ACT 1479. TITLE 211. HOME OF ADULT BLIND. Appropriating money for the establishment and management of the industrial home of mechanical trades for the adult blind. [Stats. 1885, p. 18.] Superseded 1887, p. 160, c. CXLVIII. ACT 1480. Establishing an industrial home of mechanical trades for the adult blind, and creating a board of directors for the government thereof. [Stats. 1887, p. 160.] Extending the privileges of the homestead law to certain persons. [Stats. 1860, p. 87.] Citations. Cal. 102/497, 500; 119/372. This act extended the law to unmarried men and women and to widows and widowers. The homestead acts are superseded by Civil Code, § 1237 et seq. АСТ 1487. Alienating or incumbering. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 582.] Codified by §§ 1269a-1269c of Civil Code. Citations. Cal. 108/220; 114/670, 671, 672, 673, 676; 126/25. It provided for the alienation of the homestead in case of the insanity of either husband or wife. TITLE 213. ACT 1492. HOMESTEAD CORPORATIONS. To authorize formation of homestead corporations. [Stats. 1861, p. 567.] Repealed. See 288, Civil Code. Amended 1867-68, p. 539; 1869-70, p. 474. Supp. 1863-64, p. 492; 1873-74, p. 525. See supplementary act of 187374, p. 525, which appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 810. Citations. Cal. 131/341. ACT 1497. TITLE 214. An act for the protection of the Antwerp messenger, or homing pigeon. [Approved February 26, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 37.] Codified by § 598a of Penal Code. See note to § 598a, Penal Code. ACT 1502. TITLE 215. An act fixing rate of tare on baled hops. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 452.] § 1. There shall be allowed on baled hops a tare at the rate of two per centum of the weight of the bale for the cloth and other material used in baling; that is, the tare shall be at the rate of two pounds per hundred on the weight of the bale. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. An act to provide for the proper naming of trees, seeds, plants, and vines, sold, offered, or exposed for sale in this state and providing a penalty for the violation of this act. [Approved March 3, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 44.] § 1. All trees, seeds, plants and vines, sold, offered or exposed for sale in the state of California shall be properly named as to variety and kind, and any person knowingly selling, trading, or exchanging, or offering or exposing for sale any trees, seeds, plants or vines falsely named as to variety and kind shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars. ACT 1511. An act to provide for an investigation of the nature of the diseases known as pear blight and walnut blight and to prevent, eradicate, and procure a cure for the same and to cause to be prosecuted experimental and research work in the field of viticulture, directing publication of the results of such experiments and investigations, making an appropriation therefor and prescribing the duties of the controller and treasurer in relation thereto. [Approved March 18, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 124.] §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 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. And they are further directed to inaugurate an investigation of the cause, nature, and means of suppression or prevention, of the so-called pear blight, a destructive, infectious disease of pear and apple trees. For such investigation said director shall obtain and establish such assistants, equipment, materials, appliances, apparatus and other incidentals as may be necessary to the successful prosecution of the work, within the appropriation specified. And they are further directed to secure a remedy for the so-called walnut blight. The said regents are hereby authorized to employ an expert and if necessary, to send him abroad to ascertain the cause of this blight and in an endeavor to secure a remedy therefor. § 2. There is hereby appropriated for the use of said experiment station, for the purposes set forth in this act, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). §3. All money appropriated under this act shall be paid to the regents of the University of California, and expended under the direction of the director of the agricultural experiment station of said university for the specific purposes herein named. АСТ 1512. To create and establish a state board of horticulture, and appropriate money for the expenses thereof. [Approved March 13, 1883. Stats. 1883, p. 289.] Amended 1885, p. 4; 1889, pp. 8. 89. Repealed 1903, p. 524. ACT 1513. An act to create a state commission of horticulture, to provide for a state commissioner of horticulture, and prescribe his powers, duties and compensation, and to provide methods, means and penalties for the enforcement of such powers and duties, and appropriating money for the use and support and to pay the expenses thereof, and to repeal chapter sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eightythree, chapter seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and eightyfive, chapter eighty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eightynine, and chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one. [Approved March 25, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 524.] Amended 1905, p. 496. Probably codified by §§ 2319-2319j, Political Code. The code commissioners say it is the act of 1883, 289 (Act 1512), that is codified. As that act was repealed in 1903, the act of 1903 (Act 1513) is probably the one referred to. АСТ 1514. To protect and promote the horticultural interests of the state. [Stats. 1881, p. 86.] Amended 1889, p. 413; 1891, p. 268. Repealed 1897, p. 244. Amended 1907, p. 112. ACT 1515. An act to promote the horticultural interests of the state by providing county boards of horticulture, and repealing the act entitled "An act to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the state," approved March 14, 1881, and certain acts amendatory thereof, approved March 19, 1889, and March 31, 1891. [Approved March 31, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 244.] Amended 1905, p. 297; 1907, p. 112. Citations. Cal. 133/325. Codified by §§ 2322-2322e of Political Code. ACT 1516. To prevent the spreading of fruit and fruit-tree pests and diseases, and to provide for their extirpation. [Approved March 9, 1885. Stats. 1885, p. 40.] Superseded 1899, p. 91. ACT 1517. For the protection of horticulture, and to prevent the introduction into this state of insects, or diseases or animals injurious to fruit or fruittrees, vines, bushes, or vegetables, and to provide for a quarantine for the enforcement of this act. [Stats. 1899, p. 91.] Amended 1903, p. 32. ACT 1518. An act prohibiting the sale of any fruit tree or fruit trees of a certain kind, variety or description and the delivery thereafter with the intent to deceive to the purchaser of a fruit tree or fruit trees of a different kind, variety or description, and providing penalties for the violation thereof, and prescribing the time within which prosecutions under this act may be commenced. [Approved March 15, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 275.] § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation, acting either as principal or agent, to sell, to any person, persons, firm or corporation any fruit tree or fruit trees representing same to be of a certain kind, variety and description and thereafter to deliver to such purchaser in filling such order and in completing such sale a fruit tree or fruit trees of a different kind, variety or description than the kind, variety or description of such fruit tree or fruit trees so ordered and sold. § 2. Any person violating any provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty ($50) dollars, nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than twenty days or more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment. § 3. Prosecutions under this act may be commenced at any time within seven years from the time of the delivery of such fruit tree or fruit trees mentioned in section one. § 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ACT 1519. An act providing for the investigation of the nature and means of control of destructive diseases of cultivated plants in those portions of the state not benefited by the Southern California Pathological Laboratory, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved April 26, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 1092.] Investigation of tree diseases. § 1. The regents and the president of the University of California are hereby directed to maintain in connection with the agricultural experiment work of the university in those portions of the state not benefited by the Southern California Pathological Laboratory, a scientific station or laboratory with the necessary equipment for the investigation of the nature and means of control of injurious and destructive diseases of cultivated trees, plants and crops. Information to growers. § 2. They are directed to make or cause to be made investigations of such troubles as pear blight, peach blight, olive knot, apricot failures, Gen. Laws-31 |