AN ACT FOR THE BETTER REGULATION OF THE MINES AND GOVERNMENT OF FOREIGN MINERS.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 451, 21 August 1850, Page 4

AN ACT FOR THE BETTER REGULATION OF THE MINES AND GOVERNMENT OF FOREIGN MINERS.

The People of the Stale of California, presented in Sena/c and Assembly, do enact as follows :— Sec. 1, No person >vho is not a native or naturalized citizen of the United Stales, or who may Rot have Ixcotnc a ntizen under the treaty of Guaduloupe Hidnlgo. (all the native Cahlornian Indians excepted,) •hall he permitted to mine in any part of this State, without having first obUined a license so to do ncdi* di q o the poviaions of this Act. Sei\ 2. The governor shall appoint a Collector of li'ernes to foieign miners for each of the mining counties, unrl for the county of San Francisco, who, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath lequtred by the Constitution, und shall give his bond to the State with at least two i>ood and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of his offiml duties, which bond shall be approved by the Governor and filled in the office of the Secretary ot State. Sec. 3. Each Collector of licenses to foreign miners shall be commissioned by the Governor. Sec. 4, It ehali be the duty of the Comptroller to cause to be pnnteJ or engraved a sufficient number of licenses, which shall be numbered consecutively, and shall l;e in form following, to wit. '•Number , (Date.) A. 8., a citizen °f > age years, complexion is hereby licensed to work in the mtaes of California for Mic period of thirty days." The Comptroller shall countersign each of such lirentes, and shall transfer them to the Treaiurer, keeping an account of the number so transferred. Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall sign ar d deliver to Collcc lei-K of licenses to foreign miners to many of ihe licenses mentioned in the preceding Section as he shall deem proper, and shall take his receipt for the same and charge him therewith. Such collector and his sureties shall be liiible upon his bond f,>r the number so furnished him, eilher for their leturn or the amount for which they may ba sod; and the moneys collected, as hoiein provided hhall be paid into the treasury as prescribed in tins Act. Sec. 6. Every person required by the first section of tins Act to obtain a license, to mine, shall apply to the Collec tor of licenses to foreign miners and take license to mine, for which he shall pay the sum of twenty dollars per month ; and such foieigners may fi.nn tune to time take out a new license, at the same rak-pei month, until the Governor shall issue his pro]>n)i Initiation announcing the passnge of a law b, Con- ' giess, iemulating the mines of precious nietdls in this & ate. Stc. 7. if any such foreigner or foreigners shall refuse or neglect to take out such license by the second Monday U May next, it shall be the duty of the CotIce or of licences to foreign miners ol the county in which such foreign or foreigners shall be, to furnish his or their names to the Sheriff of the county, or to any Deputy Sheiiff, who3e duty it shall he to summon a posse of Aiuencau onions, and if necessary, forcbly prevent him or them from continuing sn_h miuin"opeiations. Sec. 8. Should such foreigner or foreigners, after having been Btopped by a Sheriff or Deputy Sheiiff from mining in one place,seek anew location andcon» tinue nich mining operations, it shall be deemed a misdVamour lor which such offender or offenders shall be at tested as tor a miNdemeanouv and he or they shall be imprisoned fora term not exceeding three months, and fined not more than one thousand dollars. Sec. f). Any foreigner who may obtain a license in cnnfoimity with the provisions of this Act, shall be a'lowed lo woik the mines anywhere m this State, unilei thfc same regulations us citizens of the United Stitcs. Sen. 10. It shall be the duty of each collector of licnses to foreign miners to keep a full and complete rerisrer of the name* and desciiption of ull foreignirt ttiUen out licenses, and a synopsis of all s»uch licenses, to be returned to the Treasurer. Sec. 11. tuch licunse, when soil, shall be endo s-d by the colhclor selling or issuing the same, and slull It • in no cisc tmnhternble ; and the collector may retain out of the money received tor each lieeme, the sum ot three dollais, which shall be the lull amuunt or' hi'-i compt-nb&tion. Sic 12. Each collector of licenses to foreign miners <.h ill, once in every two months, and oftencr, if called upon by the Treasurer, p.ocecd to the seat of govern-

inent, RptHe with the Treasurer, pay over to tho officer nil money; collected liom fr'ivi»;nrMS not before paid over, and account with him foi tha unsold licenses remaining in his hands. Sec. LJ. If any colic tor ■'hull uc^lect or refuse lo do Irs duly j.\ herein provided, it shili be thf 1 duly of the Coniptiol'er, upon receiving a notice thin'i.f fiotn the Tienswioi, to i^ive information theieof to tin 1 District Attorney tn whose district the Raid oflieev may havj been appointed, who shall bung an action ouninst such collector and his sureties upon his bond, bifuie any couit of compp'ent jurisdiction ; and upon lecoverv hail theie 'U, thesiid District Attorney shall receive for his seiviop ten per cent* upon the amount '■ollected, the balance to he paid by him into the Ueasury in the manner piovided by law foi like payments Sec. Hl.H 1 . It shall be the duty oi the Governor, so soon as he ahull have beet) officially informed of the passage of a law by the United States Congress, assuming the control of the mines of the State, to isme hii proclamation, requiring all collcetoi<? of licenses to foreign miners to stop the issuing ot hcenaeacs. Sec. 13. U bhall be the duty of the Governor of State, immedidte'y after the pas^e of this Act, to hnve tw j thousands copies each, in EnclMi and Spanish, printed and sent to the mining distiicts tor circulation among the miners, and also to have the 6ame. published for thiiiy d.iys' in the Pacific Newt at San Francisco and in some newspapers at bacrauiento City and at Stockton, John Bigi.bu, Speaker of the Assembly. John McDougal, Lieut. Go- ernor anil Piesideut of the Seua'.e. Approved, Apul 13th, 1830. Petkr H. Burnett.

Office of Secretary of Slate, San Jose, April 13th 1850. I hereby certify that the fore^oinp: is a true copy of an original Act, now on file in this office. W. Van Voorhies, Secretary of State.

Emigration to Calitornia — The Anzc'tgcr da Westens, a Get man paper printed at St. Louis says that a Hannibal paper says, that this spring; two hnndivd emigrants will leave Marion county for California. One hundred and fifty wijl go from Monroe counly, one hundred fiom Halls, and a like number from Shelby, Lewis, and Kuox counties. The Paris Met cur?/ remarks, however, that the number emiq;ritin<; from Monroe will be nearer three hundred than one him died and fifty. At this rate, it will be a low estimate to suppose that six or seven thousand emigrant!, will leave Musouri alone, in the course o{ the next two or three months, for the El Do-ado of the Pacific. Well ! success atrei.d them ! May they get all the <,'ol«l they go to seek ! or if that would be too mm h, then enough to make them comfortable. — Alta California.