River to the place of beginning. The said lands embraced within said boundaries are declared to be Reclamation District Number Fifty-four of this State, and the said district, and the land owners therein, shall have the same power and authority as may from time to time be lawfully exercised by any reclamation district, and the land owners thereof, under the Political Code of this State. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCXLVIII.-An Act to establish Reclamation District Number Two Hundred and Fifty-two of this State, in Sacramento County. [Approved March 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: district SECTION 1. That part of Sherman Island, in the County Reclamation of Sacramento, embraced within the following boundaries, declared. to wit: Commencing at a point on the Sacramento River at the intersection of the west line of section thirty-two, in township three north, range two east, with said river; running thence south on said line to the center of Mayberry Slough; thence up and along the center of Mayberry Slough to the natural head thereof; thence in a northwesterly direction to a stake on the bank of the Sacramento River, established by the County Surveyor of said county, and marked "fifty;" thence down the Sacramento River to the place of beginning, is hereby constituted and declared to be a reclamation district of said State, to be known and designated as Reclamation District Number Two Hundred and Fifty-two. district. SEC. 2. The lands embraced within said boundaries, and Name and the owners thereof, shall hereafter, for all purposes of recla- ctf mation and of the protection of said lands from overflow by water, be a body politic and corporate under the name of Reclamation District Two Hundred and Fifty-two, under which name it may contract, sue and be sued, and possess, exercise, and enjoy all the powers which are now possessed or which may hereafter be possessed by any reclamation district formed under the general laws of this State. The duties and powers of the Trustees of said district shall be the same as are from time to time prescribed and conferred by the Political Code of this State on the Trustees of other reclamation districts. SEC. 3. The land owners of said district may, from time to time, adopt and amend by-laws for their government, in the manner prescribed in the Political Code. SEC. 4. A. J. Bigelow, P. H. Boggs, and S. C. Hastings, Trustees are hereby appointed and declared to be the Trustees of said appointed. district. They shall hold their offices until the second Wednesday in January, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and Trustees may allow until their successors are elected and qualified. On the second Wednesday in every month of January, the land owners in said district shall, in the manner provided in their by-laws, elect three Trustees for the government of the district and the management of its affairs. SEC. 5. The Trustees of said district, in case they should certain com- use for the purposes of reclamation any work heretofore pensation. done, viz., since the fourteenth day of August, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for which no payment has been made, may, in their discretion, allow to the person who has done such work a fair and just compensation therefor, to be paid for it in the same manner as other work done for the district. SEC. 6. Except as herein otherwise provided, said district and its officers shall be controlled by the Political Code of this State, and shall possess all the powers given by that Code to other reclamation districts and their officers. SEC. 7. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Certain ratified. CHAP. CCCXLIX.-An Act to ratify and confirm certain proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tehama, in and about the construction of a bridge across the Sacramento River. [Approved March 25, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That all orders, resolutions, notices, adverorders, etc., tisements, contracts, and proceedings, of every nature and kind whatsoever, of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Tehama, touching the erection, construction, and maintenance of a bridge across the Sacramento River, at the Town of Red Bluff, in said county, are hereby in all things ratified and confirmed as of the date when said several orders, resolutions, notices, advertisements, contracts, and proceedings were made or declared by said Board of Supervisors. Warrants SEC. 2. That all warrants issued by and under the direcmade good. tion of said Board of Supervisors of Tehama County for the erection or construction of said bridge across the Sacramento River, or any part thereof, are hereby made good and valid obligations against said county, and shall be paid by said county as provided in said warrants, and the Board of Supervisors of said county are hereby authorized and directed to levy and collect the tax provided for by its existing orders and resolutions in that behalf. Certain or SEC. 3. That the following orders and resolutions of said ders ratified. Board of Supervisors of Tehama County, to wit, of May third, May fourth, May twenty-second, May twenty-third, July sixth, July seventh, July eighth, August nineteenth, September seventh, September eighth, September ninth, October second, October third, November sixth, November fourteenth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and of May seventh, and October first, of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, are hereby in all things ratified and confirmed and made valid. SEC. 4. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. CCCL.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CCCLI.