estmat-
ed amount of school moneys to come into the
County Treasury each year, prOoided, that in such
counties as Tuolumne, Stanislaus. Los Angeles.
Monterey and Santa Cruz the County Clerk of
each county shall be eX-ofllco Superintendent of
Common Schools for the county, but in the coun-
ty of Tuolumne the County Clerk shall not act
as County Superintendent until the present in
cumbent's ternrot Office shall have expired.
| SEC. 2. Section fourteenth of the said Act is
hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec.
| II. In each schoodistrict Of this State, unless
otherwise provided by law, there shall annually
be elected three Common School Trustees, by
the qualified electors in the district at school
district meeting to be held on the first Saturday
in April and the district officers shall give at
| least one weeks notice of the time and place of
said meeting, which shall be at the school house,
if there be one. Such Trustees are required to
take the oath of Office and to file the same with
their certificate of election in the office of County
Superintendent, and they shall enter on their
duties on the second Monday subsequent to their
election, and shall hold their office for one year,
or until their successors are elected and qualified
SEC. 3. No Superintendent or Trustee of Com
mon Schools shall be interested in any contract
let or made by any district over, or in which, he
has any official supervision or control, nor shall
he be employed as teacher in any such district;
and all contracts, agreements and proceedings in
violation of this section, are declared void; and
any Superintendent or Trustee of Common Schools
violating or aiding in the violation of the provi
sions of this section, shall be- deemed guilty Of
msdcmeanor.
Approved March 29th, 1851,
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

Amendatory of "an act amendatory of an act
to Provide for the Protection of Foreigners, and
to define their Liabilities and Privileges, passed
March thirteenth, 1858; passed May 18th, 1854
The People Of the State of California, repre-
toio,cs;
SEC. |. Section one of tan act amcndatory OF
an act" to provide for the Protection of Foreign
ers, and to define their liabilities and Privileges,
is hereby amended SO as to read as tollows:-No
person not being citizen of the United States,
or who shall not have declared his intention to
become such prior the passage of this act Cali
forna Indians excepted,) shall be allowed to take
gold from the mines of this State, unless he shall
have license therefor, as hereinafter provided.
Approved March 5th 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

To amend an act entitled IAN Act to amend an
act entitled an act to regulate proceedings in
Criminal Cases, passed May lst, lS5l-approv-
ed May 22d, 1856.
The People Of the State Of California, repre-
sented in Senate and .4ssent6iy do tnact as
fOii0tcs:
SEC. L. Section first of an act entitled 'an Act
to amend an act entitled an act to regulate pro-
ceedings in Criminal cases. passed March lst,
1851, approved March 22d, 1856, is hereby amend
ed so as to read as follows Section l. Section
six hundred and ninety-two is hereby amended
SO as to read as follows: Section G92 The District
Attorney shall receive on each conviction for
felony, where the punishment is death, fifty dol
ars for each conviction for other felony, twenty
five dollars; on each conviction for misdemeanor,
the sum of fifteen dollars; which said sums shall
be assessed against the one convicted; and if the
sum cannot be collected from the defendant, then
it shall be considered a county charge and be
audited by the Board of Supervisors; propided,
that in the counties of San Joaquin, Humboldt,
Placer, and SoIano, the fees allowed by this act
to District Attorneys, shall in no event, from
and after the passage Of this act become a county
charge. The District Attorney shall receive ten
per cent upon all collections upon forfeited re-
cognizances.
SIC. 2. Nothing in this net shall be held or
construed to apply to the city and county of San
Francisco.
Approved April 7th, 1851
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT,

