The Placer herald., 1870-04-30
AN ACT TO PROTECT LlTIGANTS.

The People ofMe State Of dlifornta, represent
ed in Senate and assembly, do enact as fol.
lo,cS:
SECTION |. 1t shall be the duty of each Dis
trict Judge, within thirty days after the passage
of this Act, to designate, by order fled one
newspape in each county within his jurisdiction
in which shall be publ he'd all judicial and legal
advertising for said county; provided, that, if
there be no newspaper pu blished within county,
the District Judge may designate to do the ju-
dicial and legal ad vertisng for that county, a
newspaper published in an adjacent county; and
prouided further that in the county Of San Fran
cisco, where two or more District Judges have
jurisdiction, the newspaper in which judicial
and legal adv erl ising shall be published shall be
designated 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 written stipulation accepting the con-
diions of this Act, with bonds in the sum of five
thousand dollars ($5,OOO), with good and suH.
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 !;
prorded, that at any time, upon proof of
failure to properly publish said Advertising Or
of Noncompliance with any Of the conditions ol
this Act, said District Judge may designate some
other paper as the medium for judicial and legal
advertising in said county; and provided, further
that the District Judge shall always have power
ty to do the judicial and legal advertising of said
county, Notwithstanding any designation of pa
per published in an adjacent county, which may
previously have been made.
Sec g. All notices or advertisements, reqnir.
ed prior to or during the course of any legal or
judicial proceedings, shall he made in the news.
paper which has been designated, as herenbe-
fore provided, as the medium Tor the legal aud
judicial advertising of the county in which
said le gal and judicial proceedings are had, or
to be had; prouided, that the prices charged for
such advertising shall not exceed seventy cents
for the first insertion, fifty cents for each suisse
quent insertion up to four insertions, and TWEEN
tyfve cents for each insertion after FOUR for
each square of two hundred and f:y ems, in the
county Of San Francisco, and that the prices
charged for such advertising in the coucties Of
Sacramento, Alameda and San Joaquin shall
not exceed ninety cents per square for the first
insertion, sixty cents for each subsequent inser
tion up 10 four. and thirty cents per square OF
ESQ ems for each additional insertion;
and that the prices charged in oil other
counties in the State shall not exceed 81 so per
square of two hundred and fifty ems for tho first
insertion, and one dollar per square for each ad-
ditonal insertion up to four, and thirty-fve cts.
per square for each subsequent insertion; and
provided further, that nothing in this Act shall
interfere with the carrying out of any contract
heretofore made for the performance of official or
legal adv vertising or impair the legality Of any
legal notice or advertisement; but such notice
or adv vertsement shall be continued in the news
paper in which 1t appears prior to the passage
of this Act until the period for its insertion shall
have expired; nor shall this Act be constru ed to
prevent the Board of Supervisors of any city or
county from advertising for contracts TO perform
official printing.
SEC. t. Each newspaper designated under
this Act shall furnish, Tree OF charge, one copy
each OF its issues to the Secretary of the State,
theState Librarian and the Clerk Of the Supreme
Court Of the State OF California and one copy
to the County Clerk and the Clerk Of the Board
Of Supervisors Of the county in which it is pub.
lshed, and two copies to each Court of record
within the county in which it is published. find
it shall be the duty OF the Clerks of soid Courts
AMI Of said County Clerks, to have one copy OF
said newspaper filed, and from time to time
bound, aud the Courts may determine any
question which may arise as TO the publication
Of any legal or judicial advertisement by reference
to such files.
SEC. s. Supplementary pages issued by o
newspaper in addition to its regular number OF
pages shall be considered part Of said news
paper for all the purposes of leg and official ad'
vertsing, provided, that said supplementary
pages are numbered consecutively with the 9TH
er pages of the newspaper, and the issuance of
supplement is prominently announced at the
head Of the editorial columns OF said paper, and
that said supplementary pages are folded with
and issqed with every copy Of said newspaper
OF that addition.
SEC. Z. This Act shall take effect ipmc-
diately. II l el.
Approved March 2sth, 1870,