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· 7/1/1861

People ex rel. Dunham v. Board of Supervisors of Placer County

Citations

  • 17 Cal. 411

Syllabus

<p>The seventy-fourth section of the General Revenue Act of 1860, as to the election of County Auditor in certain counties, and separating his duties from those of County Clerk, etc., does not repeal the Special Act of 1858, entitled “An Act to separate the offices of County Recorder, County Auditor, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Clerk of the Board of Equalization, from the office of County Clerk in the county of Placerand a person elected in the fall of 1860 as County Recorder for Placer county, under the Act of 1858, will hold in preference to a person elected at the same time as County Auditor, under . the Revenue Act of 1860.</p>

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  • it is generally held that abandonment must show a settled purpose to forgo all parental duties and claims

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