sengers upon any public highway, a person addicted to drunkenness, under penalty of five dollars for every day such person is in his employment. En. March 12, 1872. Intoxication of railway driver, conductor, etc., or telegraph operator, is misdemeanor: Pen. Code, sec. 391. If § 2933. Notice to employer of driver's intoxication. any driver, whilst actually employed in driving any such vehicle, is intoxicated to such a degree as to endanger the safety of his passengers, the owner, on receiving from any such passenger a written notice of the fact, verified by his oath, must forthwith discharge such driver; and if he has such driver in his service within six months after such notice, he incurs a like penalty. En. March 12, 1872. Intoxication of certain employees: See Pen. Code, sec. 391. § 2934. Horses to be fastened while standing. The driver of any vehicle used to convey passengers must not leave the horses attached thereto while passengers remain in the same, without first securely fastening the horses or placing the lines in the hands of some other person, so as to prevent their running, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offense. En. March 12, 1872. § 2935. Penalties, how and by whom recovered. The penalties provided by the three preceding sections are to be recovered by the district attorney of the county in which the offender resides, for the use of the county road fund. Any action for a penalty incurred under the last section must be commenced within six months. En. March 12, 1872. § 2936. Liability of owners for damages done by drivers. The owner of every vehicle running or traveling upon any road for the conveyance of passengers, is liable for all damages to persons or property done by any person in his employment as a driver while driving such vehicle, whether done willfully or negligently, or otherwise, in the same manner as such driver would be liable. En. March 12, 1872. Carriers of persons: Civ. Code, secs. 2096 et seq. § 2937. Exceptions to preceding sections. Nothing contained in the six preceding sections must affect any law concerning hackney coaches or carriages in any city, nor affect laws or ordinances of any city for the licensing or regulating such coaches or carriages. En. March 12, 1872. § 2938. Protection of bridges. The owner of any toll bridge, and any plank road company owning a bridge of not less than twenty feet span, may put up conspicuously at each end of it notice in these words in large characters: "Five dollars' fine for riding or driving on this bridge faster than a walk"; and whoever rides or drives faster than a walk on such bridge forfeits to the owner the sum of five dollars. En. March 12, 1872. Fast driving or riding on toll bridges, fine for: Pen. Code, sec. 388. TITLE VII. GENERAL POLICE OF THE STATE. Chapter I. Immigration, §§ 2949-2969. Preservation of the Public Health, §§ 2978-3064. II. III. Registry of Births, §§ 3074-3084. Marriages and Deaths, IV. Dissection, $$ 3093-3095. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Cemeteries and Sepulture, §§ 3105-3111. Lost and Unclaimed Property, §§ 3136-3157. Weights and Measures, §§ 3209-3223. Labor and Materials on Public Buildings, § 2950. Form of report. 2951. 2952. § 2953. Oath to be administered to certain passengers. Additional bond in certain cases. (Repealed.) 2961. 2962. 2963. 2964. § 2965. § 2966. § 2967. § 2968. Bond of commissioner. § 2969. Commutation money to be paid into state treasury. Certain persons exempted. Powers and duties of commissioners of immigration. Ex-officio commissioners. Duties of district attorneys. Disposition of funds. (Repealed.) § 2949. Duties of masters of vessels arriving in California. Within twenty-four hours after the arrival of any vessel arriving at any of the ports of this state, bringing passengers from any place out of this state, the master of such vessel must make on oath to the commissioner of immigration at such port a written report. En. March 12, 1872. Cal. Rep.Cit. 76, 122; 79, 89. Chinese immigration to be discouraged: Const. Cal. 1879, art. XIX, sec. 4. Importing foreign convicts is misdemeanor: Pen. Code, sec. 173. Separate prosecution for each person landed: Sec. 175. Landing Chinese without permit, punishment for: Pen. Code, sec. 174. Separate prosecution for each person landed: Sec. 175. § 2950. Form of report. The report must state: 1. The name, place of birth, last residence, age, and occupation of all such passengers who are not citizens, or who shall have, within the last preceding twelve months, arrived from any country out of the United States, and who have not been examined, bonded, or paid commutation money, as provided in this chapter, or have been landed from any such vessel at any place during her last voyage, or who have gone on board of any vessel with the intention of coming into this state, or who may have died during the last voyage of such vessel; and, 2. Whether any of the passengers so reported are lunatic, idiotic, deaf, dumb, blind, crippled, infirm, or are lepers, or persons affected with any of the diseases known as leprosy or elephantiasis. 