To amend act entitled ''an act to regulate pro-
ceedings in criminal cases" passed May lst,
1851.
The People Of the State Of CaAfornia, repre-
sented IN Senate and .4ssemdiy, DO enact as
foli0WS;
Sec. l. Section 3l3 of said act is hereby amen
ded so as to read as follows: Section 3l3 The
application must be made in open Court, and in
writing, must be verified by the affidavit of the
defendant. and copy of said affidavit must be
served on the District Attorney, at least one day
before the application is made to the Court. And
whenever said affidavit shall show that the de-
tendant cannot safely appear in person to make
his application, because the popular excitement
against him is great. as to endanger his per-
sonal safety. and when said allegation in said
affidavit is sustained by other and further testi-
mony; in the judgment of the Court, said appli-
cation may be made by counsel, and shall be
heard and determined in the absence of the de-
fendant, though he be indicted for felony. and
may not, at the time of such application, have
been arrested or have given bail, or been ar
ragned, or plead, or demurrcd to the Indictment.
But nothing in this act shall be held construed
to lessen the duty and obligation Of all Courts.
officers. and other persons. to pursue and arrest
any person indicted for crime.
Approved March 10th, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT,

In addition to aud explanatory Of an "Act for
securing liens to mechanics. and Others" ap-
proved April 10th, 1856.
The People Of the State Of California. repre-
scented in Senate and .fssembiy, do enact as
tofocs
SEC /. Every bill filed and recorded under and
in accordance with thesprooisons of the Act en-
titled "An Act for securing liens to mechanics
and others,' approved April 10Th, 1856, shall
have preference as in the said Act specified and
provided and every lien provided by mortgage
or other conveyance or incumbrance whatsoever
which shall not have been duly recorded in the
office Of the County Recorder of the county where
in the premises are situated, prior to the time
when the work was commenced or the mate
rial furnished, in the said act specified and
mentioned: Provided, that in order to obtain
preference mortgage or other conveyance,
notice of intention to hold such lien shall be re-
corded at the time such work was begun, or such
material was furnished.
Approved March 18th, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT,

Supplementary to ''an act for securing Liens to
Mechanics and others, passed .April 10Th, 1856,
1he People Of the State Of California, repre-
sented IN Senate and .4sseaJlY, do enact as
.tolioWS:
Sec |. IN .4ct entitled ".4n .aot for securing
Liens to Mechanics and others, passed .april 10Th,
1856" shall be and is hereby extended, so as to
include in its provisions bridges, bitches, fumes
or aqueducts to create hydraulic power. or for
chanics contractors, lumber mehchants journey
men or laborers and all other persons perform
ing labor or furnishing materials for or employ
ed in the construction or repair of any bridge,
ditch, llume or aqueduct aforesaid shall have the
same lien, subject to the same provisions and re-
gulatons, as in and by said act are provided for
liens upon buildings, wharves and other SUPER
structures.
approved March 18th 1857
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

Concerning the Board of Supervisors of Placer
Cuunty.
The foeople of the State of Callfornia, repre-
sented in Senate and qSSemUy, do enact as
f0il0lcS;
SEC l. The Board of Supervisors of Placer
County shall after the expiration Of the terms of
the present ncumbCnts consist Of three members
who shall hold their Office for three years, except
as herein provided.
SEC 3 The present Board Of Supervisors Of
Placer County shall, at their regular session in
May 1851 divide the county into three Suprrv-
ser Districts. and number said districts consecu-
lively from one to three, and give notice in their
annual election proclamation Of the boundaries
and number Of said districts.
SEC. 3. At the next general election there shall
be elected in each Of the districts provided for in
the preceding section, by the qualified electors
thereof one Supervisor-thc Supervisor in the
first district to 90 out Of Office at the expiration of
one year. the Supervisor Of the second district to
go out Of Office at the expiration Of two years,
and the Supervisor Of the third district to go out
of Office at the expiration of three years. so tina :
after the next general election there shall be an
nually elected one Supervisor.
SEC. I. Whenever it becomes necessary to elect
a Supervisor to fill any vacancy occasoned by
death resignation or any other cause the person
elected shall hold his Office for the unexpired
period for which his predecessor was elected
SEC. s. So much of the 'Act entitled an act to
create a Board of Supervisors in the Counties of
this State, and to define their duties and power"
approved March 30th, 1855, as conflicts with the
provisions Of this act, in its application to the
County OF Placer, is hereby repealed.
Approved February 4th, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

