The Placer herald., 1860-03-31

IA per h.. 81 500 G0,000
Number Of teams passing up country by
Woods crossing South Iuba per an
mum ................ $50. l,bO4
Tons OF freight hauled by same(or 1929
92l pounds) 9.139
Cost of carriage Mt cent .......... lS2,199
Deduct 1900 tons for San Juan and you
have going to other towns in Nevada,
Iuba Il Sierra counties 20.9 per day $3.50
There are 20 Saw Mills on the ridge No.
of millions feet of Lumber sent to low
er country y.................... 4O0o.O 900
Or Tons daily Observation-Disclosures. 135
The statement Of freight would bear for the
year to come an increase of 80 per cent. in the
opinion of teamstcrs and traders The business
of the whole ridge dividing the South and Mid
die Yubas is rapidly improving.
An Act to INK OF pornse the Town of Auburn.
The People Of the STATE Of California, reprssen-
ted in the Senate and Assenibiy, do enact as tOl-
iolrs:
SECTION !. The inhabitants OF the town OF
Auburn, County of Placer, are hereby constituted
body corporate and polite, under the name and
style Of the Town Of Auburn, and by that name
and style, they and their Successors shall be
known in law, and have perpetual succession and
be invested with all the rights and privileges con-
lerred by, and be subject to all the liabilities, re-
strictious and provisions of an Act entitled - an
Act to provide for the incorporation of Towns"
approved April nineteenth, a. d. 1885, SO far as
the provisions of said Act may be consistent with
the provisions of this Act.
SEC. g The area OF said Town shall be one
and one fourth miles square, having the Court
House for a centre.
SEC. g. The Boar of Trustees of said Town
shall not have the power to contract any debt.
unless the ordinance providing for the same shall
first be submitted to and adopted by majority
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same, nor shall any expense be incurred except
as above provided unless there is money in the
Treasury to pay the same.
SEC. i. The compensation of the Board of
Trustees shall be one dollar per annum, EACH
The Clerk shall receive fifty dollars per aunum.
The Assessor shall receive fifty dollars per annum.
The Treasurer shall receive five dollars per an
mum.
SEC. 5. In addition to the Board of Trustees,
the officers of the Town shall consist Of Clerk,
Treasurer and Assessor and no other, and the
Trustees shall appoint all OF said officers
SEC. 6. The Board of Trustees shall have
power to pass such ordinances as they may deem
necessary to prevent and remove nuisances to
license theatres, menageries, shows and all exhi
bitions where money is charged for admission
to prevent and punish breaches of the peace and
disurricriy conduct and to alter and keep open,
grade and repair and lay out, streets alleys and
sidewalks for he town and to collect annually
n tax on all the property in the Town, not eX-
ceedlng oneourth OF one per cent. on the assessed
value thereof; and to pass all ordinances necess-
airy Tor the protection of the Town against fire.
SEC. I. No street shall he laid ont altered.
opened or repaired, except upon petition signed
by the owners of twothirds in value of the pro-
perty affected thereby, aud then to pay the ex-
pense attendant on the same, the Board of Trus-
| uhoIl lnvv n IN n oil tho pro oAn tod
thereby, according to its assessed value, which
tax shall be levied and collected as other taxes
are under this Act.
SEC 8. John r. Gwynn, John Russell and
Henry Hubbard are hereby appointed Commits
sioners, WHO, within ten days alter the passage of
! this Act, shall give notice that within one week
from the date of said notice. an election will be held
at the time and place designated in the notice, at
which election the qualified electors Of said Town
OF Auburn will be called upon to vote on the
question of the incorporation of said Town.
Said Commissioners shall cause ballots to be pre-
pared, on which shall be written or printed
Corporation Yes" or" Corporation No. and
said Commissioners shall constitute the Judges
and Inspectors OF said election, and shall hold the
same and declare the result. If at such election
q majority of the ballots shall have written or
printed on them the words d" Corporation Y Yes,"
then this Act sha take effect and said Commis-
sions shall declare said Town incorporated and
shall hold an election for the officers, provided
under this Act, on the 18th day OF April, A. d.
1860 But, il a majority OF such ballots shall
have written or printed thereon the words Cor
poration No." then said Commissioners shall de-
clare this Act rejected, and the same shall not go
I into effect
SEC 9. The ANIMAL elections for officers in said
Town shall take place on the first Monday in
April AID. 1861 and on the first Monday of a pri
in each year thereafter, and the officers elected
shall hold their offices one year, and until their
successors are duly elected and qualified.
SIC TO- This Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
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