any person, company, or corporation to furnish to such city, or any inhabitant thereof, or other person therein, for illuminating purposes, gas of a lower standard or quality, or to charge or receive there for a higher price than is provided by said board, under the authority and subject to the limitations of this act; and for every violation of the provisions of this act, or the provisions of any order, resolution, or ordinance of said board made in pursuance thereof, every such person, company, or corporation shall incur a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name and for the use of such city, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and each day upon which such person, company, or corporation shall, without reasonable cause or excuse therefor, furnish gas of a lower quality or standard illuminating power than that fixed by said board, shall constitute and be considered and held one violation thereof, and each month or shorter period for which said person, company, or corporation shall take an account of gas consumed, and for which they shall charge or receive a price greater than that fixed by said board, shall be held and regarded as one offense, and any number of such offenses of either class, or both, may be joined in the same action, and the several penalties for the several violations proved or confessed in said action may be united and recovered in the same judgment; and such person, company, or corporation shall also be liable to such city and to any and each person or corporation who shall be injured by any such violation, in double the amount of damages actually sustained. Actions tried, by whom. Sec. 6. All actions for penalties under the provisions of this act shall be tried by the court, unless a jury be demanded by either party; and when such action shall be tried by a jury, the jury shall find, as to each violation charged in the complaint, that "the defendant is guilty,' "the defendant is not guilty;" and upon each charge in respect to which the jury has found the defendant guilty, the court shall fix the penalty, and render judgment for the aggregate amount of such penalties, together with costs of suit. Sec. 7. All penalties recovered under this act shall be paid into the general fund of such city. Sec. 8. This act shall apply to the city and county of San Francisco, as well as to cities whose municipal government is distinct from the county in which they are located. Sec. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 1349. TITLE 183. To continue the geological survey of the state of California. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 355.] "Probably intended to be repealed by 1873-4, 694, chap. CDLXIII." -Code Commissioners' Note. ACT 1350. State geological survey, preservation of material of. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 694.] TITLE 184. GIFTS. АСТ 1355. To provide for the receipt of donations to the state counties, counties, cities and counties, or towns. [Stats. 1880, p. 20.] АСТ 1356. To authorize the several counties, cities and counties, cities, and towns to receive gifts. [Stats. 1881, p. 2.] Codified by amendment of Civil Code, 1905. See note to § 1275, Civil Code. АСТ 1357. TITLE 185. Incorporating Gilroy. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 263.] TITLE 186. GLENN COUNTY. ACT 1362. To create the county of Glenn, establish the government, and provide for its organization. [Stats. 1891, p. 98.] Amended 1893, 158. Cal. Rep. Cit. 104, 236; 122, 429. TITLE 187. To protect cashmere and angora goats from the ravages of See title Dogs, ante. ACT 1367. dogs. An act to prevent buck goats running at large. Codified by amendment of Penal Code, 1905. See note to § 597g. Penal Code Buck goats not to run at large. Section 1. It shall not be lawful for the owner or owners of any buck goat or goats, or any person or persons in charge of such goat or goats, to turn or permit such goat or goats to be turned or run at large in any county of this state Penalty for violation. Sec. 2. Any person violating the provisions of the first section of this act shall, upon complaint and conviction before a justice of the peace of the proper township, be fined in a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, to be collected as fines are now by law collected. Sec. 3. This act stall take effect on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Goats in particular cities or counties, see particular title. TITLE 188. GOLDEN CITY HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION. ACT 1372. To authorize sale and conveyance of lands in San Francisco to Golden City Homestead Association. [Stats. 1863-4, p. 463.] This act permitted the commissioners of swamp and overflowed lands to sell certain lands to this homestead association. ACT 1377. TITLE 189. GOOD TEMPLARS. Concerning Independent Order of Good Templars. [Stats. 1863, p. 101.] See sec. 288, Civ. Code, This act gave authority to acquire property necessary to carry out its charitable purpose. TITLE 190. GOVERNOR. ACT 1382. Authorizing the appointment of a stenographer for. [Stats. 1891, p. 1.] This act appears in full in Political Code, Appendix, p. 1092. АСТ 1383. Governor's mansion, fitting up for use as a state printing office and state armory. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 903.] Repealed 1875-6, 22 (Am.). ACT 1384. Providing for the maintenance of a residence for. [Stats. 1899, p. 150.] АСТ 1385. Providing for the construction and furnishing of a residence for. [Stats. 1899, p. 73.] Amended 1903, 415. ACT 1386. Empowering the governor to execute a quitclaim deed to the successors in interest of James Bowman. [Stats. 1893, p. 151.] ACT 1387. Imposing certain duties on, respecting rewards. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 855.] Repealed by § 1547, Penal Code, as amended 1905. Cal. Rep. Cit. 63, 466. This act authorized the governor to offer rewards. It appears in full in the Appendix to the Penal Code, p. 610. ACT 1388. An act making an appropriation to provide for a deficiency in the postage, expressage, telegraphing, traveling and contingent fund of the governor's office for the fiftyseventh fiscal year. [Approved June 14, 1906.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated to provide for a deficiency in the postage, expressage, telegraphing, traveling and contingent expenses of the governor's office for the fifty-seventh fiscal year. Sec. 2. The controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the said sum and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 1392. TITLE 191. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. To prevent persons from unlawfully wearing badge of Grand Army of the Republic. [Stats. 1887, p. 82.] This act appears in full in the Penal Code, Appendix, p. 611. ACT 1397. TITLE 192. GRASS VALLEY. Incorporating Grass Valley. [Stats. 1861, p. 153.] Amended 1862, 98; 1863-4, 57; 1865-6; 363; 1869-70, 16, 47; 1877-8, 192. Repealed by new charter 1893, 628. ACT 1402. TITLE 193. GROWING TREES. To protect growing timber on possessory claims and other private property, and on streets and highways and public grounds. [Stats. 1862, p. 307.] Superseded by Penal Code. ACT 1403. To prevent the destruction of timber on the public lands of this state. [Stats. 1863-4, p. 136.] Supplemented 1863-4, 435. Superseded by Penal Code. Gen. Laws-29 |