State engineer to be notified-Draw and length of spans. SEC. 4. Whenever the supervisors of any county or counties desire to erect a bridge on any public highway, or to grant the privilege so to do to any individual or corporation, across a navigable stream, under the provisions of this act, said board or boards shall notify the state engineer of such purpose, and of the precise point where such bridge is proposed to be located. The state engineer shall, within ten days of the receipt of such notice, designate the width of the draw to be made in such bridge, and also the length of the spans necessary to permit the free flow of water. Change of plans-Hearing before state engineer. SEC. 5. The communication from the state engineer, fixing the draw and spans, shall be spread upon the minutes of the board, and any bridge constructed at that point shall be in conformity therewith; provided, however, that the state engineer may, upon hearing before him, had upon application of any person or body interested, made within ten days after the receipt by said board of supervisors of said communication of said engineer, change his first plans, in which case the modified plans must be so spread upon the minutes, and shall stand in the place of the original; provided, however, that before such hearing is had, the said engineer must give ten days' notice, by publication in some newspaper published in the county or counties from which the application came, of the time and place of the hearing. Surveyor general to act in certain contingencies. SEC. 6. In case of the absence or inability of the state engineer to act, the duties devolving upon him under this act shall be performed by the state surveyor general. Rates of toll, by whom fixed, when stream is navigable. SEC. 7. When a bridge shall be built on a navigable stream, by one county, or two counties, it may be absolutely free, or tolls sufficient to pay in whole, or in part, for the construction, and to keep up the repairs and expenses thereof, may be charged; the rate to be fixed by the board of supervisors of the county in which the same is located, or, if located in two counties, then by the boards of supervisors of the two counties; or if there be any disagreement between said boards, as to imposing or removing tolls, or the rate, the matter in dispute shall be referred to the board of supervisors of some neighboring county for determination, and its decision, communicated in writing to the clerks of the said boards respectively, shall be final; and if tolls are fixed or removed thereby, the same shall take effect on the tenth day from the date of such written determination. Supervisors have power to erect bridges at expense of county. SEC. 8. The board of supervisors, or other governing body of any city and county, or county, in this state, shall have power to declare that it is necessary for the public convenience to have a bridge or bridges built across any estuary, swamp, pond, or arm of a bay that may lie or extend into the county, or city and county, and prescribe the points between which said bridge or bridges shall be built, and when they shall have specified the points between which it is, in their judgment, necessary to build the said bridge or bridges, they may let contracts to build the bridges, as aforesaid, and pay for the same out of the general fund of the city and county or county. Time act shall take effect. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. 123 Cal. 181. (For repairing and reconstructing, see act of February 25, 1897, following; also act of March 23, 1907, for adjoining counties.) An act concerning bridges across navigable streams. Approved February 25, 1897; stats. 1897, p. 21. The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Power of supervisors to reconstruct or replace bridges-Agreement with corporations. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of any county in this state now controlling or maintaining, by virtue of any statute, any bridge across any navigable stream wholly or in part within the boundary lines of any municipal corporation, is hereby authorized and empowered, whenever it may become necessary, in the interest of commerce or by reason of any such bridge and rebuild any part of such bei. of repair, to m bridge, or replace said bridge by a new structure, or with the consent of the governing bodies of such municipalities change the location of such bridge to such place on such stream as may be better suited to its use, or to the use of such navigable stream; and the board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized to abandon any such existing bridge and rebuild a new bridge at such changed location, and the board of supervisors of any such county so rebuilding and reconstructing said bridge may enter into an agreement with any person or corporation, now maintaining any bridge across any such navigable stream, for the building of a joint bridge for the purpose of preventing the impeding of commerce on such navigable streams, and of apportioning the expense between said county and said person or any corporation, in such manner as may be agreed upon between said county and said person, or corporations. Division of expense. SEC. 2. The expense of said reconstruction, or the building of a new bridge, to be payable out of the same fund as is now provided by law for the maintenance and repair of any such bridge; provided, that in case said county should make such agreement with said person or corporation for the building of any joint bridge, that only the county's portion of said joint bridge, as may be settled by said agreement, shall be paid from the said funds; and, provided, that in no event shall the county pay more than one half the cost of construction, repair, or reconstruction of any such joint bridge. Repeal of conflicting acts. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Time act shall take effect. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. (As to construction of bridges, etc., see act of March 14, 1881, ante; see, also, act of March 23, 1907, post.) An act to enable adjoining counties to enter into agreements for the construction, rebuilding, replacing, or relocation of bridges over navigable waters between said counties, jointly with other persons or corporations. Approved March 23, 1907; stats. 1907, p. 982. The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Bridges between two counties, provision for joint construction and repair. SECTION 1. In case it shall appear to the boards of supervisors of two adjoining counties that any bridge shall be necessary for highway purposes, over any navigable river, stream, or inlet of the sea, between said counties, or if any bridge existing thereover and used wholly or in part for highway purposes, (whether the same is owned by said counties or either of them, or used by them or either of them by agreement with the owner thereof,) shall, in the interests of commerce, or by reason of such bridge being out of repair or deteriorated beyond reasonable repair, require reconstruction, or rebuilding, or replacing by a new structure, or its location to be changed to such place on such navigable river, stream, or inlet of the sea, as may be better suited to its use, or to the use of such navigable water, or may tend to prevent obstruction to commerce thereon, the boards of supervisors of such counties may, in their discretion, enter into an agreement with any person or corporation for the building of a joint bridge, or the reconstruction, or rebuilding, or replacing by a new structure of such existing bridge, or the rebuilding thereof at another location, and the joint use of the same thereafter by such person or corporation, and said counties or the public, and for apportioning the expense of such joint reconstructed or relocated bridge between said counties and each of them and such person or corporation jointly using or to use the same, and to provide for the construction and use thereof in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between such counties and such person or corporation. In such case none of the provisions of subdivision four of section twenty-five of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township government," approved April 1, 1897, shall be applicable thereto; provided, that in no event shall to contribute more than one third of the cost either county a of construction, reconstruction, relocation, or repair of any such joint bridge. Time act shall take effect. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. (See, also, acts of March 14, 1881, and February 25, 1897, ante.) BROKERS. An act fixing the rates of interest and charges on loans upon chattel mortgages on certain personal property, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the act. Approved March 20, 1905; stats. 1905, p. 422. Unconstitu(Ex parte Sohncke, 148 Cal. 262.) tional. An act to provide for the incorporation of associations for lending money on personal property, and regulating the same, and to forbid certain loans of money, property or credit. Approved March 21, 1905; stats. 1905, p. 711. Unconstitu(Ex parte Sohncke, 148 Cal. 262.) tional. An act to define personal property brokers and regulate their charge and business. Approved April 16, 1909; stats. 1909, p. 969. The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Personal property broker defined. SECTION 1. That every person or corporation engaged in the business of loaning or advancing money or other thing and taking in whole or in part as security for such loan or advance any chattel mortgage, bill of sale or other obligation or contract involving the forfeiture of rights in or to personal property, the |