ACT 439. An act enabling the restoration of an assessment-roll when the same has been destroyed. §1. Wherever, through loss by fire, or other public calamity, the assessment-roll of a city, city and county, county or other political subdivision of the state in course of preparation by the assessor of any eity, city and county, county or other political subdivision of the state, shall have been or shall be destroyed and such burnt or destroyed record shall have been reconstructed from such data as is available, it shall be lawful for the assessor at any time prior to the sale for delinquent taxes after such assessment is compiled, to correct any assessment erroneously made, provided, however, that any correction so made shall at once be certified to in writing by the assessor, to the tax collector, the auditor and the state controller, and provided, further, that the assessor shall enter opposite said assessment on the assessment roll, the date and nature of said correction. Such change shall be recognized by any city, city and county, county or state official whose duty it is to make or exact a financial statement based on said assessment-roll, and in making such settlement any alterations resulting from such changes shall be recognized by such officials. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 440. An act to provide for the issuance of duplicates of bonds, warrants and other municipal securities which have become defaced or mutilated. [Approved February 23, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 53.1 Mutilated municipal bonds, duplicates may be issued. §1. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the legislative body of any county, city and county, city, town, irrigation district, school district or other municipal corporation, by clear and equivocal proof, that any bond, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness of said county, city and county, city, town, irrigation district, school district, or other municipal corporation has, without bad faith upon the part of the owner, been so mutilated or defaced as to impair its value to the owner, and such instrument is capable of being identified by number and description, such legislative body shall, under such regulations and with such restrictions as to time and retention for security or otherwise, as it may prescribe, and upon the conditions hereinafter provided, issue or cause to be issued a duplicate thereof, having the same time to run, bearing like interest, and having the same number as the evidence of indebtedness so proved to have been mutilated or defaced. Procedure to procure duplicates. §2. The owner of such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness desiring to have issued duplicates for the same shall make a written application therefor to the legislative body of such municipal corporation, setting forth the facts provided by section 1, and shall accompany such request with a deposit of such sum of money as shall be deemed sufficient by such legislative body to cover the cost of printing or litho graphing, or otherwise preparing such duplicate, and all other expenses connected with the issuance thereof, and if required by such legislative body, shall also file therewith a bond in such sum as may be required, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by such legislative body, with condition to indemnify and save harmless such municipal corporation from any claim upon such mutilated or defaced security. Duty of municipal legislature. Cancellation of original decision. §3. The legislative body of such municipal corporation shall thereupon pass a resolution, setting forth the fact of said application and the compliance with the conditions herein prescribed, and with such further conditions as shall have been required by said legislative body in accordance herewith, and directing the officer or officers who had charge, in the first instance, of causing to be printed, lithographed, or otherwise prepared the original bond, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness, to cause to be issued a duplicate thereof, as herein provided. Such duplicate bond, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness shall be signed by the same officers, and issued in all respects as nearly as possible as the original instrument, and when so prepared and issued shall be delivered in exchange for the original bond, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness, provided, that no exchange shall be made unless such defaced or mutilated bond, together with any coupons thereon for which duplicates shall be issued in accordance with this act, shall be capable of identification, and shall first be surrendered by the owner thereof. When surrendered, the legislative body of such municipal corporation shall cause proper record to be made of the cancellation of such original security, and thereafter the duplicate issued in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall have all the force, effect and validity of the original evidence of indebtedness. §4. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 441. An act providing for the issuance of duplicate certificates, where certificates issued under authority of law have been lost or destroyed by conflagration or other public calamity. [Approved June 16, 1906. Stats. 1906, p. 71.] §1. Whenever any public board or officer is authorized by law to issue any certificate of any kind, and the records in the office of such board or officer show the issuance of such certificate, and it is made to appear by affidavit that such certificate has been lost or destroyed by conflagration or other public calamity, such board or officer may issue a duplicate of such certificate, which shall recite the issuance and loss or destruction of such original certificate, and shall have the same force and effect as such original certificate; provided, that this act shall not apply to certificates of acknowledgments. