SEC. 37. Article VIII., Chapter II., Title VI., Part III. of the Political Code, as amended by said Act of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby made applicable to Solano County. live stock. SEC. 38. It shall be unlawful for any public highway in Trespass by Solano County to be used for pasturage purposes, and any stock found trespassing therein in violation of this section, may be taken up by the Roadmaster of the road district in which such trespass is being committed, or by any citizen. thereof, and placed in the possession of said Roadmaster, who shall proceed in relation to the same in the manner provided for the taking up, giving notice to owners, advertising, keeping, and sale, in an Act entitled "An Act to protect agriculture and prevent the trespassing of animals upon private property," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; provided, however, this section shall not apply to any town or city in said county; and provided further, that nothing in this section shall be construed to take away or interefere with the powers vested in said towns or cities by their charters or Acts of incorporation. CHAP. CCXLVII.-An Act to provide for the care and maintenance of inebriates and certain insane persons in the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved March 17, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and etc., for inebriates. SECTION 1. The fines and forfeitures, not exceeding eight Fines, hundred dollars in the aggregate, in any one month, imposed forfeitures, and collected by the Police Judge's Court, in and for the benefit of City and County of San Francisco, from persons arrested for being drunk or under the influence of liquor, shall be, by the Clerk of said Police Judge's Court, immediately paid to the President, Secretary, and Treasurer, or a majority of them, of the Home for the Care of Inebriates, of said city and county, for the support and maintenance of said Home for the Care of Inebriates, and the construction and improvement of a building for said Home for the Care of Inebriates; and the said President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and each Bonds of of them, shall give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of officers, ten thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the County Judge of said city and county, for the faithful management and disbursement of the money's received by them under the provisions of this Act; and the said President, Secretary, and Treasurer shall, semi-annually, and as often as they may be required by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, report, under oath, to said Board, a detailed statement of all their receipts and disbursements of said moneys; and neither the President, Secretary, Clerk of Treasurer, nor any Trustee of said Home shall be entitled to or receive any fee, salary, emolument, or reward of any kind whatsoever, for any services rendered by them or either of them as such officers. SEC. 2. The Clerk of said Police Judge's Court shall take take receipts from the President, Secretary, and Treasurer aforesaid, or a majority of them, a receipt in duplicate for all money paid to them under the provisions of this Act, one of which he shall file in the said Police Judge's Court and the other with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said city and county. SEC. 3. All persons in said city and county charged with being insane, and pending their examination, or found to be insane and en route for a State Insane Asylum, shall be placed in the said Home, and shall be cared for by the officers thereof while in said Home, without charge to said city and county. Insane persons. SEC. 4. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, and an Act entitled "An Act to confer further powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco," approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropriations. CHAP. CCXLVIII.-An Act making appropriations for deficiencies for the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. [Approved March 17, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The following moneys are hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State for the objects herein named: For deficiency in appropriation for transportation of insane, twenty-five thousand dollars; for deficiency in appropriation for transportation of prisoners, six thousand dollars; for deficiency in appropriation for printing, paper, and official advertising, forty-two thousand dollars; for construction of State Capitol, five thousand dollars; for deficiency in appropriation for pay of permanent employés of State Capitol building and grounds, thirty-six hundred dollars; for deficiency in appropriation for support of State Prison, forty-two thousand dollars. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCXLIX.-An Act to appropriate moneys for the purpose of insuring the State Printing Office. [Approved March 17, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and tion. SECTION 1. The sum of eleven hundred dollars is hereby Appropriaappropriated, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the premium on a policy of insurance against fire upon the building known as the Governor's Mansion, and the materials therein, effected by the Board of State Capitol Commissioners. warrant. SEC. 2. The Controller of State is directed to draw his Controller warrant in favor of the insurance company by whom the draw said building and materials are assured, for the said sum of eleven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be allowed and audited by the Board of Examiners; and the Treasurer of State is directed to pay the same, as provided in section one of this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCL.—An Act for the relief of James H. Clark. [Became a law by virtue of Section 17, Article IV. of the Constitution, March 18, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tion to pay SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and AppropriaCounty of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, out of the General Fund of said city and county, the sum of five hundred dollars, to pay the claim of James H. Clark, late Health Inspector of the said city and county; and the Auditor of said city and county is hereby authorized and directed to audit said claim, and the Treasurer of said city and county is hereby directed to pay the same out of the General Fund of said city and county as aforesaid. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted), and the Legislature being in session, it has become a law this eighteenth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six. THOMAS BECK, Secretary of State. Preamble. Appointment of Trustee, to execute certain trusts. CHAP. CCLI.—An Act appointing and empowering Charles F. Irwin a Trustee to execute certain trusts, directing the manner of executing the same and the use of the funds arising therefrom. [Approved March 18, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Charles F. Irwin, of El Dorado County, in this State, is hereby appointed a Trustee, and as such is with power authorized and empowered to execute the trusts devolved upon the corporate authorities of said city by said Acts, so far as to take and accept the proofs and payments for lots and parcels of land, as is required to be made by section seven of said Act of March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and to execute certificates and deeds of conveyance to the parties entitled thereto, in the manner hereinafter provided. Claimants of lands to file affidavit, etc. SEC. 2. Every person, company, corporations, or claimants of any lot or parcel of land within the limits of said city, who, prior to the passage of this Act, shall not have complied with the provisions of the said Act of March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, or with the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of this State, entitled an Act to authorize the City Clerk of the City of Placerville to execute certain trusts in relation to the lands granted to said city, approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, may, at any time within six months from and after the passage of this Act, present to said Trustee, Charles F. Irwin, an affidavit, verified in person, or by duly authorized agent or attorney, in which affidavit shall be concisely stated the facts constituting the possession, or right of possession of the claimant, and showing, to the best of affiant's knowledge and belief, that said claimant is entitled to the possession of such lot or parcel of land, as against all other persons or associations, to which affidavit shall be attached a copy of so much of the plat of said city as will fully exhibit the particular lot or parcel of land so claimed, with the abuttals. And every such claimant, at the time of presenting such affidavit, shall pay to said Trustee, for the use hereinafter prescribed, such sum of money as shall be due thereon for assessment, as mentioned or required by section six of said Act of March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, or by any other Act or Acts relating to the same subject. And said Trustee shall thereupon give to such claimant a certificate, containing a description of the lot or parcel of land claimed, and setting forth the amount claimed thereon by said claimant. deliver deed verse claim. SEC. 3. At the expiration of three months from and after Trustee to the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sev- to claimant, enty-six, any person, association, or claimant, to whom a cer- when no adtificate shall have been issued, as provided in the preceding section, or who may heretofore have received a similar certificate from the corporate authorities or City Clerk of said. city, may present the same to said Trustee, and if no adverse claim shall have been presented to said Trustee, he shall execute and deliver to such claimant, or to his, her, or their heirs, administrators, assigns, or legal representatives, a deed of the premises described in such certificate, designating and describing the same by number of the lot and block, as shown. upon the official plat and map of said city. And that all deeds heretofore executed and delivered by said city authorities, or by any de facto Trustee of said trust, to any claimant or claimants, his, her, or their assigns and legal representatives, are hereby legalized, confirmed, and established, and shall be taken, deemed, and adjudged as good and sufficient conveyances, in fee simple, of the lot or lots, land or lands therein described. verse claim, SEC. 4. In case of any adverse claim to any such lot or When adparcel of land, or conflict of boundary lines relating thereto, action to be the party out of possession shall commence his action in a commenced. Court of competent jurisdiction within three months from and after the first day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and shall, within said time, serve a notice of the pendency of such action upon said Trustee, and said Trustee shall execute and deliver a deed in accordance with the final judgment rendered in such action; provided, if no such action shall be commenced within three months from and after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, a deed shall be executed and delivered by said Trustee to the party in possession. have full SEC. 5. The deeds that may be executed under the pro- Deeds by visions of this Act shall have the same force and effect as if Trustee to executed by the corporate authorities of said city, under and force and by virtue of the provisions of said Act of March twentyfourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; and for the purpose of fully executing and administering said trust effect. |