Amendatory of and supplementary to an Act en-
titled '.An Act to authorize the Board OF Super
visors of Placer County to levy a Special Tax"
approved March 1lth, 1856.
The people ofthe State Of California represent
ed in Senate and .Assem5ly, do enact as tol-
| io,Cs:
| SEC. l. Section second of said act is hereby
amended so as to read as follows: Section 3D.
The tax provided for in the first section of this
act together with one-half of all moneys recelv-
ed into the County Treasury for County purposes
| from sale of Foreign Miners Licenses, shall be
set aside and kept as a special fund to be called
Redemption Fund" and shall be held and dis
burscd as is hereinafter provided.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the County Trea-
surer to give thirty days notice, by publication
in some newspaper published at the County seat,
that sealed proposals directed to him, for the sur
render of County Warrnts, will be received by him
up to the last day of the session of each regular
| meeting of the Board Of Supervisors.
| SEC g. On the first day Of each regular meeting
of the Board Of Supervisors, they, together with
the County Auditor and Treasurer shall attend
at the office of the latter and then and there open
all proposals, and accept the lowest bids for the
surrender of County Warrants, Provided that no
bid for more than the par value OF said warrants
or any bid unless accompanied by the warrants
| proposed to be surrendered, shall be accepted
SEC 4. When any bids are accepted, the County
Auditor and County Treasurer shall each take
description of the number and amount of warrants
to be redeemed specifying the amount to be paid
for each warrant, and make several record there
of in their respective offices, and thereupon the
Board of Supervisors shall make an order direct
ing the County Treasurer to purchase the war
rants designated in the accepted bids. and pay for
the same out of the Redemption Fund, and the
warrants so redeemed shall be cancelled as other
redeemed warrants, except that the County Trea-
surer shall write on the face of said warrants
purchased, and the amount paid for the same, and
shall sign his name thereto, the order of the Board
of Supervisors directing the County Treasurer
to purchase said warrants, together with the re-
cord made by the County Auditor, shall be sul-
cient vouchers for the County Treasurer in the
settlement Of his accounts, the bids being equal,
the preference shall be given to the smallest
amount of warrants, the bids and amounts of war
rants being equal each shall be accepted pro
rata" or as nearly so as possible the County
Treasurer shall return all unaccepted bids. to-
gether with the warrant therein contained, to the
owners on demand.
SEC 5. The County Treasurer shall keep Sc
parate account under the head of Redemption
| Fund.- of all monies received from the sources
specified in the first and second sections of this
| act, and the said monies shall never be used or
mixed with other funds.
Approved February 9TH, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled "an Act to regulate
Fees of Office" approved April 10, 1865.
The People of the state Of Califoynia, repre-
sented IN Senate and assembly do enact as
.toifo,cs:
SEC. l. Section thirteenth of an act entitled
can Act to regulate Fees of Office" approved
April 10th, 1885, is hereby amended so as to read
as follows: For attending in any civil suit or pro-
ceedng before any Court of Record, Referee, Com
mission, or Justice of the Peace, for each day
three dollars, for travelling to the place of trial
for each mile twenty-five cents. No person shall
be obliged TO testify in civil action unless his
fees for attendance have been rendered him, or
he shall have not demanded the same, and no
person shall be obliged to attend in civil action
or proceeding as witness without the county in
which he resides unless the distance be less than
thirty miles from his place of residence to the
place of trial.
SEC. 2 The fees of witnesses in the county of
San Francisco shall remain the same as allowed
by law previous to the passage of this act.
SEC. g. Section thirty-two of said act is hereby
amended so as to read as iolows Section thirty
two. For attending in any civil suit or proceed
ing before any Court of Record, Referee Commits
sion or Justice of the Peace, for each day two
dollars For travelling to the place Of trial, for
each mile, twenty-five cents. No person shall be
obliged to attend as witness in a civil action,
unless his fees for attendance have been rendered
hIm, or he shall not have demanded the same, and
no person shall be obliged in a civil action or
proceeding to attend as witness without the
county in which he resides. unless the distance be
less than thirty miles from his place of residence
to the place of trial.
Approved April 7th. 1851
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

