An Act providing for the removal of human re mains from cemeteries in cities having a popu. lation of more than five thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand.

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. [Approved March 23, 1893, Stats. 1893, p. 234. Amendment approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. cl.

An Act to protect public health from infection caused by exhumation and removal of the remains of deceased persons.

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 remains 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 -," 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.

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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 per mit-Misdemeanor.

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 shall be issued for the disinterment or removal of any body, unless such body has been buried for one year or more, without the written consent of the mayor, chairman of the board of supervisors, or city council of any municipality of the state. [Amendment approved March 13, 1889; Stats. 1889, 139. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from the thirtieth day after its passage and ap proval. [Approved April 1, 1878; 1877-8, 1050.]

TITLE 34.

CENSUS.

An act to authorize any city, or city and county of this state to take its census.

[Stat. approved February 25, 1897; Stats. 1897, chap. xxx.]

Section 1. The council, or other legislative body of any city in this state, and the board of supervisors, or other legislative body of any city and county of this state, is hereby authorized, whenever said council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body, may deem it necessary, between the years of taking the federal census, to take the census of such city, or city and county, in the manner prescribed by section two of this act.

Sec. 2. Said council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body of any city, or city and county of this state electing to take a census, as in this act provided for, shall pass a resolution of intention declaring its intention to cause such census to be taken by one or more suitable persons appointed therefor by such council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body, at the expense of said city or cities desiring such census taken, and such census shall, by such persons so appointed, be taken of all the inhabitants of such city, or city and county, and in said census the full name of each person shall be plainly written and the names alphabetically arranged and regularly numbered in one complete series, and when completed shall be verified before any offi cer authorized to administer oaths, and be filed with the clerk of such city, or city and county. Sec. 3. A certified copy of such census shall be prepared by said clerk after being so filed, and shall be filed by him with the secretary of state for this state, and thereupon the same shall be known and be the official state census of said city, or city and county.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Gen. Laws-5.

TITLE 35.

CENTRAL AMERICAN EXHIBITION.

An act for the appointment of a commissioner to represent the state of California at the Central American exhibition to be held in the City of Guatemala, on March 15, 1897, and to prescribe his powers and duties; and to authorize the appointment of a clerk; and to provide for the expenses of said commissioner, and the compensation of said clerk, and for certain expenses of the California exhibit at said exhibition, and to appropriate money therefor. [Stat. approved February 9, 1897; Stats. 1897, chap. iii.]

The purpose of the act sufficiently appears from the title.

TITLE 36.

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

Acts relating to: See Civil Code, Appendix, title, Chambers of Commerce, p. 737.

TITLE 37.

CHEESE.

An act defining the different grades of cheese and for branding the same, manufactured in the state of California.

[Stat. approved March 4, 1897; Stats. 1897, chap. lxxvi.]

Section 1. Every person or persons, firm or corporation, who shall at any creamery, cheese factory, or private dairy, manufacture cheese in the state of California, shall, at the place of man