provisions of this Act, such fees shall be allowed as for similar services in civil cases, to be collected only from the parties owing such taxes. In other respects than herein provided, the proceedings under this section shall be conducted as provided in section two hundred and thirty-eight, and two hundred and thirty-nine, in the Practice Act of this State, regulating proceedings supplemental to execution, and in case it appears from the affidavit of the Assessor that such person or persons owing said taxes is about to abscond from the county, or is about to convey his property, with intent fraudulently to evade the payment of such taxes, in such case the citation herein mentioned may direct the officer serving the same to arrest such party and bring him before the Court, Judge, or Justice, issuing the same. It shall not be lawful for a party served with the citation mentioned in this section, to sell or transfer his property or effects, so as to defeat the collection of the taxes mentioned, or costs, or any part thereof; and any person or persons so doing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to pay a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars; and should the said taxes fail to be collected by said process, then no further liability shall attach to said Assessor therefor. SEC. 4. The compensation allowed to the County Assessor Compenin and for Butte County, shall be the per centage allowed by law sation. on all moneys collected for poll taxes, and three per cent on all moneys collected for State and county personal property taxes, by said Assessor; and for each day's actual services rendered in assessing property in said county, in person or by deputy, he shall be allowed a compensation not to exceed ten dollars per day, by the Board of Supervisors of said county. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, so far as the same relate to Butte County. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XXIV.—An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to authorize the County of San Joaquin to issue Bonds for Agricul tural Uses, approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixtythree. [Approved February 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: "Section 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Vacancies. Powers of CHAP. XXV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create a Board of Supervisors in the Counties of this State, and to define their duties and powers, passed March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and other Acts amendatory thereof. [Approved February 27, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section twenty of the above entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 20. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in, or the qualified electors of the county or township shall fail to elect to, any county or township office, other than the office of County Judge or Supervisor, the Board of Supervisors shall, at any meeting of the Board, appoint some suitable person, an elector of the county or township, to fill the vacancy until the election and qualification of a successor. No appointment shall be made except upon petition, signed by not less than thirty of the qualified electors of the county, if for a county office, or by not less than fifteen of the qualified electors of the township, if for a township office. SEC. 2. Any person so appointed shall have and exercise the appointees. same powers, authority, and jurisdiction, as though elected by the qualified electors of the county or township; provided, that none of the provisions of this Act relating to the filling of a vacancy in a township office shall be so construed as to apply to any county that may have adopted, or that may hereafter adopt, the provisions of an Act entitled an Act to organize townships, and regulate their powers and duties, and submit the same to vote of the people, passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XXVI.-An Act empowering the Board of Supervisors in the several Counties in this State to authorize the removal of Human Remains. [Approved March 2, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors in the several counties of this State are hereby empowered to grant permissions for the removal of the remains of deceased persons in their respective counties, on the petition of twenty or more citizens of said county, said petition fully setting forth the cause for such removal, the place from which such remains are to be removed, and the place where they are to be re-interred; provided, that the costs of such removal shall in no case become a county charge; and further, provided, notice of such petition be posted for ten days in three conspicuous places within the township where such removal is to be made. SEC. 2. This Act shall not apply to the City and County of San Francisco, and the City of Sacramento. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XXVII.-An Act creating a Current Expense Fund for the [Approved March 2, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and pense Fund. SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Mono County are Current Exhereby authorized and required to appropriate and set apart as a separate Fund, to pay the current expenses of said Mono County, all county revenues collected from the following sources within said county, to-wit: All revenues received from merchandise and liquor licenses, peddlers' licenses, billiard licenses, broker, theatre, circus, and auctioneer's licenses, all fines and forfeitures, all poll taxes, and when so set apart as a separate and distinct Fund, shall be known as the Fund for Current Expenses, out of which the expenses of said Mono County shall be paid in cash; provided, however, that the first moneys accruing Proviso. to said Current Expense Fund shall be applied to the payment of certain demands, amounting to about five hundred and fifty dollars, already accrued against said county, on account of items enumerated in the following section. SEC. 2. The Current Expense Fund is hereby created to defray the expenses of stationery, blank books, fuel, and lights, printing, office rent for County Clerk and District Attorney, Court House rent and repairs, board and clothing of prisoners. SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of Mono County shall be Special tax. further authorized and empowered to levy a special tax, at any time before the first Monday in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and every year thereafter, said tax not to exceed the sum of twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in said county, for the purpose of creating a Current Expense Fund in payment of expenses as enumerated in section second of this Act; provided, however, that the first Proviso. moneys accruing to said Current Expense Fund from said special tax, shall be placed to the credit of the General Fund of said Mono County at the end of every fiscal year, to the amount of revenue collected and placed in the Current Expense Fund from the sources mentioned in section first of this Act. SEC. 4. The tax thus levied shall be collected in the same Collection manner as provided by law for the collection of taxes for State of tax. and county purposes, and when so collected, shall be paid in to the credit of the Current Expense Fund, and at the end of each fiscal year, any sum remaining in the Current Expense Fund upon which no order shall have been allowed, shall revert to the General Fund, and be placed to the credit thereof. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XXVIII.-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of [Approved March 2, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Tulare County are hereby authorized to annul any bond or bonds which may have been executed to Tulare County for the purpose of securing the principal and interest due on Township School Lands in said county; provided, said Board shall in no case refund any money which may have been paid on said bonds. SEC. 2. All persons desiring the benefit of the provisions of this Act, shall file his or their petition, in writing, with the Clerk of said Board of Supervisors, setting forth that all claim to the land described therein, and all claim for money paid as principal or interest thereon, is by him or them abandoned. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Supervisors to levy CHAP. XXIX.-An Act to authorize and require the Boards of Supervisors of the Counties of Napa and Lake, respectively, to levy a special Tax, for the purpose of improving and repairing the Public Highway connecting Napa City and Lakeport. [Approved March 3, 1863.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Boards of Supervisors of the Counties of special tax. Napa and Lake, are hereby authorized and required, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, respectively, to levy a special tax, for the purpose of improving and repairing the public highway connecting Napa City and Lakeport, which passes through Chiles Cañon, in Napa County, and Butts Cañon, in Lake County; which tax shall be, in Napa County, fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars, and in the County of Lake, fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars, of the taxable property in each of said counties, and shall be levied and collected at the time and in the manner of levying and collecting taxes for State and county purposes; provided, that the amount raised in each of said counties shall be appropriated exclusively within the county in which it shall be raised, and upon said highway, and no other. SEC. 2. The money raised by virtue of this Act shall be ap- Disposition propriated in pursuance of contracts made in conformity to an of moneys. Act to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and protection of public and private roads, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the proper officers of Napa County and Lake County shall, within three months from the passage of this Act, make contracts for the improvement and repair of that portion of said public road within the limits of their respective counties, lying between Pope Valley, in Napa County, and Coyote Valley, in Lake County, on the route that passes through Butts Cañon. SEC. 3. The Boards of Supervisors of the Counties of Napa Powers of and Lake, respectively, shall have the power hereafter to levy Supervisors an annual tax, not exceeding ten cents on the hundred dollars, to improve and repair said public highways connecting Napa City and Lakeport. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. XXX.-An Act to provide the manner of drawing, summon- The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and give notice. SECTION 1. When, at any time before the session of a Court County in the County of Tuolumne, authorized by law to inquire into Judge to public offences by the intervention of a Grand Jury, it shall appear necessary to the presiding Judge of said Court that a Grand Jury should be summoned, or when a petition, signed by twenty or more electors of said county, asking that a Grand Jury should be summoned, shall be presented to said Judge, he shall, in writing, give notice to the County Clerk of said county that such jury is required. Duty of County SEC. 2. Upon the receipt of the notice, as mentioned in the last section, by the County Clerk, he shall post a notice upon Cork and the Court House door of said county, specifying the time and Supervisors place of such drawing, and said notice shall be posted at least one week before the time of drawing. The County Clerk shall also notify the President of the Board of Supervisors, who shall call together the Board upon the day of drawing; provided, that such day of drawing does not come upon one of the regular days of meeting of said Board. On the day of drawing, the Board of Supervisors shall meet, and proceed to copy, from the assessment rolls of the different revenue districts of said county, the names of such persons as they shall deem suitable for Jurors, not less than twenty from the assessment roll of each revenue district. Said names shall be copied upon separate slips or pieces of paper, and shall be placed in a box prepared for the purpose |