SEC. 114. Section four thousand three hundred and eighty-six of said Code is amended to read as follows: Mayor. Section Four Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty- Powers of six. The Mayor has power: First-To nominate, and with the consent of the Common Council, to appoint all non-elective officers of the city provided for by the Common Council, including City Attorney, Secretary of the Council, and City Treasurer. Second-To suspend, and with the consent of the Common Council, to remove any non-elected officer, stating in the suspension or removal the cause thereof. Third-To cause the ordinances of the city to be executed, and to supervise the discharge of official duty by all subordinate officers. Fourth-To communicate to the Common Council, at the beginning of every session, and oftener if deemed necessary, a statement of the affairs of the city, with such recommendations as he may deem proper. Fifth-To recommend to the Common Council such measures connected with the public health, cleanliness, and ornament of the city, and the improvement of the government and finances, as he deems expedient. Sixth-To approve all ordinances of the Common Council adopted by it, and in case the same do not meet his approbation, to return the same, with his objections, within five days after he receives the same. SEC. 115. The following is added as a new section to said Code, and must be inserted in said Code after section four thousand four hundred and fifty-six, and designated as section four thousand four hundred and fifty-seven: to levees, Section Four Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty- Damages seven. The provisions of this Title and Chapter are applicable to cases where the levees and other works ete, by mobs. Repealed. Limitations. of reclamation of any district are injured or destroyed by mobs or riots; and the actions brought for damages therefor must be prosecuted by the Attorney General of the State in the name of the people of the State of California, and the amount recovered in such actions must be paid to the Treasurer of the county, who must place the same to the credit of the district. SEC. 116. All provisions of law inconsistent with maintained the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed; but no rights acquired or proceedings taken under the provisions repealed shall be impaired or in any manner affected by this repeal; and whenever a limitation or period of time prescribed by such repealed provisions for acquiring a right or barring a remedy, or for any other purpose, has begun to run before this Act takes effect, and the same or any other limitation is prescribed by this Act, the time which shall have run when this Act takes effect shall be deemed part of the time prescribed by this Act. Construction of Act. To take effect. SEC. 117. With relation to the laws passed at the present session of the Legislature, this Act must be construed as though it had been passed on the first day of the present session; and if any of the provisions of this Act contravene or are inconsistent with the provisions of any law passed at the present session of the Legislature, then the provisions of such law must prevail. SEC. 118. This Act shall take effect on the first Monday of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, except so much thereof as relates to immigration, and the authority and duties of the Commissioner of Immigration, and the enforcement of the duties and penalties therein prescribed, which shall take effect immediately after its enactment. [Chap. 610.] AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE HUNDRED AND [Approved February 4th, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. Section one hundred and sixty-two is hereby amended so as to read as follows: From the Legal distances, Section One Hundred and Sixty-two. county seat of Inyo County to Sacramento, four hun- Inyo. dred and sixty-five miles; to Stockton, four hundred and seventeen miles; to San Quentin, five hundred and forty-seven miles. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. [Chap. 61.] AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FIVE HUNDRED AND [Approved March 30th, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in Section five hundred and ninety-six of the Political and Section Five Hundred and Ninety-six. No person Insurance must transact insurance business in this State without certificates. first procuring from the Insurance Commissioner a certificate of authority, as in this Chapter provided, and all policies issued or renewed, and all insurances taken before obtaining such certificate of authority, are null and void; and any person issuing or renewing a policy without such certificate shall forfeit to the people of the State of California the sum of one hundred dollars for each policy so issued or renewed, to Same. be collected by the Insurance Commissioner in the manner prescribed in section five hundred and ninetyeight of this Code. But any company or corporation belonging to any other State or count[r]y, having policies of life insurance outstanding in this State, and that were issued in accordance with the laws of the State, shall have the right to maintain an agent in this State for the collection of renewal premiums on such policies, and the Commissioner is hereby authorized to issue to the duly appointed agent of such company or corporation a certificate authorizing him to collect such premiums. But the company or corporation must satisfy the Commissioner that it is authorized to transact insurance business in the State to which it belongs. The agent must, on or before the tenth day of January in each year, file with the Commissioner a statement, under oath, showing the gross amount of premiums collected by him during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding; and upon filing such statement he must pay into the office of the Commissioner the sum of twenty dollars, in gold coin of the United States. [Chap. 621.] Insurance insolvency. AN ACT TO AMEND THE POLITICAL CODE. [Approved March 30th, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. Section six hundred and two of the Section Six Hundred and Two. Whenever provision for the liabilities of any person engaged in the insurance business in this State for losses reported, expenses, taxes, and reinsurance of all outstanding risks estimated at fifty per cent of the premiums received Same. and receivable on all fire risks and marine time risks, at the full premiums received and receivable on all the marine risks, and at rates for life risks based upon the rates of mortality established by the American Experience Life Table, and interest at four and one half per cent per annum, and such rates for accident and other kinds of insurance as are accepted by the insurance authorities of the State of New York, would so far impair his capital stock paid in to reduce the same below two hundred thousand dollars in gold coin of the United States, or below sixty per cent of said capital stock paid in, such person is insolvent; and in the case of a person thus engaged in the insurance business in this State on the mutual plan, if his available cash assets shall not exceed his liabilities as hereinbefore enumerated, in the full sum of two hundred thousand dollars in United States gold coin, such person is insolvent. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on the second day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Chap. 668.] AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS SIX HUNDRED AND [Approved March 28th, 1874.] The People of the State of California, represented in SECTION 1. Section six hundred and sixteen of the Political Code of the State of California is amended so as to read as follows: Foreign Section Six Hundred and Sixteen. The Insurance insurance companies, conditions Commissioner must require, as a condition precedent precedent. |