CHAPTER LXIII. AN ACT Relative to the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County. [Approved March 4, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, Supervisors. shall have power to order, in their discretion, the publication or printing, either in a newspaper or otherwise, of all such matters tion. required by law to be ordered published by them. Order publica SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws contrary to the provisions Repeal. of this Act, are hereby repealed, as far as the County of Santa Barbara is concerned. CHAPTER LXIV. AN ACT To authorize the State Treasurer to issue to Milton Wolfskill a [Approved March 4, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: date. SECTION 1. The Treasurer of State is hereby authorized to Number and issue two School Land Warrants, for one hundred and sixty acres each, to Milton Wolfskill, to be numbered two hundred and sixty and two hundred and sixty-one, bearing date twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and the word "duplicate" to be written across the same. effect. SEC. 2. The said "Duplicate Land Warrants" shall be of the Same force and same force and effect, and any location under the same shall be of the same validity as the original land warrants and the location thereof could be, provided the same had not been lost or destroyed. And, provided, if the said original Land Warrants, numbered two Proviso. hundred and sixty and two hundred and sixty-one, issued to Milton Original. Wolfskill under the Act of May the third, eighteen hundred and Duplicates. Bond. Amount of. fifty-two, shall hereafter be found or produced from the hand of any bona fide assignee of the same Milton Wolfskill, then the duplicate warrants granted by this Act shall have no force, effect, or validity whatever. Provided, That before the issuance of such Duplicate Land Warrants, the said Milton Wolfskill shall execute and deliver to the Treasurer, a bond, with good and sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of six hundred and forty dollars, conditioned to be paid if the originals shall ever be located or presented for payment. Foreigners. Not to mine without license. Amendatory of "An Act amendatory of an Act to provide for the Protection of Foreigners, and to define their Liabilities and Priv ileges, passed March thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three," passed May 13th, 1854. [Approved March 5, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of an Act amendatory of "An Act to provide for the Protection of Foreigners, and to define their Liabilities and Privileges, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: No person, not being a citizen of the United States, or who shall not have declared his intention to become such, prior to the pas sage of this Act, (California Indians excepted,) shall be allowed to take gold from the mines of this State, unless he shall have a license therefor, as hereinafter provided. CHAPTER LXVI. AN ACT To separate the Office of Collector of Taxes from the Office of [Approved March 5, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the first Monday of March, A. D. Separate office. 1858, the office of Collector of Taxes in the County of Butte, shall be separate from the office of Sheriff. Taxes. SEC. 2. At the next general election, there shall be elected in Collector of said county, a Collector of Taxes, who shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first Monday of March, A. D. 1858, and shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. Term of office. SEC. 3. All duties and liabilities beretofore imposed upon the Duties. Sheriff of said county as Collector of Taxes, shall attach to the office hereby created, and the Collector of Taxes, elected under the provisions of this Act, shall give such bond or bonds as now by Bond. law are required to be given by the Sheriff as Collector of Taxes and Foreign Licenses, to be approved in the same manner. SEC. 4. The Collector of Taxes elected under the provisions of Duties specified. this Act, shall collect all State and County taxes, all Foreign License taxes, all kinds of public dues which under existing laws are now collected by the Sheriff and Treasurer, and shall receive for his services the same compensation which is now allowed by the Compensation. Sheriff and Treasurer. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts, inconsistent with the pro- Repeal. visions of this Act, so far as the same relates to the County of Butte, are hereby repealed. Twenty-first Twelfth Sena torial District. Senators, when elected. Repeal. CHAPTER LXVII. AN ACT Supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to apportion the Senatorial and Assembly Districts of this State," passed May 18th, 1853. [Approved March 6, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Counties of Humboldt and Trinity shall compose the Twenty-first Senatorial District, and shall elect one Senator. SEC. 2. The Counties of Klamath and Siskiyou, shall compose the Twelfth Senatorial District, and shall elect one Senator. SEC. 3. The Senators provided for in the first and second sections of this Act, shall be elected at the general election, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and at the general election every two years thereafter. SEC. 4. So much of the Act to which this is supplemental, as provides for the Senatorial representation of the Counties of Humboldt, Klamath, Siskiyou and Trinity, is hereby repealed. Tenants. CHAPTER LXVIII. AN ACT Concerning Tenants in Common, Joint Tenants and Coparceners. [Approved March 6, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All persons holding as tenants in common, joint tenants, or coparceners, or any number less than all, may jointly or severally, bring or defend, any civil action for the enforcement or protection of the rights of such party. CHAPTER LXIX. AN ACT To create a Board of Water Commissioners, in the County of San [Approved March 6, 1857.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There shall be in the County of San Bernardino, a Water Board. Board of Water Commissioners, to regulate water-courses, to con sist of three members. SEC. 2. They shall be elected at the general election of county Term of office. officers, and shall hold office one year; in case of a vacancy from any cause, such vacancy shall be filled by the Board of Supervisors. SEC. 3. They shall appoint as many Overseers as they may Overseers. deem proper, for the regulation of the water-ditches in the county. SEC. 4. The duties of the Commissioners shall be: First, Upon petition by a majority of persons interested, they shall lay out any ditch, and apportion the water thereof among the people using the same, according to the amount of land each person may wish to irrigate. Secondly, Upon the receipt of the returns of the Overseers of the number of acres required to be irrigated, and the probable number of days' work required to be done on any ditch in that season, they shall apportion the water thereof among the persons concerned. Thirdly, They shall, as soon as they have apportioned the water, make a schedule, stating the hours that such persons shall use the water, commencing at the head, and also opposite the name of each person, the estimated number of days' work he will be required to perform. Duties of Com missioners. Overseers. SEC. 5. The duty of the Overseers shall be, to execute the Duty of orders of the Commissioners, to attend to, and see that the water is used as apportioned by said Commissioners, to superintend the works ordered by them, to see that the water is kept clear of filth of every description, and that the ditches are kept in good repair. The Overseers shall, on or before the first day of February in each year, examine the ditch from head to foot, and make an estimate of the number of days' work that will be required to put such ditch in working order, to hold and carry all the water that may be required to pass through said ditch, and report the same to the Commissioners, together with the amount of land that each person may want to irrigate from said ditch; should the estimated number of days' work be insufficient to keep said ditch in repair during the season, the Overseers shall call upon every person to labor, in proportion to the amount of land to be irrigated by them from said |