laws of the United States, or under the laws of this State, found guilty of a violation of any law of this State, or of any ordinance of a municipality of this State, other than a capital offense, shall be deemed and adjudged as having forfeited all right and privilege to remain within the State, and it shall be the duty of the court trying the cause to pass sentence of deportation as in other cases provided for in this act, to be executed after he shall have satisfied the penalty of fine and imprisonment, or either, for violation of such law of this State, or ordinance of any municipality of the same; provided, that the court trying said cause may, in its discretion, pass such sentence of deportation in the first instance as the only penalty. Sec. 23. Any person who shall knowingly and falsely alter or substitute any name for the name written in any certificate herein registered, or forge such certificate, or knowingly utter any forged or fraudulent certificate, or falsely personate any person named in any such certificate, and any person other than the one to whom a certificate was issued who shall falsely present any such certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the State penitentiary for a term of not more than five years.

Sec. 24. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, it is hereby provided,

Subdivision 1. That the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics shall have for his services to be rendered in carrying out this act the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars per annum, payable out of the Chinese fund in this act created and provided for.

Subdivision 2. The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics may, with the concurrence and consent of the Governor, appoint such deputies as may be deemed by them necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, and that such deputies shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the State Board of Examiners, not to exceed the sum of one dollar for each certificate issued, in full compensation for their services as such deputies, to be charged to the Chinese fund hereinbefore specified. Subdivision 3. All claims arising out of and inciGen. Laws-6.

dent in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be presented the same as other claims against the State, and audited and passed on by the State Board of Examiners, and paid on warrants drawn by the controller upon the Chinese fund.

Sec. 25. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

TITLE 40.

CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEYS.

Acts relating to, see Political Code, Appendix, title City and County Attorneys, p. 958.

TITLE 41.

CIVIL RIGHTS.

An Act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.

[Stat. approved March 13, 1897; Stats. 1897, chap. cviii.]

Section 1. That all citizens within the jurisdiction of this State shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, restaurants, hotels, eating-houses, barber-shops, bath-houses, theaters, skatingrinks, and all other places of public accommodation or amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all citizens.

Sec. 2. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of the foregoing section, by denying to any citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to every race or color, and regardless of race or color, the full accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges in said section enumerated, or by aiding or inciting such denial, or whoever shall make any discrimination, distinction, or restriction on account of color or race, or except for good cause, applicable alike to all citizens of every color or race whatever, in respect to the admission of

any citizen to, or his treatment in, any inn, restaurant, hotel, eating-house, barber-shop, bathhouse, theater, skating-rink, or other public place of amusement or accommodation, whether such place be licensed or not, or whoever aids or incites such discrimination, distinction, or restriction, shall, for each and every such offense, shall be liable in damages in an amount not less than fifty dollars, which may be recovered in an action at law brought for that purpose.

Sec. 3. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this law are hereby repealed.

TITLE 42.

CODES.

The legislation concerning the preparation, taking effect of, publication of, and applying of the Codes and statutes in force can be found in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, p. 442, et seq.

An Act to create and establish a commission for revising, systematizing, and reforming the laws of this State, and for the appointment of the members of said commission, to be known as "The Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the Law," and to prescribe their powers and duties; and to authorize the appointment of a secretary and stenographer therefor; and to provide for the compensation and expenses of said commission, secretary, and stenographer, and to appropriate money therefor. [Approved March 28, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. ccxxii. In effect immediately.]

The commission.

Section 1. A non-partisan commission, consisting of three persons as hereinafter designated, is hereby created and established, for the purposes of revising, compiling, correcting, amending, system. atizing, improving, and reforming the laws of this state, for the advancement and welfare of the people thereof.

Codes.

Qualifications of members.

Sec. 2. The members of said commission shall be known and designated as "The Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the Law," and the term of office shall be two (2) years from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. They shall not belong to the same political party, but shall be members of the legal profession who have for more than five years prior to their appointment been engaged in the practice of law in this state, and admitted to practice before the supreme court. Each shall be appointed from and represent a separate portion of the state. Manner of appointment.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall be appointed by the governor within ten days from the passage of this act. In case of a vacancy or vacancies in said commission by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, a successor or successors to fill such vacancy or vacancies for the unexpired term shall be appointed in like manner.

Notice of appointment.

Sec. 4. The secretary of state shall, after the passage of this act and the appointment of such commissioners, immediately notify each appointee thereof, and issue to each appointee a commission, under the great seal of this state, notifying him of the passage of said act and of his appointment by the governor. Each appointee shall immediately upon receiving said notice of his appointment, if he accepts the same, take and subscribe an oath of office, which shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

Organization of commission.

Sec. 5. The commission shall hold its sessions in a room to be provided by the secretary of state, in the state capitol, and shall enter upon the discharge of its duties immediately after its organization. Said commissioners shall select and adopt a suitable seal for the authentication of their acts, records, and proceedings, and adopt and provide for the publication of such reasonable and proper rules and regulations for the conduct of the business of said board, and for the promotion of the objects intended to be advanced by this act. They shall, thereupon, select and appoint a secretary

and stenographer, to hold office during the pleasure of said board, who shall attend all the sittings of said board, and act under its supervision.

Powers and duties.

Sec. 6. 1. It shall be the duty of said commissioners to revise and examine the Political Code, the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, and the Penal Code of the state of California.

2. To revise and examine all the statutes of this state that have been or shall hereafter be passed by the legislature thereof and published by the state.

3. They shall ascertain, determine, and designate, according to their best judgment, those statutes now in force, and those expressly or by implication repealed.

4. They shall note and designate the errors, defects, or omissions, verbal, grammatical, or otherwise, and suggest what will be necessary to supply, correct, or amend the same, and such improvements as shall introduce precision and clearness into the wording of the codes and statutes.

5. All or any of the reports, records, or proceedings of said commission shall be printed by the state printer, on the requisition of said board, when so ordered and directed by said board.

6. Said board shall have power to order the state printer to print and deliver to the secretary of said board such number as said board may designate of any report, record, or proceedings of said board.

7. Said commissioners, or either of them, upon the request of the legislature, or a duly appointed committee thereof, shall attend at the capitol during the sitting of said session of the legislature, and act as legislative counsel or adviser, in drafting or passing upon the form of any bill, or proposed bill, pending or to be introduced before the legislature; and also, when requested, give advice to said legislature, or such committee, as to the form of any proposed legislation, and its effect upon existing laws, and as to whether said bill, as drawn and presented, is so constructed and worded as to carry out the purpose intended.

8. Thirty days prior to every session of the leg. islature, said board shall make and file with the