pital for the relief of the sick, and as a training school for nurses, may to that end and for such purpose, by grant in writing, convey to a trustee or any number of trustees named in such grant, and to their successors, any property real or personal, belonging to such person, and situated or being within this state, provided, that if any such person be married and the property be community property, then both husband and wife must join in such grant. § 3. The person making such grant may therein designate: 1. The nature, object and purpose of the hospital and school for nurses to be founded, endowed and maintained. 2. The name by which it shall be known. 3. The powers and duties of the trustees, and the manner in which they shall account, and to whom, if accounting be required; but such powers and duties shall not be held to be exclusive of other powers and duties which may be necessary to enable such trustees to fully carry out the objects of such grant. 4. The mode and manner, and by whom, the successors of the trustee or trustees named in the grant are to be appointed. 5. Such rules and regulations for the management of the property conveyed as the grantor may elect to prescribe; but such rules shall, unless the grantor otherwise prescribes, be advisory only, and shall not preclude such trustees from making such changes as new conditions may from time to time require. § 4. The trustee or trustees named in such grant, and their successors may in the name of the said hospital and school for nurses, as designated in such grant, receive and hold gifts and donations of real and personal property, sue and defend, in relation to the trust property, and in relation to all matters affecting the said hospital and said school endowed or established by such grant, and such trustees are hereby given, and shall have, the right to exercise corporate powers and privileges, and to that end they may organize and act as a board of trustees, elect such officers of such board as they may deem to be necessary, adopt by-laws, and as such board, and through the officers thereof, they may transact such business, perform such acts and exercise such powers as they in writing may provide may be transacted, performed and exercised by such board. Such board may adopt and use a seal and such seal when attached to any document or writing shall be prima facie evidence that such document or writing was made by and under due authority from such board and from such trustees. § 5. The person making such grant, by a provision therein, may elect in relation to the property conveyed and in relation to the erection, maintenance and management of such hospital and school, to perform, during his life, all the duties and exercise all the powers which, by the terms of the grant, are enjoined upon and vested in the trustee therein named, and in such case the powers and duties conferred and imposed by such grant upon said trustees therein named, shall be exercised and performed by the person making such grant, during his life; provided however, that upon the death of such person such powers and duties. shall devolve upon and shall be exercised by the trustees named in the grant, and their successors. § 6. Any such grant may be executed, acknowledged and recorded in the same manner as is now provided by law for the execution, acknowledgment and recording of grants of real property. § 7. No suit, action or proceeding shall be commenced or maintained by any person to set aside, annul or effect said conveyance or to effect the title to the property conveyed, or the right to the possession, or to the rents, issues and profits thereof, unless the same be commenced within two years after the date of filing such grant for record; nor shall any defense be made to any suit, action or proceeding commenced by the trustees named in said grant or their successors, privies or persons holding under them, which defense involves the legality of said grant, or effects the title to the property thereby conveyed, or the right of possession, or the rents, issues and profits thereof, unless such defense is made in a suit, action or proceeding commenced within two years after such grant shall have been filed for record, and after such filing said property shall be exempt from execution and forced sale. § 8. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. ACT 1528. TITLE 219. An act to regulate the use of illuminating gas. §1. Every hotel-keeper, lodging-house keeper, and innkeeper, or keeper of any place where rooms are let to lodgers in which, or any of which such places illuminating gas is used, who shall turn off, or cause to be turned off at the meter the flow of such illuminating gas, during the time of the use of any such room or rooms, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any of the persons herein enumerated, when such person or persons shall have connected every exit orifice upon the gas fixtures used in such place or places with a practical and safe automatic gas igniter. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage. TITLE 220. HOURS OF LABOR. Of minors. See tit. "Infancy," post. ACT 1533. To limit the hours of labor. [Stats. 1867-68, p. 63.] АСТ 1534. Limiting the hours of daily services of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of or work done for the state of California, or any political subdivision thereof, providing for the insertion of certain stipulations in contracts for public works, imposing penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and providing for the enforcement thereof. [Stats. 1899, p. 149.] Citations. Cal. 142/104. Superseded by the following act: АСТ 1535. An act limiting the hours of daily service of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of, or work done for, the state of California, or any political subdivision thereof; providing for the insertion of certain stipulations in contracts for public works; imposing penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and providing for enforcement thereof. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 561.] This act was probably superseded in part, if not entirely, by the following act: АСТ 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.] Codified by § 653c of Penal Code. TITLE 221. ACT 1540. HOUSE OF CORRECTION. To provide for commitments to the house of correction. [Stats. 1885, p. 34.] Superseded 1889, p. 111; 1889, p. 100. Citations. Cal. 87/83. This act provided for commitments to houses of correction instead of to county jails in counties where there was a house of correction. АСТ 1545. TITLE 222. HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION. To suppress houses of ill-fame. [Stats. 1855, p. 76.] TITLE 223. HUMBOLDT BAY. АСТ 1550. To prevent persons from obstructing the channels of Humboldt Bay and Harbor. [Stats. 1853, p. 192.] Superseded by Political Code, §§ 2567-2572, relating to harbor commissioners of Eureka. АСТ 1551. 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.] 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.] АСТ 1554. An act appropriating money to be expended by and under the direction of the department of engineering for the purpose of making a preliminary survey of Humboldt Bay and gathering data for a report to the legislature as to the necessity of dredging and removing sand and other deposits formed across the channels of said bay and as to the best manner of removing said deposits that the navigability of said bay may be improved and making an estimate of the cost thereof. [Approved April 12, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 841.] This act appropriated $2,000 for the purpose indicated. TITLE 224. ACT 1558. HUMBOLDT COUNTY. Clerk of, compensation of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 81.] АСТ 1559. District attorney of, salary of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 34.] Dependent poor and indigent sick of, relief and maintenance of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 41.] Supplemented 1875-76, p. 488. Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, D. 452. АСТ 1561. To provide an additional judge for. [Stats. 1895, p. 27.] ACT 1562. Jurors in courts of justice of the peace in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 229.) As to jurors' fees, repealed 1895, p. 273. АСТ 1563. Providing for the scaling of logs in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 779.] АСТ 1564. Additional notaries public. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 159.] Superseded by Political Code, § 791. This act provided for the appointment of three additional notaries. АСТ 1565. Fixing compensation of certain officers of. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 109.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 518, § 168. АСТ 1566. Concerning roads of. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 105.] Amended 1873-74, p. 103. Modified, if not superseded, by County Government Act, 1897, p. 452, and by § 2, Stats. 1883, p. 5, c. X. АСТ 1567. Roads in. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 477.] Repealed 1883, p. 5, c. X, § 2. ACT 1568. Sheriff, concerning office of. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 797.] This act allowed the sheriff compensation for his services as jailer. АСТ 1569. Supervisors, fixing number of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 333.] АСТ 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.] Amended Stats. 1856, p. 75; 1857, p. 241; 1860, p. 5. 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. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 169.] Superseded and in effect repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 518, 168, as amended 1901, p. 721. |