09 February 2018

Selected Genealogical Abstracts from the California Statutes - 1855


1855 California Statutes


A copy of this publication can be found HERE.


NAME CHANGES

Chapter 1, pg 1
It shall be lawful for the "South Yuba Mining and Sacramento Canal Company" to change its name to "Nevada County and Sacramento Canal Company"

Chapter 4, pg 3
It shall be lawful for the person known as Frances Sophia Bowen to change her name to Frances Sophia Burgess and that of her son Charles French Bowen to Charles French Burgess

Chapter 12, pg 7
It shall be lawful for the person known as Caroline L. Ketcham to change her name to Caroline L. Pixley

Chapter 107, pg 130
It shall be lawful for the person named Joseph Wilson to change his name to Albert Calhoun Joseph

Chapter 117, pg 144
It shall be lawful for the person named Edwin Clark Patt to change his name to Edwin Patt Clark

Chapter 193, pg 245
It shall be lawful for Joseph S. Wallis and Sarah Wallis to change the name of their infant son Talbot Howard Green to Talbot Howard Wallis



PAYMENTS MADE BY THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Chapter 19, pg 14
$50 payment to William Coates and $50 payment to Samuel R. Wood for reporting the evidence in the contested election case between E. R. Galvin and Samuel McCurdy

Chapter 52, pg 60
$144 payment to Louis Bartlett for services rendered as Journal Clerk of the 4th Session of Legislature

Chapter 62, pg 73
$4671.17 payment to Knox and Farquharson

Chapter 63, pg 74
$1100 payment to Addison Martin

Chapter 64, pg 74
$18,420 payment to Abram T. Melvin

Chapter 65, pg 75
$1000 payment to Frank Denver for services rendered in making repairs on the State Capitol

Chapter 69, pg 78
$701 payment to Preston K. Woodside for services as Clerk of the Supreme Court

Chapter 83, pg 107
$54 payment to B. wing for services as Sergeant-at-Arms to State Prison Committee
$36 payment to W. H. Williamson for services as Sergeant-at-Arms to State Marine Hospital Committee

Chapter 84, pg 107
$9979.91 payment to B. B. Redding
$7733.14 payment to George Kerr

Chapter 111, pg 133
$197 payment to H. B. Paine

Chapter 123, pg 149
$360 payment to John F. Hayes

Chapter 135, pg 163
$845.60 payment to Jesse Sawyer for transportation services

Chapter 166, pg 209
$400 payment to Mrs. Sarah Staples, teacher of the Pioneer School in Tuolumne County

Chapter 201, pg 270
$2500 payment to William S. Jewett, Esq. for the purchase of a full length portrait of Major General John Augustus Sutter

Chapter 206, pg 273
$1333.33 payment to Mrs. Annie V. R. Wells, widow of Judge Alexander Wells


MISCELLANEOUS

Chapter 22, pg 15
David N. Darlinton and Isaiah Hanscom are authorized to construct a wharf at the foot of Georgia Street in Vallejo in the County of Solano

Chapter 46, pg 50
An Act to prohibit barbarous and noisy amusements on the Christian Sabbath

Chapter 67, pg 76
An Act to suppress houses of ill-fame

Chapter 209, pg 276
John J. Ellet is authorized to construct a canal at Belmont in the County of San Francisco

Chapter 223, pg 291
Isaac E. Davis and A. P. Jordan are authorized to construct a wharf at the foot of Fremont Street in the Town of Santa Cruz, Monterey County



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