§ 1. All fruit, green or dried, contained in boxes, barrels, or packages, which shall hereafter be shipped or offered for shipment in this state by any person, firm, or corporation, shall have stamped, branded, stenciled, or labeled in a conspicuous place on the outside of every such box, barrel, or package, in clearly legible letters at least one-quarter of an inch in height, a statement truly and correctly designating the county and immediate locality in which such fruit was grown. § 2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions or requirements of section 1 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars. § 3. The governor of the state of California, after the passage of this act, shall appoint such inspectors as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this act, to serve without compensation, who are hereby vested with full authority to enter any car or depot containing fruit for shipment; or any warehouse, packing-house, store-room, or other place or places where any fruit is kept, packed, or prepared for shipment, to inspect the same, or any part thereof. Such inspectors are also vested with full authority to examine such books of any person, firm, or corporation engaged in packing or shipping fruit as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this act. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately on and after its passage. To authorize married women to transact business in their own names as sole traders. [Stats. 1852, p. 101.] Amended 1862, p. 108. Superseded by Code of Civil Procedure, §§ 1811 1821. АСТ 2109. To authorize married women to convey real estate held by them in their own right. [Stats. 1855, p. 12.] Superseded by provisions of Civil Code. Citations. Cal. 41/608. ACT 2110. To prevent the fraudulent conveyance or encumbrance of realty by married women. [Stats. 1863, p. 750.] Superseded by Penal Code, § 534. Citations. Cal. 72/445. АСТ 2111. To protect the rights of married women in certain cases. 70, p. 226.] Citations. Cal. 49/36; 122/255. [Stats. 1869 This act related to the earnings and the separate property of married women. TITLE 302. АСТ 2116. MARSHALL MONUMENT. To provide for the appointment of a guardian for the Marshall monument and grounds, prescribing his duties, and appropriating money therefor. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 424.] To provide for the disposition of certain property of the state. [Stats. 1851, p. 307.] This act released to the town of Martinez the lands covered by Carquinez Straits lying opposite it. TITLE 304. ACT 2128. Reincorporating. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 149.] Amended 1877-78, p. 593. Citations. Cal. 134/501; 143/560, 561. ACT 2129. App. 1/630, 632. Levees, construction and repair of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 131.] АСТ 2130. Levee indebtedness of, funding of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 60.] ACT 2131. ACT 2132. To establish a police court in. [Stats. 1889, p. 214.] Superintendent of public schools, fixing salary of. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 153.] TITLE 305. MASTER AND SERVANT. See "Laborers"; "Liens," ante. АСТ 2137. To provide for a day of rest from labor. [Stats. 1893, p. 54.] ACT 2138. To provide for the proper sanitary condition of factories and workshops, and the preservation of the health of the employees. [Stats. 1889, p. 3.] Amended 1901, p. 571; 1903, p. 16; 1909, p. 43. Unconstitutional: See Schaezlein v. Cabaniss, 135 Cal. 466. АСТ 2139. To provide for a lunch hour for laborers in sawmills, shake-mills, shinglemills, and logging camps. [Stats. 1901, p. 75.] This act appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 827. АСТ 2140. To prevent misrepresentations of conditions of employment, making it a misdemeanor to misrepresent the same, and providing penalties therefor. [Stats. 1903, p. 269.] This act appears in full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 834. АСТ 2141. An act to provide for temporary floors in buildings more than three stories high in the course of construction and for the protection of the life and limb of workmen employed in such buildings from falling through joists or girders and from falling bricks, rivets, etc. [Approved March 6, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 107.] § 1. Any building more than three stories high in the course of construction shall have the joists, beams or girders of each and every floor below the floor or level where any work is being done or about to be done, covered with flooring laid close together, or with other suitable material, to protect workmen engaged in such building from falling joists or girders, and from falling bricks, rivets, tools and other substances whereby life and limb are endangered. § 2. It shall be the duty of the contractor having charge of such building to provide the flooring as herein required. § 3. It shall be the duty of the owner of such building to see that the contractor carries out the provisions of this act. §4. Should the owner of such building let a contract for the construction of the class of building as herein provided to more than one contractor it shall then be the duty of the owner to provide the flooring as herein required. § 5. Failure upon the part of the owner or contractor to comply with the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall be punishable as such. TITLE 306. ACT 2145. Providing that in cities of over ten thousand inhabitants, the mayor or other chief executive shall not be required to act as city judge or ex-officio judge of the city court or as justice of the peace; to provide for the abolishment of such city court and the transfer of the business and properties of such city court to the justice of the peace of such city, and to require such justice to finish such business. [Stats. 1887, p. 51.] This act appears in full in the Appendix to the Code of Civil Procedure, p. 855. Incorporating town of Meadow Lake. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 372.] TITLE 308. MECHANICS' INSTITUTES. See tit. "Chambers of Commerce." АСТ 2155. To authorize the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco to sell, mortgage and convey realty. [Stats. 1863, p. 290.] ACT 2160. TITLE 309. An act to regulate medical practice to prevent blindness in infants. [Approved February 17, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 12.] § 1. Should one or both eyes of an infant become reddened or inflamed at any time within two weeks after birth, it shall be the duty of the midwife, nurse, or person having charge of said infant, to report the condition of the eyes at once to some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town, or district in which the parents of the infant reside. §2. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both. § 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. АСТ 2161. Practice of medicine, regulating. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 792.] Amended 1877-78, p. 918. Repealed 1901, p. 64. See post, Acts 2162, 2163. АСТ 2162. An act for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery in the state of California, and for the appointment of a board of medical examiners in the matter of said regulation. [Became a law under constitutional provision without governor's approval, February 27, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 56.] Citations. Cal. 143/413, 419; 144/177; 148/590; 151/501, 503; 153/768, 769. "Constitutional (Ex parte Gerino, 143 Cal. 412). Unconstitutional in part (Hewitt v. Board of Medical Examiners, 148 Cal. 590). See Arwine v. Board of Medical Examiners, XXXIV Cal. Dec. 45. See, also, 1907, 258."-Code Commissioners' Note. Probably superseded by the act of 1907, p. 252, regulating the practice of medicine. See this act, post, Act 2163. ACT 2163. An act for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery, osteopathy, and other systems or modes of treating the sick or afflicted, in the state of California, and for the appointment of a board of medical examiners in the matter of said regulation. [Approved March 14, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 252.] Amended 1909, p. 418. Citations. Cal. 153/768, 769, 771. Board of medical examiners. Vacancies. Term. § 1. The governor shall appoint a board of medical examiners to be known as the board of medical examiners of the state of California, consisting of eleven members. Such appointments shall be made from separate lists presented to him every second year; five members from a list of ten names presented by the Medical Society of the State of California, two members from a list of four names presented by the California State Homeopathic Medical Society, two members from a list of four names presented by the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California, and two members from a list of four names presented by the Gen. Laws-39 |