Amendatory of an Act entitled can Act to amend
an Act to provide revenue for the support Of
the Government of the State, passed May 18th,
1854" approved April 9th, 1850
The People Of the State Of California, repre-
sented in Senate and assembly, do enact as
toiio,Ds
SECTION l. That section first of an Act entitled
can Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to pro-
vide revenue for the support of the Government
of the State passed May 18th, 1854" approved
April 27th, 1855 is hereby amended so as to read
as follows: Section First. An I'D Dalorem tax of
seventy cents upon each one hundred dollars,
shall be levied, upon the assessed value of real
and personal property in this State subject to
taxation. to be collected and paid into the General
Fund, in the legal coin Of the United States. as
is hereinafter provided; and such additional tax,
not TO exceed fifty cents on each one hundred
dollars as the Board of Supervisors of each
county may direct to be levied; and such special
and other taxes, as may be by law authorized to
be collected, by any county in this State, shall be
levied for county purposes, upon the objects Of
taxation hereinafter named. in the Act aforesaid.
Approved March 25th, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT
Concerning persons under Sentence of Imprson-


Concerning persons under Sentence of Imprison-
ment.
The People Of the State Of Cal1ornia, repre-
sented IN Senate and 4SsemJly do enact as
t0iiOWs:
Sec. l. The Board of Supervisors in each coun-
ty shall have power. and they hereby authoriz-
ed, to persons in the county Jail, under SEN
tence Of imprisonment, to labor upon any public
or private work in the county, the county recoiv-
ing the benefit, or the hire. or labor; prOpided.
that the Board of Supervisors shall not have the
power to hire the prisoners to private persons in
the county of FL Dorado.
SEC 2. When person shall be imprisoned for
non-payment Of a fine, or until fine be paid the
Imprisonment may extend to. but shall not eX-
ceed one day for every two dollars Of the fine and
the costs that may be due from the person i'm
prisoned in the prosecution in which the fine was
adjudicated.
SEC. 3. This Act shall not apply to the coun-
ties OF Sacramento, San Francisco, Yuta, Neva-
da and San Joaquin.
Approved March 3lst, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT,

Suplen cntary to an Act entitled can Act con-
cerning the Board Of Supervisors of Placer
County"-approved February 4th, lS57-and
to extend its provisions to other counties here
in named
The Feople Of the State Of CaHJornia, repre-
sented IN Senate end assembly, do enact as
t0ii0,cs:
SECTION l. The provisions of "An Act con
corning the Board of Supervisors of Placer coun-
ty"-approved February 4th, 1857, are here
by extended to the counties of Shasta. Trinity,
Siskiyou Tehama. Colus Stanislaus Contra Cos
ia, San Joaquin. Butte, Klamath and humboldt.
Sec. q The Supervisors, flling the term near
est expiration, shall be Chairman of the Board;
Prorided. That in no instance shall this provis-
ion apply to member Of the Board elected to
fill vacancy. unless each member composing
the Beard shall have been elected to serve out an
uneXprcd term.
Approved March 3lst, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
Post Offices in Placer County.
STANDARDIZATION.

TO obtain certificate of naturalization. onn1f
cation must be made to the District Courts Of III
State.
Any free white male person arriving IN Tho
United States shall make his declaration of inten.
tion to become such citizen before the Clerk nf
said Court, two years before he shall be entitled
to the certificates Provided that if he has arrived
in the United States before he was eighteen voora
of age. such declaration may be made at the time
of applying for certificate of citizenship.
1t is necessary in obtaining certificate of n,tu-
ralization, to produce two citizens of the Unitoa
States. each of whom have been personally seN
quainted with the applicant and who can testifv
that he has resided in the United States for thss
full term of five years and in The State within tho
year last past. That during all this tire be has
behaved as man Of good moral character at.
tached to the principles Of the Constitution of tbo
United States and well disposed to the good order
and happiness of the same.
In case it has been necessary for the applican,
to make his declaration Of intention he must nrn.
dLce evidence Of that.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT
Concerning county officers in the County

