Section 1. All sales, and redemptions after sale, of any real property upon which the assessment levied and assessed to pay the damages, costs, and expense for or incident to laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening, diverging, curving, constructing, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, square, lane, alley, court, or place within municipalities in this State, shall remain unpaid and become delinquent under the provisions of any Act or law regulating such matters, shall be made and had in the same time and manner as such sales and redemption were required by law to be made and had on the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

Sec. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

TITLE 273.

SUNDAYS.

Acts relating to: See Penal Code, Appendix, title, Sunday, p. 695.

TITLE 274.

SUPERVISORS.

Acts relating to: See Penal Code, Appendix, title. Supervisors, p. 696; Political Code, Appendix, title, Supervisors, p. 1065.

TITLE 275.

SUPREME COURT REPORTER.

Deputy for: See Political Code, p. 1065.

TITLE 276.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

Act relating to: See Political Code, Appendix, title Surveyor General, p. 1066.

TITLE 277.

SURVEYORS.

An act to define the duties of and to license land surveyors.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 478.]

Section 1. Every person desiring to become a licensed land surveyor in this state must present to the state surveyor general of this state a certificate that he is a person of good moral character; also, a certificate signed by three licensed sur

veyors, or a certificate signed by the board of examining surveyors (provided for in section five of this act), which certificate shall set forth that the person named therein is, in the opinion of the person signing the same, a fit and competent person to receive a license as a land surveyor, together with his oath that he will support the constitution of this state and of the United States, and that he will faithfully discharge the duties of a licensed land surveyor, as defined in this act.

Sec. 2. Upon receipt of such certificate and oath by the state surveyor general, it shall be his duty forthwith to issue to such applicant a license, without charge, which license shall set forth the fact that the applicant is a competent surveyor, or that he has had at least two years' experience in the field as a surveyor or assistant surveyor. Sec. 3. Such license shall contain the full name of the applicant; the technical institution from which he is a graduate (if he be a graduate), or if he be not a graduate, the fact must be stated in the license; his birthplace, age, and to whom issued; the name of the person upon whose certificate the license is issued, and the date of its is

suance.

Sec. 4. All papers received by the state surveyor general on application for licenses shall be kept on file in his office, and a proper index and record thereof shall be kept by him, and a list of all licensed land surveyors shall be kept by him, and he shall monthly transmit to the county recorder of each county in this state a full and correct list of all persons so licensed; and it is hereby made the duty of such recorders to keep such lists in their offices in such a way as they may be easily accessible to all persons.

Sec. 5. Within twenty days after the passage of this act, the governor shall appoint three surveyors in good standing, members of the technical society of the Pacific coast, and two other surveyors in good standing, not members of such society, as a board of examining surveyors, who shall conduct such examinations and make such inquiries as to them may seem necessary to ascertain the qualifications of applicants for surveyors' licenses.

Sec. 6. A majority of the board of examining surveyors shall meet on the first Friday of each month during their term of office, in the rooms

1183 of the technical society of the Pacific coast, in San Francisco, and at such other times and places as they may select. The members of the board shall hold office for the term of one year from the date of appointment, and shall serve without

compensation.

Sec. 7. Every licensed surveyor shall have a seal of office, the impression of which must contain the name of the surveyor, his principal place of business, and the words "licensed surveyor"; and all maps and papers signed by him, and to which said seal has been attached, shall be prima facie evidence in all the courts of this state.

Sec. 8. Surveyors' licenses, issued in accordance with this act, shall remain in force until revoked for cause, as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 9. Every licensed surveyor is authorized to administer and certify oaths, when it becomes necessary to take testimony to identify or establish old or lost corners; or, if a corner or monument be found in a perishable condition, and it appears desirable that evidence concerning such corner or monument be perpetuated; or whenever the importance of the survey makes it desirable, to administer an oath for the faithful performance of duty to his assistants. A record of such oaths shall be preserved as a part of the field notes of the survey.

Sec. 10. Every licensed surveyor is hereby authorized to make surveys relating to the sale or subdivision of lands, the retracing or establishing of property or boundary lines, public roads, streets, alleys, or trails; and it shall be the duty of each surveyor, whenever making any such surveys, except those relating to the retracing or subdivision of cemetery or town lots, whether the survey be made for private persons, corporations, cities, or counties, to set permanent and reliable monuments, and such monuments must be permanently marked with the initials of the surveyor setting them.

Sec. 11. Within sixty days after a survey relating to the sale or subdivision of lands, the retracing or establishing of property and boundary lines, public roads or trails, original cemetery or town sites, and their subdivisions, has made by a licensed surveyor, he shall file with the recorder of the county in which such survey or any portion thereof lies, a record of sur

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vey. Such record shall be made in a good draughtsman-like manner, on one or more sheets of firm paper of the uniform size of twenty-one by thirty inches. This record of survey shall be either an original plat or a copy thereof, and múst contain all the data necessary to enable any competent practical surveyor to retrace the survey. The record of survey must show: All permanent monuments set, describing their size, kind, and location, with reference to the corners which they are intended to perpetuate; all bearing or witness trees marked in the field; complete outlines of the several tracts or parcels of land surveyed within courses, and lengths of boundary lines; the angles, as measured by Vernier readings, which the lines of blocks or lots, if the record relate to an original town site survey, make with each other and with the center lines of adjacent streets, alleys, roads, or lanes; the variations of the magnetic needle with which old lines have been retraced; the scale of the map; the date of survey; a proper connection with one or more points of an original or larger tract of land and the name of the same; the name of the grant or grants, or of the townships and ranges, within which the survey is located; the signature and seal of the surveyor; provided, that nothing in this section shall require record to be made of surveys of a preliminary nature, where no monuments or corners are established.

Sec. 12. The record of surveys thus filed with the county recorder of any county must be by him pasted into a stub-book, provided for that purpose, and he must keep a proper index of such records, by name of owner, by name of surveyor, by name of grant, city, or town, and by United States subdivisions; and he shall make no charge for filing and indexing such records of surveys.

Sec. 13. Upon the failure of any licensed surveyor to comply with the requirements of this act and the furnishing of satisfactory proofs of such fact, the state surveyor general must revoke his license, and no other license shall be issued to him within one year from such revocation. A violation of section eleven of this act shall be a misdemeanor, and any person convicted of such violation shall be punished by a fine not to exceed more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.