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assessments, to collect a full and true statement of all the agricultural 

 and industrial pursuits and products of their several counties, districts, 

 and townships, for the preceding year, and such other information as 

 they may be required by the Surve^'or-Gcneral to collect, and-to i-ej)ort 

 the same to the office of the Surveyor-Genei-al, between the first day of 

 September and the first day of Xovember of each year, upon blanks to 

 ^be furnished by him. 



Sec. '2. The Board of Supervisors of the several counties of this State 

 are hereby directed to reserve in their final settlement with their County, 

 District, and Township Assessors, a sum equal to twenty-five per cent of 

 the amount allowed b}' the State for making his annual assessment, 

 until he shall furnish the certificate of the3urveyor-General that a satis- 

 faclorj" report, as provided in section one of this Act, has been received 

 at his office, which certificate shall in all cases be given when a satis- 

 factory rej)ort has been made. 



Sec. o. The Surveyor-General shall furnish to the Secretary of the 

 Board of Agriculture a duplicate copy of each statistical report of the 

 Assessors as soon as the same may be received by him. 



Sec. -i. The Surveyor-General shall forward a printed copy of this 

 Act to each of the Board of Supervisors of this State, and to each of the 

 Count}", Township, and .District Assessors. 



Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



AN ACT 



For the Encouragement of Agriculture and Ilanv/actures in California. 



[Approved April 25, 1SG3.] 



TJie Fcojile of t/m State of California., represented in Senate and Assemhli/j do 



enact as follows: 



Section 1. There shall be paid from anj^ money in the Treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated, to the producer claiming a premium by virtue 

 of the provisions of this Act, the following suras for each of the articles 

 herein enumerated, grown and manufactured in California: 



For the first one hundred bags of sugar, containing one hundred 

 pounds each, produced from sorghum, five hundred doJlars. For the 

 same quantit}' produced the next succeeding year, two hundred and fifty 

 dollars. For the same quantity produced the second succeeding 3'ear, 

 one hundred and fifty dollars. For the same quantity produced the 

 third succeeding vear, one hundred dollars. 



For the same quantity of sugar produced from sugar cane, the same 

 premiums, and upon the same conditions, shall be paid; and also for the 

 same quantit}'' produced from beet root, the same premium, upon the 

 same conditions. 



For the first two hundred barrels molasses manufactured from sorghum, 

 two hundred dollars. For the first two hundred barrels molasses man- 

 ufactured from sugar cane, five hundred dollars. 



For the first two hundred bales of flax of two hundi'ed pounds each, 

 one thousand dollars. For the same quantity produced in the first, sec- 



