To regulate the practice of barbering, the registering and licensing of persons to carry on such practice, and to insure the better education and promote competency and skill among such practitioners in the state of California. [Approved February 20, 1901. Stats. 1901, 15.1

To authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties of this state to appoint inspectors of apiaries and provide for their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of bee-culture. [Approved March 13, 1883; 1883, 285.]

Repealed 1901, 13.

The nature of the act appears from its title.

ACT 307.

To promote the apicultural interests of the state of California by providing county inspectors of apiaries, and defining their duties, and providing for their compensation, and repealing the act entitled "An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties of this state to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of bee culture," approved March 13, 1883. [Approved February 20, 1901. Stats. 1901, 13.]

Amended 1903, 7.

TITLE 43.

ACT 312.

BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

Mutual benefit and relief associations. [Stats. 1873-4,

p. 745,]

Amended 1880, 25; 1901, 6.

This act appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 678. Cal.Rep.Cit. 128, 263.

ACT 317.

TITLE 44.

BENEVOLENT CORPORATIONS.

To further extend the act concerning corporations. [Stats. 1857, p. 75.]

This act authorized the formation of corporations for benevolent purposes. See note to act 632, post.

ACT 818.

Further extending act concerning corporations. [Stats. 1858, p. 57.]

Amended and supplemented 1858, 264.

This act allowed the formation of corporations for charitable and benevolent purposes.

ACT 319.

Supplementary to act of 1850 concerning corporations. [Stats. 1858, p. 264.]

This act authorized the formation of corporations for benevolent and literary purposes. See the note to act 632, post.

TITLE 45.

BENICIA.

ACT 324.

To settle land titles in. [Stats. 1865-6, p. 107.]

ACT 325.

To cede certain property to. [Stats. 1855, 239.] This act ceded to Benicia the entire waterfront of that city. Cal.Rep.Cit. 118, 345.

ACT 326.

Election of assessor, city marshal, and treasurer of. [Stats. 1877-8, p. 400.]

Superseded by incorporating, in 1886, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883.

ACT 327.

To provide for the government of, [Stats. 1859, 314.] Supplemented 1860, 118; 1861, 17. Amended 1862, 231; 1867-8, 3, 206; 1869-70, 854; 1873-4, 777. Superseded by incorporating, in 1886, under the Municipal Corporation Act of 1883.

To incorporate the town of. [Stats. 1877-8, p. 888.] Superseded by the charter of Berkeley, 1895, 410. (Miner v. Justices' Court, 121 Cal. 264.)

ACT 333.

To create a justice's court for the town of. [Stats. 1895,

p. 205.]

Unconstitutional. (Miner v. Justices' Court, 121 Cal. 264.)

Big trees, protection of, in Fresno, Tulare and Kern [Stats. 1873-4, p. 347.]

ACT 339.

Counties.

To provide for the management of the Mariposa big tree grove. [Stats. 1880, 44.]

Amended 1885, 212.

TITLE 48.

ACT 344.

BILLS AND NOTES.

Relating to bills of exchange and promissory notes. [Stats. 1850, p. 247.]

Superseded by provisions of Civil Code relating to negotiable instruments.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 90, 107; 103, 322; 103, 323.

To provide for the compilation, printing, binding, publishing and distribution of a legislative manual and state blue book, or roster, and repealing conflicting acts. [Approved February 13, 1903. Stats. 1903, 19.] Former acts can be found in Statutes 1891, 454, and 1893, 218.

Concerning order of B'nai B'rith. [Stats. 1867-8, p. 310.]
Repealed by sec. 288, Civ. Code. See note to act 632, post.
This act conferred corporate power on this society.

ACT 359.

TITLE 51.

BOARD OF EXAMINERS.

Purchase of supplies for state officers and members of the legislature. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 314.]

This act constituted the state board of examiners a furnishing board with certain powers and duties.

ACT 360.

To authorize the state board of examiners to invest the moneys derived from the state school lands in the bonds of the several counties of this state. 1871-2, 54. Repealed 1883, 25.]

ACT 361.

[Stats.

Authorizing state board of examiners to sell old furniture and all material belonging to the state and not required for public use. [Stats. 1891, p. 452.]

ACT 362.

Prescribing certain duties to be performed by the state controller, state treasurer, and state board of examiners. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 118.]

This act appears in full in Political Code, Appendix, p. 1103. .

ACT 367.

TITLE 52.

BOARDS OF FREEHOLDERS.

In relation to municipal elections where the same are held separate from general state elections, and elections held under the authority of section eight of article eleven of the constitution, to elect boards of free. holders, or to vote upon proposed charters or upon amendments to existing charters, and to repeal an act entitled an act in relation to elections held under the authority of section eight of article eleven of the constitution, approved March 31, 1897. [Approved March 4, 1899. Stats. 1899, 63.]

Cal.Rep.Cit. 133, 344. .

BOARDS OF TRADE.

See title Chambers of Commerce.

To provide for funding the indebtedness of counties in certain cases. [Stats. 1884, 8.]

Superseded by County Government Act, subd. 13. sec. 25, 1897, 460.

ACT 370.

To provide for the funding indebtedness of the several counties of the state and the issuing of bonds therefor. [Stats. 1889, p. 37.]

Superseded by sec. 25, County Government Act, 1897, 457.

ACT 371.

Authorizing the several counties of the state to create a bonded indebtedness. [Stats. 1889, p. 348.]

Superseded by sec. 25, County Government Act, 1897, 460.

ACT 372.

Providing for submitting to the qualified electors of a county or city and county a proposed issue of bonds. [Stats. 1883, p. 375.]

Superseded by sec. 25, County Government Act of 1897, and as to San Francisco by its charter.

ACT 373.

Authorizing the board of supervisors of any county, or

[Ap

any subdivision of a county, having a bonded debt, to refund such debt at a less rate of interest. proved March 18, 1885, 211.]

Superseded by subd. 13, sec. 25, County Government Act, 1897, 460.

ACT 374.

To provide for the payment of interest on the outstanding bonds of the state held in trust for the university fund and the state school fund. [Stats. 1893, p. 75.] Amended 1899, 93.

ACT 375.

To provide for the redemption and payment of certain funded debt bonds of the state. [Stats. 1893, p. 49.]

ACT 376.

To provide for the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the construction by the board of state harbor commissioners of a seawall and appur