Applications. Oath of persons admitted. Repeal. gent sick of the county; but all contracts shall particularly specify that the party or parties agreeing to keep said indigent sick, shall accept, in full satisfaction for said contract, the money to be received into the Hospital Fund, during the continuance of said contract; and said contract shall further specify the price per week at which each indigent sick patient shall be kept, which price shall not exceed twelve dollars per week. SEC. 5. All applications for the benefits of this Act, shall be made to the Board of Supervisors, or some member thereof, and no person shall be admitted as a charge upon the County Hospital Fund until he or she shall first subscribe to an oath, before some person qualified to administer the same, specifying that he or she is indigent sick, and has no means of support or sustenance here or elsewhere. SEC. 6. An Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Indigent Sick in the Counties of this State," and all other Acts and parts of Acts conflicting with the provisions of this Act, in their application to the County of Placer, are hereby repealed. Powers of CHAPTER CCXII. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Town of Placerville," passed May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. [Approved April 24, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section six of Article three, of an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Placerville," passed May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: Section six. The Council shall have power within the cityFirst. To make by-laws and ordinances not inconsistent with, or repugnant to the laws of this State. Second. To levy and collect taxes on all property, real and personal, made taxable by law for State purposes, not exceeding two per cent per annum upon the assessed value of all such property. Third. To provide for the grading, paving, or otherwise improving the streets and sidewalks, and keeping the same in repair, also to prevent and remove obstructions from the streets and sidewalks, to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to organize and establish fire companies; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, and other combustible material; to prevent and remove nuisances; to license and Council regulate auctioneers, taverns, bar-rooms, theatricals, circuses, and Powers of all other exhibitions, shows and amusements; also all trades and callings, in proportion to the amount of business done by each; to regulate tippling houses, dram shops, gaming and gaming houses, hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers and raffles; also disorderly houses of all kinds, including houses of ill-fame or prostitution; to provide for all necessary public buildings for the use of the city; to open, alter or widen streets and alleys; to establish a city hospital and provide for the indigent sick; to borrow money in case of emergency upon the faith and credit of the city, but no loan shall be made for any sum whatever, without the consent of the electors of the city to such loan having been previously obtained by a vote of the citizens; to appropriate money for any item of city expenditure, and to provide for the payment of any indebtedness against the city; to prevent or restrain any riot or disorderly conduct within the city; to impose and appropriate fines to the use of the city, for forfeitures, penalties, or breach of any ordinance, and to provide for the punishment of breaches of any ordinance, but no fine shall be imposed for one offense for more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for more than thirty days; to punish its members by fine for disorderly conduct, and to expel members for cause, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected. CHAPTER CCXIII. AN ACT Concerning County Warrants. [Approved April 24, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and draw warrants. SECTION 1. The Auditor of every county may draw warrants Authority to on the County Treasury for the payment of all claims and demands, legally chargable against the county, which are, according to law, examined, settled, allowed and ordered paid by the Board of Supervisors of the county; and all such warrants heretofore drawn by any County Auditor, for the payment of claims and demands, legally chargeable against his county, after the same were examined, settled, allowed, and ordered paid, according to law, by the Board of Supervisors, are hereby legalized, and declared and made valid and effective, to all intents and purposes, as if this Act had been in force at the time said warrants were issued. Provided, Proviso. this Act shall not be construed to repeal or change the provisions of "An Act concerning the Revenue of Calaveras County," passed in March, A. D. 1857; nor shall any of the provisions of this Act be construed to apply to the city and county of San Francisco. Names of Power to sell. Terms of sale. Inability of CHAPTER CCXIV. AN ACT To authorize the Executors of Joseph L Folsom, deceased, to sell [Approved April 24, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That Henry W. Halleck, Archibald C. Peachy, and P. Warren Van Winkle, appointed Executors by the last Will and Testament of Joseph L. Folsom, deceased, late of the County of San Francisco, and which said last will and testament was admitted to Probate, in said county, on the sixth day of August, 1855, be, and they are hereby authorized to sell such portion of the real estate, of which the said Folsom died seized and possessed, and any right, title or interest, in any real estate owned or claimed by the said Folsom, wherever situated in the State of California, as may be sufficient to pay allowances to the family of the deceased which have already been made, or which may hereafter be made by the Probate Judge of said county, and to pay the debts against said estate, and the expenses of