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amendatory, may pay all the said license taxes and penalties prescribed by section 1 of said act and the amendments thereto, and the license taxes and penalties that would have accrued if such corporation had not forfeited its charter or right to do business and any such corporation making such payment shall be relieved from the forfeiture prescribed by the act of which this act is amendatory, and all persons exercising the powers of any such corporation making such payment shall be relieved from the provisions of section 9 of said act of which this act is amendatory, and the secretary of state shall immediately after the first day of December, 1911, transmit to the county clerk of each county in this state, a list of the corporations so paying pursuant to the provisions of this section, which list shall be by said county clerk filed in his office; provided, the rehabilitation of a corporation under the provisions of this act shall be without prejudice to any action, defense or right which accrued by reason of the original forfeiture; and provided, that in case the name of any corporation which has suffered the forfeiture prescribed by the act of which this act is amendatory, or a name so closely resembling the name of such corporation as will tend to deceive, has been adopted by any other corporation since the date of said forfeiture then said corporation having suffered said forfeiture shall be relieved therefrom pursuant to the terms of this section of this act only upon the adoption by said corporation seeking revivor of a new name, and in such case nothing in this act contained shall be construed as permitting such corporation to be revived or carry on any business under its former name; and such corporation shall have the right to use its former name or take such new name only upon filing an application therefor with the secretary of state, and upon the issuing of a certification to such corporation by the secretary of state setting forth the right of such corporation to take such new name or use its former name as the case may be; provided, however, that the secretary of state shall not issue any certificate permitting any corporation to take or use the name of any corporation heretofore organized in this state and which has not suffered the forfeiture prescribed by the act of which this act is amendatory, or to make or use à name so closely resembling the name of such corporation heretofore organized in this state, as will tend to deceive. The provisions of title IX, part III of the Code of Civil Procedure in so far as they conflict with this section of this act are not applicable to corporations seeking revivor under this act. [Amendment approved April 24, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1094.]

Citations. Cal. 155/643, 650; 156/96, 97, 100. App. 12/704, 705, 706. ACT 759.

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ACT 804.

TITLE 117.
COUNTIES.

An act requiring the compilation and publication of reports of the financial transactions of the several counties and municipalities of the state, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved April 21, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 1071.]

Controller to compile annual financial reports of counties and cities.
§ 1. The state controller is hereby directed to compile and publish
annually reports of the financial transactions of each county and munici
pal corporation within the state, together with such other matter as said
controller may deem to be of public interest. Such reports shall be made
in the time, form and manner prescribed by the said controller.

County and city officers to furnish reports.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the officers of each county and municipal corporation having charge of the financial records thereof to furnish to the controller in the time, form and manner required by him, full and true reports of all the financial transactions of such county or municipal corporation during the fiscal year next preceding the time of the making of such reports.

False report a misdemeanor.

§ 3. Any officer who shall knowingly make a false report or who shall refuse to make the reports required shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Controller to appoint accountant to investigate false reports.

§ 4. In case reports are not made in the time, form and manner required or there is reason to believe that any report is false or incorrect, the controller shall appoint some qualified accountant to make an investigation thereof, and to obtain the information required. The accountant appointed shall report to the controller the results of investigation and a copy thereof shall be filed with the legislative body of the county or municipal corporation, the accounts of which were so investigated. In case a similar investigation has to be made of the accounts of any county or municipal corporation for two successive years, a certified copy of the results of the investigation last made shall be transmitted to the grand jury of the county so investigated or in which the municipal corporation so investigated is situated.

Appropriation.

§ 5. The sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the controller for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.

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ACT 805.

An act granting relief to counties by extending the time within which county treasurers are required to make semi-annual settlements with the state controller and state treasurer in cases in which school money of such counties have been misappropriated.

[Approved May 1, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 1465.]

Misappropriated school money may be deducted at semi-annual settlement. § 1. Whenever it shall chance that the state school money of any semiannual settlement retained by any county treasurer, under the provisions of section 3866 of the Political Code, shall have been misappropriated, and as a result thereof, the primary schools of such county are embarrassed for lack of funds, a sum equal to the amount of school money so retained and misappropriated may be deducted from such moneys as the treasurer of such county shall be required to pay over to the state treasurer at the next semi-annual settlement.

Used for support of primary schools.

§ 2. The sum deducted from the moneys due the state at any semiannual settlement, as provided in section 1 of this act, together with the sum authorized to be retained by the county treasurer, under the provisions of section 3866 of the Political Code, shall be used for the support of the primary schools of such county.

Supervisors to levy additional tax to pay state.

§ 3. The board of supervisors of any county availing itself of the provisions of this act, shall on the third Monday in September, immediately following the semi-annual settlement at which the deduction authorized in section 1 of this act is made, shall provide in the tax rate fixed for county purposes, for an additional tax sufficient to raise a sum equal to the amount deducted, as herein provided for, and said board of supervisors shall thereupon levy such additional tax, as will enable the county to repay the state of California such sum deducted from the semi-annual settlement, and such payment shall be made at the time of the semi-annual May settlement following the date of such levy.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

TITLE 120.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

ACT 834.

Citations. Cal. 157/415, 492. App. 8/504; 9/707; 11/580.

ACT 835.

Citations. App. 11/581.

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Citations. Cal. 155/753, 756; 156/430, 431, 432; 157/155, 159. App. 8/22, 246; 9/28, 681, 707; 11/578; 12/546.

TITLE 124.
CRIMINAL LAW.

ACT 865.

An act in relation to pandering; to define and prohibit the same, to provide for punishment thereof; for the competency of certain evidence at the trial therefor.

[Approved February 8, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 9.]

Pandering. Penalty.

§ 1. Any person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution, or who, by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, shall cause, induce, persuade or encourage a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution, or shall procure for a female person a place as inmate in a house of prostitution or as an inmate of any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed within this state, or any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade or encourage an inmate of a house of prostitution or any other place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed to remain therein as such inmate, or any person who shall, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill-fame, or to enter any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed within this state, or to come into this state or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution, or who shall receive or give, or agree to receive or give, any money or thing of value for procuring, or attempting to procure, any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill-fame within this state, or to come into this state or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of a felony, to wit: pandering, and upon conviction for an offense under this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of not less than one year nor more than ten years.

Competent witness.

§ 2. Any such female person referred to in the foregoing section shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this act to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution.

ACT 866.

An act in relation to pimping; to define and prohibit the same, and providing for punishment thereof; and for the competency of certain evidence at the trial therefor.

[Approved February 8, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 10.]

Pimping. Penalty.

§ 1. Any male person who, knowing a female person to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance in whole or in part, from the earnings or proceeds of the prostitution of such prostitute, or from moneys loaned or advanced to or charged against such prostitute by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or who shall solicit or receive compensation for soliciting for such prostitute, shall be guilty of a felony, to wit: pimping, and upon conviction for an offense under this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period of not less than one year nor more than three years.

Competent witness.

§ 2. Any such female person referred to in the foregoing section shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this act to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this act, whether called as a witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution.

ACT 875.

TITLE 126.
DAIRIES.

Citations. Cal. 155/117. App. 8/297, 298, 300.

ACT 878.

An act to establish a standard for evaporated milk and condensed milk. [Approved April 24, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 1101.]

Standard of condensed milk.

§ 1. The standard of purity of condensed milk and evaporated milk shall be that proclaimed and established by the secretary of the United States department of agriculture.

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

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