The Placer herald., 1870-05-07
AN ACT TO PROTECT LlTIGANTS.

The People cfthe State of California, represent
ed il Senate and assembly, do enact az fol-
ioscs:
SECTION |. 1t shall be the duty Of each Dis
trict Judge, within thirty days after the passage
Of this Act, to designate oy order hied: one
newspaper in each county within his jurisdiction
in which shall be published all judicial and legal
advertising for said county; provided, that. if
there be no newspaper published within county,
the District Judge may designate to do the ju-
dicial and legal advertising for that county,
newspaper published in an adacent county; and
propided further. that in the county OF San Fran
cisco. where two or more District Judges have
jurisdiction, the newspaper in which judicial
and legal adver isng shall be published shall be
desi snatcd by the District Judge OF the Fourth
Judicial District, whose jurisdiction is now con-
fined to such county.
SEC 2 When the propretors SO designated
shall file a written stipulation accepting the con
ditons of thi, Act. with bonds in the sum OF five
thousand dollars S5 OO0), with good and sulii-
cicnt sureties. to be approved hy the District
Judge, for the faithful performance OF the legal
and judicial advertising OF their county, and to
make good any loss or damage which may accrue
from failure to perform said advertising prop
erly, the District Judge shall designate said
newspaper as the medium in which all judicial
and legal advertising OF said county shall be pub
lished during the term for which he was elected !;
prODided that at any time, upon proof OF
failure to properly publish said advertising, or
OF Noncompliance with any OF The conditions oil
this Act said District Judge may designate some
other paper as The medium for judicial and legal
advertising in said county; nj provided, furtber
that the District Judge shall always have power
to designate any paper published within coun-
ty to do the judicial and legal advertising OF said
county. notwithstanding any designation OF u PIT
per published in an adj jtccnt county, which may
previously have been made.
SIC. g. All notices or advertisements. requir-
ed prior to or during the course OF any legal or
judicial proceedings, shall be made in the news
paper which has been designated, rs hereinbc-
fore provided, as the medium ior the legal aud
judicial advertising of the county in which
said lc gal and judicial proceedings are had, or
TO be had; prorided that the prices charged for
such advertising shall not exceed seventy cents
for the first insertion, fifty cents for each sutse-
quent insertion up to four insertions, aud twen-
| ty five cents for each insertion after four, for
| each square Of two hundred and fl ~ ems, in tho
county Of San Francisco and that the prizes
| charged for such advertising in the couCles OF
Sacramento, Alameda and San Joaquin shall
not exceed ninety cents per square Tor the first
insertion, sixty cents for each subsequent inser'
| tion up TO four and thirty cents per square oi
| 250 ems for each additonh Insertion
! and that the prices charged in all other
couutes in the State shall not exceed s SO per
| square Vi tNO Vuu uiiy tuS lot tuc uIst
insertion. and one dollar per square for each ad
ditional insertion up to four, aud thirty five cts
per square for each subsequent insertion; and
prOuided further, that nothing in this Act shall
interfere with the carrying out OF any contract
heretofore made for the performance OF olhclal oil
| legal advertising, or impair the legality OF any
| legal notice or advertisement; but such notice
or adv crt sement shall be continued in the news
paper in which it appears prior to the passage
OF this Act until the period for its inscl ton shall
| have expired; nor shall this Act be constru ed 10
prevent the Board of Supervisors OF any city oil
county from advertising Tor contracts TO perform
official printing.
SEC. 4. Each newspaper designated undc,
this Act shall furnish. Tree OF charge, one copy
each OF its issues to the Secretary OF the State
| theStlte Librarian aud the Clerk OF the Supreme
Court of the State OF California, and one copy
to he County Clerk and the Clerk OF the BOARD
oil Supervisors of the county in which it is pub
| lished, and two copies TO each Court of recort
within the county in which it is published. .and
it shall be the duty OF the Clerks of said Courts
an of said County Clerks, to have one copy o
said newspaper filed, and from time to tmt
bound, and the Courts may determine any
question which may arise as to the publicatio
of any legal or judicial advertisement by reference
to such files
SEC. 5. Supplementary pages issued by
newspaper, in addition to its regular number o
pages sh I'll be considered part of said news
paper for all the purposes OF leg Il and official ad
verising; prorded, that said supplementary
pages are numbered consccutivcly with the 9th
er pages of the newspaper. and the issuance OF ;
supplement- is prominently announced at tht
head of the edit orial coums OF said paper an,
that said supplementary pages are folded will
and issued with every copy Of said newspaper
OF that addition.
SEC. I. This Act shall take effect immc.
diately. - t.-
Approved March Goth, 1870.