shall be permitted to assume and use such title or to use any words, letters or figures to indicate that the person using the same is a certified public accountant. §4. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor. § 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. TITLE 4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The legislature at various times has passed statutes validating acknowledg ments: See Civil Code, § 1207. Consult the following acts in this connection: ACT 16. Legalizing acknowledgments of deeds. [Stats. 1852, p. 166.] ACT 17. To legalize certain acknowledgments. [Stats. 1859, p. 212.] This act legalized acknowledgments taken by deputy clerks of the superior court and deputy county recorders. ACT 18. Concerning certain acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments in writing, affecting real estate. [Stats. 1860, p. 179.] This act provided for correcting defective certificates. It was superseded by Civil Code, § 1202. ACT 19. To legalize certain acknowledgments, required by section 2 of an act to provide for the formation of chambers of commerce, boards of trade, mechanics' institutes and similar protective associations. [Stats. 1885, p. 55.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Civil Code, p. 1853. ACT 20. To legalize certain acknowledgments. [Stats. 1891, p. 20.] This act legalized acknowledgments by court commissioners. ACT 21. Cal. 97/483; 108/145. To legalize certain acknowledgments. [Stats. 1897, p. 29.] This act legalized acknowledgments before court commissioners and county elerks. АСТ 26. TITLE 5. Providing for the adoption of minors and the legitimizing children born out of wedlock. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 530.] Superseded by Civil Code. Citations. Cal. 81/420, 441, 446. АСТ 27. To authorize managers of orphan asylums to give their consent to the adoption of children under their care. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 963.] See Civ. Code, § 224. An act to prevent the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded foods and liquors and regulating the traffic therein, providing penalties, establishing a state laboratory for foods, liquors and drugs and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 11, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 208. Amended 1909, p. 51; 1909, p. 353.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 1989. ACT 30. An act for the prevention of the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded drugs, regulating the traffic in drugs and providing penalties for violation thereof. [Approved March 11, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 230.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 2026. АСТ 31. An act to prevent the adulteration of paints, oils, varnishes and pigments. [Approved March 22, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 852.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 1988. ACT 32. To prevent fraud and deception in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese. [Stats. 1881, p. 14.] Superseded by 1895, p. 41; 1897, p. 65. See Act of 1907, p. 265, prohibiting adulteration in dairy products: Post, Act 875. ACT 33. To prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese and to secure its enforcement. [Stats. 1895, p. 41.] Repealed in effect 1897, p. 65. АСТ 34. To prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese, to secure its enforcement and to appropriate money therefor. [Stats. 1897, p. 65.] This act is in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 2006. АСТ 35. To provide against the adulteration of food and drugs. [Stats. 1895, p. 71.] Codified in part by § 383 of Penal Code. АСТ 36. To prevent the adulteration of food and liquors. [Stats. 1862, p. 484.] Superseded by Penal Code, § 382. ACT 37. To prevent the sale of imitation or adulterated honey. [Stats. 1895, p. 94.] To prohibit the adulteration of honey, and to provide a punishment therefor. [Stats. 1897, p. 12.] This act is in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 1987. ACT 39. To protect and encourage the production and sale of pure and wholesome milk, and to prohibit and punish the production or sale of unwholesome or adulterated milk. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 298.] Superseded by Penal Code, § 382. АСТ 40. To provide for analyzing minerals, mineral waters, and other liquids, and medicinal plants, and of foods and drugs, and to prevent the adulteration of the same. [Stats. 1885, p. 43.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Political Code, p. 1848. ACT 41. To regulate the sale of imitation olive oil. [Stats. 1893, p. 210.] This act is in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 2085. ACT 42. To prohibit and punish the sale of adulterated syrup. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 695.] This act is in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 1977. ACT 43. To prohibit the sale and disposal of adulterated spirituous or alcoholic liquors, wines or cider. [Stats. 1860, p. 186.] Superseded by Penal Code, § 382. ACT 44. [Stats. 1887, p. 46.] To prohibit the sophistication and adulteration of wine and to prevent An act to prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of California wines by establishing a uniform wine nomenclature for pure wines, and to secure its enforcement and to provide a penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof. [Approved March 6, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 127.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 1983. ACT 46. [Approved March An act to prohibit the use of chemicals and other materials in milk and milk products to prevent fermentation therein. 23, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 971.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 2023. ACT 47. An act to regulate the production and sale of certified milk. [Approved March 18, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 402.] This act appears in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 2025. ACT 49. TITLE 7. Adultery, act to punish. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 380.] Codified by §§ 269a, 269b, Penal Code. Citations. Cal. 46/52; 49/10; 71/263; 82/449; 103/497; 148/304. TITLE 8. AGED PERSONS. See "Home of Adult Blind"; "Veterans' Home Association." ACT 54. To appropriate money for the support of aged stances. [Approved March 15, 1883. Repealed 1895, p. 23. persons in indigent circumStats. 1883, p. 380.] This act provided for an appropriation of one hundred dollars for every aged person, minor, orphan, half-orphan, or abandoned child maintained in any institu tion. See Act 2595, Citations. Cal. 69/74; 77/134; 114/395; 123/151; 136/64. TITLE 9. ACT 59. Relating to advances, bona fide, made to agents intrusted with goods, and for the better protection of such advances. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 835.] Repealed 1880, p. 120. Citations. Cal. 66/308, 309. TITLE 10. See "Fruit Trees and Vines"; "Horticulture"; "Silk Culture"; "Viticulture." ACT 62. An act to provide for the improvement of cereal crops of California, and appropriate money therefor. [Approved March 6, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 190.] This act provided for investigations and experiments under the supervision of the director of the agricultural experiment station for the University of California. Former acts on the same subject can be found in Stats. 1905, p. 128, and 1907, p. 204. ACT 63. An act making an appropriation for the erection and construction of buildings and equipping the fair grounds owned by or under the jurisdiction and control of the California State Agricultural Society, for exposition and state fair purposes and for the payment of other expenses incidental and relating thereto, prohibiting gambling of all kinds upon the grounds and premises under the control of said California State Agricultural Society, and providing a penalty for gambling or gaming thereon, and providing that certain moneys now in the state treasury may be used in connection with this appropriation for such purposes. [Stats. 1905, p. 793.] ACT 64. An act to authorize state agricultural societies under the control of the state to sell property held by them in fee, or held by trustees for their use, or in which they may have any interest; to prescribe a course of procedure therefor; to indemnify purchasers at such sale, and to direct how the proceeds shall be applied. [Approved February 25, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 30. Amended 1899, p. 106.] Compare Act of 1905, p. 793. §1. Whenever any state agricultural society under state control shall desire to sell the whole or any portion of its real estate held by it |