§ 1. Unlawful to place dependent children in homes without permit. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any organization, society or person to engage in the work of placing dependent children into homes in this state without first obtaining a permit therefor, duly executed in writing, from the state board of charities and corrections.

§ 2. Board of charities may investigate societies. The said state board of charities and corrections may investigate, or cause to be investigated, the books, records, and methods of such organizations, societies, or persons, and the disposition of the children coming into their custody; and it may make such rules and regulations as it may deem best for the government and regulation of such societies or persons, and may require such reports as it may desire.

§ 3. Permit may be withdrawn. The said state board of charities and corrections is hereby authorized and empowered to withdraw and cancel any permit to engage in the work of placing children into homes for any failure to observe the rules and regulations established for their government, or the failure to report as required, or for any failure on their part to perform their work as required by the best interests of the state, but no permit shall be canceled or withdrawn without due notice and hearing.

§ 4. Misdemeanor to engage in work without permit. It is hereby made a misdemeanor for any person or persons, either as individuals or officers of any association or society, to engage in the work of placing children into homes, or the soliciting of funds therefor, in this state without a permit duly executed in writing by the state board of charities and corrections, authorizing said persons or such association or society to engage therein, or to engage in such work after any permit has been canceled.

§ 5. Not applicable to orphan home. This act shall not be construed as applying to any regularly established orphan home or any officer or official thereof acting for or on behalf of such home receiving aid from the state for the care of orphans, half-orphans or abandoned children in any effort such institution or its officers may make to procure the adoption into homes or any officer or official thereof acting for or on behalf of such home of any such children. § 6. Time of taking effect of act. This act shall take effect immediately.

ACT 1332.

An act making it the duty of the state board of charities and corrections to prescribe forms of record for the use of county hospitals and almshouses, county jails and city prisons; and authorizing such board to furnish such records; and making the neglect or failure on the part of superintendents and jailers in charge thereof to keep such records a misdemeanor.

[Approved June 11, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 682.] § 1. Form of records for county hospitals, jails, etc.

§ 2. Cost of printing.

§3. Duty of superintendents to keep records.

§ 1. Form of records for county hospitals, jails, etc. It is hereby made the duty of the state board of charities and corrections to prescribe forms of record for the use of the superintendents of county hospitals and almshouses, and jailers in charge of county jails and city prisons, in keeping the records of persons received into or discharged from such county hospitals, almshouses, jails and city prisons.

§ 2. Cost of printing. Books of record for the records so prescribed by said state board of charities and corrections may be printed at the expense of said board and furnished to such county hospitals and almshouses, county jails and city prisons, at the cost thereof.

§3. Duty of superintendents to keep records. It shall be the duty of the superintendent in charge of any such county hospital or almshouse and the jailer in charge of any such jail or city prison to keep the records prescribed by the state board of charities and corrections as fully and completely as possible, and any such superintendent or jailer who neglects and fails to keep the records thus prescribed shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

ACT 1333.

An act making provision for registration of and for publicity concerning the affairs of any charity for the support of which an appeal is made to the public, and prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions hereof.

[Approved May 27, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 1356. In effect July 27, 1919.] § 1. Registration of charities.

§ 2. Information given.

§ 3.

§ 4.

Registration with board of supervisors.
Penalty.

§ 5.

Exceptions.

§ 1. Registration of charities. In any county or city and county in this state it shall be unlawful to make any appeal to the public for a charity either by soliciting donations or subscriptions or by promoting any bazaar, sale or exhibition, or by any similar means, unless the charity is registered with the county board of public welfare.

§ 2. Information given. For the purposes of this act, any charity may be registered with the county board of public welfare upon the giving of such information in respect to the conduct of its affairs as may be necessary to enable the board properly to investigate the charity. If the board of public welfare approves or disapproves of the proposed appeal to the public in a particular case, such approval or disapproval with the reasons therefor shall be entered in a separate book with the records of the board, and shall be open to public inspection. Such an approval shall not be deemed a guarantee or indorsement as to the proper conduct of the affairs of a charity, but it is hereby authorized for the purpose of making such information available to the public whenever an appeal is made.

§ 3. Registration with board of supervisors. In any county or city and county in which there is no board of public welfare, the registration herein provided for shall be made with the board of supervisors,

and this board shall exercise the powers and duties hereby conferred or imposed upon the board of public welfare.

§ 4. Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 5. Exceptions. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the solicitation of gifts, contributions or donations for religious purposes; or for the specific personal aid of any particular individual or individuals; or for the meeting of extraordinary emergencies or calamities where time is of the essence of merited succor and relief.

ACT 1343.

TITLE 104.
CHEESE.

An act defining the different grades of cheese and for branding the same, manufactured in the state of California.

[Approved March 4, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 69.]

See acts under tit. "Dairies," post.

§ 3.

Defining grades of cheese.

§ 2. Brands to be procured from State Dairy Bureau.

