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This act required the quarterly publication of the names of children admitted and also provided as to what constituted an abandonment of children.

АСТ 2595.

Appropriating money for support of orphans, half-orphans, and abandoned children. [Stats. 1880, p. 13.]

Amended 1883, p. 57; 1907, p. 856.

Citations. Cal. 115/535; 123/151; 136/64; 139/400, 402, 406, 407, 408.
Codified by §§ 2283-2290 of Political Code: See Political Code, §§ 2283-2290.

АСТ 2596.

To authorize managers of orphan asylums to give their consent to the adoption of certain children under their care. [Approved April 1,

1878. Stats. 1877-78, p. 963.]

See Civil Code, § 224.

АСТ 2597.

To provide for the appointment of guardians of children in orphan asylums maintained in any orphans' home or orphan asylum in this state. [Stats. 1893, p. 203.]

This act appears in full in Appendix, Civil Code, p. 1911.

АСТ 2602.

TITLE 367.
OSTEOPATHY.

An act to regulate the practice of osteopathy in the state of California, and to provide for a state board of osteopathic examiners, and to license osteopaths to practice in this state, and punish persons violating the provisions of this act. [Became a law under constitutional provision without governor's approval, March 9, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 113.]

Amended 1909, p. 418.

Probably superseded by the act of March 14, 1907, regulating the practice of medicine, surgery, osteopathy and other modes of treating the sick or af flicted: See ante, Act 2163.

АСТ 2607.

TITLE 368.
OYSTERS.

Concerning oysters. [Stats. 1851, p. 432.]

Continued in force by codes,-Penal Code, § 23; Political Code, § 19,-and later repealed, Stats. 1873-74, p. 941.

АСТ 2608.

Concerning oyster-beds. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 848.]

Continued in force, Penal Code, § 23; Political Code, § 19, and later repealed, Stats. 1873-74, p. 940.

АСТ 2609.

Encouraging planting and cultivation of. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 940.] Citations. Cal. 150/394.

TITLE 369.

PARIS GREEN.

ACT 2614.

An act to prevent fraud in the sale of paris green used as an insecticide, [Became a law under constitutional provision without governor's approval, February 28, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 69.]

§ 1. It shall be the duty of each and every manufacturer of paris green (commercial aceto-arsenite of copper) to be used as an insecticide within this state, and of every dealer in original packages of said paris green manufactured outside of this state, before the said paris green is offered or exposed for sale, or sold within this state as an insecticide, to submit to the director of the California agricultural experiment station at Berkeley, samples of said paris green, and a written or printed statement setting forth: First, the brands of said paris green to be sold, the number of pounds contained in each package in which it is put on the market for sale, the name or names of the manufacturers and the place of manufacturing the same; second, the statement shall set forth the amount of combined arsenic which the said paris green contains, and the statement so furnished shall be considered as constituting a guarantee to the purchaser that every package of such paris green contains not less than the amount of combined arsenic set forth in the statement.

§ 2. Every purchaser of said paris green in original packages, which is manufactured outside of this state, who intends to sell or expose the same for sale, and every manufacturer of said paris green within this state, shall, after filing the statement above provided for, with the director of the California agricultural experiment station at Berkeley, receive from the said director a certificate stating that he has complied with the foregoing statement, which certificate shall be furnished without charge therefor; said certificate when furnished shall authorize the party when receiving the same to deal in this state in the said paris green. Any person who fails to comply with the terms of section 1 of this act shall not be entitled to such certificate and shall not be entitled to deal in said paris green within this state. Nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to retail dealers selling said paris green which has already been labeled and guaranteed.

§3. Paris green, when sold, offered or exposed for sale, as an insecticide, in this state, shall contain at least fifty per centum of arsenious oxide and shall not contain more than four per centum of the same in the uncombined state.

§ 4. The director of the California state agricultural station at Berkeley shall examine or cause to be examined different brands of paris green sold, offered or exposed for sale within the state, and cause samples of the same to be analyzed, and shall report results of analyses forthwith to the secretary of the state board of horticulture and to the party or parties submitting said samples, and such report shall be final as regards its quality.

§ 5. Any person or persons, firm, association, company or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, and any person who shall sell any package of paris green or any part thereof which has not been labeled as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, together with the costs of the suit in an action caused to be brought by the state board of horticulture through its secretary in the name of the people of the state of California.

§ 6. The attorney general of the state of California is charged with the prosecution of all such suits.

§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

TITLE 370.

ACT 2619.

PAROLE COMMISSIONERS.

To establish board of parole commissioners for the parole of and government of paroled prisoners. [Stats. 1893, p. 183.]

Amended 1901, p. 82.

This act appears in full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 2147.

ACT 2620.

An act to provide for the creation of a board of parole commissioners for each county in this state, for the paroling of prisoners confined in county jails, and authorizing and empowering such boards to make rules and regulations in relation thereto.

