80 CALIFORNIA REDWOOD PARK-CALIFORNIA STATUTES. laws governing and regulating the normal schools of this state, in so far as the same are applicable to an institution of this kind. Sec. 5. The sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys belonging to the state not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of a site, the construction and furnishing of the necessary buildings, and the maintenance of said school. Sec. 6. The controller of the state is hereby authorized to draw warrants from time to time, as the work shall progress, in favor of said board of trustees, upon their requisition for the same, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. Sec. 7. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the said board of trustees. Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January first, nineteen hundred and two. ACT 509. TITLE 70. CALIFORNIA REDWOOD PARK. Providing for the creation and management of the California Redwood Park, making an appropriation therefor, and creating a board of five commissioners, with power to make purchases, and to manage said California Redwood Park. [Approved March 16, 1901; Stats. 1901, 517.] ACT 510. To provide for the preservation, improvement and maintenance of the "California Redwood Park" in Santa Cruz County, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 25, 1903; Stats. 1903, 424.] ACT 515. TITLE 71. CALIFORNIA STATUTES, INDEX TO. Authorizing the superintendent of state printing to have prepared and printed an index to all the laws of California, 1850-1893. [Approved March 11, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 150.] This act provided for the compiling, printing, and distribution of a complete index to the California statutes. ACT 520. TITLE 72. CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS. To provide for the revision of the records of the California volunteers, to authorize the adjutant-general to employ additional clerks for that purpose, and to authorize the superintendent of state printing to print, bind and issue the same. [Stats. 1889, p. 228.] ACT 525. TITLE 73. CANAL CORPORATIONS. Authorizing incorporation of canal companies, and the construction of canals. [Stats. 1862, p. 540.] Amended 1865-6, 53, 604, 786; 1867-8, 134. See note to act 632, post. ACT 526. [Stats. Authorizing incorporation of canal companies, and providing for the construction of ditches and canals. 1869-70, p. 660.] "Supplemented 1871-2, 732, but repealed, except as to preexisting corporations, by sec. 288, Civ. Code."-Code Commissioners' note. See note to act 632, post. To develop agricultural interests and aid the construction of a canal in Colusa, Solano, and Yolo counties. [Stats. 1865-6, p. 451.] To prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the state [Stats. 1880, p. 80.] ACT 537. capitol. Fixing the salary of the janitor of the state capitol building, defining his duties and making an appropriation therefor. [Stats. 1893, p. 46.] ACT 538. Authorizing the construction and maintenance of drinking fountains in the state capitol grounds. [Stats. 1901, p. 298.] To protect the bodies of deceased persons and public graveyards. [Stats. 1854, 20.] Superseded by Penal Code, secs. 290-297. ACT 544. Providing for the removal of human remains from cemeteries in cities having a population of more than five thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand. [Approved March 23, 1893; Stats. 1893, 234. Amended 1895, 157.] 1. The city council of any city in this state having a population of more than fifteen hundred and not exceeding one hundred thousand, may, by ordinance duly passed, and under such lawful rules and regulations which it may adopt, provide for the exhuming, taking up, and removal from cemeteries within the boundary lines of such city, or from cemeteries owned and controlled by such city that may have been located without its boundaries (and in which such cemeteries no interments of human remains have been made for a period of not less than two years), of all the human remains interred in such cemeteries. [Amendment approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, 157.] ACT 545. An act to protect public health from infection caused by exhumation and removal of the remains of deceased persons. [Approved April 1, 1878; Stats. 1877-8, 1050. Amended 1889, 139.] Disinterring of bodies unlawful without permit. Section 1. It shall be unlawful to disinter or exhume from a grave, vault, or other burial place, the body or re mains of any deceased person, unless the person or persons so doing shall first obtain, from the board of health, health officer, mayor, or other head of the municipal government of the city, town, or city and county where the same are deposited, a permit for said purpose. Nor shall such body or remains disinterred, exhumed, or taken from any grave, vault, or other place of burial or deposit, be removed or transported in or through the streets or highways of any city, town, or city and county, unless the person or persons removing or transporting such body or remains shall first obtain, from the board of health or health officer (if such board or officer there be), and from the mayor or other head of the municipal government of the city or town, or city and county, a permit, in writing, so to remove or transport such body or remains in and through such streets and highways. Permits granted upon what. Sec. 2. Permits to disinter or exhume the bodies or remains of deceased persons, as in the last section, may be granted, provided the person applying therefor shall produce a certificate from the coroner, the physician who attended such deceased person, or other physician in good standing cognizant of the facts, which certificate shall state the cause of death or disease of which the person died, and also the age and sex of such deceased; provided further, that the body or remains of deceased shall be inclosed in a metallic case or coffin, sealed in such manner as to prevent, as far as practicable, any noxious or offensive odor or effluvia escaping therefrom, and that such case or coffin contains the body or remains of but one person, except where infant children of the same parent or parents, or parent and children, are contained in such case or coffin. And the permit shall contain the above conditions and the words: "Permit to remove and transport the body of age, sex and the name, age, and sex shall be written therein. The officer of the municipal government of the city or town, or city and county, granting such permit, shall require to be paid for each permit the sum of ten dollars, to be kept as a separate fund by the treasurer, and which shall be used in defraying expenses of and in respect to such permits, and for the inspection of the metallic cases, coffins, and inclosing boxes herein required; and an account of such moneys shall be embraced in the accounts and statements of the treasurer having the custody thereof. Misdemeanor. Sec. 3. Any person or persons who shall disinter, exhume, or remove, or cause to be disinterred, exhumed, or removed, from a grave, vault, or other receptacle or burial-place, the body or remains of a deceased person, without a permit therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Nor shall it be lawful to receive such body, bones, or remains on any vehicle, car, barge, boat, ship, steamship, steamboat, or vessel for transportation in or from this state, unless the permit to transport the same is first received, and is retained in evidence by the owner, driver, agent, superintendent, or master of the vehicle, car, or vessel. Transportation of bodies exhumed without permit-Misde meanor. Sec. 4. Any person or persons who shall move or transport, or cause to be moved or transported, on or through the streets or highways of any city or town, or city and county, of this state, the body or remains of a deceased person, which shall have been disinterred or exhumed without a permit, as described in section two of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punishable as provided in section three of this act. Reward for information. Sec. 5. Any person who shall give information to secure the conviction of any person or persons for the violation of the provisions of this act shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be paid from the fund collected from fines imposed and accruing under this act. Removal of remains of deceased persons. Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be taken to apply to the removal of the remains of deceased persons from one place of interment to another cemetery or place of interment within this state; provided, that no permit |