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the organization and incorporation VI
municipal corporations, and as its pro-
visions apply generally to all munich
palities in the State, it is published IN
full as follows:
VALIDATING ACTS OF MUNICH
PALITIES.
Section l. All municipal corporations,
the organization and incorporation or
which have been authenticated by an
order of a Board of SUPERVISORS In
this State, declaring the same 1ncor-
porated as municipal corporations or
the classes to which such corporations
may respectfully belong, and certified
copy of which order has been filed by
such Board of Supervisors in the office
Of the Secretary of State, showing such
copy of said order to have been filed
in said office, and which corporations
thereafter have acted in the form ana
manner of municipal corporations un-
der the provisions of AN Act to pro-
vide for the organization, incorporation
and government of municipal corpora
TONS" approved March IL, 1888, and
the amendments thereto, are hereby
declared to be and to have been NUM-
cipal corporations from the date OF
filing the certified copy of said order
of the Board of Supervisors with the
Secretary of State; and all the acts of
the said municipal corporations here
tofore exercised according to the Act
aforesaid are hereby validated and de-
clared as legal
LEASING PROPERTY TO VET
ERANS.
An enactment that is Of interest to
ex-Union soldiers, sailors and marines
of the late war, is that which enables
any county city and county, city, or
town, to lease property to any associa-
ton of veterans. The Act follows:
Section l. Any county, city and coun-
ty, city, or town is authorized to lease,
for period not exceeding twenty
years, to any association of veteran
soldiers, sailors or marines who have
served the United States honorably in
any of its wars, and who are organized
for patriotic, fraternal and benevolent
objects in such county, city and county,
city or town, to be used for the pur-
poses of such association, any lot or
public building, or any part thereof,
belonging to said county, city and
county, city or town, and not required
for public use at a rental to be fixed by
the Board of Supervisors of such coun-
~, city and county, or by the Common
Council or Board of Trustees of such
city or town.
DISMISSAL OF ACTIONS.
Section 5S1 of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, providing when actions may be
dismissed, or judgments of non-suit en-
tered was amended to read as follows:
5S1. An action may be dismissed, or
a judgment of non-suit entered, in the
following cases:
l. By the plaintiff himself, by writ
ten request to the Clerk. filed among
the papers in the case, at any time be-
fore trial, upon payment of costs; pro-
vided, q counter claim has not been
made, or affirmative relief sought by
the cross complain or answer of the
defendant. If provisional remedy has
been allowed, the undertaking must
thereupon be delivered by the Clerk TO
the defendant, who may have his &C
ton thereon.
> By either party upon the written
consent of the other
). BY the court, when the plaintiff
fails to appear on the trial, and the
defendant appears and asks for the
dismissal
1. By the court, when, upon the trial
and before the final submission of the
case, the plaintiff abandons ii.
>. BY the court, upon motion of the
defendant when upon the trial the
plaintiff fails to prove a sufficient case
for the jury.
6. By the court, when, after verdict
or final submission, the party entitled
to judgment neglects to demand and
have the same entered for more than
six months.
The dismissals mentioned in subdi-
visions l and hereof are made by
entry in the Clerks register.
The dismissals mentioned in Subdi-
visions 3, +. , and 6 of this section
shall be made by orders of the court
entered upon the minutes thereof, and
shall be effective for all purposes when
SO entered, but the Clerk of the court
shall note such orders in his register
of actions in the case.
{. And no action heretofore or here
after commenced shall be further pros
ecuted, and no further proceedings
shall be had therein, and all actions
heretofore or hereafter commenced
shall be dismissed by the court in
which the same shall have been COM
menced, on its own motion, or on mo-
ton of any party interested therein,
whether named in the complaint as a
party or not, unless summons shall
have been issued within one year, and
all such actions shall be in like man
ner dismissed. unless the summons
shall be served and return thereon
made within three years after the
commencement of said action. But
all such actions may be prosecuted, If
appearance has been made by the de-
PENDANT or defendants, within said
three years. in the same manner as If
summons had been issued and served.
RECORDING AND VALIDATING
RECORDS.
Section 1859 Of an Act to establish a
Civil Code. approved March p. 1872,
relative to recording of certain instru-
ments and validating records hereto
fore made, was amended to read as fol-
lows:
1859. Judgments affecting the title 10
or possession of real property authenti-
Gated by the certificate of the clerk of
the court in which such judgments were
rendered (and notices of location OF
mining claims) may be recorded without
acknowledgment, certificate OF ac-