California Statutes, 1861, p. 238 Chap. CCXXXIV. - An Act to authorize Giles BEWEL to remove the remains of Deceased Persons in the Town of Michigan Bluff, Placer County. [Approved April 24, 1861.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Giles BEWEL, of Placer County, is hereby authorized and empowered to remove, or cause to be removed, all of the remains of deceased persons interred in the "Old Grave Yard," in the town of Michigan Bluff, in said county, and to inter, or cause them to be interred, in the New Cemetery, near the Masonic Hall, in said town. Said BEWEL shall, within sixty days after the passage of this act, remove, or cause to be removed, all of said remains of deceased persons, and reinter, or cause them to be reinterred, in said New Cemetery, decently, and in good order; and he shall cause any and all tombstones, ornaments, and inscriptions, now on the graves of said remains, to be remove and re-erected in good order, on the new graves. Sec. 2. Whenever said BEWEL shall present to the Board of Supervisors of the county of Placer a certificate signed by a Justice of the Peace of Township Number Six, of said county, stating that he has well and faithfully performed all the duties required of him by section one of this act, they shall allow his claim against the county for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, for the removal of said remains, and the County Auditor shall draw a warrant on the Treasurer of said county in favor of said BEWEL, for the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, which shall be paid out of the General Fund of said county, in the same manner as other claims against the county. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage.