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ACT 4383.

An act relating to weights and weighers for warehousemen and wharf. ingers, and matters connected therewith.

[Approved March 24, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 387.]

§ 1. All persons now engaged in or who may hereafter engage in a general warehouse, wharfinger or storage business for the storage of grain or other commodities, which in the course of such business are weighed, shall, before they engage in such business, or within sixty days after the appointment of an inspector of weights as provided in section 4 of this act, designate in writing a person or persons as weigher or weighers for such business at the place thereof, and the person or persons so designated shall thereupon, and before they shall do any weighing for such business subscribe, before an officer authorized to administer oaths, the following oath, to wit:

"(I or we) designated as (weigher or weighers) will correctly weigh all grain or other commodities brought to (here designating the business and place of business) for storage or weighing, or which may be taken out from the same, and in all cases render to the person bringing or receiving the same, as the case may be, upon demand, a full, true and correct account of the weight thereof."

§ 2. All persons engaged in the business in the foregoing section mentioned shall keep for and use in such business no other than true and correct scales and weights.

Said designation and said oath shall thereupon and within the time aforesaid, be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which such business is to be or is being carried on.

No person, excepting the person or persons thus designated and subscribing and recording such oath shall do any of the weighing of such business.

§ 3. Every person engaged in the business in said section 1 mentioned, shall keep and use therein none but true weights, and scales; said weights must conform to the United States standard of weights.

§ 4. The board of supervisors of the respective counties of the state of California, hereby are authorized to appoint for their respective counties an inspector of weights and measures, who shall hold office at the pleasure of said board and receive such compensation as each board may allow, and whose duty it shall be from time to time to test and examine all scales and weights kept or used in the business in the foregoing sections mentioned, and report all violations of this act to the district attorney of such county, whose duty it shall be to prosecute all violations hereof.

§ 5. Every violation of this act shall be and is punishable as a misdemeanor.

§ 6. Besides the prosecution of the criminal actions herein provided for, every person defrauded by false or incorrect weighing shall be en

titled to recover from the person owning or conducting such business as in the foregoing sections mentioned, in any court of competent jurisdiction, three times the amount of such shortage in weight of the grain or other commodity so delivered or taken out by him.

ACT 4388.

TITLE 562.

WEST SIDE IRRIGATION DISTRICT.

Act creating. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 731.]

Supplemented 1875-76, p. 885. Superseded by 1877-78, p. 468. Repealed as to Contra Costa and Alameda counties, 1877-78, p. 887.

TITLE 563.
WHARFINGERS.

ACT 4393.

In relation to warehouse and wharfinger receipts, and other matters pertaining thereto. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 949.]

Citations. Cal. 75/355; 108/140, 141; 111/380.
Codified by §§ 1858-1858f of Civil Code.

TITLE 564.

WHARVES.

The Political Code, §§ 2906 et seq., 2520 et seq. and 2567 et seq., seems to have superseded the old legislation on the subject of wharves.

ACT 4398.

Authorizing supervisors of counties to grant the right to construct wharves. [Stats. 1858, p. 120.]

Amended 1869-70, p. 526; 1871-72, p. 908. Superseded by Political Code, 2906 et seq.

ACT 4403.

TITLE 565.
WHEATLAND.

Incorporation of. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 351.]

Amended 1875-76, p. 19; 1877-78, p. 441. Superseded by incorporating, in 1891, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883.

ACT 4408.

TITLE 566.

WHITTIER STATE SCHOOL.

To establish the Whittier Reform School for Juvenile Offenders.

1889, p. 111.]

Amended 1893, p. 328; 1905, p. 80; 1907, p. 3; 1909, p. 988.

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Citations. Cal. 93/639; 110/653; 117/536; 122/296, 297, 298, 299, 300,

301; 138/495. App. 3/740; 5/471, 472, 473.

In full in Appendix to Penal Code, p. 868.

ACT 4409.

To prevent evil-disposed persons from coming upon the grounds of. [Stats. 1895, p. 92.1

Codified by §§ 171a, 171b, 171c of Penal Code.

ACT 4410.

Relating to the commitments to the state school at Whittier and to the Preston School of Industry, fixing the authority to examine and commit to such schools with the superior court judges of the counties, and fixing the responsibilities from which commitments are made to the state for the maintenance of the persons committed therefrom; providing the manner of payment therefor and fixing the responsibility of the parents to the counties from which their children are committed. [Stats. 1895, p. 122.]

Citations. Cal. 138/494, 495.

In full in Appendix to Penal Code, p. 884.

ACT 4411.

An act to authorize the board of trustees of the Whittier State School to contract for the care and keeping of girls committed to said school in charitable or benevolent institutions or with private persons, and to pay for their care while in such institution or with such persons. [Approved March 18, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 226.]

Former act: See Stats. 1903, p. 514.

ACT 4412.

An act to authorize the trustees of the Preston School of Industry and the Whittier State School to acquire property by gift, bequest or devise. [Approved March 6, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 149.]

ACT 4415.

TITLE 567.
WILMINGTON.

Incorporating town of. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 108.]
Amended 1871-72, p. 446. Sections 8 and 16 repealed, 1887, pp. 108, 109.
Citations. Cal. 151/652, 653. App. 7/386.

ACT 4420.

TITLE 568.

WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS.

To assist the Woman's Relief Corps Home Association to provide for ex-army nurses, and the worthy destitute widows, wives, mothers, and destitute maiden daughters or sisters of veterans who served honorably in the war for the Union, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved April 1, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 447.]

Citations. App. 8/529, 530, 531, 532, 534, 536, 537.

Codified by §§ 2210-2210g of Political Code.

АСТ 4421. Making an appropriation for the support of ex-army nurses and indigent widows, wives, mothers, and dependent daughters and sisters of Union veterans, who served honorably during the civil war, at the Woman's Relief Corps Home at Evergreen, Santa Clara County, California. [Approved March 8, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 181.]

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Woodbridge, to prevent hogs and goats running at large in. [Stats. 1875–76, p. 180.]

Repealed 1897, p. 198.

ACT 4431.

TITLE 570.
WOODLAND.

Reincorporating. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 557.]

Amended and supplemented 1875-76, p. 818. Amended 1877-78, pp. 84, 447. Superseded by incorporating, in 1890, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883.

TITLE 571.
WRECKS.

ACT 4436.

Concerning water craft found adrift. [Stats. 1850, p. 156.]
Superseded by Civil Code, §§ 1864-1872.

ACT 4437.

Concerning wrecks and wrecked property. [Stats. 1850, p. 173.] Superseded by Political Code, §§ 2403-2418.

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An act to authorize the incorporation of yacht clubs. [Stats. 1869–70,

Repealed by § 288, Civil Code.

p. 71.]

TITLE 573.

YOLO COUNTY.

ACT 4447.

Agriculture, protection of from trespassing animals. [Stats. 1873-74,

Repealed 1877-78, p. 362.

p. 343.]

ACT 4448.

[Stats. 1877-78, p. 360.]

Trespassing of animals in.
Repealed by 1897, p. 98. See 1901, p. 607.

ACT 4449.

To develop agricultural interests and aid the construction of a canal in Colusa, Solano, and Yolo counties. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 451.]

ACT 4450.

To provide for the drainage of certain lands in the counties of Colusa and Yolo. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 1037.]

ACT 4451.

Repealed by County Gov

Regulating fees and salaries of officers of. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 420.] Amended 1875-76, pp. 170, 566; 1877-78, p. ernment Acts: See 1897, p. 533, § 181.

ACT 4452.

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Legalizing acts of public administrator of. [Stats. 1860, p. 207.] ACT 4453.

Public road along boundary line between Yolo and Colusa counties, establishing. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 213.]

ACT 4454.

Roads and highways in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 490.]
Repealed 1883, p. 5, c. X, § 2.

ACT 4455.

Providing for the distribution of school moneys in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 1003.]

Repealed by Political Code, § 1858.

ACT 4456.

Supervisors, terms of office and time of meeting of. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 304.]

Superseded by County Government Acts: See 1897, p. 452.

ACT 4457.

Authorizing supervisors to levy taxes for county purposes. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 843.]

Superseded by subd. 12, § 25, 1897, p. 460.

ACT 4458.

Quieting title to certain lands in. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 803.]
ACT 4459.

Quieting title to certain lands in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 492.]
This act released the title of the state to the United States and its grantees.

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