person making application to said agent for registration, information or assistance, such as is described in section two hereof; the name of each such person to whom such registration or information is furnished; and the amount received in each such case therefor; the name of each person who, having received and paid for, as herein contemplated, registration, information or assistance such as is described in section two hereof, fails to secure the employment regarding which such registration, information or assistance is furnished, together with the reason why said employment was not by said person secured, and the name of each person to whom return is made, in accordance with the provisions of section three hereof, of any money or other consideration such as is in said section named, together with the amount of said money, or the value of said consideration, thus returned.

SEC. 7. Each employment agent in the State of California shall permit the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of said State, by himself, or by his deputies or agents, to have at all times access to, and to inspect, the record in section 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 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 All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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.

FALSE REPORTS.

An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to protect stockholders and persons dealing with corporations in this State," approved March 29, 1878, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith.

[Approved March 22, 1905.]

The people of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Any superintendent, director, secretary, manager, agent, or other officer, of any corporation formed or existing under the laws of this State, or transacting business in the same, and any person pretending or holding himself out as such superintendent, director, secretary, manager, agent, or other officer, who shall willfully subscribe, sign, indorse, verify, or otherwise assent to the publication, either generally or privately, to the stockholders or other persons dealing with such corporation, or its stock, any untrue or willfully and fraudulently exaggerated report, prospectus, account, statement, of operations, values, business, profits, expenditures or prospects, or other paper or document intended to produce or give, or having a tendency to produce or give, to the shares of stock in such corporation a greater value or less apparent or market value than they really possess, or with the intention of defrauding any particular person or persons, or the public, or persons generally, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in State prison or a county jail not exceeding two years, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both.

SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

See also § 564 of the Penal Code.

MINING CORPORATIONS.

An Act to establish a uniform system of mine bell signals, to be used in all the mines operated in the State of California, and for the protection of miners.

[Approved March 8, 1893.]

The people of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Every person, company, corporation, or individual, operating any mine within the State of Californiagold, silver, copper, lead, coal, or any other metal or substance where it is necessary to use signals by means of bell or otherwise, for shafts, inclines, drifts, crosscuts, tunnels, and underground workings-shall, after the passage of this bill, adopt, use, and put in force the following system or code of mine bell signals, as follows:

1 bell, to hoist. (See Rule 2.)

1 bell, to stop if in motion.

2 bells, to lower. (See Rule 2.)

3 bells, man to be hoisted; run slow.

(See Rule 2.)

4 bells, start pump if not running, or stop pump if running. 1-3 bells, start or stop air compressor.

5 bells, send down tools. (See Rule 4.)

6 bells, send down timbers. (See Rule 4.)

7 bells, accident; move bucket or cage by verbal orders only. 1-4 bells, foreman wanted.

2-1-1 bells, done hoisting until called.

2-1-2 bells, done hoisting for the day.

2-2-2 bells, change buckets from ore to water, or vice versa. 3-2-1 bells, ready to shoot in the shaft. (See Rule 3.) Engineer's signal, that he is ready to hoist, is to raise the bucket or cage two feet and lower it again. (See Rule 3.) Levels shall be designated and inserted in notice hereinafter mentioned. (See Rule 5.)

SEC. 2. For the purpose of enforcing and properly understanding the above code of signals, the following rules are hereby established:

RULE 1. In giving signals make strokes on bell at regular intervals. The bar (-) must take the same time as for one

stroke of the bell, and no more. If timber, tools, the foreman, bucket, or cage, are wanted to stop at any level in the mine, signal, by number of strokes on the bell, the number of the level first before giving the signal for timber, tools, etc. between signals to be double bars (--). Examples:

6

-5, would mean stop at sixth level with tools.

Time

2 -1-4, would mean stop at second level with foreman. RULE 2. No person must get off or on the bucket or cage while the same is in motion. When men are to be hoisted, give the signal for men. Men must then get on the bucket or cage, then give the signal to hoist. Bell cord must be in reach of man on the bucket or cage at stations.

RULE 3. After signal "Ready to shoot in shaft," engineer must give his signal when he is ready to hoist. Miners must then give the signal of "Men to be hoisted," then "spit fuse," get into the bucket, and give signal to hoist.

RULE 4. All timbers, tools, etc., "longer than the depth of the bucket," to be hoisted or lowered, must be securely lashed at the upper end to the cable. Miners must know they will ride up or down the shaft without catching on rocks or timbers and be thrown out.

RULE 5. The foreman will see that one printed sheet of these signals and rules for each level and one for the engineroom are attached to a board not less than twelve inches wide by thirty-six inches long, and securely fasten the board up where signals can be easily read at the places above stated.

RULE 6. The above signals and rules must be obeyed. Any violation will be sufficient grounds for discharging the party or parties so doing. No person, company, corporation, or individuals operating any mine within the State of California, shall be responsible for accidents that may happen to men disobeying the above rules and signals. Said notice and rules shall be signed by the person or superintendent having charge of the mine, who shall designate the name of the corporation or the owner of the mine.

SEC. 3. Any person or company failing to carry out any of the provisions of this Act shall be responsible for all damages arising to or incurred by any person working in said mine during the time of such failure.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CERTAIN CORPORATIONS TO ACT AS EXECUTORS.

An Act authorizing certain corporations to act as executor and in other capacities, and to provide for and regulate the administration of trusts by such corporations.

[Approved April 6, 1891. Amended March 18, 1905. Amended March 18, 1907.]

The people of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Any corporation which has or shall be incorporated under the general incorporation laws of this State, authorized by its articles of incorporation to act as executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, depositary or trustee, and having a paid-up capital of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which one hundred thousand dollars shall have been actually paid in, in cash, may be appointed to act in such capacity in like manner as individuals. In all cases in which it is required that an executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, depositary, or trustee, shall qualify by taking and subscribing an oath, or in which an affidavit is required, it shall be a sufficient qualification by such corporation if such oath shall be taken and subscribed or such affidavit made by the president or secretary or manager or trust officer thereof, and such officer shall be liable for the failure of such corporation to perform any of the duties required by law to be performed by individuals acting in like capacity and subject to like penalties; and such corporation shall be liable for such failure to the full amount of its capital stock; provided, any such appointment as guardian shall apply to the estate only, and not to the perSuch corporation shall be entitled to and shall be allowed proper compensation for all the services performed by them under the foregoing provisions of this Act; but such compensation shall not exceed that allowed to natural persons for like services. [Amendment approved March 18, 1907; in effect immediately.]

son.

See also § 290a Civil Code.