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ed, paper whatever, having thereon any artificial or corporate name or other word or words indicating that such business is the business of a bank, savings bank, or savings and loan society, shall forfeit for each day the offense is continued the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered as provided in this act. [New section approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. clxvii.]

Sec. 27. No banker, nor officer of any bank or corporation doing a hanking business, shall advertise in any manner, or publish any statement of the capital stock authorized or subscribed, unless he advertise and publish in connection therewith the amount of capital actually paid up. Any officer, or the officers of any hank or corporation doing a banking business, advertising in any manner, or publishing a statement of the capital stock of such bank or banking corporation, authorized or subscribed, without the statement in connection therewith of the stock actually paid up, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [New section approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. clxvii.]

For other acts relating to banks see Civil Code, Appendix, title Banks and Banking, p. 715 et seq.

TITLE 18.

BEE-CULTURE.

An Act to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several counties of this state to appoint inspectors of apiaries and provide for their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of bee-culture.

[Approved March 13, 1883; 1883, 285.]

The nature of the act appears from its title.

TITLE 19.

BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

Acts relating to, see Civil Code, Appendix, title

Benefit Societies, p. 723.

BLIND.

See Home of Adult Blind; Medicine.

TITLE 20.

BLUE BOOK.

Acts to provide for the publication of the state blue-book or roster, approved March 23, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 218; and approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 454.

TITLE 21.

BOARD OF EXAMINERS.

Acts relating to, see Political Code, Appendix, title Board of Examiners.

TITLE 22.

BOARDS OF FREEHOLDERS.

An act in relation to municipal elections where the same are held separate from general state elections, and elections held under the authority of section eight of article eleven of the constitution, to elect boards of freeholders, or to vote upon proposed charters or upon amendments to existing charters, and to repeal an act entitled an act in relation to elections held under the authority of section eight of article eleven of the constitution, approved March 31, 1897. [Approved March 4, 1899; Stats. 1899, ch. LIV.]

TITLE 23.

BONDS.

Acts relating to: See Civil Code, Appendix, title, Bonds, p. 725; Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, title, Bonds, p. 788.

Gen. Laws-4

An Act to provide for funding the indebtedness of counties in certain cases.

Outstanding indebtedness of counties.

Section 1. Whenever any county shall have had, at twelve o'clock, meridian, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty, an outstanding indebtedness, evidenced by bonds or warrants thereof, theretofore legally issued, and such indebtedness, or any part thereof, shall have been thereafter paid in accordance with the laws in force at the time such bonds or warrants were issued, out of the income and revenue received by such county since that date, and such county shall have, since that date, incurred an indebtedness, evidenced by warrants thereof, which indebtedness shall not have exceeded in any year the income and revenue provided for such county for such year, and which warrants shal Inot have been paid by reason solely of such application of the current revenue of such county to the payment of such former indebtedness, the board of supervisors of such county, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members thereof, are empowered, if they deem it for the public interest, to fund such lastmentioned indebtedness, and to issue bonds of such county therefor in the manner provided in subdivision fourteen of section twenty-five of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; and all the provisions of sald subdivision of said section shall apply to the issuance, disposal and payment of such bonds, and to the levy of taxes for the redemption of the same, except as herein otherwise provided.

Indebtedness that shall not be funded.

Sec. 2. No indebtedness of such county shall be funded, under the provisions of this Act, which in any year exceeding the income and revenue provided for such county for such year, nor which shall exceed the amount of current revenue which shall have been so applied to the payment of indebtedness outstanding at twelve o'clock, meridiau, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty.

Further recital in bonds.

Sec. 3. Such bonds shall, in addition to the matters required to be stated therein by the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, contain statement that they are issued under authority of this Act, referring to the same by its title and date of passage.

The manner of exchange of bonds for warrants. Sec. 4. Such bonds, when issued, may be exchanged by the County Treasurer, under the direction of the board of supervisors, only for warrants of such county legally issued since twelve o'clock, meridian, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty, which, together with warrants theretofore issued, did not in any year exceed the income and revenue provided for such county for such year, and which shall remain unpaid solely because the revenue otherwise applicable to the payment of the same shall have been so applied to the payment of such former indebtedness. If any portion of such bonds shall be sold for money, the proceeds thereof shall be applied exclusively to the payments of the warrants mentioned in this section.

Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. [Approved May 8, 1884; 1884, 8.]

An Act providing for the destruction of municipal bonds of municipal corporations where the same have been executed and remain unsold. Section 1. Whenever there remain in the possession of any municipal corporations in this State any bonds voted to be issued for municipal purposes, which have been executed but not sold and disposed of, and the sale and disposal of such bonds shall be deemed by the board of trustees or other governing board of such city to have become impossible or inexpedient, and that their destruction is desirable, it shall be lawful for said board to give public notice of its intention publicly to destroy such bonds by a notice published for four successive weeks in the official newspaper of said city, if there be such a paper, and otherwise, in any newspaper published and circulated in said city which may be designated by said board;

such notice shall specify the time and place of such intended destruction, and the reason alleged therefor, together with a general description of the character and amount of said bonds. And it shall be lawful for said board, at the time and place and in accordance with the terms of said notice, publicly to destroy said bonds unless at least three days prior to said time, written objections to such destruction shall be filed with the clerk of said city, signed by a majority of the legal voters of said city as appears by the vote cast at the last preceding general municipal election.

Sec. 2. No further or other issue of bonds in place of those thus destroyed shall be made by such city, or its board of trustees, or other governing board, unless again authorized by a vote of the people as provided by law.

Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. [Stat. approved February 26, 1897; Stats. 1897, chap. xxxvii.]

Special acts fixing the bonds of certain_officers are referrred to in Deering's Annotated Political Code, under section 4122.

TITLE 24.

BOUNDARY OF STATE.

An act to provide for the correction and establishment of a portion of the eastern boundary line of the state of California, and to appropriate money therefor.

This act was approved February 26, 1889; Stats. 1889, p. 36.

TITLE 25.

BRIDGES.

An Act concerning bridges across navigable

streams.

Section 1. The board of supervisors of any county in this State now controlling or maintain

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