Sec. 5. No provision in this act contained shall in any way be construed as preventing the governor of this state from making a plenary investigation in reference to the conduct of any public institutions under the terms of any act of the legislature of this state. Furthermore, the governor may at any time order an investigation by the board, or by a committee of its members, of the management of the above-named institutions, or any thereof.

Sec. 6. Three months prior to each regular session of the legislature, the board shall make a full and complete report to the governor of all its transactions during the preceding two years, showing fully and in detail all expenses incurred and moneys paid out by it, and giving a list of all officers and agents employed, and the actual condition of all institutions under its supervision, with such suggestions as it may deem necessary and pertinent, and with recommendations for legislative and executive action.

Sec. 7. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the Veterans' Home of California, located at Yountville, Napa County, nor to the Woman's Relief Corps Home at Evergreen, Santa Clara County.

Sec. 8. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 9. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

An act defining the different grades of cheese and for branding the same, manufactured in the state of California.

[Stat. approved March 4, 1897; Stats. 1897, 69.] Section 1. Every person or persons, firm or corporation, who shall at any creamery, cheese factory, or private dairy, manufacture cheese in the state of California, shall, at the place of manufacture, brand distinctly, and durably on the bandage of each and every cheese manufactured, and upon the package or box when shipped, the grade of cheese manufactured, as follows: "California full-cream

cheese," "California half-skim cheese," and "California skim cheese."

Sec. 2. All brands for branding the different grades of cheese shall be procured from the state dairy bureau, and said bureau is hereby directed and authorized to issue to all persons, firms, or corporations, upon application therefor, uniform brands, consecutively numbered, of the different grades specified in section one of this act. The state dairy bureau shall keep a record of each and every brand issued, and the name and location of the manufacturer receiving the same. No manufacturer of cheese in the state of California, other than the one to whom such brand is issued, shall use the same, and in case of a change of location, the party shall notify the bureau of such change.

Sec. 3. The different grades of cheese are hereby defined as follows: Such cheese only as shall have been manufactured from pure milk, and from which no portion of the butter fat has been removed by skimming or other process, and having not less than thirty per cent of butter fat, shall be branded as "California full-cream cheese"; and such cheese only as shall be made from pure milk, and having not less than fifteen per cent of butter fat, shall be branded "California half-skim cheese"; and such cheese only as shall be made from pure skim-milk shall be branded "California skim cheese"; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to "Edam," "Brickstein," "Pineapple," "Limburger," "Swiss," or handmade cheese, not made by the ordinary Cheddar process. Sec. 4. No person or persons, firms or corporations, shall sell, or offer for sale, any cheese, manufactured in the state of California, not branded by an official brand and of the grade defined in section three of this act.

Sec. 5. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than fifty dollars ($50), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding twenty-five days; and for each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than fifty days nor more than one hundred days, or by both

such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

Sec. 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. This act shall take effect sixty days after its passage.

ACT 583.

TITLE 83.
CHICO.

[Stats. 1871-2, p. 11.]

Statute incorporating.

Amended 1871-2, 248. Amended and supplemented 1873-4, 213. Further amendments and supplemental matters, 1875-6, 22; 1877-8, 456; 1887, 63. Superseded by incorporating, in 1895, under Municipal Government Act of 1883.

To prevent the further immigration of Chinese or Mongolians to this state. [Stats. 1858, 295.]

This act does not appear to have been passed on by the supreme court, although it is undoubtedly unconstitutional. Under any circumstances the penal portion of it is superseded by the Penal Code, sec. 6.

ACT 589.

To protect free white labor from competition with Chinese labor and to discourage the immigration of Chinese. [Stats. 1862, 462.]

This act imposed a police tax on Chinese. It was declared unconstitutional in Lin Sing v. Washburn, 20 Cal. 534.

ACT 590.

To prohibit the coming of Chinese into the state, whether the subjects of the Chinese empire or not, and to provide for registration and certificates of residence and determine the status of all Chinese persons now resident of this state, and fixing penalties and punishments for violation of this act, and providing for deportation of criminals. [Stats. 1891, p. 185.] Unconstitutional.

ACT 591.

(Ex parte Ah Cue, 101 Cal. 197.)

To prevent the importation of Chinese criminals and to prevent the establishment of coolie slavery. 1869-70, 332.]

[Stats.

ACT 592.

To prevent the kidnaping and importation of Mongolian, Chinese and Japanese females for criminal or demoralizing purposes. [Stats. 1869-70, 330.]

Superseded by Penal Code, sec. 174.

Cal Rep.Cit. 64, 236.

ACT 593.

For the suppression of Chinese houses of ill-fame. [Stats. 1865-6, 641. Amended 1873-4, 84.]

Continued in force by Political Code, sec. 19; Penal Code, see. 23.

ACT 594.

To provide for the removal of Chinese outside the limits of cities and towns. [Stats. 1880, p. 22.]

To provide for furnishing assistants to city and city and county attorneys in every city, or city and county having a population of one hundred thousand or over, and providing for their mode of appointment and compensation. [Stats. 1891, p. 95.]

Superseded as to San Francisco by chap. 2 of art. V of its

Making it unlawful to refuse admission to places of amusement. [Stats. 1893 p. 220.]

ACT 605.

An act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. [Stat. approved March 13, 1897; Stats. 1897, 137.] Cal. Rep.Cit. 119, 602.

Section 1. That all citizens within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, restaurants, hotels, eating-houses, barber-shops, bathhouses, theaters, skating-rinks, and all other places of

public accommodation or amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all citizens.

Sec. 2. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of the foregoing section, by denying to any citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to every race or color, and regardless of race or color, the full accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges in said section enumerated, or by aiding or inciting such denial, or whoever shall make any discrimination, distinction, or restriction on account of color or race, or except for good cause, applicable alike to all citizens of every color or race whatever, in respect to the admission of any citizen to, or his treatment in, any inn, restaurant, hotel, eatinghouse, barber-shop, bath-house, theater, skating-rink, or other public place of amusement or accommodation, whether such place be licensed or not, or whoever aids or incites such discrimination, distinction, or restriction, shall, for each and every such offense, shall be liable in damages in an amount not less than fifty dollars, which may be recovered in an action at law brought for that purpose. Sec. 3. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this law are hereby repealed.

Clear Lake, in Lake County, declared navigable. [Stats. 1877-8, p. 630.]

See Political Code, sec. 2349, from which this lake is omitted, and this statute, apparently, thereby repealed.

Incorporating. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 164.]

Amended 1871-2, 550; 1875-6, 171. Superseded by incorporating under Municipal Government Act of 1883.

To authorize persons engaged in the U. S. coast survey to enter upon lands within the state; to protect the