An act to establish board of parole commissioners for the parole of and government of paroled prisoners. [Approved March 29, 1893; 1893, 183. Amended 1901, 82.] Section 1. The state board of prison directors of this state shall have power to establish rules and regulations under which any prisoner who is now or hereafter may be imprisoned in any state prison, and who may have served one calendar year of the term for which he was convicted, and who has not previously been convicted of a felony and served a term in a penal institution, may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the buildings and inclosures, but to remain while on parole in the legal custody and under the control of the state board of prison directors, and subject at any time to be taken back within the inclosures of said prison; and full power to make and enforce such rules and regulations and retake and imprison any convict so upon parole is hereby conferred upon said board of directors, whose written order certified by the president of said board shall be a sufficient warrant for all officers named therein to authorize such officer to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner, and it is hereby made the duty of all chiefs of police, marshals of cities and villages, and sheriffs of counties, and all police, prison, and peace officers and constables to execute any such order in like manner as ordinary criminal process; provided, however, that no prisoner imprisoned under a sentence for life shall be paroled until he shall have served at least seven calendar years. The governor of the state shall have like power to cancel and revoke the parole of any prisoner, and his written authority shall likewise be sufficient to authorize any of the officers named therein to retake and return said prisoner to the state prison, and his written order canceling or revoking the parole shall have the same force and effect and be executed in like manner as the order of the state board of prison directors. If any prisoner so Pen. Code-31 paroled shall leave the state without permission from said board he shall be held as an escaped prisoner and arrested as such. [Amendment, approved February 28, 1901. Stats. 1901, 82.] Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately from and after its passage. [Amendment, approved February 28, 1901. Stats. 1901, 82.] SUNDAYS. An act to provide for a day of rest from labor. [Approved February 27, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 54.] Section 1. Every person employed in any occupation of labor shall be entitled to one day's rest therefrom in seven; and it shall be unlawful for any employer of labor to cause his employees, or any of them to work more than six days in seven; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any case of emergency. Sec. 2. For the purposes of this act, the term day's rest shall mean and apply to all cases, whether the employee is engaged by the day, week, month, or year, and whether the work performed is done in the day or night time. Sec. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force thirty days from and after its passage. An act to regulate and provide for a day of rest in certain cases. [In effect April 16, 1880. Stats. 1880, p. 80, Ban. ed. 311.] Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the business of baking to engage, or permit others in his employ to engage in the labor of baking, for the purpose of sale, between the hours of six o'clock P. M. on Saturday and six o'clock P. M. on Sunday, except in the setting of sponge preparatory to the night's work; provided however, that restaurants, hotels, and boarding houses may do such baking as is necessary for their own consumption. Sec. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment. This act was declared unconstitutional: erfield, 55 Cal. 550. Ex parte West SUPERVISORS. An act to authorize boards of supervisors to pay the expenses of posse comitatus in criminal cases. [Approved April 16, 1880; 1880, 102, Ban. ed. 341.] Section 1. The board of supervisors of any county may allow, in their discretion, such compensation as they may deem just, to defray the necessary expenses that have been incurred by a posse comitatus in criminal cases; provided, no claim shall be allowed for expenses which have not been incurred within one year before such allow ance. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. INDEX. ABALONE, protection of, § 628. ABDUCTION: See Kidnaping; Prostitution. Jurisdiction of offense of, § 784. Of minor female for prostitution, punishment of, § 267. Woman, of, punishment, § 265. ABETTING, out of state, by person, § 27. ABORTION, advertising to procure, § 317. Administering drugs to produce, punishment of, § 274. Evidence of, § 1108. Prosecutrix must be corroborated, § 1108. Using instruments to procure miscarriage, punishment, ABSENCE. Application for removal heard in defendant's District attorney, of, appointing another, § 1130. Limitation of action when defendant out of state, ACCESSARIES, all persons concerned liable as princi- Before act and principal, distinction abolished, § 971. Corroboration of, § 1111. Duel, in, § 228. Indictment of, allegations, § 971. |