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coin.

SEC. 19. All assessments provided for in this Act shall Assessments be in gold coin of the United States of America, payable and to be in gold collected in gold coin, unless otherwise provided for, and all contracts, bonds, payments, and warrants shall be in gold coin.

ure to pay.

SEC. 20. When the said Board of Commissioners shall Calls of have call for twenty-five per cent. of said judgments of said Board; failCounty Court, the same shall be payable within thirty days from the date of said calls; and upon neglect or failure to pay the same, or any part thereof, of either of said calls of said Board, within thirty (30) days of the date thereof, the said Board may proceed to collect the whole of said several judgments, as in this Act provided, the same being hereby declared and made due and payable in full, upon any such failure or neglect; and whenever all of said land condemned under this Act is paid for, all of said work completed and paid for, all the expenses, costs, and salaries hereinbefore provided for paid, the said Board of Commissioners shall authorize the said County Clerk, in writing, to enter a satisfaction of the balance of any judgments, or parts of judgments, remaining uncalled for by said Board, all previous calls of said Board having been paid.

strued.

SEC. 21. This law, and all acts and proceedings here- Proceedings; under, shall be liberally construed, and the judgments and how conproceedings of the County Court hereunder shall be construed like judgments and proceedings of Courts of general jurisdiction. The word "persons," when used in this Act, shall be held and construed to include "corporations." All Acts reActs or parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. All acts and proceedings to be done by said Board of Commissioners may be done or performed by a majority of its members. Whenever all the provisions of this Act have been complied with, the functions of said Board shall cease.

pealed.

failing to

SEC. 22. If, for any cause, the owner or owners of any Owners property taken by reason of the making of said improve- apply for ment shall refuse or neglect to apply to the said Commis- warrant. sioners for the amount awarded to him or them by said report, within twenty days after sufficient funds are in said county treasury to pay said amount, or if there be any cloud upon the title of any such lands so taken, or any part thereof, or any question shall arise as to who shall or should receive said award, or if the title be defective for any reason, then Defective the said Commissioners shall issue warrant for the amount title. awarded for the land taken, describing the land therein, and shall deposit said warrant with the County Clerk of said city and county; and upon proof of the fact of such deposit, made in any District Court of said city and county, upon petition of said Commissioners duly made, stating the facts of the proceedings above recited, and that funds were in said treasury to meet the warrant when presented for payment, the said city and county shall be entitled to an order of said Court commanding the County Clerk of said city and county to issue the proper writ for putting the said city and county in possession of said land, and the Sheriff of said city and

Act; how construed.

county shall immediately thereupon place said city and county in possession thereof, and the true owner of said land shall be entitled to said warrant on delivery to the said city and county of said land, and to the moneys in said warrant described.

SEC. 23. This Act shall not be construed to repeal the Act of the Legislature of this State entitled "An Act to confer further powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco," approved April (25th) twentyfifth, (1863) eighteen hundred and sixty-three, or any other Act of the Legislature, except so far as such Act or Acts may be in conflict with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 24. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. DXIX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.]

Minor not to enter saloon; penalty.

Begging restrained;

violation.

CHAP. DXX.-An Act for the protection of children, and to prevent and punish certain wrongs to children.

[Approved March 30, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. No minor, under the age of sixteen years, shall be admitted at any time to, or permitted to remain in, any saloon or place of entertainment where any spirituous liquors, or wines, or intoxicating or malt liquors are sold, exchanged, or given away, or at places of amusement known as dance-houses and concert saloons, unless accompanied by parent or guardian. Any proprietor, keeper, or manager of any such place who shall admit such minor to, or permit him or her to remain in any such place, unless accompanied by parent or guardian, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2. Every person having the care, custody, or control penalty for of any child under the age of sixteen years, shall restrain such child from begging, whether actually begging, or under the pretext of peddling. Any person offending against this section shall be arrested, and brought before a Court or Magistrate, and for the first offense shall be reprimanded, and for each subsequent offense shall be guilty of a misde

Penalty for begging.

meanor.

SEC. 3. Any child, apparently under the age of sixteen years, that comes within any of the following descriptions, named:

(a) That is found begging, or receiving, or gathering alms. (whether actually begging, or under the pretext of selling, or offering for sale, anything), or being in any street, road, or

public place for the purpose of so begging, gathering, or receiving alms.

(b) That is found wandering and not having any house or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence.

(c) That is found destitute, either being an orphan, or having a vicious parent, who is undergoing penal servitude or imprisonment.

(d) That frequents the company of reputed thieves or prostitutes, or houses of prostitution or assignation, or dancehouses, concert saloons, theaters, and varieties, or places specified in the first section of this Act, without parent or guardian, shall be arrested, and brought before a Court or Magistrate.

placed in

When, upon examination before a Court or Magistrate, it Child to be shall appear that any such child has been engaged in any of charitable the aforesaid acts, or comes within any of the aforesaid institution. descriptions, such Court or Magistrate, when it shall deem it expedient for the welfare of the child, may commit such child to an orphan asylum, society for the prevention of cruelty to children, charitable or other institution, or make such other disposition thereof as now is or may hereafter be provided by law in cases of vagrant, truant, disorderly, pauper, or destitute children.

be confined.