administration and legacies, on such terms and in such manner, whether at private or public sale, as may in their opinion be most advantageous to said estate. SEC. 2. That in case of the death, resignation or removal, by Executors to act the Probate Judge, or absence from the State, or other inability to act, on the part of any one or any two of the Executors, the survivors or survivor, or the remaining Executors or Executor, may proceed to sell in like manner as the three Executors herein named, are authorized to proceed in section first, and shall have the same authority as conferred in any other part of this bill. Conveyances. Additional security. SEC. 3. That in case of any sales under the authority of this Act, the Executors, or any one or two of them, as above provided, may execute to the vendee or vendees, of the real estate so sold, all necessary and sufficient conveyances therefor; and may in like manner make conveyances in case of compromise or arbitration as hereinfter provided. SEC. 4. That in case of any sale as herein provided, the Probate Judge may in his discretion require the said Executors, to file bonds with additional security for the faithful discharge of the duties of said Executors under this Act. SEC. 5. The said Executors shall make a full report of the sale Report of sales or sales of said real estate to the Probate Court of the County of to Probate Court San Francisco, within a reasonable time thereafter, who shall confirm or reject said sale or sales, as in other cases of sales of real estate by Executors or Administrators; and the Executors shall make no conveyance of real estate sold under this Act, nor shall such sale become definitely valid unless the sale be first confirmed and approved by the said Probate Judge. SEC. 6. The Executors herein named shall also have authority Authority to to compromise without arbitration, or settle by arbitration, any compromise. suit or suits, in which they are or may be plaintiffs or defendants, affecting the title of said estate to any real estate, or to compromise without suit any claim against or in favor of said estate, on account of any real estate, and to report said compromise to the said Probate Court, who may confirm or reject the same according as the same may appear to said Court advantageous or prejudicial to said estate; but no such compromise or award of arbitrators shall be definitely valid unless approved and confirmed by said Probate Judge. SEC. 7. That no sale shall be made under this Act on a credit Sales on credit. of more than twelve months, or compromise made providing for a payment to the estate on a credit for more than six months. CHAPTER CCXV. AN ACT To authorize Rafael Gomez to receive and enjoy certain property. [Approved April 25, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and property given as if of age. SECTION 1. Rafael Gomez, a minor, aged about eighteen years, Same control of and a resident of the county of Monterey, is empowered to receive, receipt for, control, manage and enjoy, in like manner as if he were of full age, any and all property to which he is entitled, of the estate of his deceased father, Rafael Gomez. Number of Judicial Districts. Counties in Second District. Third. Fourth. CHAPTER CCXVI. AN ACT Amendatory of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act, amendatory of, and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act concerning Courts of Justice of this State, and Judicial Of ficers," passed April 16th, 1855. [Approved April 25, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SCETION 1. Section first of the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act amendatory of, and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act concerning the Courts of Justice of this State, and Judicial Officers," passed April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, is amended so as to read as follows: Section first. The twelfth section of the Act entitled "An Act concerning Courts of Justice of this State, and Judicial Officers," passed May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, is amended so as to read as follows: Section twelfth. The State shall be divided into fifteen Judicial Districts, which districts shall be numbered, and composed of the several counties, and parts of counties, as follows: First. The First Judicial District shall be composed of the counties of San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino. Second. The Second Judicial District shall be composed of the counties of Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo. Third. The Third Judicial District shall be composed of the counties of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey, and Alameda. Fourth. The Fourth Judicial District shall be composed of that part of the northern portion of the city and county of San Francisco, lying north of a line, described as follows: commencing at the western boundary of said county, at a point in a line with the center of Bush street, in said city, thence running easterly in a line with and through the center of Bush street, to the center of Larkin street; thence northerly, along the center of Larkin street, to the center of Pine street, thence easterly, along the center of Pine street, to the center of Kearny street; thence northerly, along the center of Kearny street, to a point in a line with the northern side of the City Hall or Court-house; thence easterly to, and along the northerly line of the City Hall or Court-house, to a point sixty. five feet from the easterly line of Kearny street; thence at right angles southerly, to the southern line of said Hall or Court-house; thence westerly along the southern line of said building, to the easterly line of Kearny street; thence southerly along said eastern line of Kearny street, to the centre of Clay street; thence easterly along the center of Clay street, to a point in the eastern boundary line of said county. |