of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States, and to designate an officer to receive moneys appropriated by the United States on account of said home. [Approved March 19, 1889; 1889, 418.]

An act to provide for the building and furnishing of the home for soldiers' widows and orphans and army nurses, and for the state to inquire into the management of such institution by a uniform rule proportioned to the number of inmates in said institution, for the management of the same, and for the support of indigent persons residing in the said home. [Approved March 16, 1889; 1889, 206.]

And the amendment of this act approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 428.

An act entitled "An act to prevent persons from unlawfully using or wearing the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic of this state." [Approved March 10, 1887; 1887, 82.]

Au act to provide for the burial of ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines, in this state, who may hereafter die without leaving sufficient means to defray funeral expenses. [Approved March, 15, 1889; 1889, 198.]

TITLE 258.

SONOMA COUNTY.

A reference to the local acts relating to Sonoma county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 705-707.

TITLE 259.

SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS.

There are in force in a few of the counties spe cial and local acts designed for the destruction of squirrels and gophers. These may be found by referring to Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 707-708.

TITLE 260.

STALLIONS.

The Political Code, sec. 19, in continuing in force all acts in relation to lawful fences, estrays, and the trespassing of animals upon private property, seems to have continued in force the acts concerning stallions:

These acts are collected in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 708-710.

TITLE 261.

STAMPS.

An act to provide for the redemption of unused and uncanceled stamps of the state of California, heretofore sold. [Approved April 1, 1876; 1875-6, 727.]

This special act provides for the appropriation of ten thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-one cents with which to redeem unused and uncanceled state stamps issued under an act to provide revenue for the government of this state, approved March 9, 1861. It is not deemed of sufficient importance to give in full or do more than refer to it.

TITLE 262.

STANISLAUS COUNTY.

A reference to local acts relating to Stanislaus county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 710, 711.

TITLE 263.

STATE.

Acts relating to: See Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, title, State, p. 868 et seq.; Political Code, p. 1061.

TITLE 264.

STATE ANALYST.

Acts relating to: See Political Code, Appendix, title, State Analyst, p. 1062.

TITLE 265.

STATE CAPITOL.

Act prohibiting sale of liquor approved April 16, 1880; Stats. 1880, p. 80, Ban. ed. 273. Many acts have been passed relating to State Capitol, but as they principally were appropriation bills for the improvement of the building or grounds, they have not been incorporated herein. A constitutional amendment to remove the state capitol from Sacramento to San Jose was passed in 1893: Statutes 1893, p. 657, but was held invalid in Livermore v. Waite, 102 Cal. 113. Consult Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 690 and 691.

TITLE 266.

STATE LANDS.

An act providing for the presentation and cancellation of unlocated school land warrants of the state of California, issued under the act of the state of California, approved May 3, 1852, providing for the disposal of the five hundred thousand acres of land donated to the state of California by the government of the United States, and authorizing the controller of this state to draw his warrant on the state treasurer for the sum of two dollars per acre, in favor of any bona fide owner and holder of any such land warrant, for every acre represented by any such land warrant.

[Approved March 23, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 181.]

An act to provide for the applications for purchase of sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, and to regulate the application for purchase of such sections, and requiring a deposit to accompany all applications for the purchase of the same.

[Approved March 20, 1889; 1889, 434.]

Purchase of sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections. Section 1. Every application to purchase any portion of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections shall be accompanied by a deposit of twenty dollars, in addition to the fee for filing now required by law, for which the surveyor general shall give the applicant a receipt, which receipt shall be accepted by the county treasurer in part payment of the purchase price of said land. If the applicant shall abandon or forfeit his said application, or shall fail to make proper proof as to the character of the said land, or as to his residence thereon, within the time allowed by law, or if his application shall be rejected by reason of any false statement in the affidavit herein contained, the twenty dollars thus paid shall go to the state school fund. If it is found that the surveyor general erred in receiving the application, or that the state cannot make a good title to the land, then the applicant or his assigns may surrender to the surveyor general the said receipt, and receive in exchange therefor a certificate showing the amount so paid, and the reason why the application could not be approved or perfected, and the controller, upon the surrender to him of the said surveyor general's certificate, shall issue to the applicant, or his assigns, a warrant for the said amount. Filings.

Sec. 2. Any number of filings on any section of land is hereby permitted and allowed under the provisions of this act. Should the first filing be abandoned by the applicant, the next filing on such section, in order, shall have the same right as if it had been the first filing.

Moneys to go to school land deposit fund.

Sec. 3. The moneys received by the surveyor general under the provisions of this act, except

the moneys forfeited under section one, shall be paid to the state treasurer at the close of each month, and must be placed in a fund, to be called school land deposit fund, to the credit of the county in which the lands applied for are situated. When any moneys are placed in the school deposit fund to the credit of a county, the controller, at the next settlement with the controller by the treasurer of such county, must draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount in the fund to the credit of the county; provided, that the direction herein to the controller is exempted from the operations of section six hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code.

An act respecting the payment in full by holders of certificates of purchase for lands sold by the state of California prior to March 27, 1872, and for which the said state has at any time heretofore issued certificates of purchase to subsequent purchasers.

[Approved March 20, 1889; 1889, 428.]

When holders of certificates of purchase of state lands deemed to have forfeited their rights therein.

Section. 1. Whenever application has been made to purchase lands from this state, and payment only in part has been made to the treasurer of the proper county for the same, and a certificate of purchase has been issued to the applicant prior to the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and whenever such applicant, his assignee or assignees, shall have failed for five years to pay to the state the arrears of principal or of interest due to the state for said land, and the state shall at any time heretofore have issued a certificate of purchase for the same land, or any part thereof, to a subsequent purchaser, then, unless the holder or holders of such prior certificate shall pay the entire residue of the interest remaining unpaid for such purchase within six months from and after the passage of this act, such holder or holders shall be deemed to have lost all right to the land described in said certificate, or to complete the purchase of such land,