3. The names and residences of the owners of such vessels. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 38; 1875-6, 53. Subd. 2. Lepers, disposition of: See post, sec. 2952. $2951. Oath to be administered to certain passengers. The master or commander of the vessel must administer to any passenger of foreign birth, who declares himself a citizen of the United States, the following oath: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I was born in -; that I am a naturalized citizen of the United States; that I was naturalized and received my certificate of naturalization in the state of in the year En. March 12, 1872. $ 2952. Lepers, lazarettos for. It shall not be lawful for lepers or persons affected with leprosy or elephantiasis to live in ordinary intercourse with the population of this state; but all such persons shall be compelled to inhabit such lazarettos or lepers' quarters as may be assigned to them by the board of supervisors of the city or county in which they shall be domiciled or settled, and the board of supervisors are vested with power and are required to make all necessary provisions for the separation, detention, and care of lepers or persons affected with leprosy or elephantiasis, settled or domiciled in their respective cities or counties. The superintendent or manager of all lepers' quarters under this chapter shall forward quarterly statements, showing the name, age, sex, and birthplace of each leper in such quarter, to the secretary of state, who shall keep a proper record of such matters for the information of the public. En. March 12, 1872. Rep. 1873-4, 39. En. Stats. 1873-4, 39. Am'd. 1875-6, 53. § 2953. Additional bond in certain cases. (Repealed.) En. March 12, 1872. Rep. 1873-4, 39. § 2954. Nature of bond. The bond required by the next preceding section, must be a separate bond for each passenger, and the same sureties must not be upon more than one bond. Each bond must be secured by two or more sufficient sureties, residents of the state, each of whom must prove, before the commissioner of immigration, by oath or otherwise, indorsed in writing on such bond, that he is a freeholder and resident of the state, and is worth double the amount of the penalty of the bond in real estate, over and above all his debts and liabilities. The bond may, at the option of the party, be secured by mortgage on real estate, or by the pledge and transfer of United States bonds, or controller's warrants of this state in any amount sufficient to secure the same. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 41: $2955. Lepers, examination and disposition of. The commissioner of immigration must satisfy himself whether or not any person who shall arrive in this state, by vessel from any foreign port or place, is a leper, or affected with the disease known as leprosy or elephantiasis, before such person shall mingle with the population of this state. For the purpose of ascertaining said fact the commissioner is vested with the power and authority to detain all such persons on board any such vessel so arriving, and to assign the vessel to a berth or anchorage separate and apart from other vessels, and at a safe and suitable distance from the shore, if in his judgment it shall be necessary, until such fact can be fully ascertained by him. Such fact shall be ascertained by personal inspection and examination of each and every person on board such vessel; and the commissioner of immigration is authorized, empowered, and required to make such personal inspection and examination of all persons so arriving by any such vessel, the same to be made at such berth or anchorage as he shall, in his discretion, assign to such vessel for that purpose, and shall be made before the landing of any person thereupon. All of such persons who, upon inspection and examination, are found to be lepers, or affected with the disease known as leprosy or elephantiasis, shall be taken in charge by the commissioner of immigration, and placed in a suitable lazaretto, or lepers' quarter, to be provided or designated by the board of supervisors, whenever necessary for that purpose, as hereinbefore prescribed, and there detained and properly cared for, separate and apart from the general population of this state, so long as they, the said lepers, shall elect to remain in the state of California, or until they shall have recovered from said disease, and no longer. All of such persons as shall be found to be free from said disease shall be allowed to depart and go at their will, without unnecessary detention or delay, and shall be entitled to receive a certificate of the fact of their freedom from said disease from said commissioner. For his services in |