Concerning county officers in the County of Placer
The People Qf the State of Coiifornsa, repre-
sented in Senate and .4SseD.jlg, do enact as
toi'otoS:
SEC. /. All County officers who shall hereafter
be elected in and for the county Of Placer except
those who shall be elected at the General Elec-
ton in the year one thousand eight hundred and
ffty-eight, shall enter upon the discharge Of the
duties Of their respective Offices the first Mon
day Of December next succeeding their election.
SEC. 2. There shall be elected in and for the
county Of Placer, at the next General Election in
the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty
eight, one Clerk, one Sheriff. one County Treasu-
rcr one County Assessor, one Public Administra-
tor, one District Attorney. one County Surveyor,
and one Coroner, and shall enter upon the duties
of their respective Offices at the expiration of the
terms of their predecessors, and shall continue to
hold their offices until the first Monday in Deoem-
Der one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
SEC. 3. The successors of the officers whose
terms of office is prescribed in the second section
of this act shall be elected at the General Elec-
tion in the year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty, and at the general election every two years
thereafter.
Approved January Goth, 1857.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

Amcndatory Of and supplemental to, an act en-
titled an act to provide for the protection Of
Foreigners, and to define their liabilities and
privileges. approved March 30th, 1853.
The People Of the State of California, rep
resented IN Senate and Assemhy do enact
as .tollops:
Sec l. The act entitled IAN Act to provide for
the protection of foreigners, and to define their
liabilities and privileges" approved March 3Oth,
1888. is hereby amended as follows:
SEC. 2 The second section of the said Act is
hereby amended as to read as follows: Itshall
be the duty of the Controller of State, to procure
sufficient number of blank licenses, which shall
be substantially in the following FORM and num-
bered consecutively, and record thereof be filed
in his office:
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
HUMOROUS.
Simon suggs Rejecting the Flattoring
Unction.

Everybody has read or heard of Simon
Suggs, whom "John Hooper" immortalized,
and almost everybody is aware that the verl-
table original Simon, (whose real name need
not be mentioned, because that is nobody's
business, no hoc,) still lives in Alabama. A
year or two since he came into Tuskagee
with an almighty long face, and yard of
Grape round his hat, and met his friend Ned,
when the following remarks were made:
byrd" said Simon's friend, ''whata ails you:
You look solemn and serious as if you had
met with some misfortune"
"You know, Ned" said Simon, "that
have lost my companion" (Ile had recent
ly lost his wife, most pious and estmable
lady by death) "And besides that | have
been thinking a good deal, lately, about my
latter end, and the next world"
"You." said Ned, 81 always thought that
you were Universalist."
$50 was" said Simon, perfectly serious
and evidently impressed with the soIemnty
of the subect-'bW IteN goa, Ned, there
oi@t nory pair IN Mnt hand. II amt ony
ase to Jl4d'a agin the old Muster; he sees epe,y
card IN your hand"
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

To fix the salary of the County Judge of Placer
county.
The People of the State Of California, repre-
sented IN Senate and 4ssemJIy, do enact as
fOii0WS:
SEC. l. The salary of the County Judge of
Placer county, from and after the expiration of
the term of the present incumbent, shall be two
thousand dollars per annum.
SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws conflicting
with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed
Approved February 18Th, 1851.
The Placer herald., 1857-04-25
AN ACT

To amend 'an Act concerning Marks and Brands -
passed May lst, 1851.
The People Of the State Of California. repre-
sented in Senate and assembly do enact as
toNoaos:
SEC. /. Section three of said Act is hereby
amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 3. No
mark, brand or counter brand shall be considered
as lawful if not recorded, specified in this Act
SEC. g. Section nine, Of said Act is hereby
repealed,
Approved March 3Oth 1857