years next ensuing upon the applicant's paying to the state board of prison directors for the use of the state a license fee of ten dollars per annum and shall be payable in advance on September 1, 1915, and annually thereafter, and upon his executing, delivering, and filing in the office of the state board of prison directors a surety bond to be executed by such applicant with one or more sureties in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful and honest conduct of such business by such applicant, which bond as to its form, execution and sufficiency of the surety must be approved by the said state board of prison directors. Such bond shall be taken in the name of the people of the state of California, and every person injured by the willful or malicious or wrongful act of the principal may bring an action on said bond in his own name to recover damages suffered by reason of said willful or malicious or wrongful act. The license granted pursuant to this act shall be revocable at any time by the state board of prison directors for cause shown. § 3. Act not applicable to what employees, detectives or officers. Nothing in this act shall apply to employees of such duly licensed private detective or detective agencies for whose good conduct in the business, however, the employers shall be responsible, or to any detective or officer belonging to the police force of the state, or any county, city and county, city, town or village thereof appointed or elected by due authority of law. § 4. Penalty for violation of statute. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for the enforcement of this act the state board of prison directors of the state of California are hereby authorized to expend annually any necessary moneys received as license fees in the employment of an agent or agents, and of other proper measures to aid in the detection or prosecution of all violations of this act. § 5. Authority of licensee. A license obtained from the said board of prison directors by any person or persons, firm, association, copartnership or corporation mentioned in section one of this act, shall be sufficient to give the said person or persons, firm, association, copartnership or corporation obtaining said license, their employees or operatives, the authority to act under said license as a detective or uniformed patrolman or watchman in any county, city and county, city or town in this state. § 6. Acts superseded. This act shall supersede and take the place of any rule, regulation or ordinance of any county, city and county, city or town in the state of California conflicting herewith. TITLE 160. ACT 2080. To declare Diablo Creek in Contra Costa County navigable. [Stats. 1858, p. 127.] Incorporated in Political Code, § 2349. ACT 2090. TITLE 161. DISSECTION. To promote the study of anatomy. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 405.] This act provided for the surrender of dead bodies for dissection. It was superseded by Political Code, §§ 3093-3095. TITLE 162. ACT 2100. DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. Authorizing and directing district attorneys to bring suits to abate nuisances. [Stats. 1899, p. 103.] Superseded by Political Code, § 4156. See Penal Code, § 373a. АСТ 2101. In relation to district attorneys, their assistants and clerks in cities and counties, and counties having a population of more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand. [Stats. 1891, p. 21.] "Unconstitutional. (Darcy v. Mayor, 104 Cal. 642; Ex parte Giambonini, 112 Cal. 574.) Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, [Act 837], and by charter of San Francisco."-Code Commissioners' Note. АСТ 2102. Apportioning the fees between district attorneys and their successors. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 163.] Amended 1865-66, p. 325. "Superseded by County Government and other acts requiring officers to pay their fees into the county treasury."-Code Commissioners' Note. ACT 2103. District attorneys, relating to fees of in certain counties. [Stats. 187172, p. 799.] "Probably repealed by §§ 171, 177, 186 and 211 of the County Government Act, 1897, pp. 523, 527, 540, 568 [Act 837], fixing the salaries of district attorneys."-Code Commissioners' Note. This act related to the counties of Butte, Inyo, Placer, and Shasta. ACT 2113. TITLE 163. DISTRICT COURTS OF APPEAL. An act to authorize the justices of the district court of appeal for the second appellate district to provide proper rooms for the accommodation of the court and its officers and library, and declaring the expenses thereof to be an annual charge against the general fund of the state treasury. [Approved May 25, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 1239. In effect July 25, 1919.] The purpose of the act sufficiently appears from its title. ACT 2123. TITLE 164. An act for the protection of the owners of ditches and flumes. [Approved March 16, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 202.] This act related to the liability of joint owners of ditches and flumes. Codified in part by 88 842, 843 of Civil Code, 1905. See note to 842, Civil Code. Incorporating town of. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 712.] Superseded by incorporation, in 1884, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883. See Act 5233. TITLE 167. Dogs killing sheep, liability for: See "Sheep," post. ACT 2153. An act to protect sheep and cashmere and angora goats against the ravages of dogs. [Approved March 13, 1866. Stats. 