veterinary medicine and surgery, whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this act.

2. The members of the state veterinary medical board shall be appointed by the governor of the state.

3. The board so appointed shall hold their offices for four (4) years, and the compensation of each member of said state veterinary medical board shall be five dollars per diem, exclusive of all necessary expenses while actually engaged in the duty of their office at the meetings of said board.

4. A meeting of the state veterinary medical board shall be held at least once in every six months after the appointment of said board by the governor of the state of California, such meetings to be held alternately in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

5. Three members of the state veterinary medical board shall constitute a quorum.

6. Said compensation to be paid out of the fees and penalties received under the provisions of this act, and no part of the salary or other expenses of the state veterinary medical board shall be paid out of the state treasury.

7. All moneys received by said state veterinary medical board as such fees and penalties, in excess of the compensation and expense of the state veterinary medical board, shall be annually paid into the state treasury, and become a part of the general fund of the state.

Sec. 3. 1. Said state veterinary medical board shall examine all diplomas as to their genuineness. Each applicant not holding a diploma shall submit to a theoretical and practical examination before the state veterinary medical board; said examination to be written or oral, or both, and sufficiently strict to satisfy said board that the applicant is competent to practice veterinary medicine and surgery.

2. An examination fee of five dollars shall be paid to the state veterinary medical board by the holder of a diploma, and ten dollars by an applicant not holding a diploma; said money shall be paid by the applicant before examination.

3. In case of failure of approval, said fee shall be forfeited to the state veterinary medical board.

Sec. 4. All examinations of persons not graduates shall be made directly by the state veterinary medical board, and the certificates given by said board shall authorize the possessor to prac tice veterinary medicine and surgery in the state of California. All examinations of ungraduated practitioners must take effect before the thirtyfirst day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. After that date no certificate shall be granted, except to persons presenting diplomas from legally chartered colleges.

Sec. 5. Upon the approval of credentials, or up on approval of the examination of an applicant said state veterinary medical board shall grant him or her a license to practice in this state, and shall receive therefor a fee of five dollars; said license shall be signed by a majority of the board. Sec. 6. Any person qualified as required by this act shall, upon receipt of his license to practice. have said license prominently displayed in his of fice, and a true copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which he resides. Any person removing to another county to practice shall file the license in like manner in the county to which he removes. The holder shall pay to the county clerk the usual fees for filing. Any person holding such license who shall refuse or neglect to prominently display in his office, or file a copy of the same with the county clerk, as above directed, within six months after receiving such license shall forfeit his license: and no license when once forfeited shall be restored to the origi nal holder except on the payment to said state veterinary medical board of the sum of twenty-five dollars, as a penalty for such failure, neglect, or refusal.

Sec. 7. Any person shall be regarded as prac ticing veterinary medicine and surgery, within the meaning of this act, who shall have received a license as mentioned in section five. But nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit members of the medical profession from prescribing for domestic animals in case of emergency, and collecting a fee therefor, nor to prohibit gratuitous services in an emergency, nor prevent any person from practicing veterinary medicine or surgery on any animal belonging to himself or herself. And this act shall not apply to commissioned veterinary surgeons in the United States army.

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Sec. 8. Any person practicing veterinary medicine or surgery in this state contrary to the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, the penalty of which shall be a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment of not exceeding six (6) months, or by both.

Sec. 9. This act shall take effect sixty days from and after its passage.

TITLE 301.

VITICULTURE.

See Agriculture; Forestry; Fruit-trees and Vines. A collection of acts relating to Viticulture can be found in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, p. 744 et seq.

An act repealing acts relating to viticulture and transferring the property to the State University was approved March 27, 1895; Stats. 1895, p. 235.

TITLE 302.

WAREHOUSES.

Act relating to: See Civil Code, Appendix, title Warehouses and Wharfingers, p. 839.

TITLE 303.

WATER COMMISSIONERS.

The Political Code, sec. 19, continued in force all acts creating or regulating boards of water commissioners and overseers in the several town. ships or counties of the state.

A collection of the laws is contained in Deer ing's Annotated Penal Code, p. 750 et seq.

TITLE 304.

WATER COMPANIES.

Acts relating to: See Civil Code, Appendix, title, Water Companies, p. 843, et seq.

An act to enable the board of supervisors, town council, board of aldermen, or other legislative body of any city and county, city, or town to obtain data and information, from any corporation, company, or person supplying water to such city and county, city, or town, requiring such boards, town council, or other legislative body to perform the duties prescribed by section one of article fourteen of the constitution, and prescribing penalties for the non-performance of such duties.

[Approved March 7, 1881; Stats. 1881, 54.] Municipal corporations to fix water rates.

Section 1. The board of supervisors, town council, board of aldermen, or other legislative body of any city and county, city, or town, are hereby authorized and empowered, and it is made their official duty, to annually fix the rates that shall be charged and collected by any person, company, association, or corporation, for water furnished to any such city or county, or city, or town, or the inhabitants thereof. Such rates shall be fixed at a regular or special session of such board or other legislative body, held during the month of February of each year, and shall take effect on the first day of July thereafter, and shall continue in full force and effect for the term of one year, and no longer.

Annual statements to be made by water compa nies, etc.

Sec. 2. The board of supervisors, town council, board of aldermen, or other legislative body of any city and county, city, or town, are hereby authorized, and it is hereby made their duty, at least thirty days prior to the fifteenth day of January of each year, to require, by ordinance of otherwise any corporation, company, or person sup

plying water to such city and county, city, or 1269 town, or to the inhabitants thereof, to furnish to such board, or other governing body, in the month of January in each year, a detailed statement, verified by the oath of the president and secretary of such corporation or company, or of such person, as the case may be, showing the name of such water-rate payer, his or her place of residence, and the amount paid for water by each of such water-rate payers, during the year preceding the date of such statement, and also showing all revenue derived from all sources, and an itemized statement of expenditures made for supplying water during said time.

Additional statement.

Sec. 3. Accompanying the first statement made as prescribed in section two of this act, every such corporation, company, or person shall furnish a detailed statement, verified in like manner as the statement mentioned in section two hereof, showing the amount of money actually expended annually, since commencing business, in the purchase, construction, and tively, of the property necessary to the carrying maintenance, on of its business, and also the gross cash receipts respecannually, for the same period, from all sources. Refusal to make statement a misdemeanor.

Sec. 4. Every corporation, company, or person who shall refuse or neglect to furnish the statements mentioned in sections two and three of this act, or either of them, or who shall furnish any false statement in relation thereto, within thirty days after having been required or requested to furnish the same as prescribed in sections two, and three of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. one,

Copy of statement to be filed.

Sec. 5. Upon receiving the statements provided for in sections two and three of this act, the board of supervisors, town council, board of aldermen, or other legislative body, shall thereof to be made and filed in the office of the cause county recorder of such city and county, or of a copy the county wherein such city or town is situated. Rates to be equal.

Sec. 6. Rates for the furnishing of water shall