For filing and indexing certificates of co-partnership, one dollar. For filing and indexing all papers to be kept by him, other than papers filed in actions or proceedings in court, and official bonds and certificates of appointment, each, twenty-five cents. For issuing any license required by law, other than marriage licenses, one dollar. For examining and certifying to a copy of any paper, record or proceedings prepared by another, and presented for his certificate, fifty cents, and one cent per folio for comparing the said copy with the original. For making satisfaction of or credit on judgment, twenty-five cents. For receiving and filing remittitur from supreme court, fifty cents. For administering each oath, without certificate, except in a pending action or proceeding, ten cents. For taking any affidavit, except in criminal cases, twenty-five cents. For taking and approving each undertaking, and the justification thereof, except in criminal cases, fifty cents. For searching records or files, for each year, fifty cents. For taking acknowledgment of any deed or other instrument, including the certificate, fifty cents. For filing notices of appeal and appeal bonds, each, twentyfive cents. Enacted March 18, 1907; stats. 1907, p. 548. CHAPTER XII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. SEC. 4323. When majority of supervisors interested in application, procedure. When majority of supervisors interested in application, pro cedure. § 4323. Whenever an application is made to the board for an order, franchise, or license relating to any toll road, bridge, ferry, wharf, chute, pier, or other subject over which the board has jurisdiction, in which a majority of the board are interested, the application, by order of the board, must be trans ferred to the superior court of the county. The clerk of the board must thereupon certify the application, and all orders and papers relating thereto, to said superior court, and thereafter the said superior court shall have full jurisdiction to hear and determine the application. Enacted March 18, 1907; stats. 1907, p. 558. SEC. 4410. 4411. 4412. TITLE III. The Government of Cities. CHAPTER III. LEGISLATIVE POWERS. Common council may grant authority to gas and water companies. Reservations by cities. Contract for gas and water. Restrictions and conditions to be imposed. Common council may grant authority to gas and water companies. § 4410. The common council, by ordinance, approved by the mayor, may grant to any gas or water company the privilege of laying down pipes in the streets and alleys of such city for supplying gas and water for the streets and buildings thereon, for a term not exceeding twenty-five years. Enacted March 12, 1872. 2 Cal. App. 722. Reservation by cities. § 4411. In exercising the authority mentioned in preceding section, the common council must reserve the right to grant similar privileges to other companies, and require the laying down of the pipes to be under the reasonable direction of the city authorities, and to be so laid as to do no injury to the proper use of the paving, planking, or macadamizing of the streets and alleys, nor to private property situate thereon. Enacted March 12, 1872. 2 Cal. App. 722. · Contract for gas and water. § 4412. The common council may contract with gas and water companies for supplying the streets and public buildings with all gas and water necessary for their proper use; the rates to be paid therefor must not be fixed for a term exceeding five years, and the city authorities must reserve the right to abrogate such contract whenever gas or water is offered to be supplied at two thirds of such fixed contract price. Enacted March 12, 1872. Restrictions and conditions to be imposed. § 4413. In granting authority to lay down pipes, and in contracting for gas and water, the common council must impose such restrictions and conditions, and provide for such locations and construction of gas and water works and pipes as to work the least possible public or private inconvenience, and provide for enforcing such restrictions and conditions. Enacted March 12, 1872. 2 Cal. App. 722. § 10. Holidays, within the meaning of this code, are every Sunday, the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the ninth day of September, the first Monday in September, the twelfth day of October, to be known as "Discovery Day," the twenty-fifth day of December, every day on which an election is held throughout the state, and every day appointed by the president of the United States or by the governor of this state for a public fast, thanksgiving or holiday. If the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the ninth day of September, the twelfth day of October or the twenty-fifth day of December fall upon a Sunday, the Monday following is a holiday. Every Saturday from twelve o'clock noon until twelve o'clock midnight is a holiday as regards the transaction of business in the public offices of this state, and also in political divisions thereof where laws, ordinances or charters provide that public offices may be closed on holidays; provided, this shall not be construed to prevent or invalidate the issuance, filing, service, execution or recording of any legal process or written instrument whatever on such Saturday afternoons. Amended February 19, 1909; stats. 1909, p. 22; in effect in sixty days. 152 Cal. 531; 153 Cal. 599; VIII Cal. App. Dec. 662, 663. Similar provisions: Civ. C. §7; Pol. C. § 10. Same. § 11. If the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the ninth day of September, the twelfth day of October or the twenty-fifth day of December fall upon a Sunday, the Monday following is a holiday. Amended February 19, 1909; stats. 1909, p. 22; in effect in sixty days. Certain terms used in this code defined. § 17. Words used in this code in the present tense include the future as well as the present; words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the word "person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person; the word "county" includes "city and county;" writing includes printing and typewriting; oath includes affirmation or declaration; and every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term "testify." and every written one in the term "depose"; signature or subscription includes mark, when the person can not write, his name being written near it by a person who writes his own name as a witness; provided, that when a signature is by mark it must, in order that the same may be acknowledged or may serve as the signature to any sworn statement, be witnessed by two persons who must subscribe their own names as witness thereto. The following words have in this code the signification attached to them in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context: 1. The word "property" includes both real and personal property; 2. The words "real property" are coextensive with lands, tenements, and hereditaments; 3. The words "personal property" include money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt; 4. The word "month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed; 5. The word "will" includes codicil; 6. The word "writ" signifies an order or precept in writing, issued in the name of the people, or of a court or judicial officer; and the word "process" a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings; |