Penalty. six hereof named, and upon demand in writing therefor by said commissioner, shall furnish to such commissioner a true copy of said record, or of such portion thereof as said demand in writing shall require a copy of to be thus furnished. SEC. 8. Any employment agent or other person violating, or omitting to comply with, any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage. Seats for female CHAPTER XII. An act to amend section five of an act entitled "An act to provide for the proper sanitary condition of factories and workshops, and the preservation of the health of the employés," approved February 6, 1889. [Approved February 12, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section five of an act entitled "An act to provide for the proper sanitary condition of factories and workshops, and the preservation of the health of the employés," approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is amended to read as follows: Section 5. Every person, firm, or corporation employing employés. females in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall provide such seats to the number of at least one third the number of females so employed; and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. CHAPTER XIII. An act to amend section three thousand four hundred and ninetytwo of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to the organization of reclamation districts. [Approved February 12, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three thousand four hundred and ninetytwo of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: tion dis 3492. The holders of title or evidences of title representing Reclamaone half or more of any body of swamp and overflowed, salt, tricts, how marsh, or tide lands, susceptible of one mode of reclamation, formed. and already reclaimed, or in progress of reclamation, and not included in any existing reclamation district, who may desire to form a reclamation district for the maintenance, protection, and repair of the reclamation works, in, upon, or appertaining to such body of lands, or for the completion of the reclamation thereof, may present a similar petition to that provided in section three thousand four hundred and forty-six. And such proceedings shall thereupon be had in respect to such petition as are provided in respect to other petitions for the formation of reclamation districts; and if the same be approved, it shall be recorded, and the register shall forward his statement, and by-laws shall be adopted, filed, and recorded, and elections called and held in the same manner as is provided in other cases. Such districts, when formed, and the board of trustees thereof, shall have all the rights, immunities, powers, and privileges of other reclamation districts, and the boards of trustees thereof. And assessments may be made, apportioned, Assessand collected for the maintenance, protection, or repair of such reclamation works, or for the completion of such reclamation, in the like manner as is provided for making, apportioning, and collecting assessments in case of other reclamation districts. ments. When justice of the peace to place for holding election. CHAPTER XIV. An act to amend section 1132 of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to the place for holding an election. [Approved February 12, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one thousand one hundred and thirtytwo of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1132. If the board fail to designate the house or place for holding the election in any precinct, or, if for any reason, it designate cannot be held at the house or place designated by the board, the justice of the peace residing in the township in which such precinct is situated must, by an order under his hand (copies of which he must at once post in three public places in the precinct), designate the house or place, within the precinct. In case of the absence of the justice of the peace, or of his disability or refusal to perform the duties herein imposed, then a majority of the judges and inspectors of election for said precinct shall designate the place, within the precinct, for holding the election, and post the notices required by this section; provided, that in cities or cities and counties which are not divided into townships for judicial purposes, a majority of the justices of the peace residing in such city or city and county, shall discharge the duties imposed by this section. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. When County general fund may CHAPTER XV. An act to amend section 2712 of the Political Code, relating to discretionary powers of boards of supervisors. [Approved February 12, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two thousand seven hundred and twelve of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2712. Whenever it appears to the board of supervisors that any road district is or would be unreasonably burdened by the be used for expense of constructing, or by the maintenance and repairs of roads and any bridge or tunnel connecting or forming a part of a road, or the purchase of toll roads, they may, in their discretion, cause a portion of the aggregate cost or expense to be paid out of the general road fund of the county, or by vote of two thirds of the bridges. board of supervisors, said board may, in their discretion, order CHAPTER XVI. An act to provide for the compilation, printing, binding, publishing and distribution of a legislative manual and state blue book, or roster, and repealing conflicting acts. [Approved February 12, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized to Blue book. compile, or cause to be compiled, published and distributed seven thousand five hundred copies of a legislative manual, state blue book, or roster. The volume shall be ready to distribute at the beginning of the next fiscal year, and at the same time biennially thereafter. SEC. 2. The volumes shall be distributed as follows: To each elective state officer, senator and member of the assembly, twenty copies. To the clerk, sheriff and district attorney of every county of the state, one copy each. To every judge of the supreme court, supreme court commissioners, and judges of the superior court, one copy each. To the mayor of every city, or chairman of its board of trustees in this state, one copy each. To the state library, twenty copies. To every public and every law library in this state, one copy each. To the governor and secretary of state of every state in the union, one copy each. To the congressional library at Washington, D. C., five copies. The remainder of the volumes shall be distributed at discretion by the secretary of state. Distribu tion. repealed. SEC. 3. The acts of March thirty-first, eighteen hundred Acts and ninety-one, and March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, on same subject, and all other acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Trials of offenses against fish laws. Costs. Claims for costs, sented. CHAPTER XVII. An act to amend an act, approved February 28, 1887, entitled "An act concerning the payment of the expenses and costs of the trial of persons charged with the violation of the laws for the preservation of fish in the navigable waters of this state," and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act. [Approved February 12, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The title of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: An act providing for the payment of the costs and expenses of all trials and proceedings against any person charged with the violation of the laws of this state for the preservation, protection, or restoration of fish. SEC. 2. Section one of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The costs and expenses of all trials and proceedings which shall hereafter be had in any county of this state against any person charged with having violated any of the provisions of any law of this state for the preservation, protection, or restoration of fish, shall be borne and paid by the state. SEC. 3. Section two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. Any claim against the state for the cost and where pre- expenses named in this act shall be presented to the state board of fish commissioners, duly verified, and after approval and allowance by said board, shall be acted upon by the state board of examiners, and paid out of the fish commission fund. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. |