1865-66, p. 225.] § 1. Dog tax. Every owner, claimant, or keeper of a dog or dogs at the age of four months or over, shall hereafter pay an annual tax on all dogs owned, claimed, or kept by him or her: for the first male dog, one dollar; for every additional male dog, two dollars; and for every female dog, three dollars. § 2. Collection. It shall be the duty of the county, district, or township assessors, as the case may be, at the time of making their annual assessment of real estate and personal property, to ascertain by diligent inquiry and examination, the names of all persons owning, claiming, or keeping any dog or dogs, and they shall assess all such dogs in the amounts respectively, as provided in the first section of this act, to the person or persons owning, claiming, or keeping the same, and shall make lists and delivery thereof on their annual tax lists or assessment-rolls at the same time and in the same manner as their lists and delivery of other personal property are made and delivered; and the proper officers are hereby empowered and required to collect such tax on dogs in the same mode and manner as other taxes are collected, and to pay over the same into the county school fund. § 3. Ownership. Every dog kept or staying at any house shall be deemed sufficient evidence of ownership to authorize the assessor to return the person inhabiting the house as the owner of such dog; and any person sending his or her dog from house to house or from place to place in order to evade said tax shall pay double rates therefor; and every dog not so returned shall be deemed to have no owner, and may be lawfully killed by any person seeing the same run at large. § 4. Damages. The owner or owners of any dog or dogs which shall worry, wound, or kill any sheep, cashmere or angora goats, shall be liable to the owner or possessor of such sheep, goat or goats, for the damages and costs of suit, to be recovered before any court having jurisdiction in the case. § 5. Killing. Any person finding any dog or dogs, not on the premises of its owner, worrying, wounding, or killing any sheep, or cashmere or angora goats, may kill the same, and the owner thereof shall sustain no action for damages against any person so killing any dog or dogs under such circumstances. "Superseded in part by Civil Code, § 3341, and probably not in force in any particular."-Code Commissioner's Note. АСТ 2163. TITLE 168. DORRIS BRIDGE, TOWN OF. Dorris Bridge, name changed to Alturas. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 513.] TITLE 169. ACT 2173. To incorporate. [Stats. 1863, p. 74.] Amended 1863-64, p. 275; 1865-66, p. 642. Repealed 1901, p. 276. TITLE 170. ACT 2183. An act declaring certain drainage work already done within drainage district number one, Butte county, to have been legally done, validating the same, and making such work a proper subject for the levy of an assessment to pay therefor; authorizing the levy and collection of such assessment in said district to provide for such payment, and interest; the original assessment levied and collected being insufficient to provide for such payment. [Approved May 21, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 789. In effect July 27, 1917.] ACT 2184. An act validating the formation and organization of Los Angeles County Drainage District Improvement No. 1 under the provisions of an act of the legislature of the state of California approved March 21, 1903, as amended May 7, 1915, and entitled as amended, "An act to promote the drainage of wet, swamp and overflowed lands and to promote the public health in the communities in which they lie, providing for the issuance of lands and levying of assessments on lands benefited, to pay the costs and expenses thereof." [Approved March 4, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 227.]. The nature and purpose of the act sufficiently appear from the title. ACT 2185. An act to recognize and declare valid all proceedings in drainage district number one hundred of Butte county. [Approved April 4, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 32. In effect July 22, 1919.] ACT 2186. An act to validate bonds of the Bellevue-Wilfred drainage district, and all proceedings relating thereto, and making final and conclusive, except as herein provided, the finding as to the result of the election at which said bonds were authorized. [Approved May 16, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 713. In effect July 22, 1919.] ACT 2187. An act to recognize and declare valid all proceedings in drainage district number two hundred of Butte county. [Approved March 31, 1921. Stats. 1921, p. 30. In effect July 29, 1921.] ACT 2188. An act validating the formation and organization, and determining the boundaries of drainage improvement district number one of the county of Merced, state of California. [Approved January 29, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 3. In effect immediately.] ACT 2189. An act validating the formation and organization, and determining the boundaries of drainage improvement district number two of the county of Merced, state of California. [Approved January 29, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 4.] ACT 2190. An act validating the formation and organization and proceedings of Los Angeles county drainage improvement district number three under the provisions of an act of the legislature of the state of California, approved March 21, 1903, as amended May 7, 1915, and entitled as amended: "An act to promote the drainage of wet, swamp and overflowed lands, and to promote the public health in the communities in which they lie, providing for the issuance of bonds and levying of assessments on lands benefited, to pay the cost and expenses thereof." [Approved April 21, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 135.] |