An act to regulate medical practice to prevent blindness in infants.

[Stat. approved February 17; 1897; Stats. 1897, chap. xiv.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Should one or both eyes of an infant become reddened or inflamed at any time within two weeks after birth, it shall be the duty of the midwife, nurse, or person having charge of said infant, to report the condition of the eyes at once to some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town, or district in which the parents of the infant reside.

Sec. 2. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

TITLE 178.

MENDOCINO COUNTY.

A reference to the local acts relating to Mendocino county is contained in Deering's Annotated Code, p. 630, et seq.

TITLE 179.

MERCED COUNTY.

A reference to local acts affecting Merced county is contained in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, p. 632.

MEXICAN WAR.

See Veterans' Home Association.

TITLE 180.

MILITARY ACADEMY.

An act to furnish arms for the use of military academies in the state.

[Approved February 20, 1872; 1871-2, 121.] Military academies-Majors.

Section 1. That when a military academy has been established within the state, having not less than eighty boys, uniformed, drilled, and instructed in strict accordance with the tactics of the regular United States army service, and all its course of education and economy conducted upon strict military principles, the military instructor of such academy, when regularly elected by the board of trustees or other lawful authority of the academy, be commissioned in the national guard of California, with the rank of major. Bond and issue of arms, etc.

Sec. 2. That upon giving bond, with good se curity, to be approved by the county judge of the county where the academy is situated, conditioned for the safe-keeping against fire, loss, and against all damages, in twice the value, that arms and accouterments, the property of the state, be issued for the use of such military academy. Requisition.

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Sec. 3. The adjutant general of the state hereby authorized to issue such arms and accouterments as may be needed by the said military academies, without a monthly allowance, in the same manner as arms and accouterments are issued to regular organized companies of the national guard of California, upon requisition made for this purpose, approved by the commander-inchief.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Gen. Laws-49

TITLE 181.

MINERAL CABINET.

Consult the following acts:

An act to provide for the establishment of a cabinet department in the state library. [Approved April 1, 1872; 1871-2, 824.]

An act making an appropriation for the management and protection of the state mineral cabinet under direction of the trustees thereof. [Approved March 11, 1889; 1889, 131.]

An act to provide for the removal of the mineral cabinet from the state library.

[Approved March 9, 1887; 1887, 74.]

Act provided for appointment by governor of three trustees to select place in the Crocker art gallery for the mineral cabinet.

TITLE 182.

MINERALOGIST, STATE.

Consult the following acts:

An act making an appropriation for editing the manuscript of the state mineralogist for the two years ending September 15, 1892.

[Approved March 11, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 133.]

An act establishing a state mining bureau and providing for appointment of state mineralogist and repealing prior acts.

[Approved March 23, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 203.]

The repealed acts are contained in the statutes of 1880, p. 115, and 1885, p. 217, respectively.

TITLE 183.

MINES AND MINING.

For other acts relating to mining, see Civil Code, Appendix, p. 802, et seq.

A very important act relating to mining partnerships is contained in the Statutes of 1865-6, p. 828. It has not been in terms repealed. As this subject is treated of in the Civil Code, section 2511, et seq., and as this act was included in the list of acts intended to be repealed by the code commissioners (Index to Laws of Cal., p. 711), it is probably not in force.

An act for the protection of miners.

[Approved March 13, 1872; 1871-2, 413.]

Protection of miners.

Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any corporation, association, owner, or owners of any quartz-mining claims within the state of California, where such corporation, association, owner, or owners employ twelve men daily, to sink down into such mine or mines any perpendicular shaft or incline beyond a depth from the surface of three hundred feet without providing a second mode of egress from such mine, by shaft or tunnel, to connect with the main shaft at a depth of not less than one hundred feet from the surface. Modes of escape.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of each corporation, association, owner, or owners of any quartz mine or mines in this state, where it becomes necessary to work such mines beyond the depth of three hundred feet, and where the number of men employed therein daily shall be twelve or more, to proceed to sink another shaft or construct a tunnel so as to connect with the main working-shaft of such mine as a mode of escape from underground accident, or otherwise. And all corporations, associations, owner, or owners of mines as aforesaid,

working at a greater depth than three hundred feet, not having any other mode of egress than from the main shaft, shall proceed as herein provided.

Liabilities.

Sec. 3. When any corporation, association, owner, or owners of any quartz mine in this state shall fail to provide for the proper egress as herein contemplated, and where any accident shall occur, or any miner working therein shall be hurt or injured, and from such injury might have escaped if the second mode of egress had existed, such corporation, association, owner or owners of the mine where the injuries shall have occurred shall be liable to the person injured in all damages that may accrue by reason thereof; and an action at law in a court of competent jurisdiction may be maintained against the owner or owners of such mine, which owners shall be jointly or severally liable for such damages. And where death shall ensue from injuries received from any negligence on the part of the owners thereof, by reason of their failure to comply with any of the provisions of this act, the heirs or relatives surviving the deceased may commence an action for the recovery of such damages as provided by an act entitled an act requiring compensation for causing death by wrongful act, neglect, or default, approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

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

An act for the protection of coal mines and coal miners.

Map.

[Approved March 27, 1874; 1873-4, 726.]

Section 1. The owner or agent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, on a scale of one hundred feet to the inch.

Copies.

Sec. 2. A true copy of which map or plan shall be kept at the office of the owner or owners of the