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in such statistics and information, the board may prescribe such forms of report and records by the state commission in lunacy regarding the state hospitals for the insane and by such other officers, boards or institutions as it may deem necessary and also such forms of registration at all public institutions referred to in this section as it may require. The state commission in lunacy on behalf of the institutions under its charge and the officers of all other institutions, and all officers, in any way responsible for public funds used for the relief of the poor or the maintenance of any inmates of said public institutions, are hereby required to follow such forms, records and registration so prescribed; provided, that the intent of this law is that so far as possible, the board shall make use of the forms of report, record and registration now obtaining in the state commission of lunacy and other state boards and institutions. All plans of new buildings or parts of buildings for any of the public institutions coming under the provisions of this act, or any additions or alterations in such buildings, shall, before their adoption by the proper officials, be submitted to the board for suggestions and criticism.

§4. The board shall have the power to issue compulsory process to compel the attendance of any witness before said board or any member thereof, and to require the production of such books or papers relating to any public institution mentioned in section 3 of this act as they may deem necessary; provided, that no witness shall be required to attend be fore said board out of the county in which he resides. Any member of said board shall have power, and he is hereby authorized to administer an oath to any and all witnesses coming before said board, or any member thereof, for examination, and to examine such witness or witnesses in reference to any matter relating to public institutions mentioned in section 3 of this act appertaining to the inquiry before the board, or said member. Disobedience of a subpoena issued by said board, or refusal to be sworn, or to answer, shall subject such person disobeying or refus ing to a forfeiture of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction by said board in its name as plaintiff, the money recovered to be appropriated to the use of said board.

§ 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.

§ 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.

§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.

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

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

TITLE 86.
CHEESE.

ACT 578.

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

[Approved March 4, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 69.]

§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."

§ 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 1 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.

§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 hand-made cheese, not made by the ordinary Cheddar process.

§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 3 of this act.

§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.

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

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

TITLE 87.
CHICO.

[Stats. 1871-72, p. 11.]

ACT 583.

Statute incorporating.

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Amended 1871-72, p. 248. Amended and supplemented 1873-74, p. 213. ther amendments and supplemental matters, 1875-76, p. 22; 1877-78, p. 456; 1887, p. 63. Superseded by incorporating, in 1895, under Municipal Govern. ment Act of 1883.

TITLE 88.
CHINESE.

ACT 588.

To prevent the further immigration of Chinese or Mongolians to this state. [Stats. 1858, p. 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, § 6.

ACT 589.

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

This set imposed a police tax on Chinese. It was declared unconstitutional in Lin Sing v. Washburn, 20 Cal. 584.

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: Ex parte Ah Cue, 101 Cal. 197.

ACT 591.

To prevent the importation of Chinese criminals and to prevent the estab lishment of coolie slavery. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 332.]

Superseded by 174 of the Penal Code.

ACT 592.

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

Superseded by Penal Code, § 174.

Citations. Cal. 64/236.

See post, Act 2797.

ACT 593.

For the suppression of Chinese houses of ill-fame. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 641. Amended 1873-74, p. 84.]

Continued in force by Political Code, § 19: Penal Code, § 23.

The amending act of 1873-74, p. 84, is codified by § 315 of Penal Code. See Penal Code, § 315, note.

ACT 594.

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

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To provide for furnishing assistants to city and city and county attor neys 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 c. 2 of art. V of its charter.

ACT 604.

TITLE 90.
CIVIL RIGHTS.

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

Codified by §§ 53, 54 of Civil Code.

"Superseded by Civil Code, §§ 53, 54 (1905, p. 554). Constitutional. (Greenberg v. Western Turf Assn., 140 Cal. 357; Greenberg v. Western Turf Assn., 148 Cal. 126.)"-Code Commissioner's Note.

ACT 605.

An act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. [Approved
March 13, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 137.]

Codified by §§ 51, 52, Civil Code, adopted 1905.
Citations. Cal. 119/602.

ACT 607.

TITLE 91.
CLEAR LAKE.

Clear Lake, in Lake County, declared navigable. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 630.] "See Political Code, § 2349, from which this lake is omitted, and this statute, apparently, thereby repealed (Cardwell v. County of Sacramento, 79 Cal. 347). Renewed by Political Code, § 2349, as amended in 1907."-Code Commissioner's Note.

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To authorize persons engaged in the U. S. coast survey to enter upon lands within the state; to protect the operations of the same from injury and molestation, and to ascertain the mode of assessing damages and to punish offenders. [Stats. 1852, p. 147.]

ACT 622.

TITLE 94.
CODES.

To create and establish a commission for revising, systematizing, and reforming the laws of this state, and for the appointment of the members of said commission, to be known as "The commissioners for the revision and reform of the law," and to prescribe their powers and duties; and to authorize the appointment of a secretary and stenographer therefor; and to provide for the compensation and expenses of said commission, secretary, and stenographer, and to appropriate money therefor. [Approved March 28, 1895. Stats. 1895, p. 345. In effect immediately.]

Amended 1903, p. 479; 1905, p. 403; 1907, p. 294; 1909, p. 997.

ACT 627.

TITLE 95.
COLLEGE CITY.

College City, Colusa County, prohibiting sale of intoxicating liquors within one mile of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 691.]

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