such article or substance is used, shall continuously keep conspicuously posted up, in not less than three exposed positions in and about their respective places of business, a printed notice in the following words, viz.: "Oleomargarine sold here;" the said notice to be plainly printed, with letters not less than two inches square each. And each and every hotel keeper and restaurant keeper, boarding house keeper, or proprietor of other places where meals are furnished for pay, who may use in their respective places of business any of the article or substance described in the first section of this Act, shall, upon the furnishing of the same to his guests or customers, if inquiry is made, cause each and every guest or customer to be distinctly informed that the said article is not butter, the genuine production of the dairy, but is "oleomargarine." violation. SEC. 3. Every person or Director, Trustee, officer, or agent Penalty for of any corporation, who may violate any provision of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and it shall be the duty of the Court trying said offense to order the payment of one half of the fine imposed to the person giving the information upon which the prosecution was based and the conviction had, and such fine may be collected by execution as in civil causes. SEC. 4. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. CHAPTER XII. An Act making appropriations for a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of prisoners for the thirty-second fiscal year. [Approved March 1, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: in Prison tion Fund, SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand two hundred and Deficiency twelve dollars and fifty-seven cents is hereby appropriated Transportaout of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appro- thirtypriated, to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the second year. transportation of prisoners for the thirty-second fiscal year. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Deficiency in Insane CHAPTER XIII. An Act making appropriation for a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of insane for the thirty-second fiscal year. [Approved March 1, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of four thousand one hundred and Transporta sixty-four forty-two hundredths dollars is hereby approtion Fund, priated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise second year. appropriated, to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the transportation of the insane for the thirty-second fiscal thirty year. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Deficiency in Prison tion Fund, CHAPTER XIV. An Act making appropriations for a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of prisoners for the thirty-third fiscal The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of fifteen hundred and twenty-nine Transporta dollars and fifty-two cents is hereby appropriated out of any thirty-third money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the transportation of prisoners for the thirty-third fiscal year. year. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Deficiency in Insane Transporta tion Fund, thirty-third year. CHAPTER XV. An Act making appropriation for a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of insane for the thirty-third fiscal The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand and ninety-eight dollars and sixty cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the transportation of insane for the thirty-third fiscal year. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER XVI. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Political Code," approved March 12, 1872, by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section three thousand eight hundred and seventeen, relating to redemption of lands sold to the Stae for delinquent taxes. [Approved March 2, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Political Code, to be known as section three thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and to read as follows: redeem by 3817. In all cases where real estate has been or may here- Right to after be sold for delinquent taxes, and the State has become certain the purchaser, and has not disposed of the same, the person payments. whose estate has been or may hereafter be sold, or his heirs, executors, administrators, or other successors in interest, shall, at any time after the time of purchase thereof by the State, and before the State shall have disposed of the same, have the right to redeem such real estate by paying to the County Treasurer of the county wherein the real estate is situated the amount of taxes due thereon at the time of said sale, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent per annum; and also all taxes that were a lien upon said real estate at the time said taxes became delinquent; and also for each year since the sale for which taxes on said land have not been paid, an amount equal to the percentage of State and county tax for that year, upon the value of said real estate assessed for the year of the sale, with interest from the first day of January of each of said years respectively, at the same rate; and also all costs and expenses, and twenty-five per cent penalty, which may have accrued by reason of such delinquency and sale, and the costs and expenses of such redemption, as hereinafter specified. The County Auditor shall, on the application of the person desiring to redeem, make an estimate of the amount to be paid, and shall give him triplicate certificates of the amount, specifying the several amounts thereof, which certificates shall be delivered to the County Treasurer, together with the money; and the County Treasurer shall give triplicate receipts, written or indorsed upon said certificates, to the redemptioner, who shall deliver one of said receipts to the State Controller and one to the County Auditor, taking their receipts therefor. The County Treasurer shall settle for the moneys received as for other State and county moneys. The County Auditor shall be paid by the redemptioner for making out said estimates the sum of two dollars. Upon the payment of the money specified in State's deed said certificate, and the giving of the receipts aforesaid by void." the Treasurer, Controller, and Auditor, any deed or certificate of sale that may have been made to the State shall become null and void, and all right, title, and interest acquired by becomes the State under or by virtue of the tax sale, shall cease and determine. The receipts of the County Treasurer, Controller, and County Auditor, may be recorded in the Recorder's office of the county in which said real estate is situated, in the book of deeds, and the record thereof shall have the same effect as that of a deed of reconveyance of the interest conveyed by said deed or certificate of sale. This Act shall not apply to school lands when the full amount of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre has not been paid to the State therefor. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Classes described. Determination based on census. Question of reorganiza by general election. CHAPTER XVII. An Act to provide for the classification of municipal corporations. [Approved March 2, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All municipal corporations within the State are hereby classified as follows: Those having a population of more than one hundred thousand shall constitute the first class; those having a population of more than thirty thousand, and not exceeding one hundred thousand, shall constitute the second class; those having a population of more than fifteen thousand, and not exceeding thirty thousand, shall constitute the third class; those having a population of more than ten thousand, and not exceeding fifteen thousand, shall constitute the fourth class; those having a population of more than three thousand, and not exceeding ten thousand, shall constitute the fifth class; those having a population of not exceeding three thousand, shall constitute the sixth class. SEC. 2. The census taken under the direction of the Congress of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and every ten years thereafter, shall be the basis upon which the respective populations of said municipal corporations shall be determined, unless a direct enumeration of the inhabitants thereof be made, as in this Act provided, in which case such direct enumeration shall constitute such basis. SEC. 3. The Council, Board of Trustees, or other legislation settled tive body of any municipal corporation, may, at any time, cause an enumeration of the inhabitants thereof to be made, and in such manner and under such regulations as such body may by ordinance direct. If upon such enumeration it shall appear that such municipal corporation contains a sufficient number of inhabitants to entitle it to reorganize under a higher or lower class, the Common Council, Trustees, or other legislative body, shall, upon receiving a petition therefor signed by not less than one fifth of the qualified electors thereof, submit to the electors of such city or town, at the next general election to be held therein, the question whether such city or town shall reorganize under the laws relating to municipal corporations of the class to which such city or town may belong. And thereupon such proceedings shall be had and election held as provided in the general law for the organization, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of such reorganization, thereafter such officers shall be elected as are or may be and at the time prescribed by law for municipal corporations of the class having the population under which such reorganization is had, and from and after the qualification of such officers, such corporations shall belong to such class. CHAPTER XVIII. An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the State Board of Examiners to invest the moneys derived from State school lands in the bonds of the several counties of this State," approved February 2, 1872. [Approved March 3, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to authorize the State Act repealed. Board of Examiners to invest the moneys derived from the State school lands in the bonds of the several counties of this State, approved February second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER XIX. An Act to amend sections six hundred and eighty and six hundred and eighty-two, and to repeal section six hundred and eighty-one of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Political Code," approved March 12, 1872, relating to the investment of the proceeds of the sale of State school lands. [Approved March 3, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Sections six hundred and eighty and six hundred and eighty-two of the Political Code are hereby amended to read as follows: how invest 680. Whenever and as often as there is in the State treas- When and ury the sum of ten thousand dollars as the proceeds of the ments shall sale of State school lands, the Board must invest the same be made. |