§ 4. No sales without official brand.

§ 5.

§ 6.

Penalties.

Repeal of conflicting acts.

§ 7. Time of taking effect of act.

§ 1. Branding grades of cheese. Every person or persons, firm or corporation, who shall at any creamery, cheese factory, or private dairy, manufacture cheese in the state of California, shall, at the place of manufacture, brand distinctly, and durably on the bandage of each and every cheese manufactured, and upon the package or box when shipped, the grade of cheese manufactured, as follows: "California full-cream cheese," "California half-skim cheese," and "California skim cheese."

§ 2. Brands to be procured from state dairy bureau. All brands for branding the different grades of cheese shall be procured from the state dairy bureau, and said bureau is hereby directed and authorized to issue to all persons, firms, or corporations, upon application therefor, uniform brands, consecutively numbered, of the different grades specified in section 1 of this act. The state dairy bureau shall keep a record of each and every brand issued, and the name and location of the manufacturer receiving the same. No manufacturer of cheese in the state of California, other than the one to whom such brand is issued, shall use the same, and in case of a change of location, the party shall notify the bureau of such change.

§ 3. Defining grades of cheese. The different grades of cheese are hereby defined as follows: Such cheese only as shall have been manufactured from pure milk, and from which no portion of the butter fat has been removed by skimming or other process, and having not less than thirty per cent of butter fat, shall be branded as "California full-cream cheese"; and such cheese only as shall be made from pure

milk, and having not less than fifteen per cent of butter fat, shall be branded "California half-skim cheese"; and such cheese only as shall be made from pure skim-milk shall be branded "California skim cheese"; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to "Edam," "Brickstein," "Pineapple," "Limburger," "Swiss," or hand-made cheese, not made by the ordinary Cheddar process.

§ 4. No sales without official brand. No person or persons, firms or corporations, shall sell, or offer for sale, any cheese, manufactured in the state of California, not branded by an official brand and of the grade defined in section 3 of this act.

§ 5. Penalties. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than fifty dollars ($50), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding twenty-five days; and for each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than fifty days nor more than one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the

court.

§ 6. Repeal of conflicting acts. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 7. Time of taking effect of act. This act shall take effect sixty days after its passage.

ACT 1353.

TITLE 105.
CHICO.

Statute incorporating. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 11.]

Amended 1871-72, p. 248. Amended and supplemented 1873-74, p. 213. Further amendments and supplemental matters, 1875-76, p. 22; 1877-78, p. 456; 1887, p. 63. Superseded by incorporating, in 1895, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883. A new charter was adopted in 1923. See next act.

ACT 1354.

Charter of. [Stats. 1923, p. 1436.]

TITLE 106.
CHINESE.

ACT 1363.

To prevent the further immigration of Chinese or Mongolians to this

state. [Stats. 1858, p. 295.]

This act does not appear to have been passed on by the supreme court, although it is undoubtedly unconstitutional. Under any circumstances the penal portion of it is superseded by the Penal Code, § 6. See notes, post, Acts 1364, 1365.

ACT 1364.

To protect free white labor from competition with Chinese labor and to discourage the immigration of Chinese. [Stats. 1862, p. 462.]

This act imposed a police tax on Chinese. It was declared unconstitutional in Lin Sing v. Washburn, 20 Cal. 534.

ACT 1365.

To prohibit the coming of Chinese into the state, whether the subjects of the Chinese empire or not, and to provide for registration and certificates of residence and determine the status of all Chinese persons now resident of this state, and fixing penalties and punishments for violation of this act, and providing for deportation of criminals. [Stats. 1891, p. 185.]

Unconstitutional: Ah Cue, Ex parte, 101 Cal. 197.

ACT 1366.

To prevent the importation of Chinese criminals and to prevent the establishment of coolie slavery. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 332.]

Superseded by § 174 of the Penal Code.

АСТ 1367.

To prevent the kidnaping and importation of Mongolian, Chinese and Japanese females for criminal or demoralizing purposes. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 330.]

Superseded by Penal Code, § 174. See also § 266a, Penal Code.

ACT 1368.

For the suppression of Chinese houses of ill fame. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 641. Amended 1873-74, p. 84.]

Continued in force by Political Code, § 19: Penal Code, § 23.

The amending act of 1873-74, p. 84, is codified by § 315 of Penal Code. See Penal Code, § 315, note.

ACT 1369.

To provide for the removal of Chinese outside the limits of cities and towns. [Stats. 1880, p. 22.]

Probably unconstitutional. See notes, ante, Acts 1364, 1365.

ACT 1379.

TITLE 107.
CITY ATTORNEY.

To provide for furnishing assistants to city and city and county attorneys in every city, or city and county having a population of one hundred thousand or over, and providing for their mode of appointment and compensation. [Stats. 1891, p. 95.]

This act is probably superseded by the charters of the cities and cities and counties of over one hundred thousand population.