-An Act to create Hastings' College of the Law, in the University of the State of California. [Approved March 26, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That S. C. Hastings be authorized to found Authorizing and establish a Law College, to be forever known and desig-foundin nated as "Hastings' College of the Law." That the officers College. of said college shall be a Dean, Registrar, and eight (8) Directors. That the Directors shall be Joseph P. Hoge, W. W. Cope, Delos Lake, Saml. M. Wilson, O. P. Evans, Thos. B. Bishop, John R. Sharpstein, and Thos. I. Bergin, of the Bar Association of the City of San Francisco, who shall, when vacancies occur, fill the same from members of said Association or otherwise, and shall always provide for filling a vacancy with some heir or some representative of the said S. C. Hastings. That the Dean and Registrar shall be appointed by the Directors. University. SEC. 2. Said College shall affiliate with the University of Shall affilithe State, upon such terms as shall be for the welfare of the ate with College and University, and shall be the Law Department of the University. SEC. 3. The Faculty of the University shall grant diplomas to the students of the College, and the President shall sign and issue the diplomas. SEC. 4. There shall be set apart for the use of the students Room for of the College some room or suitable hall at the University, students. and the Board of Supervisors of the City of San Francisco is authorized to supply a suitable hall in the City of San Francisco for the students and Directors. SEC. 5. The Dean of said College shall be ex officio of the Faculty of the University, to be designated as such by the Directors of the College. SEC. 6. The diploma of the students shall entitle the stu- Diploma dent to whom it is issued to a license to practice in all the to practice. made license Condition. Business of College. Object of Courts of this State, subject to right of the Chief Justice of the State to order an examination, as is in ordinary cases of applicants without such diploma. SEC. 7. This Act is passed upon the condition that said S. C. Hastings shall pay into the State treasury the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and is never to be refunded except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 8. The sum of seven per cent. per annum upon one hundred ($100,000) thousand dollars is to be appropriated by the State and paid in two semi-annual payments to the Directors of the College. SEC. 9. The business of the College shall be to afford facilities for the acquisition of legal learning in all branches of the law, and to this end shall establish a curriculum of studies, and shall matriculate students who may reside at the University of the State as well as students residing in other parts of the State. SEC. 10. Professorships may be established in the name of any founder of such Professorships who shall pay to the Directors the sum of thirty ($30,000) thousand dollars. SEC. 11. All the business of the College shall be managed by the Directors without compensation, and all acting officers, including the Dean and Registrar, shall be appointed by the Directors and removed by them. SEC. 12. The Law Library Association, of the City of San Francisco, shall grant to the students the use of their library upon such terms and conditions as they may agree with the Directors of the College. SEC. 13. The object of this Act being to grant a perpetual annuity for the support and maintenance of said College, should the State, or any government which shall succeed it, fail to pay to the Directors of said College the sum of seven per cent. per annum, as above stipulated, or should the College cease to exist, then the State, or its successor, shall pay to the said S. C. Hastings, his heirs or legal representatives, the said sum of one hundred ($100,000) thousand dollars and all unexpended accumulated interest; provided, that such failure be not caused by mistake or accident, or omission of the Legislature to make the appropriation at any one session. SEC. 14. That the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State (or if there be no such judicial officer of the State or Government) shall be the President of the Board of Directors, five of whom shall be a quorum to transact all business. SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLII.-An Act to prevent the sale of oleomargarine under the name of and pretense that said commodity is butter. [Approved March 26, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and meanor. SECTION 1. Every person who sells, or keeps for sale, or Misdeoffers for sale, or otherwise disposes of any quantity of oleomargarine, under the name of, or under the pretense that the same is butter, or shall keep for sale, or manufacture any quantity of oleomargarine, without branding the same, or the package in which it is contained, with the word oleomargarine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before a Court of competent jurisdiction shall be punishable by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not less than fifty nor more than two hundred days, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLIII.-An Act to cure defects in the application of The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and to purchase confirmed. SECTION 1. The application of John D. Justice to pur- Application chase from the State of California the northeast quarter of section number sixteen, in township number sixteen south, of range number eight east, of Monte Diablo base and meridian, made in the State Surveyor-General's office, April twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and the issue of certificate of purchase thereon by the Register of the State Land Office, on the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, are hereby confirmed and made valid, and upon full payment of the purchase price and interest, as required by law, the title of said State in and to said land shall vest in said John D. Justice, his heirs or assigns. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. |