Same.

In the County of Placer, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November;

In the County of Plumas, on the first Monday of March, June, September, and December;

In the County of Sacramento, on the first Monday of January, April, July, and October;

In the County of San Bernardino, on the fourth Monday of each month;

In the County of San Diego, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November;

In the County of San Francisco, on the first Monday of each month;

In the County of San Joaquin, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November;

In the County of San Luis Obispo, on the first Monday of March, June, September, and December;

In the County of San Mateo, on the first Monday of • February and June, and last Monday of September; In the County of Santa Barbara, on the first Monday of March, June, September, and December;

In the County of Santa Clara, on the first Monday of each month;

In the County of Santa Cruz, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November;

In the County of Shasta, on the first Monday of February, April, June, August, October, and December; In the County of Sierra, on the first Monday of each month;

In the County of Siskiyou, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November;

In the County of Solano, on the third Monday of April, August, and December;

In the County of Sonoma, on the first Monday of Same. each month;

In the County of Stanislaus, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November; In the County of Sutter, on the first Monday of each month;

In the County of Tehama, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November;

In the County of Trinity, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November; In the County of Tulare, on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November; In the County of Tuolumne, on the fourth Monday of each month;

In the County of Yolo, on the first Monday of January, April, July, and October;

In the County of Yuba, on the first Monday of each month.

where held.

100. The terms of the Probate Court must be held Terms, at the county seats.

CHAPTER VII.

OF THE MUNICIPAL CRIMINAL COURT OF SAN FRANCISCO.

SECTION 104. This Court continued.

105. Judge, election and term.

106. Jurisdiction.

107. Presumptions in favor of its judgments.

108. Terms of Court.

109. Where held.

110. Officers and salaries.

104. The Court known as "The Municipal Crim- This Court

inal Court of San Francisco," is hereby continued, with the jurisdiction conferred by this Chapter.

continued.

Judge, election and term.

Jurisdiction.

Presumptions in

favor of its judgments.

Terms of
Court.

Where held.

Officers and salaries.

105. The Judge thereof is elected by the electors of the City and County of San Francisco, and holds his office for the term of four years from the first day of January next succeeding his election.

106. Its jurisdiction extends to the trial of all indictments transmitted to it for trial by the County Court of the City and County of San Francisco.

107. The proceedings of this Court are construed in the same manner and with like intendments as the proceedings of Courts of general jurisdiction, and to its records, orders, and judgments there is accorded like force, effect, and legal presumptions, as to the records, orders, judgment, and decrees of the District Court.

108. There must be six terms of this Court held in each year, commencing on the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and November.

109. This Court must be held at such place in the City and County of San Francisco as may be fixed by the Board of Supervisors.

110. The provisions of Sections 8, 9, 15, and 16, of an Act to establish a Municipal Criminal Court in the City and County of San Francisco, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy, are continued in force.

CHAPTER VIII.

OF JUSTICES' COURTS.

SECTION 112. Justices of the Peace must hold.

113. Justices, election and term.

114. Civil jurisdiction.

115. Civil jurisdiction restricted.

116. Territorial extent of civil jurisdiction.

117. Criminal jurisdiction.

118. Courts, where held and when open.

112. Every Justice of the Peace must hold a Jus- Justices of tice's Court in the town or city in which he is elected. must hold.

the Peace

election

113. Justices of the Peace are elected by the Justices, electors of their respective townships or cities, at the and term. judicial elections, and hold their offices for two years from the first day of January next following their election.

114. The civil jurisdiction of these Courts within Civil juristheir respective townships or cities extends:

1. To an action arising on contract, for the recovery of money only, if the sum claimed, exclusive of interest, does not amount to three hundred dollars;

2. To an action for damages for injury to the person, or for taking or detaining personal property, or for injuring personal property, or for an injury to real property, where no issue is raised by the answer involving the plaintiff's title, or possession of the same, if the damages claimed do not amount to three hundred dollars;

3. To an action for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture, not amounting to three hundred dollars, given by statute or the ordinance of an incorporated city or town;

4. To an action upon a bond or undertaking conditioned for the payment of money, not amounting to three hundred dollars, though the penalty exceed that sum; the judgment to be given for the sum actually due. When the payments are to be made by installments, an action may be brought for each installment as it becomes due;

5. To an action to recover the possession of personal property, when the value of such property does not amount to three hundred dollars;

6. To take and enter judgment on the confession of a defendant, when the amount confessed, exclusive of interest, does not amount to three hundred dollars.

diction.

Civil jurisdiction

restricted.

Territorial extent of

diction.

115. The jurisdiction conferred by the last section shall not extend, however:

1. To a civil action in which the title or possession of real property is put in issue;

2. Nor to an action or proceeding against ships, vessels, or boats, or against the owners or masters thereof, when the suit or proceeding is for the recovery of seamen's wages for a voyage performed in whole or in part without the waters of this State.

116. The civil jurisdiction of Justice's Courts, civil juris- within an incorporated city, extends to the limits of such city, or township in which the city is situated. Mesne and final process of Justices' Courts may be issued to any part of the county in which they are held.

Criminal jurisdiction

Courts, where held and when

open.

117. These Courts have jurisdiction of the following public offenses, committed within the respective counties in which such Courts are established:

1. Petit larceny;

2. Assault and battery, not charged to have been committed upon a public officer in the discharge of his duties;

3. Breaches of the peace, riots, affrays, committing a willful injury to property, and all misdemeanors punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

118. These Courts may be held at any place selected by the Justice holding the same, in the township or city for which he is elected, and they are always open for the transaction of business.