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duty of such officer, or other person, when making payment of moneys thus due, to withhold and retain, in accordance with the provisions of this section, all sums which may have been forfeited under the provisions of the herein provided for stipulation. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the collection of a forfeiture as described herein, from the state, or from any political subdivision thereof. Any contract such as is described in this section, made for or on behalf of the state of California, or for or on behalf of any political subdivision thereof, which does not contain the stipulation herein described, shall be null and void, and no recovery shall be had thereupon.

Sec. 3. Any officer of the state of California, or any political subdivision thereof, or any person acting for or on behalf thereof, who shall violate the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be subject to a fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court, the fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment one year.

Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, in so far as they are inconsistent, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

This act was probably superseded in part, if not entirely, by the following act:

ACT 1536.

An act limiting the hours of service of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of, or work done for, the state of California, or of, or for any political subdivision thereof; imposing penalties for violation of the provisions of said act, and providing for the enforcement thereof.

[Approved March 10, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 119.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The time of service of any laborer, workman. or mechanic employed upon any of the public works of the state of California, or of any political subdivision thereof, or upon work done for said state, or any political subdivision thereof, is hereby limited and restricted to eight

hours during any one calendar day; and it shall be unlawful for any officer or agent of said state, or of any political subdivision thereof, or for any contractor or sub-contractor doing work under contract upon any public works aforesaid, who employs, or who directs or controls, the work of any laborer, workman, or mechanic, employed as herein aforesaid, to require or permit such laborer, workman, or mechanic, to labor more than eight hours during any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency, caused by fire, flood, or danger to life or property, or except to work upon public military or naval defenses or works in time of war.

Sec. 2. Any officer or agent of the state of California, or of any political subdivision thereof, making or awarding, as such officer or agent, any contract, the execution of which involves or may involve the employment of any laborer, workman, or mechanic upon any of the public works, or upon any work, hereinbefore mentioned, shall cause to be inserted therein a stipulation which shall provide that the contractor to whom said contract is awarded shall forfeit, as a penalty, to the state or political subdivision in whose behalf the contract is made and awarded, ten (10) dollars for each laborer, workman, or mechanic employed, in the execution of said contract, by him, or by any sub-constractor under him, upon any of the public works, or upon any work, herein before mentioned, for each calendar day during which such laborer, workman, or mechanic is required or permitted to labor more than eight hours in violation of the provisions of this act; and it shall be the duty of such officer or agent to take cognizance of all violations of the provisions of said act committed in the course of the execution of said contract, and to report the same to the representative of the state or political subdivision, party to the contract, authorized to pay to said contractor moneys becoming due to him under the said contract, and said representative, when making payments of moneys thus due, shall withhold and retain therefrom all sums and amounts which shall have been forfeited pursuant to the herein said stipulation.

Sec. 3. Any officer, agent, or representative of the state of California, or of any political subdivision thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction Gen. Laws-21

be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 4.

All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage

TITLE 213.

ACT 1540.

HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

To provide for commitments to the house of correction. [Stats. 1885, p. 34.]

Superseded 1889, 111, chap. CVIII; 1889, 100, chap. CIII.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 87, 83.

TITLE 214.

ACT 1545. HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION.

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To suppress houses of ill-fame. [Stats. 1855, p. 76.]
Superseded by Penal Code, secs. 315, 316.

ACT 1550.

TITLE 215.

HUMBOLDT BAY.

To prevent persons from obstructing the channels of Humboldt Bay and Harbor.[Stats. 1853, p. 192.]

Superseded by Political Code, secs. 2567-2572, relating to harbor commissioners of Eureka.

ACT 1551.

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To grant to the United States certain tide-lands belonging to the state of California, for the purpose of improving the harbor of Humboldt Bay. [Approved March 9, 1887. Stats. 1887, p. 59.]

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ACT 1552.

To grant to the United States certain tide-lands belonging to the state of California, for the purpose of improving the harbor of Humboldt Bay. [Approved March 15. 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 201.]

ACT 1553.

Authorizing the governor and attorney-general to purchase for the state certain lands in Humboldt Bay. [Stats. 1899, p. 166.]

ACT 1558.

TITLE 216.

HUMBOLDT COUNTY.

Clerk of, compensation of.

[Stats. 1875-6, p. 81].

Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, 518, sec. 168.

ACT 1559.

District attorney of, salary of. [Stats: 1875-6, p. 34.] Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, 518, sec. 168.

ACT 1560.

Dependent poor and indigent sick of, relief and maintenance of. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 41.] · Supplemented 1875-6, 488. 'Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, 452.

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Jurors in courts of justice of the peace in. [Stats. 1873-4,,

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Providing for the scaling of logs in [Stats. 1877-8, p. 779.]

ACT 1564.

Additional notaries public. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 159.1
Superseded by Political Code, sec. 791,

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This act provided for the appointment of three additional notaries.

ACT 1565.

Fixing compensation of certain officers of. [Stats. 1873-4,

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Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, 518, sec. 168. ACT 1566.

Concerning roads of. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 105.]

Amended 1873-4, 103. Modified, if not superseded, by County Government Act, 1897, 452, and by sec. 2, Stats. 1883, p. 5, chap. X.

ACT 1567.

Roads in. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 477.]

Repealed 1883, 5, chap. X, see. 2.

ACT 1568.

Sheriff, concerning office of. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 797.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, 518, sec. 168.

This act allowed the sheriff compensation for his services as jailer.

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484 HUNTING ON PRIVATE GROUNDS-HUSBAND AND WIFE.

ACT 1569.

Supervisors, fixing number of. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 333.] Repealed by the County Government Act, 1897, 452.

ACT 1570.

To provide for the disposal of lots in the towns and villages on the public lands in the county of Humboldt. [Stats. 1855, p. 168.]

This act was passed to carry out the provisions of the federal statutes for the benefit of the occupants of such towns.

ACT 1571.

Fixing compensation of treasurer and assessor.

1871-2, p. 169.]

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Superseded and in effect repealed by County Government Act, 1897, 518, sec. 168, as amended 1901, 721.

ACT 1572.

To declare certain streams and sloughs in Humboldt County navigable. [Stats. 1860, p. 159.]

Incorporated in Political Code, sec. 2349.

ACT 1577.

TITLE 217.

HUNTING ON PRIVATE GROUNDS.

To prevent hunting and shooting on private inclosed grounds, and the destruction of growing timber on private grounds in certain counties in this state. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 304.]

This act applied to Alameda, San Mateo, Marin, San Bernardino, San Diego, Colusa, Sacramento, Sonoma, Nevada, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Contra Costa, and San Luis Obispo counties. It was amended in 1873-4, 792, so as to make it apply to Alameda, San Mateo, Marin, San Bernardino, San Diego, Colusa, Sacramento, Sonoma, Nevada, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Contra Costa, San Luis Obispo, and Mendocino counties.

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Amended 1853, 165; 1857, 199; 1858, 22; 1861, 310; 1862, 518: 1863-4, 363. Superseded by provisions of Civil Code.

Cal. Rep.Cit. 5, 256; 7. 270; 7, 272;

49, 190; 50, 105; 87. 647; 106, 614; 121, 133; 121, 135.

97, 192;

7, 273; 47, 37; 98, 468; 106, 613;

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