When not to be ap shall be made upon the basis of the amount of water proposed to be apportioned to the several municipalities, unless a different apportionment of costs shall be agreed upon. SEC. 6. The total costs of works which shall exclusively portioned. serve any municipality shall be borne by such municipality exclusively. may be Conditions SEC. 7. The plans, terms, conditions, or other agreement modified. for acquiring said water supply, may be modified from time to time by agreement between the respective cities, which agreement shall be declared by the action of their respective legislative bodies. "City," etc., defined. Resolution must be mayor. SEC. 8. The term "city" and the term "municipality," as used in this act shall include a consolidated city and county, and the same rights and privileges by this act given to an incorporated city shall pertain to a consolidated city and county. SEC. 9. Before any resolution or ordinance relating to the signed by joint acquisition of a water supply becomes binding upon any city or municipality it shall be approved by the mayor of such city, or passed over his veto, in the manner provided by law or the charter of such city for the passage of ordinances. SEC. 10. passage. This act shall be in force from and after its State board of examiners and state treasurer to be notified of bonds CHAPTER CCLXXX. An act to re-enact section 681 of the Political Code, relating to the duties of clerks of boards of supervisors, trustees, common council, or other governing board or body of a county, city and county, city or town, or school district in this state, upon the issuance and sale of bonds for any purpose, and decreeing that the state shall not be required to file a certified check, bond or other assurance in law upon its application to purchase. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section six hundred eighty-one of the Political Code is hereby re-enacted to read as follows: 681. Whenever the board of supervisors, trustees, common council, or other governing board or body of any county, city and county, city or town, or school district of this state shall vote bonds for any purpose, or shall refund any bonds already issued, and said bonds are ready to be sold, the clerk of such ready to be board, trustees, common council, or other governing board or body shall forthwith, by mail, postage prepaid, notify the state board of examiners and state treasurer, at the capitol, of such issuance and sale of bonds, and shall give the name by which the bonds are known, the amount of the issuance, the denom sold. ination of each bond, the rate of interest, and length of time bonds are to run. No certified check, bond, or other assurance in law shall be required from the state upon its application to purchase bonds. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCLXXXI. An act to amend section 14 of the Civil Code of the State of [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section fourteen of the Civil Code of the State of California, is hereby amended to read as follows: definition. 14. Words used in this code in the present tense include Words; the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the word person includes a corporation as well as a natural person; county includes city and county; writing includes printing and typewriting; oath includes affirmation or declaration; and every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term "testify," and every written one in the term "depose"; signature or subscription includes mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, by a person who writes his own name as a witness; provided, that when a signature is by mark it must in order that the same may be acknowledged or may serve as the signature to any sworn statement be witnessed by two persons who must subscribe their own names as witnesses thereto. The following words have in this code the signification attached to them in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context: 1. The word "property" includes property real and per- significasonal: 2. The words "real property" are coextensive with lands, tenements, and hereditaments; 3. The words "personal property" include money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt; 4. The word "month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed; 5. The word "will" includes codicil; 6. The word "section" whenever hereinafter employed refers to a section of this code, unless some other code or statute is expressly mentioned. tion of words. Official map of additions to city to be made. Duty of assessor. CHAPTER CCLXXXII. An act to amend the Political Code by adding a new section thereto, to be numbered 3658a, relating to official maps, the making and adoption and preservation thereof, and the description of property as delineated thereon for the purposes of assessment and transfer. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Political Code, to be numbered thirty-six hundred and fifty-eight a, and to read as follows: 3658a. Whenever any city, town, or subdivision of land is platted or divided into lots or blocks, and whenever any addition to any city, town, or such subdivision shall be or has been laid out into lots or blocks for the purpose of sale or transfer, it shall be lawful for the city engineer, or the county or city and county surveyor, under the direction and with the approval of the city council or board of supervisors of said city, county, or city and county, to make an official map of such city, town, or subdivision, giving to each block on such map a number, and to each lot or subdivision in such block a separate number or letter, and giving names to such streets, avenues, lanes, courts, commons, or parks, as may be delineated on such official map. Whenever the city council or board of supervisors of such city, county, or city and