LAWS OF THE STATE. I.-TITLES AND ABSTRACTS OF THE GENERAL LAWS, PASSED AT THE NINTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CAL'A, 1858. [The chapters and pages refer to the official edition of the Laws, published by John O'Meara, State Printer. The omitted chapters are Laws of a private or local character.] No. 1. CHAPTER XXIV, p. 22. An Act to amend the first Section of an Act entitled "An Act empowering the Governor to appoint Commissioners of Deeds, and defining the Duties of such Officers," passed March 20, 1850. (Approved February 11, 1858.) Sec. 1. The Governor may, when in his judgment it may be necessary, appoint, in each of the United States and in each of the Territories and Districts of the United States, and in each foreign State, Territory and Colony, one or more Commissioners, to continue in office four years, unless removed by the Governor; every such Commissioner shall have power to administer oaths, and to take depositions and affidavits to be used in this State; and, also, to take the acknowledgment or proof of any deed or other instrument to be recorded in this State. No. 2. CH. XXV, p. 22. An Act to amend the sixth Section of an Act entitled "An Act defining the Rights of Husband and Wife," passed April 17, 1850. (Approved February 11, 1858.) The husband shall have the management and control of the separate property of the wife during the continuance of the marriage; but no sale or other alienation of any part of such property can be made, nor any lien or incumbrance created thereon, unless by an instrument in writing, signed by the husband and wife, and acknowledged by her upon an examination, separate and apart from her husband, before a competent authority. No. 3. CH. XLI, p. 31. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide Revenue for the Support of the Government of this State," passed April 29, 1857. (Approved February 27, 1858.) Sec. 1. An ad valorem tax of sixty cents upon each one hundred dollars value of taxable property, is hereby levied and directed to be collected for State purposes, upon the assessed value of all property in this State, not by this Act exempt from taxation, thirty cents of which shall be paid into the State Treasury, for the payment of the interest on the funded debt of 1857, and for the liquidation of the principal thereof, and the remaining thirty cents shall be placed to the credit of the general fund; and upon the same property the Board of Supervisors of each county is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect annually, for county expenditures, a tax, not exceeding fifty cents on each one hundred dollars. The Board of Supervisors of each county is also hereby authorized to levy and collect, annually, such additional and special taxes as the laws of the State may have authorized or required, or may hereafter authorize or require. All taxes shall be paid in coin, at the fixed market value, except the tax levied for county purposes, which may be collected in such funds as may be prescribed in the special Acts imposing the same. No. 4. CH. XLIII, p. 32. An Act to provide for the temporary Government of the State Prison, and to appropriate Money therefor. (Approved February 26, 1858.) The Governor of this State is hereby authorized and empowered, and it shall be his duty by and through such agent or agents as he may, in his discretion, appoint, to take immediate possession of the State Prison and grounds, together with all the property of the State therein situated, NOTE. The laws referred to in this abstract are published, with few exceptions, without abridgment. Where it has been found necessary for want of space to condense a law, the important provisions and the language thereof have been preserved as far as circumstances would permit.-[ED. |