prietors thereof shall cause to be made out an accurate map or plat thereof, particularly setting forth and describing,

First. All the parcels of ground within such city, town, addition, or subdivision reserved for public purposes, by their boundaries, courses, and extent, whether they be intended for avenues, streets, lanes, alleys, courts, commons, or other public uses; and,

Second. All lots intended for sale, either by number or letter, and their precise length and width.

Sec. 2. Such map or plat shall be acknowledged by the proprietor, or if any incorporated company, by the chief officer thereof, before some officer authorized by law to take the acknowledgment of conveyances of real estate.

Sec. 3. The map or plat so made, acknowledged, and certified shall be filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the city, town, addition, or subdivision is situated.

Sec. 4. Every person who sells or offers for sale any lot within any city, town, subdivision, or addition, before the map or plat thereof is made out, acknowledged, filed, as herein provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or both such fine and imprisonment.

TITLE 171.

MARIN COUNTY.

A reference to local acts affecting Marin county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, p. 622, et seq.

TITLE 172.

MARIPOSA COUNTY.

A reference to the local acts relating to Mariposa county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, p. 624.

Marks and Brands-Mechanics' Institute. 567

TITLE 173.

MARKS AND BRANDS.

The general law in force in relation to marks and brands will be found in the Political Code, sec. 3167 et seq. As to one county, however, there is a special and local law, continued in force by the Political Code, sec. 19, subd. 11, which may be referred to in this place, as follows: An act concerning marks and brands in the county of Siskiyou, approved March 20, 1866; 1865-6, 332.

TITLE 174.

MARSHALL MONUMENT.

An act to provide for the appointment of a guardian for the Marshall monument and grounds, prescribing his duties, and appropriating money therefor.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 424.]

TITLE 175.

MASTER AND SERVANT.

Act to protect wages, salaries, and fees: Penal Code, Appendix, title, Master and Servant, p. 586.

TITLE 176.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.

Acts relating to: See Civil Code, Appendix, title, Mechanics' Institute, p. 737.

TITLE 177.

MEDICINE.

An act to regulate the practice of medicine in the state of California.

[Approved April 3, 1876; 1875-6, 792. See supplemental act, post.]

Persons practicing medicine and surgery to present diploma to board.

Section 1. Every person in this state practicing medicine or surgery, in any of its departments., shall possess the qualifications required by this act. Every such person shall present his diploma to one of the boards of examiners herein named, together with the affidavit mentioned in section three (3) of this act. If the board shall find all the facts required to be stated in said affidavit to be true, the board of examiners shall issue its certificate to that effect, signed by all the members thereof, and sealed with the seal of the board, and such certificate shall be conclusive as to the right of the person named therein to practice medicine and surgery in any part of this state. [Amendment became a law and took effeet April 1, 1878; 1877-8, 918.]

Board of examiners appointed by what.

Sec. 2. The Medical Society of the State of California, the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California, and the California State Homeopathic Medical Society, corporations organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of this state, and no other corporation, society, persons, or person, shall appoint annually a board of examiners, consisting of seven members, who shall hold their office for one year and until their successors shall be chosen. The examiners so appointed shall go before a district or county judge and make oath that they are regular graduates, and that they will faithfully perform the duties of their office. Vacancies occurring in a board of examiners shall be filled by the society appointing it, by the selection of alternates, or otherwise. The board of examiners now organized, or existing un

der and by virtue of their appointments by the aforesaid societies, shall continue to act as such boards until their successors are appointed at the next annual election. [Amendment became a law and took effect April 1, 1878; 1877-8, 918.] Powers and duties of examiners.

Sec. 3. The board of examiners shall organize within three months after the passage of this act. They shall procure a seal, and shall receive, through their secretary, applications for certificates and examinations. The president of each board shall have authority to administer oaths, and the board take testimony in all meetings relating to their duties. They shall issue certificates to all who furnish satisfactory proof of having received diplomas or licenses from legally chartered medical institutions in good standing. They shall prepare two forms of certificates, one for persons in possession of diplomas or licenses, the other for candidates examined by the board. They shall furnish to the county clerks of the several counties a list of all persons receiving certificates. In selecting places to hold their meetings, they shall, as far as is reasonable, accommodate applicants residing in different sections of the state, and due notice shall be published of all their meetings. Certificates shall be signed by all the members of the board granting them, and shall indicate the medical society to which the examining board is attached.

Board to examine diplomas.

Sec. 4. Said board of examiners shall examine diplomas as to their genuineness, and if the diploma shall be found genuine, as represented, the secretary of the board of examiners shall receive a fee of five dollars from each graduate or licentiate, and no further charge shall be made to the appli cant; but if it be found to be fraudulent, or not lawfully owned by the possessor, the board shall be entitled to charge and collect twenty dollars of the applicant presenting such diploma. The applicant shall accompany his diploma with an affidavit stating that he is the lawful possessor of the same, that he is the person therein named. that the diploma was procured in the regular course of medical instruction, and without fraud

or misrepresentation of any kind, and that the medical institution granting the diploma had, at the time of the granting the same, a full corps of medical instructors, and was at the said time a legally incorporated institution, actually and in good faith engaged in the business of medical education, and in good standing as a medical institution, and that the applicant had complied with all the requirements of said institution. Such affidavit may be taken before any person authorized to administer oaths, and the same shall be attested under the hand and official seal of such officer, if he have a seal. In addition to such affidavit, the board of examiners may hear such further testimony as in their discretion they may deem proper to hear, as to the verification of any such diploma, or as to the identity of the person named therein, or as to the manner in which any such diploma was procured, and if it should appear from such testimony that any fact stated in said affidavit is untrue, the application of such person for a certificate shall be rejected. None of said boards shall entertain an application which has been rejected by another of said boards, nor shall any rejected application be renewed until at least one year after the action of the board rejecting the same. [Amendment became a law and took effect April 1, 1878; 1877-8, 918.]

Examination of applicants.

Sec. 5. All examinations of persons not graduates or licentiates shall be made directly by the board, and the certificates given by the boards shall authorize the possessor to practice medicine and surgery in the state of California; but no examination into the qualifications of persons not holding diplomas or licenses shall be made after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. After that date no certificates shall be granted by them, except to persons presenting diplomas or licenses from legally chartered medical institutions in good standing. Certificates to be recorded.

Sec. 6. Every person holding a certificate from a board of examiners shall have it recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which he resides, and the record shall be indorsed thereon.