ments of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punishable as provided in section two of this act.

Officers having jurisdiction.

SEC. 11. Any justice of the peace, or recorder of the city or city and county or any justice of the peace of the township in which the school district is located, or in which the offense is committed, shall have jurisdiction of all offenses committed under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 12. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July first, nineteen hundred and three.

SEC. 13. An act entitled an act to enforce the educational rights of children, approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

An act to aid the enforcement of an act entitled, "An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for violations of the act," approved March 24, 1903.

[Approved March 8, 1909.]

SECTION 1. All minors coming within the provisions of an act entitled, "An act regulating the employment and hours of labor of children, prohibiting the employment of minors under certain ages, prohibiting the employment of certain illiterate minors, providing for the enforcement hereof by the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics and providing penalties for the violation hereof," (approved February 20, 1905) and found employed and at work without the necessary legal authorization as provided for and required in said act, and whose ages are between the maximum and minimum age limits as described in an act entitled, "An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for violation of the act," shall be placed or delivered into the custody of the school district authorities of the county, city, or city and county in which they are found illegally at work.

SEC. 2. The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to enforce the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

GUARDIANSHIP OF ORPHANS.

An act to provide for the appointment of guardians of children maintained in any orphans' home or orphan asylum in this state.

[Approved March 23, 1893.]

SECTION 1. When any orphan or half orphan has been maintained in any orphans' asylum or orphans' home in the State of California for more than one year, the managers of said home or asylum shall be entitled to the guardianship of such child in preference to any other person; provided, however, that such managers shall not be appointed guardian of a minor child over fourteen years of age without its consent, nor shall this act

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preclude the court of competent jurisdiction from inquiring into the fitness of such managers for the guardianship of such children; but in exercising the power of the court to appoint guardians for minors, the managers of the home having the care of such child for more than one year shall, if there be no special reasons to the contrary in any particular case, be preferred in the guardianship of the person of the child to the parent so leaving the child, without good cause therefor being shown, under the care of said home for the said time.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CONTROL OF CHILDREN'S HOME FINDING SOCIETIES. An act providing for the supervision and control by the state board of charities and corrections of the placing of dependent children into homes and for the supervision of all societies or organizations engaged in such work and known as children's home finding societies.

[Approved April 24, 1911.]

SECTION 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any organization, society or persons to engage in the work of placing dependent children into homes in this state without first obtaining a permit therefor, duly executed in writing, from the state board of charities and corrections.

SEC. 2. The said state board of charities and corrections may investigate, or cause to be investigated, the books, records, and methods of such organizations, societies, or persons, and the disposition of the children coming into their custody; and it may make such rules and regulations as it may deem best for the government and regulation of such societies or persons, and may require such reports as it may desire.

SEC. 3. The said state board of charities and corrections is hereby authorized and empowered to withdraw and cancel any permit to engage in the work of placing children into homes for any failure to observe the rules and regulations established for their government, or the failure to report as required, or for any failure on their part to perform their work as required by the best interests of the state, but no permit shall be canceled or withdrawn without due notice and hearing.

SEC. 4. It is hereby made a misdemeanor for any person or persons, either as individuals or officers of any association or society, to engage in the work of placing children into homes, or the soliciting of funds therefor, in this state without a permit duly executed in writing by the state board of charities and corrections, authorizing said persons or such association or society to engage therein, or to engage in such work after any permit has been canceled.

SEC. 5. This act shall not be construed as applying to any regularly established orphan home or any officer or official thereof acting for or on behalf of such home receiving aid from the state for the care of orphans, half orphans or abandoned children in any effort such institution or its officers may make to procure the adoption into homes or any officer or official thereof acting for or on behalf of such home of any such children. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

MINORS NOT TO ATTEND PRIZE FIGHTS.

An act to prevent any minor under the age of eighteen years visiting any prize fight, cock fight, or place where any prize fight or cock fight is advertised or represented to take place and to provide a punishment therefor.

[Approved April 17, 1909.]

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of sixteen years to visit or attend any prize fight, cock fight, or place where any prize fight, cock fight, or place where any prize fight or cock fight is advertised to take place.

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee or proprietor, or the agent of any owner, lessee or proprietor of any place where any prize fight or cock fight is advertised or represented to take place to admit any minor under the age of eighteen years to such place where any prize fight or cock fight is advertised or represented to take place; or to admit, or to sell or give away to any such minor a ticket or other paper by which said minor might be admitted to such place where such prize fight or cock fight is advertised to take place.

SEC. 3. Every person violating any of the provisions of the preceding sections is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in county jail not more than twenty-five days.

PROHIBITING MINORS FROM ENGAGING IN BUSINESS. An act to prohibit minors under the age of eighteen years to vend and sell goods, engage in, or conduct any business between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning, and providing penalties for violations thereof.

[Approved May 1, 1911.]

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to vend and sell goods, engage in, or conduct any business between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning.

SEC. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each offense.

HOURS OF LABOR OF CHILDREN.

An act to amend "An act regulating the employment and hours of labor of children, prohibiting the employment of minors under certain ages, prohibiting the employment of certain illiterate minors, providing for the enforcement hereof by the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, and providing penalties for the violation hereof," approved February 20, 1905.

[Approved April 14, 1911.]

"An act regulating the employment and hours of labor of children, prohibiting the employment of minors under certain ages, prohibiting the employment of certain illiterate minors, providing for the enforcement hereof by the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, and providing penalties for the violation hereof," approved February 20, 1905, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Minors not to work more than nine hours a day.

Section 1. No minor under the age of eighteen shall be employed in laboring in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, or other place of labor, more than nine hours in one day, except when it is necessary to make repairs to prevent the interruption of the ordinary running of the machinery, or when a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter day's work for one day of the week, and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed fifty-four hours in a week.

Not to work between 10 p. m. and 5 a. m.

SEC. 2. No minor under the age of eighteen years shall be employed or permitted to work between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning. No child under fifteen years of age shall be employed in any mercantile institution, office, laundry, manufacturing establishment, workshop, place of amusement, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages; provided, that the judge of the juvenile court of the county, or city and county, or in any county or city and county in which there is no juvenile court, then any judge of the superior court of the county or city and county in which such child resides shall have authority to issue a permit to work to any such child over the age of twelve years, upon a sworn statement being made to him by the parent of such child that such child is past the age of twelve years, that the parents or parent of such child are incapacitated for labor, through illness, and after investigation by a probation officer or attendance officer of the city, or city and county, in which such child resides, or in cities and counties where there are no probation or attendance officers, then by such other competent person as the judge may designate for this purpose. The permit so issued shall specify the kind of labor and the time for which it is issued, and shall in no case be issued for a longer period than shall seem necessary to the judge issu