ACT 3769. Treasurer to transfer certain funds. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 270.] Superseded by subd. 18, sec. 25, County Government Act, 1897, 463. This act authorized the transfer from the swamp and overflowed fund to the general fund. ACT 3770. Regulating salary of treasurer of. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 183.] Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, 550, sec. 191, as amended 1901, 171. ACT 3771. Witness fees in. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 732.] Repealed 1875-6, 493. TITLE 459. ACT 3776. STANISLAUS RIVER. To establish, maintain, and protect a public ford across, and a public road to and from the same. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 283.] To define and establish a portion of the eastern boundary. ACT 3781. [Stats. 1901, p. 89.] In relation to costs in actions where state is a party. [Stats. 1852, p. 160.] Superseded by Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 1038. ACT 3782. To provide for the receipt and appropriation of donations to. [Stats. 1880, p. 20.] ACT 3783. Release of claim by to certain lands. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 948.] This act provided for the release of certain lands to the United States government. ACT 3784. Ceding to the United States jurisdiction over certain lands ceded to the United States. [Stats. 1891, p. 262.] ACT 3785. Giving consent of to reservation of certain lands by congress. [Stats. 1891, p. 107.] This act gave the consent of the state to the reservation of a certain tract by congress for a public park. ACT 3786. Expressing the assent of to the act of congress of August 30, 1890, to apply a portion of the proceeds from the públic lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of congress approved 1862. 1891, p. 458.] ACT 3787. [Stats. Appropriation to pay the claim of A. J. Bourn against the state for personal injuries received by him while in the service of the state. [Stats. 1891, p. 513.] Unconstitutional. ACT 3788. (Bourn v. Hart, 93 Cal. 321.) To authorize Robert C. Ball to sue the state. [Stats. 1891, p. 194.] ACT 3789. Enabling the Coulterville and Yosemite Turnpike Company to sue the state. [Stats. 1891, p. 275.] ACT 3790. Suit against state, authorizing certain persons to bring. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 680.] This act authorized Drury Melone, John Lord Love, and James J. Green to sue the state. ACT 3791. To authorize suits against the state, and regulating the procedure therein. [Stats. 1893, p. 57.] See Molineux v. State, 109 Cal. 378; Chapman v. State, 104 Cal. 690. This act appears in full in Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, p. 784. ACT 3792. An act authorizing suits against the state on claims or demands arising under an act of the legislature entitled "An act fixing a bounty on coyote scalps," approved March 31, 1891, and regulating the procedure therein. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 647.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The owners or holders of claims or demands against this state arising under the provisions of an act of the legislature entitled "An act fixing a bounty on coyote scalps," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may, within twelve months from the passage of this act, bring suit upon their said claims or demands in any superior court of this state, and prosecute the same to final judgment. The rules of practice in civil cases shall apply to such suits, except as herein otherwise provided, with the right of appeal to either party. Sec. 2. Service of summons in such suits shall be made on the attorney-general. It shall be the duty of the attorney-general to defend all such suits; and upon his written demand, made at or before the time of answering, the place of trial of any such suit must be changed to the county of Sacramento. Sec. 3. All costs in any suit brought hereunder shall be paid by the plaintiff in the action; and in case judgment therein be for the plaintiff, it shall be for the amount actually found due to the plaintiff, without interest thereon and without costs; and such judgment shall bear no interest after rendition. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the attorney-general to report to the legislature at its next ensuing session all final judgments recovered against the state hereunder, not theretofore reported. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 3793. An act to authorize suits against the state concerning certain real property, and regulating the procedure therein. [Approved March 8, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 111.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. All persons having or claiming title to the whole or to any part of the following described real property, to wit: The fractions in the east half of section nineteen and the west half of section twenty, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and south half of the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of section twenty and the southwest quarter of section twenty-one, being the land applied for and sold to A. H. Estell as a portion of the five-hundredthousand-acre grant; also, the fractional northwest and fractional northeast quarter of section twenty-eight, being the land applied for and sold to A. H. Estell as a portion of the ten-section grant; all being in township three south and range seven east, M. D. B. and M., Stanislaus County and state of California, and containing seven hundred and seventy-four and fifty-eight-hundredths acres: Are hereby authorized, on the terms and conditions herein contained, to bring suit against the state of California in any court of competent jurisdiction in said state to quiet title to said land or to any portion thereof, and to prosecute the same to final judgment. The rules of practice in civil cases relating to suits to quiet title shall apply to such suits as may be brought under this authorization, except as herein otherwise provided. Sec. 2. Any such suit to quiet title shall be commenced within one year after this act takes effect. Sec. 3. At the time of filing the complaint in any such suit, the plaintiff shall file therewith an undertaking, in such sum, not less than five hundred dollars, as a judge of the court shall fix, with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the judge of the court, and conditioned that, in case the plaintiff fails to recover judgment quieting the title of such plaintiff, he will pay all costs incurred by the state in such suit, including a reasonable counsel fee to be fixed by the court. Sec. 4. Service of summons in such suit shall be made on the governor and attorney-general. It shall be the duty of the attorney-general to defend all such suits. Sec. 5. A certified copy of any decree rendered in any such action quieting title may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of Stanislaus County and shall there after have the same effect as if such decree had been made in the superior court of said Stanislaus County. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. To provide for analyzing the minerals, mineral waters and other liquids and the medicinal plants of the state of California and of foods and drugs to prevent the adulteration of the same. [Stats. 1885, p. 43.] In full in Appendix to Political Code, p. 1111. To provide for permanent location of seat of government at Sacramento. [Stats. 1854, p. 21.] Superseded by constitution, art. XX, sec. 1. ACT 3805. Authorizing issuance of state bonds for. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 694.] This act authorized the issuance of bonds to the amount of $250,000. ACT 3806. Employees at. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 937.] Amended 1880, 107; 1889, 449. TITLE 463. ACT 3811. STATE ENGINEER. To provide a system of irrigation, promote rapid drainage, and improve the navigation of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. [Stats. 1877-8, p. 634.] Amended 1889, 328, chap. CCXVIII, which renders the statute inoperative. This act created the office of state engineer. An act to select and adopt the "golden poppy" as the state flower of California. [Approved March 2, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 78.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The golden poppy (eschscholtzia) is hereby selected, designated, and adopted as the state flower of the state of California. Sec. 2. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. ACT 3821. TITLE 465. STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Distribution of reports of. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 55.] |