the Courts of the State may proceed and adjudicate upon said rights, and patents or other evidences of title may issue for the same to the parties entitled thereto under any existing laws of this State, the provisions of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation. Pay for services. Conditions. CHAPTER D. An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the preservation of the Spanish archives, title papers of land claims, and records relating thereto, in the custody of the United States Surveyor-General for California, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of eight thousand dollars in gold coin of the United States is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund, from any money not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the translation and engrossment of the Spanish archives, title papers of land claims, and records relating thereto, in the custody of the United States SurveyorGeneral for California, pursuant to an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; which money, so appropriated, shall be drawn and paid in the manner provided for in the sixth section of said Act; provided, that the compensation shall not exceed the rates hereinafter named, to wit: For engrossing English, fifteen cents per folio. For tracing the maps in a volume accompanying the espedientes in said office, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. And provided further, that the said sum so appropriated shall complete and place in the office of the Secretary of State true and faithful translations and copies, in the same manner as work heretofore performed, of all the said espedientes in said office, together with said volume of maps; and the better to secure this purpose, the Secretary of State shall withhold two thousand dollars of said appropriation until the whole of said work is completed. SEC. 2. Section three of said Act is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER DI. An Act supplementary to an Act to authorize certain parties to construct a wharf in the County of Solano, approved April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and wharf. SECTION 1. The Virginia Street Wharf Company are hereby May extend authorized to extend their wharf outward into Vallejo Bay to the depth of eighteen feet of water at low tide, with all the privileges and subject to the restrictions contained in the original Act of which this is supplementary; provided, said extension shall not exceed one hundred and fifty feet from the westerly end of said wharf as at present constructed. CHAPTER DII. An Act to aid in carrying out the provisions of an Act of Congress The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad Company Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of this designated. State, and whose articles of association were duly filed in the office of the Secretary of State on the eleventh day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby designated as the company to be vested with the rights, privileges, franchises and grants created and conferred by the Act passed by the Congress of the United States of America entitled an Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the City of Stockton to the Town of Copperopolis, in the State of California, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty seven. 85 Duties and Refusal to give state ment of property. CHAPTER DIII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide revenue for the support of the Government of this State, approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. All property of every kind, name and nature whatsoever within this State shall be subject to taxation. SEC. 2. Section thirteen of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. Between the first Monday in April and the first Monday in August in each year the County Assessor shall ascertain by diligent inquiry and examination all property in his county, real or personal, and also the names of all persons, corporations, associations, companies or firms owning, claiming or having the possession or control thereof; and he shall then determine the full cash value of all such property, and shall list and assess the same to the person, firm, corporation, association or company owning or having the possession, charge or control thereof. For the purpose of enabling the Assessor to make such assessment he shall demand from each person and firm, and from the President, Cashier, Treasurer or managing agent of each corporation, association or company within his county a statement, under oath or affirmation, of all the real estate and personal property within the county owned, claimed by, or in the possession or control of such person, firm, corporation, association or company; and if any portion of such personal property shall consist of United States bonds or an interest therein, then a further statement, showing that such bond or property therein then held, owned, claimed, possessed or in charge or control of such person, firm, corporation, association or company has not been exempted from taxation for the same fiscal year, and that no other person, firm, corporation, association or company has previously used the same bond, or any part thereof, to exempt property from taxation for the same fiscal year, giving, if demanded by the Assessor, the number and amount of such bond. If any person, officer or agent shall * neglect or refuse, on demand of the Assessor or his deputy, to give, under oath or affirmation, the statement required by this section, the Assessor shall make an estimate of the value of the property which [such] person, officer or agent neglected or refused to render under oath or affirmation, and the value so fixed by the Assessor shall not be reduced by the Board of Equalization. If the owner of any property not listed by another person shall be absent or unknown, the Assessor shall make an estimate of the value of such property. If the name of the absent owner is known to the Assessor, the property shall be assessed in his, her or their name; if unknown to the Assessor, the property shall be assessed to unknown owners. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER DIV. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to confer further power upon The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and [SECTION 1.] Section one of an Act entitled an Act to confer further powers upon the Governor of this State in relation to the pardon of criminals, approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, is amended to read as follows: sentence for vior. [Section 1.] The Board of State Prison Directors are hereby commutaauthorized and required to grant to every convict confined in the ton of State Prison of this State who shall well behave himself, and who good behashall perform regular labor during good health, either for the State authorities or in the employ of any contractor using convict labor by authority of the State, a credit of five days for each month of such regular work and good behavior during the first two years of his imprisonment. For such work and good behavior, an allowance shall be made of six days for each month of the third and fourth years; seven days for each month of the fifth and sixth year; of eight days of each month of the seventh and eighth year; of nine days for each month of the ninth and tenth years; and of ten days for each month after ten years. Such credit to be computed in favor of every such convict as a commutation of sentence, and to be deducted from entire term of penal servitude to which such convict shall have been sentenced; provided, that this rule of commutation shall be Forfeiture. so applied that any refusal to labor, breach of the prison rules, or other misconduct, shall work a forfeiture of the credits of time thus earned, or such part of it as the Board of State Prison Directors may determine. The power to declare such forfeiture shall rest in the Board of State Prison Directors alone, or a majority thereof; and time once forfeited shall not be restored, except by a majority of the Board of Directors in such case, and then only when circumstances shall order [render] such restoration urgently necessary. SEC. 2. This Act shall apply to all persons now imprisoned Act to apply in the State Prison, and the commutation herein provided for shall be computed from April fourth, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Repealed. CHAPTER DV. An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act relative to the Board of Supervisors of Amador County, defining their powers and duties, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act relative to the Board of Supervisors of Amador County, defining their powers and duties, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Rights granted. CHAPTER DVI. An Act to improve the navigation of the Sacramento and San Joaquin [Approved March 30, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The right is hereby given to the California Steam Navigation Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this State, to improve the navigation of the Sacramento River, its sloughs and tributaries, and the San Joaquin River, its sloughs and tributaries, by dredging, wingdamming, sidedamming, piling, and in any other manner which the said company may see fit to adopt; also, the right to remove snags and other obstructions from the said streams. The entire costs and expenses of improving the navigation of said streams and removing obstructions from the same shall be paid by said California Steam Navigation Company. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. |