Year: 1865

tance of organizing ana acting under written
agreement. The legislature of last winter passed
an Act designed specially for the benefit of com
panies thus organized, providing summary and
cheap mode of colectn assessments, or Of selling
the int crest of the delinquent partner and avoid
ing all the cumbrous. expensive and tedious
methods of procedure necessary in the cases OF
Incorporated companies Among the prospect
ing enterprises on foot there is scarcely
company that will not have one or more delin-
quent shares TO dispose of: and timely attention
to the provision OF this law, which we publish be-
low, may save much future annoyance:


An Act


Concerning Partnerships for Mining Purposes.


Approved April t. 1864.


Section l. All written contracts of co partner
ship for mining purposes upon the lands Of the
United States within this State, formed by two or
more persons, shall be subject to the conditions
aud liabilities prescribed by his Act.
Sec .. Any member of co-partnership, or his
successor i'll his interest, in any mining claim.
who shall neglect or refuse 10 pay any assessment
or shall neglect to perform any labor liability
incurred by the copartnership agreement, may,
after the expiration of sixty days after such as
sessment labor, or other liability has become due
be notified in writing by any remaining partner
partners, or by his or their agent, that such
assessment labor or liability is due, which writ
ten notice shall specify the name of such mine
and the district wherein it is located. and shall
particularly mention the liability which has been
incurred; and if such delinquent reside within
the State he shall be personally served with such
notice; and ii the person SO notified shall refuse
or neglect, for thirty days after service of such
written notice, TO comply with the requirements
of the co-prtnership agreement. the remaining
partner or partners may sell the interest OF such
delinquent partner in aud to such mining claim.


Sec. 3. All sales under the provisions of this
Act shall be ut public auction, and by giving five
days notice thereof. by posting written notices in
three public places within the mining district
where such claim is located The notice shall
also specify the extent OF the interest to be sold
and the name OF the delinquent partner or part
ners, and the time and place OF such sale. which
place shall be within the district where the mine
is located. The purchaser at such sale shall ac
quirc all the rights aud title Of the delinquent
partner


Sec 4. II any delinquent partner in any mine
is absent from the State, or resides in any other
State or Territory, the notice to such delinquent
shall be by publication. once a week for four
months in some newspaper published in the cOun-
ty where the mine is located; or II no newspaper
is published in the county, then the notice shall
be published in some newspaper in an adjoining
county. After the expiration Of the time Of such
publication. the interest of such delinquent shall
be sold in the manner prescribed in section third
OF this Act.


See 5. This act shall take effect from and after
it's passage.


A SPECK OF WAR.--"Castne," the Sacra
mento Unions Washington correspondent,
writes as follows:


AS YOU have probably learned before this
| the War Department has declined the offer
of the First California Regiment to serve in
the new corps Of General Hancock. The
whole matter was referred to the War De
par mcnt 10y Hancock. who was very anxious
that the offer should be accepted, but the
Secretary says that California may have sud
den occasion to use all her fighting material
on her own coast, and that il would be eX.
ira hazard US for the government TO weaken
her own defensive strength 10y a single man.
The offer is regarded here as being highly
credtable to the patriotism and liberalty of
of California, and for the consolation of ;h So
who are disappointed by the refusal to ac
cept their services, | may say tnat it is all
most certain that it will not be more than
one year before CaIifognians will have AN OPP
porunlty Of lending helping hand in a
fight with one of her near neighbors; until
then they may keep their powder dry and
wait for developemenls.


The GKAlN MARKEr.-Ihs Napa Reporter
of January 2lst, says: For a week past
much excitement has existed in the grain
market, wheat having advanced of sudden
from SO so to 81 %. Farmers holding
produce took advantage to put their lois IN
market which have brought figures to a
stand still at present, the best qualities, ac,
cordng to Bay quotations, selling at 81 10.
There has been a large quantity already sold.
between three thousand and four Thousand
sacks having been disposed Of in Napa alone,
and it is not probable there is great deal
in the country at the present time, and when
shipments from Chile and other places arrive,
the figures must become less We under
stand the sudden rise was occasioned by The
necessity of fulfilling q Government contract
in -four to large amount, and the late fine
weather put the roads in such condition
that demand for flour in the interior markets,
and for seed wheat, was created. Barley
rules at So 80; oats, So; potatoes, SO %
and S3 so; new butter, soc.


ARlzoNA.-We notice in the last day S
proceedings of the Arizona Legislature, a
complimentary resolution to our old friend
It,
who has pitched his tent in the new Territory,
and has been dividing his time as a mining
prospector and inslructing the Legislative
''cusses" how to pass laws for the incipient
State


At the close of the session Of the Leeisa'
ture, Mr. Bidwell offered the following, which
was unanimously adopted:


Resolved, That the Clerk of this House,
Hon. James Anderson, has exhibited mas
terly knowledge Of his duties, and has dis
charged them with industry, fidelity, and
mpartiality, that his courteous bearing in.
sures him our esteem as gentleman-that
we tender him the thanks of this body as an
officer.


We learn that "Jeems" has struck n rich