attorney of the county in which the offense was committed, and upon receiving such notice it shall be the duty of such district attorney to prosecute the offender under the provisions of this act. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately on and after its passage. ACT 2102. An act to provide for the marking, branding, or labeling of boxes, barrels, or packages containing fruits, fresh or dried, and fixing a penalty for the violation thereof, and for the appointment of inspectors under its provisions. [Approved March 20, 1903. Stats. 1903, 338.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 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. Sec. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions or requirements of section one of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic tion shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars. Sec. 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. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately on and after its passage. TITLE 289. MARRIAGE AND MARRIED WOMEN. ACT 2107. Regulating marriages. [Stats. 1850, p. 424.] Amended 1855, 298; 1862, 450; 1863, 244. Superseded by Civil Code, secs. 55-78. Cal.Rep.Cit. 87, 75. ACT 2108. To authorize married women to transact business in their own names as sole traders. [Stats. 1852, p. 108.] Amended 1862, 108. Superseded by Code of Civil Procedure, secs. 1811-1821. ACT 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. Cal.Rep.Cit. 41, 608. ACT 2110. To prevent the fraudulent conveyance or incumbrance of realty by married women. [Stats. 1863, p. 750.] Superseded by Penal Code, sec. 534. Cal.Rep.Cit. 72, 445. ACT 2111. To protect the rights of married women in certain cases. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 226.] Cal.Rep.Cit. 49, 36; 122, 255. This act related to the earnings and the separate property of married women. ACT 2116. TITLE 290. 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.] Incorporating. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 822.] Amended 1877-8, 297. Superseded by incorporating, in 1884, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883. ACT 2122. Animals running at large in. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 302.] Superseded by 1875-6, 822, sec. 7. ACT 2123. To provide for the disposition of certain property of the [Stats. 1851, p. 307.] state. This act released to the town of Martinez the lands covered by Carquinez Straits lying opposite it. Reincorporating. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 149.] Amended 1877-8, 593. ACT 2129. Levees, construction and repair of. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 131.] ACT 2130. Levee indebtedness of, funding of. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 60.] ACT 2131. To establish a police court in. [Stats. 1889, p. 214.] ACT 2132. Superintendent of public schools, fixing salary of. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 153.] TITLE 293. MASTER AND SERVANT. See Laborers; Liens, ante. ACT 2137. To provide for a day of rest from labor. [Stats. 1893, p. 54.] This act provided that every employee should have one day in seven for rest. 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, 571. Unconstitutional. ACT 2139. See Schaezlein v. Cabaniss, 135 Cal. 466. To provide for a lunch hour for laborers in saw-mills, shake-mills, shingle-mills, and logging camps. 1901, p. 75.] This act appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 744. ACT 2140. [Stats. 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. 635. 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. 763. Incorporating town of Meadow Lake. [Stats. 1865-6, p. 372.] TITLE 296. MECHANICS' INSTITUTES. See title Chambers of Commerce. ACT 2155. To authorize the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco to sell, mortgage and convey realty. [Stats. 1863, p. 290.] An act to regulate medical practice to prevent blindness in infants. [Approved February 17, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 12.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 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. Sec. 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. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. ACT 2161. Practice of medicine, regulating. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 792.1 ACT 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.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Appointment of board, quorum. There shall be a board consisting of nine members, which shall be known as the board of medical examiners of the state of California. The members of said board shall be elected as follows: Five members thereof shall be elected by the |