SEC. 4. No child under restraint or conviction, apparently Child not to under the age of sixteen years, shall be placed in any prison, or place of confinement, or in any Court-room, or in any vehicle for transportation to any place, in company with adults charged with or convicted of crime, except in the presence of a proper official.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. DXXI.-An Act relating to children.
[Approved March 30, 1878.]

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

selling or

immoral

SECTION 1. Any person, whether as parent, relative, Persons guardian, employer, or otherwise, having the care, custody, apprenticing or control of any child under the age of sixteen years, who children for shall exhibit, use, or employ, or who shall in any manner, purpose. or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give away, let out, or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person, under any name, title, or pretense, in or for the vocation, occupation, service, or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging, or peddling, or as a gymnast, acrobat, contortionist, or rider, in any place whatsoever, or for or in any obscene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice whatsoever, or for or in any mendicant or wandering business whatsoever, or

Penalty.

Offense; how punished.

Court to commit child to

asylum.

Causing child to

alty for.

for or in any business, exhibition, or vocation injurious to the health, or dangerous to the life or limb, of such child; or who shall cause, procure, or encourage any such child to engage therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that nothing in this section contained shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any such child, as a singer or musician in any church, school, or academy, or the teaching or learning of the science or practice of music; or the employment of any such child as a musician at any concert or other musical entertainment, on the written consent of the Mayor of the city or President of the Board of Trustees of the town where such concert or entertainment shall take place.

SEC. 2. Every person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody, any child under the age, and for any of the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, shall be guilty of a like offense and punished by a like punishment as therein provided.

SEC. 3. When, upon examination before any Court or Magistrate, it shall appear that any child, within the age previously mentioned in this Act, was engaged, or used for or in any business, or exhibition, or vocation, or purpose designated, and as mentioned in this Act, and when upon the conviction of any person having the custody of a child of a criminal assault upon it, the Court or Magistrate before whom such conviction is had, shall deem it desirable for the welfare of such child that the person so convicted should be deprived of its custody thereafter, such Court or Magistrate may commit such child to any orphan asylum, society for the prevention of cruelty to children, charitable or other institution, or make such other disposition thereof as now is, or hereafter may be, provided by law in cases of vagrant, truant, disorderly, pauper, or destitute children.

SEC. 4. Whoever shall willfully cause or permit any suffer pen- child to suffer, or who shall inflict thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, and whoever, having the care or custody of any child, shall willfully cause or permit the life or limb of such child to be endangered, or the health of such child to be injured, or any person who shall willfully cause or permit such child to be placed in such a situation that its life or limb may be endangered, or its health shall be likely to be injured, shall be guilty of a misde

Fines; how appropri

ated.

meanor.

SEC. 5. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed and collected in any county of this State, under the provisions of this and every Act passed, or which may be passed, relating to or affecting children, in every case where the prosecution was instituted or conducted by a society incorporated pursuant to the provisions of Chapter Five Hundred and Fortynine of the Statutes of 1875-6, approved April 3d, 1876, being an Act entitled "An Act for the incorporation of societies

for the prevention of cruelty to children, shall, except where otherwise provided, enure to such society in aid of the purposes for which it was incorporated.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAP. DXXII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.]

CHAP. DXXIII.-An Act to provide for the extermination of squirrels in the County of Contra Costa.

[Approved March 30, 1878.]

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

SECTION 1. Squirrels infesting lands in the State of Cali- Public fornia are hereby declared to be a public nuisance.

nuisance.

nate.

SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County Supervisors may, at their option, make provisions for the extermination to extermiin such county of said squirrels, and the Squirrel Inspectors hereinafter provided for and their employés, or other persons authorized by the Board of Supervisors, shall, after their appointment and during the term of such authorization, have full power to enter upon private property for the purpose of exterminating said squirrels, in the manner provided in this Act and the ordinances of the Board of Supervisors, as herein also provided for.

districts;

SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors shall, by ordinance Squirrel entered upon their journals, divide the county into a conve- Inspector nient number of squirrel districts, defining their boundaries, appointed. and appoint a Squirrel Inspector for each district, requiring from each a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties under this Act and the ordinances of the Board of Supervisors passed hereunder, in such sum as the Board shall deem necessary.

Fund.

SEC. 4. At the time of levying the county taxes in each Squirrel year, the Board of Supervisors may levy a special tax, in such sum as they shall deem necessary, not exceeding fifty cents on each one hundred dollars of the taxable property in said county, to be assessed, levied, and collected as and at the same time as other county taxes, and when collected to be paid into the county treasury, to the credit of a special fund, to be known as the Squirrel Fund.

squirrels.

SEC. 5. The Board of Supervisors shall, by ordinance, owners to prescribe a period in each year in and during which it shall exterminate be the duty of each and every owner of land in said county to thoroughly poison and exterminate the squirrels upon his land, and they shall classify the land of the county as they

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