The Shasta courier., 1864-01-16
The Road Law Amendment.

1nrouSu tue poilteness Oh hOn- u. N.
Chapel, we have received o copy of bill
amending the road law passed last winter
for Shasta and Trinity counties. The amend
ments we give below, to enable the people o.
this county to see what is beirg done on thi.
important matter. We trust the amendment!
will become a law before the meeting of the
Board of Supervisors in February, to appor
ton and levy the taxes for the next fsca
year. We are assured by Mr.. Chapel thai
it was no fault of his that copy of this bill
was not furnished us at the time it was pre-
sented in the Assembly, but was the fault Of
copying clerk, TO whom be had entrusted
the matter of furnishing US with copy, SC
that we could lay it before our readers. The
thanks of our readers are due to our faithful
Assemblyman for furnishing us with copy
Of this bill, as by no other means could his
constituents be informed of the merits of this
or any other measure which he may have the
honor of presenting TO the Legislature af,
fectng their interests:
An Act to amend an Act entitlel an Act con.
corning Roads and Highways in the coun.
ties Of Shasta and Trinity, approred March
t,centy- eighth, one thousand eight hundred
and sirty-three.
The People of the State of Califor- ia, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
SEcEIoN |. Section six of said Act is here
by amended SO as to read as follows: Section
g. At the session of the Board of Supervi-
sors for levying State, county and other tax
es, the said Board shall levy upo all able
bodied male person, except Indians, between
the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, a
road poll tax of not less than two, nor more
than four dollars per annum, which tax shall
be paid in labor as hereinafter provided, at
the rate of two dollars per day, provided that
any person liable to perform such duty may
pay the same, when called upon by the road
overseer, in cash and said Board of Super.
visors, at the same session, shall levy pro-
perty tax for road purposes upon all taxable
property in said counties. of not less than
five, nor more than twenty cents on each one
hundred dollars, which said property tax
shall be assessed and collected at the same
time, and in the same manner, and by the
same officers as other property tax prorided
that when any person shall perform more la
Dor on the highways in any one year than is
required by this act, the overseer of the dis
trict in which said labor shall be performed
shall receipt to such person for the extra
amount of labor performed, and said re
ceipt shall be good and receivable for road
dues for any subsequent year; procided tur.
Mer, that it shall be the duty of the Assessor,
in making said assessment, to keep his
books i'll such manner as will show in
what particular road district any and all
property so assessed shall be situated.
Sec 2. Section seven of said act is here,
bv amended so as to read as follows: Sec
ti0n I. 1t shall be the duty of the Collector
to keep a separate account of the road tax
collected in each road district. and of the
reasurer to keep the moneys SO collected in
the several districts iI separate funds. These
funds of the several road districts shall be
under the control of the Board of Supervi.
sors, who may dislurse the same for the
construction of bridges, the opening or i'm.
prUvement of roads OF general utility to such
counties, or may in their discretion transfer
them to the road oversesrs, to be expended
by them in the improvement of the roads,
edCu luuu III iuc ulstiiCt NnCiS IL was NNi-
lccted. The Board Of Supervisors shall draw
money from the road fund by drawing their
order on the Treasurer, and said orders shall
specify the particular fund from which they
are to be paid prorided, that in no instancs
shall the Board of Supervisors draw theil
orders to exceed the amount in the road fund
upon which said orders are drawn prorideG
further, that the Board of Supervisors o.
Shasta county shall have the power, and i
shall be their duty, to appOrtion that part O
the debt of said county for which warrants
have already been drawn, and are now out
standing en- account of roads, and for thu
payment of which no provision has beer
made, among the different road districts o
said county. pro rata, according to the value
of the property assessed i'll said districts re
spectively and it shall be the duty of tht
said Board of Supervisors, when any of thu
now outstanding warrants are presented tt
them. to endorse the same, which endorse
ment shall be Dated and s2ecify from wha
particular fund the warrant is to be paid
prorided, that the Board of Supervisors, in
making such endorsement, shall be under thu
same restrictions they are in drawing an
original order; and it shall be the duty o
the Treasurer of said county to pay said war
rants when presented to him properly en-
dorsed.
Sec. 8. This Act shall take effect from anf
after its passage.
p. S.-Since the above was put in type
the bill has passed the Assembly.
ASSAULT IN MONTEREY CoUNTY-YIGILANcI
CoMxIrrEE-MAN HUNG.-There was quite
an excitement in Monterey on Wednesday
last, occasioned by an assault to kill. and
the hanging of the assassin by Vigilance
Committee. From all we can learn. the tol
lowing are the facts ofthe case: John Mar
tin, of Carmelo, was coming into Monterey
to attend the Grand Jury then in session
and, when near the town, was shot by an In.
dian named Gregoria. There was no quar-.
rel between tn IN, nor had either ever seer
the other before; and the only reason Gre
goria gave for shooting Martin was that be
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