ACTS AMENDATORY OF THE POLITICAL CODE, PASSED AT THE TWENTIETH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. AN ACT TO AMEND THE POLITICAL CODE. [Approved March 30th, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. Section nine of the Political Code is amended to read as follows: tions, Section Nine. When a limitation or period of time Limitaprescribed in any existing statute for acquiring a right running of. or barring a remedy, or for any other purpose, has begun to run before this Code goes into effect, and the same or any limitation is prescribed in this Code, the time which has already run shall be deemed part of the time prescribed as such limitation by this Code. SEC. 2. Section eleven of said Code is amended to read as follows: Holidays. Words and terms defined. Section Eleven. If the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the fourth day of July, or the twenty-fifth day of December, fall upon a Sunday, the Monday following is a holiday. SEC. 3. Section seventeen of said Code is amended to read as follows: Section Seventeen. Words used in this Code in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the word "person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person; writing includes printing; oath includes affirmation or declaration; every mode of oral statement under oath or affirmation is embraced by the term "testify," and every written one in the term "depose;" signature or subscription includes mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, and witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness. The following words, also, have in this Code the signification attached to them in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context: One-The word "property" includes both real and personal property. [Two]-The words "real property" are coextensive with lands, tenements, and hereditaments. Three The words "personal property" include money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. Four-The word "month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. Five-The word "will" includes codicils. Six-The word "writ" signifies an order or precept in writing, issued in the name of the People, or of a Court or judicial officer; and the word "process," a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial pro- Same. ceedings. Seven-The word "vessel," when used in reference to shipping, includes ships of all kinds, steam boats and steamships, canal boats, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place. Eight-The term "peace officer" signifies any of the officers mentioned in section eight hundred and seventeen of the Penal Code. Nine-The term "magistrate" signifies any one of the officers mentioned in section eight hundred and eight of the Penal Code. Ten-The word "State," when applied to the dif ferent parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the Territories; and the words "United States" may include the District and Territories. SEC. 4. Section one hundred and ninety-four of said Code is amended to read as follows: distances, Section One Hundred and Ninety-four. From the Legal county seat of Sutter County to Sacramento, fifty Sutter. miles; to Stockton, ninety-five miles; to San Quentin, one hundred and eighty miles. SEC. 5. Section two hundred and thirty-six of said Code is amended to read as follows: of election. Section Two Hundred and Thirty-six. The certifi- Certificate cate of election is prima facie evidence of the right to membership. SEC. 6. Section six of said Code is amended to read as follows: office. Section Six. All persons who, at the time this Tenure of Code takes effect, hold office under any of the Acts repealed, continue to hold the same according to the tenure thereof, except those officers which are not continued by one of the Codes adopted at this session |