Limit of extension. Proviso. CHAPTER CLIX. AN ACT To extend the Time for Collecting Taxes in the County of San [Approved April 7, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The time for collecting taxes in the county of San Mateo, and rendering account thereof, is hereby extended to the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. Providea, That before this extension of time shall take effect, the Tax Collector of said county shall file in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said county the written consent of his sureties to the said extension, or in default thereof, shall execute an additional bond, conditioned, approved and secured according to law, for the faithful discharge of his duties under this Act, in the sum of five thousand dollars. Name changed. CHAPTER CLX. AN ACT To change the name of Frederick A. Peelsticker, to that of Frederick A. Peel. [Approved April 7, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of Frederick A. Peelsticker, is hereby changed to that of Frederick A. Peel. CHAPTER CLXI. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate Fees of Office," approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Approved April 7, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section thirteen of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate Fees of Office, approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: For at tending in any civil suit or proceeding before any Court of Record, Allowance per Referee, Commissioner, or Justice of the Peace, for each day three day and mileage. dollars; for traveling to the place of trial, for each mile, twentyfive cents. No person shall be obliged to testify in a civil action unless his fees for attendance have been tendered him, or he shall not have demanded the same, and no person shall be obliged to attend in a civil action or proceeding as a witness without the county in which he resides, unless the distance be less than thirty miles from his place of residence to the place of trial. SEC. 2. The fees of witnesses in the county of San Francisco shall Not apply to San remain the same as allowed by law previous to the passage of this Act. SEC. 3. Section thirty-two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Francisco. Section thirty-two. For attending in any civil suit or proceed- Per diem and ing before any Court of Record, Referee, Commissioner, or Justice mileage. of the Peace, for each day two dollars; for traveling to the place of trial, for each mile, twenty-five cents. No person shall be obliged to attend as a witness in a civil action unless his fees for attendance have been tendered him, or he shall not have demanded the same; and no person shall be obliged in a civil action or proceeding to attend as a witness without the county in which he resides, unless the distance be less than thirty miles from his place of residence to the place of trial. Warrants re CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT Making orders or warrants drawn on the County Treasurer of [Approved April 7, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All orders or warrants drawn on the County Treasceived for taxes. urer of Stanislaus County, and payable out of the county revenue, shall be received in payment of County taxes, licenses, and all county dues, either from the person or persons in whose favor it was drawn, or his, her, or their assigns. Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed, as to authorize any Collector of county taxes or dues, to receive more than eighty per cent. of the amount due from each person or persons, in such orders or warrants; and, provided further, That the Treasurer of said county, shall not receive more than fifty per cent. of the amount due for Ferry licenses, when one-half of said amount is payable to an adjoining county, in such warrants or orders, drawn on said County Treasurer, as aforesaid. Proviso. Repeal of Acts in conflict. SEC. 2. So much of an Act, passed May seventeenth, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-three, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, is hereby repealed. CHAPTER CLXIII. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to aid the Officers of the Indian [Approved April 9, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of an Act entitled "An Act to aid Government for the State of California, in the discharge of their duties," approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fiftysix, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section one. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to Conduct considwilfully and maliciously interfere with, or in any way interrupt the ered unlawful. Superintendent of Indian Affairs, or any one of the Indian Agents of the General Government, or their employees, connected with the Indian Department in this State, in the discharge of their duties in said Department, either by seeking to lessen their influence with the Indians, or by seeking to hinder or frighten the Indians from going to the Reservations, or, such other place as may be designated by the Superintendent, or by enticing them away from the Reservations, or such other place as aforesaid, or by harboring them, or by interfering with them in any other malicious way whatever. SEC. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section two. Any person or persons violating any of the pro- Misdemeanor. visions of the first Section of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail, not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. CHAPTER CLXIV. AN ACT To authorize the Governor to remove Insane Persons from the State [Approved April 9, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. Whenever any convict, confined in the State Prison, Insane convicts. shall, in the opinion of the Physician of the Prison, be insane, and should be removed to the Insane Asylum, the Physician shall make oath to the same, before the County Judge, in the county in which the said Prison is located, and said Judge shall summon two competent physicians, to examine the alleged case of insanity, and if in their opinion the said convict is of unsound mind, and should be removed, the Judge shall send the statement of said physicians with his opinion, to the Governor, who is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to remove said convict to the State Insane Asylum. SEC. 2. Should said convict recover his sanity, before the expi- Recover sanity. ration of his term of sentence, the Resident and Assistant Physician of the Asylum shall certify the same to the Governor, who, upon the receipt of such certificate, shall order said convict to be sent back to the State Prison. Powers and pri ration. CHAPTER CLXV. AN ACT To incorporate the Town of Columbia, in the County of Tuolumne. [Approved April 9, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the town of Columbia, in the vileges of Corpo- county of Tuolumne, and State of California, residing within the bounds hereinafter described, are hereby declared to be incorporated under the provisions of "An Act to provide for the incorporation of towns, passed April 19th, 1856," with the style and name of the town of Columbia, and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, and may purchase, receive, hold and possess property for their common benefit, and may sell or otherwise dispose of the same. Boundaries. Trustees, when elected. Town officers. Power of SEC. 2. The boundaries of said town shall be as follows: Commencing at a post west of the Catholic Church and near to the road leading to Springfield, and running thence north five-eighths of a mile over the old Columbia Gulch, and along the western slope of Gold Hill to a post near the Gold Springs road; thence east five-eighths of a mile to a post in Corral Gulch; thence south fiveeighths of a mile to a post on the hill towards San Diego; and thence five-eighths of a mile to the place of beginning. SEC. 3. The corporate powers and duties of said town shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, to consist of five members, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of said town, on the second Monday of May in each year, and shall hold office for the term of one year, and until their successors are qualified. SEC. 4. There shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner, a Town Marshal, a Treasurer and Assessor, who shall likewise hold office for the term of one year, and until their successors are qualified. They shall receive such compensation for their services as the Board of Trustees may from time to time direct. SEC. 5. The Board of Trustees shall have power to open, alter, extend, establish, pave, grade, or otherwise improve, and to regu late streets, lanes and alleys; to construct and keep in repair |