and ten dollars by an applicant not holding a diploma; said money shall be paid by the applicant before examination.

3. In case of failure of approval, said fee shall be forfeited to the state veterinary medical board.

Sec. 4. All examinations of persons not graduates shall be made directly by the state veterinary medical board, and the certificates given by said board shall authorize the possessor to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in the state of California. All examinations of ungraduated practitioners must take effect before the eighteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and three; after that date no certificates shall be granted except to persons presenting diplomas from legally chartered colleges. [Amendment approved March 20, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 258.]

Sec. 5. Upon the approval of credentials, or upon approval of the examination of an applicant, said state veterinary medical board shall grant him or her a license to practice in this state, and shall receive therefor a fee of five dollars; said license shall be signed by a majority of the board.

Sec. 6. Any person qualified as required by this act shall, upon receipt of his license to practice, have said license prominently displayed in his office, and a true copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which he resides. Any person removing to another county to practice shall file the license in like manner in the county to which he removes. The holder shall pay to the county clerk the usual fees for filing. Any person holding such license who shall refuse or neglect to prominently display in his office, or file a copy of the same with the county clerk, as above directed, within six months after receiving such license shall forfeit his li cense; and no license when once forfeited shall be restored to the original holder except on the payment to said state veterinary medical board of the sum of twenty-five dollars, as a penalty for such failure, neglect, or refusal.

Sec. 7. Any person shall be regarded as practicing veterinary medicine and surgery, within the meaning of this act, who shall have received a license as mentioned In section five. But nothing in this act shall be construed o prohibit members of the medical profession from pre

scribing for domestic animals in case of emergency, and col lecting a fee therefor, nor to prohibit gratuitous services in an emergency, nor prevent any person from practicing veterinary medicine or surgery on any animal belonging to himself or herself. And this act shall not apply to com missioned veterinary surgeons in the United States army.

Sec. 8. Any person practicing veterinary medicine of surgery in this state contrary to the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, the penalty of which shall be a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprison ment of not exceeding six (6) months, or by both.

Sec. 9. This act shall take effect sixty days from and after its passage.

Incorporating, and providing for public schools therein. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 171.]

Amended 1875-6, 119. Superseded by incorporating, in 1900, under statute of 1883.

ACT 4299.

Quieting title to town lots in. [Stats. 1877-8, p. 363.]

To define and enlarge the powers and duties of the state

viticultural commissioners, to authorize the appointment of certain officers, and to protect the interests of horticulture and agriculture. [Stats. 1881, p. 51.] Enlarged 1885, 9. Repealed 1895, 235.

Unconstitutional in part. (Ex parte Cox, 63 Cal. 21.)

ACT 4305.

To enlarge the duties of the board of state viticultural commissioners. [Stats. 1885, p. 9.]

Repealed 1895, 235.

ACT 4306,

For the promotion of the viticultural industries of the state. [Stats. 1880, p. 52.]

Enlarged 1881, 51; 1885, 9. Repealed 1895, 235, chap. CLXXXIX.

This act provided for the creation of viticultural districts and the appointment of viticultural commissioners.

ACT 4307.

An act for the protection of the viticultural interests of the state, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved March 26, 1903.

Stats. 1903, p. 522.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 The regents and the president of the University of California are hereby directed to cause to be prosecuted with all possible diligence, in connection with and in addition to the work heretofore carried on by the agricultural experiment station, experimental and research work in the field of viticulture, including both cultural and industrial processes. They are directed to ascertain the adaptation of the various kinds of vines to the several climatic and soil conditions of the state, with the special reference to those stocks for propagating purposes, resistant to the phylloxera, and to further their adaptability and utility as grafting stocks for producing wine, raisin and table grapes. They are directed to ascertain the best methods of grafting and propagating said stocks and vines, together with the most important methods of vinification and the preparation, manufacture and application of yeasts in vinification and distillation. They are further directed to report upon the utilization of the by-products of the vineyard and winery, the study and treatment of the vine diseases and all matters appertaining to the viticultural industry, pertinent to the successful conduct of the business and that may be of general public interest, use and profit. They are further directed to publish the result of said experiments and investigations in form of bulletins from time to time, as may seem advisable, and not less than two bulletins showing the progress and result of the work, shall be issued in any fiscal year.

Sec. 2. The sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act; said money to be paid to the regents of the University of California, to be expended by them through the agricultural department of the university during the two years beginning July 1, 1903. The comptroller of the state is hereby directed to draw his warrant for such payments as requested by said

regents of the state university of California, and the treasurer of the state is hereby directed to pay the same. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ACT 4312.

TITLE 526.

WAGON-ROAD CORPORATIONS.

To provide for the formation of. [Stats. 1853, p. 114.] Amended 1856, 71.

Cal. Rep.Cit. 122, 338.

This act was repealed by the later act of March 12, 1853, Stats. 1853, p. 169, in regard to the formation of wagon-road corporations, being inconsistent with it. See People ex rel. Waugh ▼. Auburn etc. Tp. Co., 122 Cal. 335. See note to act 632, ante.

To authorize the keepers of warehouses to sell goods on storage after a certain period. [Stats. 1851, p. 170.]

This act is probably superseded by the provisions of the code relating to storage. In the absence of positive legislation, it is difficult to determine what, if any, part of it is in force.

ACT 4318.

Relating to warehouse and wharfinger receipts and other matters pertaining thereto. [Stats. 1877-8, p. 949.] This act appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 778.

ACT 4323.

TITLE 528.

WARM SPRINGS CREEK.

To declare navigable. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 307.]

The court commissioners say of this act: "Probably repealed by Political Code, sec. 2349, as amended 1891."

To provide for the payment of the controller of state's war

rants, which have been lost or destroyed previous to payment by the state treasurer. [Stats. 1891, p. 294.)

ACT 4333.

TITLE 530.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.

Yolo County, hogs and goats in Washington Township. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 800.]

Superseded by 1897, 198.

TITLE 531.

WATER COMMISSIONERS.

The Political Code, sec. 19, continued in force all acts creating or regulating boards of water commissioners and overseers in the several townships or counties of the state. For the act governing in any particular township or county, see the particular title. See, also, acts 4364, 4365.

ACT 4343.

TITLE 532.

WATER COMPANIES.

For the incorporation of water companies. [Stats. 1858, p. 218.]

This act provided a penalty for injuring, defrauding, etc. It was superseded by Penal Code, secs. 499, 592, 607, 625.

ACT 4346.

Authorizing boards of supervisors to fix water rates. [Stats. 1880, p. 16.]

Superseded by 1885, 95.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 129, 446.

In full in Appendix to Civil Code, p. 787.

АСТ 4347.

Regulating and controlling the sale, rental and distribution of appropriated water in this state other than in any