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Present laws not abrogated.

§12. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any county or municipality within this state from buying bonds or otherwise ravesting its money in any manner now provided by law and nothing herein contained as to the disposition of interest on public moneys deposited shall apply to any money received or held by any county or municipality wherein any law provides for the payment of interest or profit thereon, into any particular fund.

§ 13. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 14. This act shall take effect immediately.

Citations. Cal. 152/6.

ACT 1286.

An act to provide for the loan from the school land fund to the state of California of the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars, providing for the transfer of said amount from the school land fund to the general fund and for the repayment of said amount with interest thereon, and authorizing the controller to transfer moneys from the school land fund to the general fund and from the general fund to the school land fund and from the general fund to the state school fund to carry out the purposes of this aet. [Approved March 20, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 752.]

ACT 1287.

An act to convert, transfer and return to the general fund of the state treasury, all unexpended moneys heretofore appropriated for the care, management or improvement, or for any other purpose, with reference to the "Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove" or any money which may be or hereafter come into the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove. [Approved March 15, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 268.]

ACT 1288.

An act authorizing the transfer of moneys from the salary fund of the state Normal School at San Francisco to the printing fund of said school. [Approved March 19, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 687.]

ACT 1289.

An act authorizing the payment into the general fund of the state treasury of moneys held for the redemption of certain coupons of the civil bonds of 1857 and providing for the redemption of said coupons. [Approved April 12, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 842.]

ACT 1290.

An act authorizing the payment into the general fund of the state treasury of moneys held for the redemption of certain coupons of the Central Pacific Railroad bonds of 1864 and providing for the redemption of said coupons. [Approved April 12, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 843.]

АСТ 1291.

TITLE 187.

GALLINAS SLOUGH.

Gallinas Slough or Creek, in Marin County, declared navigable.

1875-76, p. 485.]

[Stats.

"Repealed by Pol. C., § 2349 as amended in 1891. Renewed by Pol. C., § 2349 as amended in 1907."-Code Commissioners' Note.

ACT 1293.

TITLE 188.
GAMING.

To suppress gaming. [Stats. 1855, p. 124.]
Superseded by Penal Code, §§ 330-337.

ACT 1294.

To prohibit gaming. [Stats. 1857, p. 267.]

Superseded by Penal Code, §§ 330-337.

АСТ 1295.

To prohibit gaming. [Stats. 1860, p. 69.]
Amended 1863, p. 723. Superseded by Penal Code, § 330 et seq.

ACT 1296.

TITLE 189.
GAME LAWS.

An act to regulate and license the hunting of game birds and animals and to provide revenue therefrom, for game preservation and restoration and to make appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this act. [Approved March 13, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 247. Repealed 1909, p. 663.]

See Act 1297.

ACT 1297.

An act to regulate and license the hunting of wild birds and animals, and to provide revenue therefrom, for game and fish preservation and restoration.

[Approved March 22, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 663.]

Licenses to hunt game.

§ 1. Every person in the state of California, who hunts, pursues or kills any of the wild birds or animals, excepting predatory birds or animals, without first procuring a license therefor, as provided in this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

By whom issued.

§ 2. Licenses granting the privilege to hunt, pursue or kill wild birds or animals, shall be issued and delivered upon application, by the county

clerk of any of the counties of this state, or by the state board of fish commissioners, who shall prepare suitable licenses of convenient form, and size, and have printed or stamped thereon the words: "Hunting License No. State of California, expires June 30, 19-," with the registration number, and appropriate year printed or stamped thereon, which said license shall be prepared and furnished to the county clerk, and for their own disposition, by the state board of fish commissioners, which board shall take receipt therefor by number and quantity, from the several county clerks, and the county clerk shall be responsible therefor and shall account for the same to the controller of the state every three months, beginning with July 1st of each year. For each license sold, registered and accounted for by any person excepting by a fish commissioner, he shall be allowed as compensation out of the game preservation fund, ten per cent of the amount accounted for.

To whom issued, and fee for.

§ 3. The licenses herein provided for shall be issued as follows: First-To any citizen of the United States who is a bona fide resident of the state of California, upon the payment of one dollar.

Second-To any citizen of the United States, not a bona fide resident of the state of California, upon the payment of ten dollars.

Third-To any person not a citizen of the United States, upon the payment of twenty-five dollars.

Application for license.