county, shall adopt such map as the official map of the subdivision, town, city, county, or city and county, it shall be lawful to, and the assessor shall, describe such lots, blocks, or parcels of land by numbers or letters as delineated on such map in assessing such property, Reference and it shall be lawful and sufficient to describe such lots or to map in deeds, etc. blocks in any deeds, conveyances, contracts, or obligations affecting any such lots or blocks as designated on such official map, a reference to such map sufficient for the identification thereof being coupled with such description. Such engineer or surveyor, under the direction and with the approval of the city council or board of supervisors of such city, county, or city and county, may compile such map from maps on file, or may resurvey or renumber the blocks, or renumber or reletter the lots in such blocks, or change the names of streets. All surveys and the field notes thereof made by any such engineer notes shall or surveyor, under the provisions of this section, or in surveying officially any lots or parcels of land in any city, town, county, or city and county, for the purposes of any such map, shall be filed in the office of the surveyor or engineer, as the case may be, and shall become a part of the public records of such city, town, county, or city and county. Each and every map, made and adopted as hereinabove provided, shall be certified under Surveys and field remain public property. Maps shall be certified. recorder. all cities, the hands of a majority of the members and the presiding officer and secretary and official seal, if any, of the authority adopting the same. Such certificate shall set forth in full the resolution adopting such map, with the date of adoption; and such map, so certified, shall be forthwith filed in the office of Filed with the county recorder of the county, or city and county, wherein the platted lands are situate, and the said recorder shall immediately securely fasten and bind, in one of a series of firmly bound books to be provided, together with the proper indexes thereof and appropriately marked for the reception of the maps herein provided for, each such map so filed with him; and the same shall become an official map for all the purposes of this section when so certified, filed and bound, but not before. This section is hereby made applicable to Applies to all cities, towns, and villages in this state, as well as to towns, and the counties, and cities and counties thereof, whether the villages. same be incorporated or not; and the words "city council or board of supervisors" wherever used herein shall be deemed to include the proper corresponding governing board and authority in each such place; and the words "city engineer" and "county or city and county surveyor" shall be deemed to include the like or corresponding officer, subject to the direction of such "corresponding governing board and authority" in each such place; or, if there be no such officer subject to such direction, such "corresponding board and authority" may employ competent engineers and surveyors to the extent necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of this act in the places subject to its jurisdiction, and the persons so appointed shall have the same authority and shall perform the same duties as are given to and enjoined upon "city engineers" and "county or city and county surveyors," respectively, in like cases. The Costs; how services of such engineers and surveyors so employed shall be contracted for, examined, passed upon, audited, and paid as are other debts contracted by such governing boards and authorities. paid. CHAPTER CCLXXXIII. An act to amend section four hundred and twelve of the Penal [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four hundred and twelve of the Penal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: fights pro 412. Any person, who, within this state, engages in, insti- Prizegates, aids, encourages, or does any act to further a contention hibited. or fight, without weapons, between two or more persons, or a fight commonly called a ring or prize fight, either within or without the state, or who engages in a public or private sparring exhibition, with or without gloves, within the state, or who sends or publishes a challenge or acceptance or a challenge for such a contention, exhibition, or fight, or carries or delivers such a challenge or acceptance, or trains or assists any person in training or preparing for such a contention, exhibition or fight, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, and be imprisoned in the state prison not less than one year nor more than three years; provided, Sparring however, that sparring exhibitions, not to exceed a limited number of rounds with gloves of not less than five ounces each in weight may be held by a domestic incorporated club upon the prepayment by such club of an annual license to be fixed by the board of supervisors of cities and counties, or the city council or other governing bodies of incorporated cities. Said exhibitions must comply with the rules and regulations as the said supervisors, city councils or other governing bodies of cities and towns shall prescribe by ordinance; provided, further, that the boxers prior to each exhibition must be examined by a physician who shall determine whether or not they are in perfect physical condition. exhibi tions. Physical examination. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Watchmen CHAPTER CCLXXXIV. An act to amend section four hundred and fifty-seven of the [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 457 of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 457. The treasurer may employ four watchmen at an for state annual salary each of twelve hundred dollars. treasury. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |