The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Public welfare and present necessity in the several cities and towns in this state of the first, first and one half, second, and third classes, requiring that in such cities and towns there should be an official matron of the city or town jail or prison therein, the office of matron of the city or town jail or prison is hereby created in and for those several cities and towns in this state of the first, first and one half, second, and third classes, and concerning which there is now no provision of law for the office of, or prescribing the duties of, matron of the jail or prison of such city or town; and the duties and powers of such matron in such cases shall be as follows: She shall have free access at all reasonable times to the immediate presence of all female prisoners in the jail or prison of which she is the official matron, including the right of personal visitation and conversation with them; and, in all cases of searching the person of female prisoners therein, such matron exclusively shall make such search; and the matron shall, by example, advice and admonition employ her best abilities at all times to secure and promote the health, welfare and reformation of all such prisoners. The term of office of such matron shall be two years from her appointment and qualification and until her successor is appointed and qualified. Sec. 2. The legislative board or body of each such city or town, referred to in section one of this act, is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint, and to provide for the payment of the compensation of, a matron of the jail or prison in and for the city or town of which such board or body is the governing board or body, and to specify the conditions and fix the amount of the matron's official bond, to be approved by such board or body. Sec. 3. The compensation of such matrons, hereby regulated in proportion to the duties to be discharged, shall be as follows, payable monthly: In and for such cities of the first class, seventy-five dollars per month; in and for such cities of the first and one half class and of the second class, sixty-five dollars per month; in and for such cities of the third class, fifty dollars per month. Sec. 4. To further the carrying into effect of the authority herein conferred and in furtherance of the dis Gen. Laws-43. charge of the duties of such matrons, it is hereby enacted that no officer, deputy, policeman, constable, jailer, keeper, guard or person having charge or control of the jail or prison of any such city or town, referred to in section one of this act, shall refuse the matron, duly appointed and qualified hereunder, free access at all reasonable times to the immediate presence of all female prisoners therein, including the right of visitation and conversation with them, or in such jail or prison allow the searching of the person, in the case of a female prisoner, to be made except by such matron of such jail or prison, or obstruct the performance by such matron of her official duties in such jail or prison as those duties may be specified under the authority of this act or of law. Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. To prohibit prize-fighting. [Stats. 1893, p. 101.] ACT 2785. TITLE 377. PROBATE COURTS In relation to probate sales. [Stats. 1865-6, p. 824.] This act ratified void sales of real estate. unconstitutional in Pryor v. Downey, 50 Cal. 388. It was declared This act appears in full in Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, p. 780. ACT 2791. To declare valid writs, processes, and certificates issued by the superior courts and the clerks thereof, before the courts had been legally provided with seals. [Stats. 1880, p. 19.] This act appears in full in Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, D. 781. To prevent the placing, keeping, or leaving of married women in houses of prostitution. [Stats. 1891, p. 285.]. Cal.Rep.Cit. 116, 77. This act appears in full in the Penal Code, Appendix, p. 654. ACT 2797. To prevent compulsory prostitution of women, and the importation of Chinese or Japanese women for immoral purposes, and to provide penalties therefor. [Stats. 1893, p. 217.]. This act appears in full in the Penal Code, Appendix, p. 653. ACT 2802. TITLE 380. PROTECTION DISTRICTS. To protect lands not recognized as swamp lands, from overflow. [Stats. 1880, p. 55.] Amended 1889, 366. "Unconstitutional in some respects. (Hutson v. Protection District, 79 Cal. 90.) Probably superseded by 1895, 247."-Code Com missioners' note. This act provided for the formation of protection districts. ACT 2803. Providing for the dissolution and annulment of swamp and overflowed land reclamation and protection districts for non-user of corporate powers. [Stats. 1899, p. 13.] ACT 2804. An act to provide for the formation of protection districts in the various counties of this state, for the improvement and rectification of the channels of innavigable streams and water-courses, for the prevention of the overflow thereof, by widening, deepening, and straightening and otherwise improving the same, and to authorize the boards of supervisors to levy and collect assessments from the property benefited to pay the expenses of the same. [Approved March 27, 1895. Stats. 1895, p. 247.] Amended 1897, 219; 1903, 328. The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Whenever the board of supervisors of any county in this state may deem it proper to improve and rectify the channel of any innavigable stream or watercourse within the county, and to prevent the overflow of such stream by widening, deepening, or straightening its course, or by erecting levees or dikes upon its banks, the board may, upon a petition of ten property holders of the district to be affected by such improvements, pass a resolution signifying its intention to improve such innavigable stream or water-course, describing the exterior boundaries of the district of lands to be affected or benefited by such work or improvement, and to be assessed to pay the damages, cost, and expenses thereof, the character of work or improvement contemplated, and the place where the proposed work or improvement is to be done. Such resolution shall also contain a notice, to be published, which notice shall be headed "Notice of intention of the board of supervisors to form a protection district," and shall state the fact of the passage of such resolution, with the date thereof, and briefly, the work or improvement proposed, and the statement that it is proposed to assess all property affected or benefited by such improvement for the expenses thereof, and refer to the resolution for further particulars. Such notice to be given by the board of supervisors, and signed by its clerk. Sec. 2. Such notice shall be published for a period of thirty days, in one daily newspaper published and cir culated in such county, and designated by said board of supervisors; or if there is no daily newspaper so pub lished and circulated in said county, then by four succes sive insertions in a weekly or semi-weekly newspaper so published, circulated, and designated. Sec. 3. Any person interested, objecting to such work or improvement, or to the extent of the district of lands to be affected or benefited by such work or improvement, and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, may make written objections to the same within ten days after the expiration of the time of the publication of said notice, which objection shall be delivered to the clerk of said board of supervisors, who shall indorse thereon the date of its reception by him, and at the next regular meet ing of such board of supervisors, or at an adjourned meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose, after the expiration of said ten days, lay such objections before said board of supervisors, which shall fix a time for hearing said objection, not less than fifteen days thereafter, and direct its clerk to notify each person objecting of such day fixed for hearing, by depositing a notice thereof in the post office at the county seat of such county, postage prepaid, addressed to such person objecting, which said notice shall be deposited in the postoffice not less than ten days before the day set for hearing. Sec. 4. At the time specified or to which the hearing may be adjourned, the board of supervisors shall hear the objections urged and pass upon the same. Such board may, in its discretion, sustain, in whole or in part, any or all of the objections made and filed, and may change or alter the boundaries of such district to conform to the needs of the district, and may, in their discretion, declare such protection district formed as a subdivision of such county, and shall designate such district by name as the protection district of county, and thereafter the board of supervisors shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction to purchase or receive by donation, in the name of the district, any real or personal property necessary to properly carry out the purposes of the formation of such district, under the same rules as govern the purchase of property in the name of the county; but no district shall be formed wherein a majority of the property-holders within its limits protest in writing against such action. Sec. 5. The board of supervisors of such county shall also have power to condemn land for the purpose of widening, deepening and straightening any innavigable stream flowing through such protection district, or forming a boundary, or any part of a boundary thereof, and for that purpose all the provisions of part three, title seven, of the Code of Civil Procedure are hereby made applicable to the exercise of the right of eminent domain for such purposes, or to any other purpose necessary to the needs of such district when formed; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed as interfering, conflicting or abrogating reclamation districts now established by law. Whenever such innavigable stream or watercourse forms, or the portion thereof deemed proper or necessary to be improved and rectified by widening, deepening or straight |