CHAP. DXVI.-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Manufactures in California, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Any person producing or manufacturing any one Premiums. of the articles or things named in the Act to which this is sup plemental, in one fourth or one half the quantity named therein, and exhibiting the same in like manner and form as specified in said Act, shall be entitled to one fourth or one half the premium (as the case may be) offered in said Act for the production or manufacture of said article or thing, to be awarded by the Board of Judges therein named, and in accordance with the provisions of said Act; provided, however, that no person shall receive a Proviso. premium under this Act for any article or thing in any given year, when a premium has been claimed and awarded for the same kind of article or thing in the same year, under the Act to which this Act is supplemental; and claims for premiums under said Act shall not be prejudiced by claims under this. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in effect from and after its passage. CHAP. DXVII.- An Act to provide for the Appointment of a Weigher of Coal in and for the City and County of San Francisco, California. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County Weigher of San Francisco are hereby authorized to appoint a Weigher of of Coal. Coal in and for the City and County of San Francisco, who shall reside in said place, and continue in office for the term of two years from the date of his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. SEC. 2. Said Weigher, before entering upon the duties of his oath. office, shall take and subscribe the oath of office, and give bonds. Bond. in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties, which oath shall be administered by the County Judge, and said bond acknowledged before him and approved, or before some other competent officer, the oath and bond to be filed in the office of the Auditor of said city and county. SEC. 3. When requested to do so by any person interested in Duties. knowing the weight of any coal, it shall be the duty of said Weigher to weigh all coal brought to his scales to be weighed, and, unless some other price be agreed upon by said Weigher and the person or persons making such request, he may charge and collect ten cents per ton for such service. SEC. 4. Said Weigher shall have and maintain at suitable places such number of scales as he may deem necessary; but this Act shall not be so construed as to enable said Weigher to create any liability against said city and county. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Liabilities of stockholders May be released. CHAP. DXVIII.-An Act to amend an Act concerning Corporations, passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The thirty-second section of an Act concerning corporations, passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 32. Each stockholder of any corporation shall be severally, individually, and personally, liable for such proportion of all its debts and liabilities as the amount of stock owned by him in such corporation bears to the whole of the capital stock of the corporation, for the recovery of which joint or several actions may be instituted and prosecuted, and in any such action against any of the stockholders of a corporation, the Court shall ascertain and determine the proportion of the debt which is the subject of the suit for which each of the stockholders who are defendants in the action are severally liable, and judgment shall be given severally in conformity therewith. If any stockholder in a corporation shall pay his proportion of any debt due by such corporation, he shall be released and discharged from any further individual or personal liability for such debt. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Special tax. CHAP. DXIX.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Sonoma to levy an additional Tax for Road Purposes. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Sonoma shall have power, at their next regular meeting, or at a special meeting called for such purpose, to levy an additional property tax for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for road purposes, beyond that they are already authorized to levy; such additional property tax not to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars worth of taxable property in said county, which additional tax, so levied, shall be assessed and collected by the Assessor and Collector or Collectors of Taxes of the county, in the same manner and at the same time as the other taxes levied by said Board are authorized to be collected and enforced; and all moneys so collected shall be paid by the Collector or Collectors to the County Treasurer, who shall set aside the same, and keep it in the Fund known as the "County Road Fund." The Board of Supervisors shall have control of the money so raised by this additional tax, with power to appropriate the same for road purposes, the same as other moneys in said Fund. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DXX.-An Act to amend an Act to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and protection of Public and Private Roads, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of the above mentioned Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 21. The Counties of Klamath, Sacramento, Sutter, Counties Placer, San Joaquin, Humboldt, Plumas, Nevada, Trinity, Men- exempted. docino, and Butte, and all incorporated cities and towns, are exempted from the provisions of this Act, and the Counties of Sonoma and Marin from the provisions of the thirteenth to the twentieth section, inclusive, and the County of Sierra from the provisions of the thirteenth to the eighteenth sections, both inclusive. This Act shall not apply to the City and County of San Francisco, except so much of it as provides for the location, alteration, or vacation of any road or highway; and said portion of this Act shall only apply to road districts which may be established in the eleventh and twelfth election districts of said city and county. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DXXI.-An Act supplemental to an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create a Board of Supervisors in the Counties of this State, and to define their Duties and Powers, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, approved April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Act to which this Act is supplemental shall not apply to the County of Calaveras. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Transfer. CHAP. DXXII.—An Act authorizing the County Treasurer of Placer [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Treasurer of Placer County is hereby authorized and required to transfer from the General Fund to the School Fund of said county, the sum of three thousand dollars, and said moneys, when so transferred, shall become, to all intents and purposes, a part of the School Fund, and subject to such disposition as may be legally made of the School Fund of said. county. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Rights granted. CHAP. DXXIII.—An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to authorize Joseph M. Wood, his associates and their assigns, to build a Wharf in the City and County of San Francisco, approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Fillmore Street Warehouse Dock and Wharf Company, successors in interest to Joseph M. Wood, are hereby authorized to extend their wharf in the City and County of San Francisco, outwardly into the Bay of San Francisco to the depth not to exceed twenty-five feet of water at low tide; provided, that said wharf shall not be an obstruction of the navigation of the Bay of San Francisco, and the said company shall be entitled to all the right of the State of California to the overflowed lands for the two hundred feet on each side of said wharf heretofore erected and hereby extended, and the same is hereby released to said company and their successors for the period mentioned in the Act to which this Act is supplementary. SEC. 2. The said company is hereby authorized to construct, same. in the Bay of San Francisco, from their said wharf, as the same is now erected or hereafter may be extended, a T, easterly one hundred feet, and westerly one hundred feet, and all the right of the State of California to the overflowed lands for the distance of two hundred feet on each side of such T is hereby released to said company for the period mentioned in the Act to which this Act is supplementary, for the purposes of said wharf and the business of said company; provided, the extension of said wharf, as provided in the first section of this Act, shall be commenced within one year after the passage of this Act, and shall be completed within three years thereafter. CHAP. DXXIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act relating to the Levying of Taxes, approved May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. [Approved April 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: enter taxes 1 Section 1. Whenever an ad valorem or other tax upon the Auditor to assessed value of property is levied by law, and the rate or per upon assesscentage of such tax is established by law, and required to be ment roll. collected annually, or in any year, it shall be the duty of the County Auditor of each county, or city and county, or the officer discharging the duties of Auditor, to enter upon the assessment roll or rolls the amount of such tax upon each parcel of property assessed, in the same manner and at the same times as if the Board of Supervisors had levied such tax or added the same to the other taxes levied by law. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 97 |