act. Nor shall general dealers come under the provisions of this act, in so far as it relates to the keepiL for sale of proprietary medicines in original packages of drugs and medicines; but in no case shall they compound or prepare any pharmaceutical preparations or prescriptions.

Sec. 12. All persons registered under this act shall be exempt and free from jury duty.

SCHEDULE “A.”

Arsenic, corrosive sublimate, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, cocaine, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, opium, and all its preparations, excepting those which contain less than two grains to the ounce.

SCHEDULE "B."

Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, savin, cantharides, phosphorus, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloroform, chloral, sulphate of zinc, sugar of lead, mineral acids, carbolic acid, and oxalic acid, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, essential oil of almonds.

All acts or parts of acts which conflict with this are hereby repealed.

Poisons: See Post, title, Poisons.

TITLE 206.

PILOTS.

Acts relating to: See Political Code, Appendix, title, Pilots, p. 1058.

TITLE 207.

PLACER COUNTY.

A reference to special acts relating to Placer county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 650 and 651.

See, also, an act authorizing the trustees of Auburn to remove a cemetery and donate the land for a park, approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, p. 109.

TITLE 208.

PLUMAS COUNTY.

A reference to special acts relating to Plumas county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, pp. 651 and 652.

TITLE 209.

POISONS.

Act regulating sale of: See ante, title, Pharmacy; the former act was an act to regulate the sale of certain poisonous substances. [Approved April

16, 1880; 1880, 102 (Ban. ed. 341).]

TITLE 210.

POLICE.

Acts relating to: See Penal Code, Appendix, tltle Police, p. 595.

TITLE 211.

POLICE COURTS.

An Act to establish a police court in and for the city of Marysville.

[Approved March 16, 1889; 1889, 214.]

An Act to provide for police courts in cities hav ing fifteen thousand and under eighteen thousand inhabitants.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891; p. 433.] This act was declared unconstitutional in Glambonini, ex parte, decided July 16, 1897.

An Act to create a police court in and for the city and county of San Francisco, state of California.

[Approved March 5, 1889; 1889, 62.]

An act amendatory of and supplemental to an act entitled "An act to create a police court in and for the city and county of San Francisco, state of California," approved March 5, 1889, and providing for an additional department, to be known as department number four, and the appointment of a suitable person to act as judge of said court.

[Approved February 23, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 9.]

An act to create an additional police judge's court for the city and county of San Francisco, to define its powers and jurisdiction.

[Approved March 7, 1881; Stats. 1881, 74.]

An act to provide for police courts in cities having thirty thousand and under one hundred thousand inhabitants, and to provide for officers thereof.

[Approved March 18, 1885; 1885, 213.]

This act was amended March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 252; February 27, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 41; and March 6, 1895; Stats. 1895, p. 113.

An act establishing a police court in Eureka. [Approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, p. 90.]

TITLE 212.

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Acts relating to: See Political Code, Appendix, title, Police Department, p. 1058.

TITLE 213.

PREDACEOUS INSECTS.

An act to appropriate five thousand dollars for the purpose of sending an expert to Australia, New Zealand, and adjacent countries to collect and import into this state parasites and predaceous insects. [Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 277.]

The object of the act sufficiently appears from the title.

TITLE 214.

PRIZE FIGHTING.

Act relating to: See Penal Code, Appendix, title, Prize Fighting, p. 606.

TITLE 215.

PROSTITUTION.

Act relating to: See Penal Code, Appendix, title, Prostitution, p. 606.

TITLE 216.

PROTECTION DISTRICTS.

An act to provide for the formation of protection districts in the various counties of this State, for the improvement and rectification of the channels of innavigable streams and watercourses, for the prevention of the overflow thereof, by widening, deepening, and straightening and otherwise improving the same, and to authorize the Boards of Supervisors to levy and collect assessments from the property benefited to pay the expenses of the same. [Stat. Approved March 27, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. cci.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Whenever the Board of Supervisors

of any county in this State may deem it proper to improve and rectify the channel of any innavigable stream or watercourse within the county, and to prevent the overflow of such stream by widening, deepening, or straightening its course, or by erecting levees or dikes upon its banks, the Board may, upon a petition of ten property holders of the district to be affected by such improvements, pass a resolution signifying its intention to improve such innavigable stream or watercourse, describing the exterior

boundaries of the district of lands to be affected or benefited by such work or improvement, and to be assessed to pay the damages, cost, and expenses thereof, the character of work or improvement contemplated, and the place where the proposed work or improvement is to be done. Such resolution shall also contain a notice, to be published, which notice shall be headed "Notice of Intention of the Board of Supervisors to form a Protection District," and shall state the fact of the passage of such resolution, with the date thereof, and briefly, the work or improvement proposed, and the statement that it is proposed to assess property affected or benefited by such improvement for the expenses thereof, and refer to the resolution for further particulars. Such notice to be given by the Board of Supervisors, and signed by its clerk.

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Sec. 2. Such notice shall be published for a period of thirty days, in one daily newspaper published and circulated in such county, and desig nated by said board of supervisors; or if there is no daily newspaper so published and circulated in said county, then by four successive insertions in a weekly or semi-weekly newspaper so published, circulated, and designated.

Sec. 3. Any person interested, objecting to such work or improvement, or to the extent of the district of lands to be affected or benefited by such work or improvement, and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, may make written objections to the same within ten days after the expiration of the time of the publication of said notice, which objection shall be delivered to the clerk of said board of supervisors, who shall indorse thereon the date of its reception by him, and at the next regular meeting of such