Cal. Statutes, 1852, 84-87. The fee was raised to four dollars a month at the next session, and the act was further amended in 1855. (Ibid., 1853, 62-65; 1855, 216-217.) The receipts for 1854 were $100,557.92, and for 1855, $123,323.28. (Fankhauser, Financial History of California, 160.)