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 442. An act to provide for the copying of books, documents, maps or records required by law to be kept or preserved by city, county, or city and county officers, which have been damaged by conflagration or other public calamity. [Approved June 16, 1906. Stats. 1906, p. 72.] §1. Whenever any book, document, map or record required by law to be kept or preserved by any city, county, or city and county officer has been or may hereafter be damaged by conflagration or other publie calamity, it shall be lawful for the board of supervisors, or board of trustees, of the city, county, or city and county in which the same is required to be kept or preserved, to cause such book, document, map or record to be copied and transcribed into a new and well-bound book. §2. Said book, document, map, or record, when so copied or transeribed, shall be carefully compared with the original thereof, and when the same shall have been so copied and compared with the original thereof, the persons who have done such comparing shall each make an affi davit which shall be incorporated into the book, document, map or record as copied, that said book, document, map or record and each and every part thereof is a true copy of the original book, document, map or record, and each and every part thereof; that the matter of record which appears upon every page of the original appears also upon the same page of the copy; and that no matter of record appears upon any page of the copy which is not to be found upon the same page of the original. Said book, document, map or record shall also be authenticated under the hand of the officer having the custody thereof, to the effect that the same is a true copy of the original book, document, map or record so damaged. § 3. Any such new book, document, map or record copied and authentieated as above provided, shall be prima facie evidence of the contents of the original book, document, map or record; and it shall bear the same name and designation as the original thereof, and certified copies of any instrument so copied into it shall have the same force and effect as certified copies of the original made from the original book. § 4. The board of supervisors or board of trustees of such city, eounty, or city and county, may make such provision for the payment for ecpying and transcribing the books, documents, maps and records under this act, out of the city, county, or city and county treasury, as to them may seem reasonable, not exceeding the amount now authorized to be received for copying and recording the originals thereof, and the same ahall be a charge against the city, county, or city and county. § 5. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 445. TITLE 67. Protection of agriculture in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 310.] This act provided against the trespassing of animals. АСТ 446. Concerning salary of county assessor of. ACT 447. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 270.] 523, § 171. Relating to salary of treasurer and auditor of. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 709.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 523, § 171. ACT 448. Defining a lawful and partition fence in. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 700.] ACT 449. To prevent hunting of game within certain private grounds in. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 477.] ACT 450. Providing for the payment of fees for witnesses and jurors. 1871-72, p. 233.] [Stats. Amended 1878-74, p. 508. Repealed by fee bill, 1895, p. 278, fixing jurors' and witnesses' fees. ACT 451. To regulate fees of justices in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 683.] ACT 452. To provide for the appointment of two additional notaries public for Butte county. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 36.] Superseded by Political Code, § 791. ACT 453. Salaries and compensation of officers. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 733.] Amended 1875-76, pp. 753, 906; 1877-78, p. 248. Superseded by the County Government Act: Lynch v. Butte County, 102 Cal. 448. ACT 454. Authorizing transcribing records in. [Stats. 1859, p. 119.] ACT 455. Authorizing and empowering the recorder of Butte county to make copies of certain records. [Stats. 1858, p. 108.] ACT 456. Concerning roads in. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 322.] Amended 1871-72, p. 693. Repealed 1883, p. 5, c. X, § 2. Roads and highways in. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 752.] Amended 1877-78, p. 18. "Repealed by 1883, p. 5, c. X, § 2; also by Political Code, § 2652, as amended 1891, p. 478, and County Government Act, 1897, p. 452."-Code Commissioners' Note. ACT 459. Roads and highways in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 402.] Repealed 1883, p. 5, c. X, § 2. ACT 460. Sheriff to collect licenses, and fixing salary therefor. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 287.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 473, § 55. ACT 461. Sheriff, act concerning, and fixing his compensation. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 567.] ACT 462. ACT 463. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 170.] 523, § 171. Treasurer of, to transfer certain funds. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 355.] Superseded by 1897, subd. 18, § 25, p. 463. This act authorized the transfer of swamp land funds to the general fund. ACT 464. Los Angeles, Sutter, and Butte counties, treasuries of, better protection of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 365.] Supplemented and amended 1875-76, p. 637, exempting Sutter County. This act provided for the examination and counting of the funds. ACT 467. TITLE 68. An act requiring the marking of packages of butter containing less than six pounds and more than one-half pound so as to advise the pur |