DISTRICT JUDGES. FIRST DISTRICT... FIFTH DISTRICT.. NINTH DISTRICT. FOURTEENTH DISTRICT. FIFTEENTH DISTRICT. SIXTEENTH DISTRICT. SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT. EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.. NINETEENTH DISTRICT.. TWENTIETH DISTRICT.... WALTER MURRAY .CHARLES F. LOTT .....S. B. MCKEE .ROBERT F. MORRISON ..SAMUEL A. BOOKER LEWIS RAMAGE .W. C. WALLACE .JOHN P. HAYNES A. M. ROSBOROUGH .....P. W. KEYSER ....A. C. ADAMS ...J. R. SHARPSTEIN ALEXANDER DEERING .T. B. REARDON .S. H. DWINELLE .THERON REED .Y. SEPULVEDA W. T. McNEALY .E. D. WHEELER ..DAVID BELDEN AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT, Adopted September 10, 1875. Rule II is hereby amended so as to read as follows: RULE IL 1. The appellant in a civil action shall, within forty days after the appeal is perfected, and the bill of exceptions and the statement on appeal (if there be any,) are settled, serve and file the printed transcript of the record, duly certified to be correct by the attorneys of the respective parties, or by the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken. 2. Written evidence of the service upon the adverse party of the transcript shall be filed therewith. 8. The time above limited may be extended by stipulation, but shall not be extended by the Court more than twenty days, and such extension of time shall be granted only upon good cause shown by affidavit. 4. On or before the calling of a cause for argument each party shall file with the clerk his printed Points and Authorities, together with a brief statement of such of the facts as are necessary to explain the points made. At the argument the Court may order briefs to be filed by counsel for the respective parties. When said order is made the briefs shall be printed and ten copies thereof shall be filed within twenty days after the order. In no case will the time for filing briefs be extended. Five days before the day on which a cause shall be set for hearing on the published Term Calendar, each party shall serve upon the other party or parties a printed copy of his Points and Authorities. 5. There shall also be filed a copy of the transcript and of the Points and Authorities and statement of facts for each of the Justices, the Reporter, the State Library, the San Francisco Law Library, and such other Library as may be authorized by law to receive the same. 6. In criminal actions the written transcript of the record shall be prepared and filed within thirty days after the appeal is taken. Rule III is hereby amended so as to read as follows: RULE III. If the transcript of the record be not filed within the time prescribed, the appeal may be dismissed on motion, upon notice given. If the transcript, though not filed within the time prescribed, be on file at the time the notice of the motion is given, that fact shall be a sufficient answer to the motion. Rule IV is hereby amended so as to read as follows: RULE IV. On a motion to dismiss an appeal, for a failure to file the transcript within the prescribed time, there shall be presented the certificate of the clerk below, under the seal of the Court, certifying the amount or character of the judgment or order appealed from, the date of its rendition, the fact and date of the filing of the notice of appeal, together with the fact and date of service thereof on the adverse party, and the character of the evidence by which said service appears, the fact and date of filing the undertaking on appeal, and that the same is in due form; the fact and time of the settlement of the bill of exceptions and the statement on appeal, if there be any, and also that the appellant has received a duly certified transcript, or that he has not requested the clerk to certify to a correct transcript of the record, or if he has made such request, that he has not paid the fees therefor, if the same have been demanded. On motion to dismiss the appeal on any other ground |