Time of assessing. CHAPTER LXVIII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act changing the time of assessing the value of real and personal property, and collecting the taxes levied thereon for State and County purposes, in the County of Sierra, approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved February 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The County Assessor of Sierra County shall assess all the real and personal property in said county, between the first Monday in March and the first Monday in July of each year. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Guardian CHAPTER LXIX. An Act to authorize the guardian of Victoriano Guerraro to sell certain real estate at private sale. [Became a law by operation of the Constitution, February 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The guardian of Victoriano Guerraro, minor child. authorized. of Francisco Guerraro, deceased, or any guardian that may hereafter be duly appointed for said minor, is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, at private sale, the following described piece or parcel of real estate belonging to the said minor, to wit: all that certain lot or parcel of land situate in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, near the Mission Dolores, called and known as "Las Manzanitas," upon such terms as to the said guardian may seem most advantageous to the interest of said minor, it appearing that a necessity for such sale exists, which is not provided for by the general laws of this State. Sale submit bate Court. SEC. 2. No such sale or sales shall be valid until the same ted to Pro- shall have been submitted to and approved by the Probate Judge of the City and County of San Francisco; and upon such sale, before the execution of conveyance, the said guardian shall file in the Probate Court of the said city and county such bond as said Judge may require, conditioned for the due and proper application of the proceeds arising from such sale. File bond, if required. SEC. 3. The said guardian, upon any such sale or sales being made and approved, and upon the filing of the bond, as hereinbefore provided, if any such bond shall have been required, may make, execute and deliver good and sufficient deed or deeds for the conveyance of the premises sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, which shall operate to convey the interest of the said minor to the premises in the same manner and to the same effect as if the said minor had executed, acknowledged and delivered such deed or deeds when of competent age and discretion for that purpose. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted), and the Secretary of State. CHAPTER LXX. An Act to limit the Hours of Labor: [Approved February 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Eight hours labor shall be deemed and held to be Day's labor. a legal day's work, in all cases within this State, unless otherwise expressly stipulated between the parties concerned. SEC. 2. Eight hours labor shall constitute a legal day's work in all cases where the same is performed under the authority of any law of this State, or under the direction, control, or by the authority of any officer of this State acting in his official capacity, or under the direction, control, or by the authority of any county or municipal government within this State, or of any officer thereof acting as such; and a stipulation to that effect shall be made a part of all contracts to which the State or any county or municipal government therein shall be a party. dren. SEC. 3. Any person or persons having in his, her or their Minor chilemploy, or under his, her or their control, any minor child or children, either as wards or apprentices, who shall require of such minor child or children more than eight hours labor in one day, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic- Penalty for tion thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dol- overworklars nor more than one hundred dollars; and in default of payment thereof shall be imprisoned in the County Jail for a period not less than two days, nor more than twenty days. ing. SEC. 4. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to agri- Proviso. cultural, vinicultural or horticultural labor, or to the services of household or domestic servants, nor to any contracts already made but not yet performed. SEC. 5. An Act entitled an Act to limit the hours of labor, approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, is hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect sixty days after its passage. Compensation. CHAPTER LXXI. An Act to define the compensation of the Superintendent of Common [Approved February 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The compensation of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the County of Lake shall be allowed and paid according to the twenty-sixth section of the Act entitled an Act to provide for a system of common schools, approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall be in force from its passage. Additional tax. CHAPTER LXXII. An Act in relation to the Public Schools in the City of Sacramento. [Approved February 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In addition to the school tax now provided to be raised annually in the City of Sacramento for common school purposes, there shall be levied and raised in said city, for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, a special school tax for building purposes, of ten cents on each one hundred dollars, for each of said years. Said tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other city taxes are levied and collected; provided, that if the taxes for eighteen hundred and sixty-eight shall have been levied before the passage of this Act, then it shall be the duty of the City Auditor to add to the levy of that year an amount equal to the aforesaid tax of ten cents on each one hundred dollars, and the same shall be collected at the same time with the other city taxes. All the moneys authorized to be raised City School under the provisions of this section shall be paid into the City School Fund, and be subject to the orders of the Board of Education, the same as the other moneys now paid into said Fund. Provided, that no taxes shall be levied or collected under the provisions of this Act unless a majority of the qualified electors of the City of Sacramento voting thereon at the election for City Trustee, to be held in said city in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall vote in favor of levying said taxes. Fund. Election. SEC. 2. On the day provided by law for the election of City Trustee and other city officers, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the electors shall vote, "Special school tax of ten cents on the one hundred dollars-Yes;" or, "Special school tax of ten cents on the one hundred dollars-No;" and if a majority voting on said question vote "Yes," then the provisions of section one of this Act shall be in full force and effect; but if a majority of those voting on the proposition vote "No," then no further proceedings shall be had under this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXXIII. An Act to provide for obtaining correct statements of the Financial Condition of the several Counties of this State. [Approved February 20, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Supervisors. SECTION 1. It is hereby made the duty of the Boards of Duties of Supervisors of the several counties of this State, at their first Boards of meeting in September of each year, to pass an order directing the Clerk of their respective Boards to present to said Board, at or before its first meeting in October thereafter, a statement showing as near as may be: First-The indebtedness of such county, funded and floating, Statement to stating the amount of each class, and the rate of interest borne contain. by such indebtedness, or any part thereof. Second-A concise description of all property owned by such county, with an approximate estimate of the value thereof, and the amount of cash in the County Treasury and in its several funds. Third-The value of the real estate and personal property in such county as shown by the last assessment roll, stating each separately, and the year it was so assessed. Fourth-The rate of taxation in said year in such county; and, Fifth-The amount of the taxes so assessed, stating the portion, if any, delinquent. SEC. 2. Each of said Boards of Supervisors shall, immediately upon receiving the report provided for in the preceding section, cause the same, or a properly certified copy thereof, to be forwarded, by mail or express, to the Controller of State of the State of California. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Controller of State to Duty of Concause to be printed in circular form, by the State Printer, a suf- troller. ficient number of copies of this Act, and to send by mail or express, on or before the first Monday in July of each year to the Boards of Supervisors of the several counties in this State, ten copies thereof, accompanied by such suggestions as he may deem proper; and the cost of said printing shall be audited by Report to the Controller of State, and allowed and paid in the same manner as provided by law for other printing. SEC. 4. The Controller of State shall include in his biennial reports to the Governor a digest and synopsis, in tabular form, of all reports received by him under the provisions of this Act, and shall name therein the counties, if any, which have failed to make the reports as herein provided; and the Governor shall transmit said report of the Controller of the State to the Legislature. Subscribe stock. CHAPTER LXXIV. An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Stanislaus to take and subscribe twenty-five thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating thereto, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved February 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Stanislaus to take and subscribe twenty-five thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company, and to provide for the payment of the same, and other matters relating thereto, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. District At ary Fund. CHAPTER LXXV. An Act to provide for the payment of the salary of the District Attorney of Shasta County. [Approved February 21, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Shasta County are torney's Sal- hereby authorized and required to annually, at their meeting in February, to transfer and set apart from the General Fund of said county fifteen hundred dollars for the purpose of creating a special fund, which shall be known as the " District Attorney's |