dam, or any poisonous, deleterious or stupefying drug or explosive compound, or any other implement or appliance, except by means of a hook and line. Penalty. Sec. 2. Any person or persons who shall violate any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, in Placer County, El Dorado County, or Nevada County, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than four months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense, besides the cost of prosecution. Fines; how paid. Sec. 3. The district attorney, or his deputy, of El Dorado County, or of Placer County, or of Nevada County, whichever the informer may notify as within the district attorney's jurisdiction, shall prosecute such suits, and, upon conviction, all fines, damages, and penalties that may be awarded or collected under this act shall be paid one half to the district attorney and one half to the informer, share and share alike; and it is hereby made the duty of the district attorney, or his appointed deputy, of the counties of Placer, El Dorado, and Nevada, to prosecute all cases arising under this act. Conflicting acts repealed. Sec. 4. All acts, and provisions of any act or parts of acts, conflicting with this act, are hereby repealed. Act takes effect when. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. FLAG. Act to prohibit desecration of: Stats. 1899, p. 46. GAME LAWS. Fish: See ante, Appendix, tit. “Fish.” Act to prevent hunting on inclosed lands: See ante, Appendix, tit. "Fences and Inclosures." An Act for the protection of game in Nevada County. [Approved February 6, 1874; Stats. 1873-74, p. 80.] Code commissioner's note to this act. In his "List of Statutes in Force," the code commissioner says of this act: "Probably modified and repealed by Pen. Code, §§ 626e, 626f, 626h, and 626i." An Act to prevent the destruction of deer on Monte Diablo, in Contra Costa County. [Approved March 28, 1878; Stats. 1877-78, p. 599.] Hunting or killing deer on Monte Diablo. Misdemeanor. Section 1. Every person who shall hunt, pursue, kill, or destroy any male or female deer or fawn within three miles of the summit of Monte Diablo, in Contra Costa County, for the period of four years from the date of the passage of this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Act takes effect when. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. An Act to prevent the capture and destruction of mockingbirds in this state. [Approved February 14, 1872; Stats. 1871-72, p. 102.] § 1. Mocking-birds must enjoy perfect immunity. § 2. Fines, disposition of. § 3. Act takes effect when. Mocking-birds must enjoy perfect immunity. Section 1. Any person or persons who shall willfully and knowingly shoot, wound, trap, snare, or in any other manner catch or capture any mocking-bird in the state of California, or shall knowingly take, injure, or destroy the nest of any mocking-bird, or shall take, injure, or destroy any mocking-bird's eggs, in the nest or otherwise, in said state, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the township in which the offense shall have been committed, shall be fined in a sum not less than five dollars nor exceeding ten dollars, and cost of the action for each offense, or may be imprisoned not less than five days nor more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, as the judgment of the court may direct. Fines, disposition of. Sec. 2. All fines collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury for the benefit of the common-school fund. Act takes effect when. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GAS. An Act to regulate the use of illuminating-gas. Gas not to be turned off at meter. Section 1. Every hotel-keeper, lodging-house keeper, and inn-keeper, or keeper of any place where rooms are let to lodgers in which, or any of which such places illuminatinggas is used, who shall turn off, or cause to be turned off at the meter the flow of such illuminating-gas, during the time. of the use of any such room or rooms, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any of the persons herein enumerated, when such person or persons shall have connected every exit orifice upon the gas-fixtures used in such place or places with a practical and safe automatic gas-igniter. Act takes effect when. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage. GRAND ARMY. An Act entitled An Act to prevent persons from unlawfully using or wearing the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic of this state. [1. Approved March 10, 1887; Stats. 1887, p. 82. 2. Amended March 1, 1907; Stats. 1907, p. 81.] Army badges, penalty for unlawfully wearing. Section 1. Any person who shall willfully wear or use the badge or button of the Grand Army of the Republic, or of the United Spanish War Veterans, to obtain aid or assistance thereby within this state, unless he shall be entitled to wear or use the same under the rules and regulations of the Department of California, Grand Army of the Republic, or United Spanish War Veterans, respectively, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty days in the county jail, or a fine not to exceed twenty dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [Amendment approved March 1, 1907; Stats. 1907, p. 81.] Sec. 2. [No section of this number.] Act takes effect when. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage. GROWING TREES. An Act to protect the groves of big trees in the counties of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern. [Approved March 13, 1874; Stats. 1873-74, p. 347.] Misdemeanor. § 1. Misdemeanor. Disposition of fines. § 3. Act takes effect when. Section 1. Any person or persons who shall willfully cut down or strip of its bark, any tree "over sixteen feet in diameter," in the grove of big trees situated in the counties of Fresno, Tulare, or Kern, or shall destroy any of said trees by fire, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace in said counties, be fined not less than ($50) fifty dollars nor more than ($300) three hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than (25) twenty-five days nor more than (150) one hundred and fifty days, or both fine and imprisonment, as the court may determine. Disposition of fines. Sec. 2. Upon the arrest and conviction of any person or persons guilty of any of the acts before mentioned, the party informing shall be entitled to one half of the fines collected. Act takes effect when. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. INTOXICATING LIQUORS. An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within a certain distance of any camp or assembly of men, numbering twenty-five or more, engaged upon the construction, repair or operation of any public work, improvement, or utility. [Approved March 25, 1909; Stats. 1909, p. 722.] § 1. Sale of liquors near construction camps. § 2. Misdemeanor. § 3. Act takes effect when. Sale of liquors near construction camps. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell. keep for sale, or give away, any spirituous, vinous, malt or mixed intoxicating liquors at any place situated more than one mile outside the limits of an incorporated city or town and within four miles of any camp or assembly of men, numbering twenty-five or more, engaged upon, or in connection with, the construction, repair or operation of any public or quasi-public work, improvement or utility; provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to apply to the sale, keeping for sale, or disposal of any such liquor at a licensed saloon or liquor-store which shall have been established, or at a licensed saloon or liquorstore which shall be maintained, at the time this act takes effect, upon the same premises where a licensed saloon or liquor-store shall have been established, at least six months prior to the establishment of such camp or assembly of men, or to the sale, keeping for sale, or disposal of any such liquors at any winery, licensed brewery or distillery, where the same is manufactured. Misdemeanor. Sec. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this statute shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, for each offense, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Act takes effect when. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. An Act to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors to persons addicted to the inordinate use of intoxicating liquors. [Approved March 19, 1889; Stats. 1889, p. 352; amended by Stats. 1915, p. 49.] § 1. To prohibit furnishing intoxicating liquor to person inordinately using it. § 2. Not to apply to physicians. §3. Act takes effect when. To prohibit furnishing intoxicating liquor to person inordinately using it. Section 1. Any person who, after receiving notice that a person named in said notice is addicted to the inordinate use of intoxicating liquors, should the person named in said notice be so addicted, shall thereafter within a period of twelve months furnish to said person so addicted to the inordinate use of intoxicating liquors, any spirituous liquors. wines, or intoxicating or malt liquors, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both such fine or imprisonment. Said |