OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA; IN FOUR CODES: POLITICAL, CIVIL, CIVIL PROCEDURE, AND PENAL. POLITICAL CODE. SACRAMENTO: T. A. SPRINGER, STATE PRINTER. 1872. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THIS volume nearly completes the work of the Commission. It has yet to undergo that final revision which has been bestowed upon each Code. The Codes are numbered from one to four, inclusive, in the following order: Political, Civil, Civil Procedure, and Penal. They, however, bear no dependent relation toward each other; each work is complete in itself, and each constitutes. a separate Act; they were, in fact, completed-as in our opinion they ought to be examined and adopted-in the inverse order of their numbering. We have not attempted to do anything relative to the Fees and Salaries of County Officers, except to recapitulate the salaries of County Judges and District Attorneys as the law fixes them. It would be impossible at this day to establish a uniform and permanent system of fees and salaries. Each legislative year will bring contests over this subject, and it was deemed advisable to let the matter rest in the statutes, rather than to carry the present fee bills, at great expense, into a Code intended to be permanent. Roads and Highways presented another subject of difficulty. Not less than one hundred and twenty-five Acts concerning roads and highways have been placed upon the statute books. We have prepared a general law, and inserted it as a chapter under Title VI of Part III. It is doubtful whether the condition of the State admits to-day of a general Road Law; if it does, the policy of enacting one is not a debatable question. In order that a difference of opinion on this question may not jeopardize the adoption of this Code, we have prepared an alternate chapter continuing in force the existing laws. The subject of Revenue presented serious difficulties. Each |