244 HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. 



officers for San Francisco, creating a marine hospital, 

 regulating quarantine at San Francisco, providing for 

 the inspection of steamboats ; subdividing the State 

 into counties, establishing county seats and providing 

 for the complete organization of all the counties ; or 

 ganizing the supreme court, providing for the early pub 

 lication of the laws, organizing district courts through 

 out the State, establishing a municipal court in San 

 Francisco, abolishing all laws in force in the State, ex 

 cept such as were passed by this Legislature, adopting 

 the common law, regulating the interest of money, 

 public ferries, notaries public, jails and jailers, 

 limited partnerships, roads and highways, public elec 

 tions, volunteer companies, wills, militia, liens of 

 mechanics and others, descents and distributions, bills 

 of exchange and promissory notes, constables, coro 

 ners, guardians, fraudulent conveyances and contracts, 

 the rights of husband and wife, incorporation of col 

 leges, marriages, auctioneers, government and protec 

 tion of the Indians, settlement of the estates of de 

 ceased persons, proceedings against debtor by attach 

 ment ; creating the office of State assayer, melter 

 and refiner of gold, to regulate Senatorial and As 

 sembly districts, prescribing the mode of maintaining 

 and defending possessory actions on lands belonging 

 to the United States ; to prevent the importation of 

 convicts ; for the better regulation of the mines and the 

 government of foreign miners, the national Washington 

 monument, pay of chaplain, the Pacific railway, and 

 concerning grants of land by the General Govern 

 ment to commissioned officers who served in the late 

 war with Mexico. 



Here we have all the machinery necessary for the full 

 regulation of a large, commercial, agricultural, manu- 