§ 4. Every person applying for and procuring a license as herein provided shall furnish to the county clerk or state board of fish commissioners, his name and resident address, which information shall be by the clerk or board entered in a book kept for that purpose, and provided by the state board of fish commissioners, together with a statement of the date of issuance and the number of the license issued to such person. Such applicant shall also furnish to the county clerk or fish commissioners a written description of himself, by age, height, nationality and color of the eyes and hair.

Term of license.

§ 5. All licenses issued as herein provided shall be valid, and shall authorize the person to whom issued, to hunt, pursue and kill wild birds and animals, excepting predatory birds and animals, on and from the first day of July of the year in which such license is issued until the date of expiration written or stamped thereon, but no license shall continue in force for a period longer than one year.

Disposition of moneys.

§ 6. All moneys collected from licenses as provided herein, and all fines collected for the violation of the provisions hereof shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the game preservation fund. License not transferable.

§7. Not more than one license shall be issued to any one person for the same fiscal year, except upon an affidavit by the applicant that the

one issued has been lost or destroyed, and no license issued as herein provided shall be transferable or used by any other person than the one to whom it was issued.

Must be exhibited on demand.

§ 8. Every person having a license as provided herein, who while hunting refuses to exhibit such license upon demand of any officer authorized to enforce the game and fish laws of this state, or any peace officer of the state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and every person lawfully having such license, who transfers or disposes of the same to another person to be used as a hunting license, shall forfeit the same. Violation of act.

§ 9. Every person violating any of the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than ten, nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than ten, nor more than one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Act of 1907 repealed.

§ 10. An act entitled "An act to regulate and license the hunting of game birds and animals and to provide revenue therefrom for game preservation and restoration and to make appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this act," approved March 13, 1907, is hereby repealed.

§ 11. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after July 1st, 1909.

ACT 1298.

An act to regulate the vocation of fishing, and to provide therefrom revenue for the propagation, restoration and preservation of fish in the waters of the state of California.

[Approved March 13, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 302.]

License required.

§ 1. Every person engaged or employed in the vocation of fishing for profit in the public waters of this state must first obtain a license before engaging in such vocation.

State controller to issue. Duty of fish commissioners.

§ 2. The controller of state shall prepare suitable licenses, of the classes designated by the fish and game commissioners, which shall purport to license the holder of such license to fish in any of the publie waters of this state with crawfish traps, lines, nets, seines, or by boat, for the term of one year from the first day of April of one year to the first day of April of the year following. The licenses shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with number one, and contain blanks for the insertion of the name of the holder, his resident address, and his description, by age, height, nationality, and color of eyes and hair,

which description shall be furnished by the applicant to the board of fish and game commissioners. The controller shall sign all licenses and deliver the same to the fish and game commissioners, on demand, who shall be charged for the same by the controller. Each license, before delivery to the applicant for a license, must be countersigned by the president of the board of fish and game commissioners, and the president of the board of fish and game commissioners shall execute a bond to the people of the state of California, in the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars, for the faithful performance of the duties imposed upon him by this act.

To whom licenses shall be issued.

§ 3. Licenses shall be issued and delivered upon application to the state board of fish and game commissioners or their deputies. The licenses herein provided for shall be issued as follows: To any citizen of the United States upon the payment of two and one-half (2%) dollars; to any person not a citizen of the United States upon the payment of ten (10) dollars. Not more than one license shall be issued to any one person for the same year, except upon an affidavit by the applicant that the one issued has been lost or destroyed, and no license issued as herein provided shall be transferable or used by any other person than the one to whom it was issued. Every person having a license as provided herein, who refuses to exhibit such license upon demand of any officer authorized to enforce the fish and game laws of this state, or any peace officer of this state; or who transfers or disposes of the same to another person to be used as a fisherman's license; or who fishes with unlawful lines, nets, seines, or by modes or methods in violation of any law for the preservation of fish and game, shall forfeit this license.

Fees, to whom payable.

§ 4. The said license fees must be paid to the fish and game commissioners, or to some one designated by them for that purpose; and each of the commissioners, and such person or persons designated by them, is and are hereby empowered to arrest any person fishing, or using lines, or a boat, or net for fishing, without a license, contrary to the provisions of section one of this act.

Disposition of fees.

§5. The money collected from such licenses shall be paid by the commissioners into the state treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the "Support and maintenance of hatcheries," and shall be applicable to the payment of the expenses of progagating, protecting, restoring and introducing commercial fishes into the public waters of this state, and all other necessary expenses pertaining thereto.

Penalty for violation of act.

§ 5. The violation of any provision of this act is hereby declared a misdemeanor, and every person violating any of its provisions, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than ten nor more

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