[Approved March 25, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 783.]

§1. A board of parole commissioners consisting of the sheriff and district attorney is hereby created for each county in this state, who shall establish rules and regulations under which any prisoner who is now or hereafter may be imprisoned in the county jail of said county after judgment of conviction for the commission of a misdemeanor, may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the said jail, but to remain while on parole in the legal custody and under the control of the board establishing said rules and regulations, and subject at any time to be taker back within the enclosure of said jail; and full power to make and enforce such rules and regulations and retake and imprison any prisoner so upon parole is hereby conferred upon the said board herein before mentioned, whose written order shall be a sufficient warrant for all officers named therein to authorize such officer to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner, and it is hereby made the duty of all chiefs of police, marshals of cities and villages, and sheriff's of counties, and all police and peace officers and constables to execute any such order in like manner as ordinary criminal process. If any prisoner so paroled shall leave the county in which he was so imprisoned without permission from the board granting his parole, he shall be held as an escaped prisoner and arrested as such.

§2 This act shall take effect immediately from and after its passage.

TITLE 371.
PARTNERSHIPS.

АСТ 2624.

To authorize the formation of special partnerships. [Stats. 1869-70,

p. 123.]

Superseded by Civil Code, §§ 2477-2485.

АСТ 2627.

TITLE 372.
PASADENA.

Charter of Pasadena. [Stats. 1901, p. 884.]

Amended 1905, p. 1011; 1909, p. 1198.

Citations. Cal. 152/589, 592.

АСТ 2629.

TITLE 373.
PAUPERS.

To provide for the indigent sick in the counties of this state. [Stats.

1855, p. 67.]

Probably repealed by the County Government Act: See Power v. May, 123 Cal. 147, 150. Compare the act of 1901, p. 636, to provide for the maintenance and support of indigent, incompetent, and incapacitated persons.

ACT 2630.

Appropriation for support of aged persons in indigent circumstances. [Stats. 1883, p. 380.]

Repealed 1895, p. 23.

This act provided for a per capita appropriation for persons maintained in institutions.

Citations. Cal. 69/74; 77/134; 114/395; 123/151; 136/64; 138/59.

ACT 2631.

An act to provide for the maintenance and support, in certain cases, of indigent, incompetent, and incapacitated persons (other than persons adjudged insane and confined within state hospitals), becoming a public charge upon the counties or cities and counties within the state of California, and for the payment thereof into a fund for the maintenance and support of such persons.

[Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 636.] Citations. Cal. 143/70.

§1. Every county and every city and county shall relieve and support all pauper, incompetent, poor, indigent persons and those incapac itated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not supported and relieved by their relatives or friends, or by their own means, or by state hospitals or other state or private institutions.

§ 2. The term "residence" as used in this act shall be taken to mean and shall be considered to mean the actual residence of each of such persons, or the place where such person was employed, or in case such person was in no employment, then it shall be considered and held to be the place where such person made his or her home, or his or her headquarters.

§ 3. Every person, firm or corporation, or the officers, agents, servants, or employees of any person, firm or corporation, bringing into or leaving within, or procuring the bringing into or the leaving within, or aiding in the bringing into or the leaving within, of any pauper or poor or indigent or incapacitated or incompetent person as hereinbefore mentioned, in any county or city and county in the state of California, wherein such person is not lawfully settled or not lawfully residing as herein defined, knowing him to be such pauper, poor, indigent, or incapacitated or incompetent person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§4. If any person shall become chargeable as a pauper, or poor, or indigent, or incapacitated, or incompetent person as herein designated, in any county, or city and county, who did not reside therein (as herein specified) at the commencement of three months immediately preceding his becoming so chargeable, but did at that time reside (as herein specified) in some other county, or city and county in this state, it shall be the duty of the county clerk of said first-mentioned county or city and county to send written notice by mail or otherwise to the county clerk of the county or city and county in which such person so resided, requesting the proper authorities of such county or city and county to remove such person forthwith, and to pay the expenses accruing or to accrue, in taking care of such person; and such county or city and county, wherein such person resided at the commencement of the three months immediately preceding such person's becoming chargeable as a poor, indigent, or incapacitated, or incompetent person as herein designated, shall pay to the county or city and county so taking care of such person all reasonable charges for the same, and such amount may be recovered by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction by such county or city and county.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of any county hospital or almshouse in any county or city and county in this state, or his subordinates, immediately upon receiving any person into such hospital or almshouse as a public charge, such person being poor, indigent, or incapacitated, or incompetent as herein defined, or any registrar of charities or of any charity supported by public funds or aided in part by public funds, aiding such person, to make diligent inquiry into the ability of such person or of his relatives as hereinafter mentioned to bear the actual charges and expenses of the maintenance and support of such person, and to forthwith notify the district attorney of such county or city and county, or the city and county attorney thereof, and the board of supervisors of such county or city and county, of the result of such in

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