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ceedings thereof shall, at all reasonable times, be open to public inspection.

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SEC. 4. Within six months from the time that this Act Register of takes effect, it shall be the duty of every person who is now dentists. engaged in the practice of dentistry in this State, to cause his or her name and residence or place of business to be registered with said Board of Examiners, who shall keep a book for that purpose. The statement of every such person shall be verified under oath before a Notary Public or Justice of the Peace, in such manner as may be prescribed by the Board of Examiners. Every person who shall so register with said Registered Board as a practitioner of dentistry shall receive a certificate dentists to that effect, and may continue to practice as such without practice incurring any of the liabilities or penalties provided in this Act, and shall pay to the Board of Examiners for such registration a fee of one dollar. It shall be the duty of the Board Board to of Examiners to forward to the County Clerk of each county to County in the State, a certified list of the names of all persons resid- Clerk. ing in his county who have registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and it shall be the duty of all County Clerks to register such names in a book, to be kept for that purpose.

profession.

furnish list

of applicants

SEC. 5. Any and all persons, who shall so desire, may Examination appear before said Board at any of its regular meetings and for certifi be examined with reference to their knowledge and skill in cate. dental surgery, and if the examination of any such person or persons shall prove satisfactory to said Board, the Board of Examiners shall issue to such persons as they shall find to possess the requisite qualifications a certificate to that effect, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Said Board shall also indorse as satisfactory diplomas from any Diplomas reputable dental college, when satisfied of the character of from other such institution, upon the holder furnishing evidence satis- colleges factory to the Board of his or her right to the same, and shall issue certificates to that effect within ten days thereafter. All Certificate certificates issued by said Board shall be signed by its officers, Princ and such certificates shall be prima facie evidence of the right of the holder to practice dentistry in the State of California.

dental

sufficient.

prima facie evidence.

meanor to

SEC. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provis- Misdeions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, iolate this and, upon conviction, may be fined not less than fifty dollars Act. nor more than two hundred dollars, or confined six months in the county jail, for each and every offense. All fines recovered under this Act shall be paid into the Common School Fund of the county in which such conviction takes place.

SEC. 7. In order to provide the means for carrying out Charge for and maintaining the provisions of this Act, the said Board certificate. of Examiners shall charge each person applying to or appearing before them for examination for a certificate of qualifications, a fee of ten dollars, which fee shall in no case be returned, and out of the funds coming into the possession of the Board from the fees so charged, and penalties received under the provisions of this Act, all legitimate and necessary

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STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA,

expenses incurred in attending the meetings of said Board shall be paid. And no part of the expenses of the Board shall ever be paid out of the State Treasury. All moneys received in excess of expense, above provided for, shall be held by the Secretary of said Board as a special fund for meeting the expenses of said Board, and carrying out the provisions of this Act, he giving such bonds as the Board shall from time to time direct. And said Board shall make an annual report of its proceedings to the Governor, by the first of December of each year, together with an account of all moneys received and disbursed by them pursuant to this Act.

SEC. 8. Any person who shall receive a certificate from be registered said Board to practice dentistry, shall cause his or her certifiClerk. cate to be registered with the County Clerk of the county in which such person may reside, and the County Clerk shall charge for registering such certificate a fee of one dollar. Forfeiture. Any failure, neglect, or refusal on the part of any person holding such certificate to register the same with the County Clerk as above directed, for a period of six months, shall work a forfeiture of the certificate, and no certificate, when once forfeited, shall be restored, except upon the payment to the said Board of Examiners of the sum of twenty-five dollars, as a penalty for such neglect, failure, or refusal.

Misdemeanor to

falsely claim to hold

SEC. 9. Any person who shall knowingly and falsely claim or pretend to have or hold a certificate of license, diploma, or degree, granted by any society organized under and pur diploma, etc. suant to the provisions of this Act, or who shall falsely and with intent to deceive the public, claim or pretend to be a graduate from any incorporated dental college, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to the same penalty as provided in section six.

Physicians

SEC. 10. Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to may extract prohibit any practicing physician from extracting teeth. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Application to change

CHAPTER CXXVIII.

An Act to amend section twelve hundred and seventy-six of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Civil Procedure," approved March 11, 1872, relating to the change of names.

[Approved March 12, 1885.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section twelve hundred and seventy-six of the Code of Civil Procedure is hereby amended to read as follows:

1276. All applications for change of names must be made name made to the Superior Court of the county where the person whose name is proposed to be changed resides, by petition, signed

to Superior Court.

societies may

name.

by such person; and if such person is under twenty-one years of age, if a male, and under the age of eighteen years of age, if a female, by one of the parents, if living, or if both be dead, then by the guardian; and if there be no guardian, then by some near relative or friend. The petition must Petition. specify the place of birth and residence of such person, his or her present name, the name proposed, and the reason for such change of name, and must, if the father of such person be not living, name, as far as known to the petitioner, the near relatives of such person, and their place of residence. Any religious, benevolent, literary, scientific, or other cor- Benevolent poration, or any corporation bearing or having for its name, change or using or being known by the name of any benevolent or corporate charitable order or society, may, by petition, apply to the Superior Court of the county in which its articles of incorporation were originally filed, or in which the property of such incorporation is situated, for a change of its corporate name. Such petition must be signed by a majority of the Petition, how Directors or Trustees of the corporation, and must specify signed, the date of the formation of the corporation, its present name, the name proposed, and the reason for such change of name. Upon filing such petition, on behalf of such corpora- Banking cortion, the same proceedings shall be had as upon applications poration not for changes of names of natural persons, and no banking corporation hereafter organized shall adopt or use the name ciation. of any friendly association.

SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

to adopt

name of

friendly asso

CHAPTER CXXIX.

An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872, by adding thereto a new section, numbered three hundred and thirty-seven, for the punishment of certain persons who encourage gaming.

[Approved March 12, 1885.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

carry on

SECTION 1. An Act entitled an Act to establish a Penal To issue a Code, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and license to seventy-two, is amended by adding thereto, immediately forbidden after section three hundred and thirty-six of said Act, a mes, a new section, to be numbered three hundred and thirty-seven, and shall read as follows:

337. Every State, county, city, city and county, town, or township officer, or other person who shall ask for, receive, or collect any money, or other valuable consideration, either for his own or the public use, for and with the understanding that he will aid, exempt, or otherwise assist any person from arrest or conviction for a violation of section three hundred

felony.

Ten per cent of ballot

paper money

and thirty of the Penal Code; or who shall issue, deliver, or cause to be given or delivered to any person or persons, any license, permit, or other privilege, giving, or pretending to give, any authority or right to any person or persons to carry on, conduct, open, or cause to be opened, any game or games which are forbidden or prohibited by section three hundred and thirty of said Code; and any of such officer or officers who shall vote for the passage of any ordinance or by-law, giving, granting, or pretending to give or grant to any person or persons any authority or privilege to open, carry on, conduct, or cause to be opened, carried on, or conducted, any game or games prohibited by said section three hundred and thirty of the Penal Code, is guilty of a felony.

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An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to establish a Political Code, approved March 12, 1872, by amending section one thousand one hundred and ninety, relating to the payment of election rewards.

[Approved March 12, 1885.] ·

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one thousand one hundred and ninety of an Act entitled an Act to establish a Political Code, apto go to Elec- proved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

tion Reward Fund.

1190. The sum collected by him for paper so sold must be paid into the State Treasury, and ten per cent of such sum must be credited to a fund to be kept in the Treasury and known as the Election Reward Fund, from which fund all rewards provided for in section one thousand and fifty-four of this Code shall be paid.

A corporation formed

become

CHAPTER CXXXI.

An Act to facilitate the giving of bonds required by law.

[Approved March 12, 1885.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Whenever any person who now or hereafter to guarantee may be required or permitted by law to make, execute, and bonds may give a bond or undertaking, with one or more sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of any duty, or for the doing or not doing of anything in said bond or undertaking specified, any head of department, Board, Court, Judge, officer, or other person who is now or shall hereafter be required

surety on bonds.

to approve the sufficiency of any such bond or undertaking, or the sureties thereon, may accept as sole and sufficient surety on such bond or undertaking, any corporation incorporated under the laws of any State of the United States for the purpose of making or guaranteeing bonds and undertakings required by law, and which shall have complied with all the requirements of the laws of this State regulating the admission of such corporation to transact such business in this State; and all such corporations are hereby vested with full power and authority to make and guarantee such bonds and undertakings, and shall be subject to all the liabilities and entitled to all the rights of natural persons sureties.

not to be Surety when

SEC. 2. It is further provided, that the guaranty of any Corporation such company shall not be accepted by heads of departments or others, as provided in section one of this Act, when- liabilities ever its liabilities shall exceed its assets, as ascertained in the manner provided in section three of this Act.

exceed

assets.

Commissioner to

ciency to be

SEC. 3. Whenever the liabilities of any such company Insurance shall exceed its assets, the Insurance Commissioner shall require the deficiency to be paid up within sixty days, and require defiif it is not so paid up, then he shall issue a certificate show- paid up. ing the extent of such deficiency, and he shall publish the same once a week for three weeks, in a daily San Francisco paper, and thenceforth, and until such deficiency is paid up, such company shall not do business under the provisions of this Act. And, in estimating the condition of any such com- Estimate of pany, under the provisions of this Act, the Commissioner assets. shall allow as assets only such as are authorized under existing laws at the time, and shall charge as liabilities, in addi- Charge of tion to eighty per cent of the capital stock, all outstanding indebtedness of the company, and a premium reserve equal to fifty per centum of the premiums charged by said company on all risks then in force. Nothing herein contained shall Bonds in apply to bonds given in criminal cases.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately.

liabilities.

criminal

cases

excepted.

CHAPTER CXXXII.

An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act to authorize and direct the County Judges of the several counties of this State to execute certain trusts in relation to the town lands granted to the unincorporated towns in this State by the Act of Congress entitled 'An Act for the relief of the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands,' approved March 2, 1867," approved March 30, 1868.

[Approved March 12, 1885.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is amended so as to read as follows:

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