Copy of decree to be filed CHAPTER CCXIX. An act to amend the Civil Code, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered 300a, relating to corporations. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Civil Code, to be numbered 300a, to read as follows: 300a. Every corporation which has changed its name under the provisions of sections 1275, 1276, 1277, 1278 and with secre- 1279, of the Code of Civil Procedure, must file in the office of the secretary of state, a certified copy of the decree of the court, changing such name. tary of state. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. When employer not bound to employé. CHAPTER CCXX. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish a Civil Code," approved March 21, 1872, relating to the obligations of employers. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section nineteen hundred and seventy of the Civil Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1970. An employer is not bound to indemnify his employé for losses suffered by the latter in consequence of indemnify the ordinary risks of the business in which he is employed, nor in consequence of the negligence of another person employed by the same employer in the same general business, unless the negligence causing the injury was committed in the performance of a duty the employer owes by law to the employé, or unless the employer has neglected to use ordinary care in the selection of the culpable employé. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXI. An act to amend section eleven hundred and three of the Political [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred and three of the Political Code is hereby amended to read as follows: preserve tion. 1103. The clerk must preserve all affidavits made before Clerk must himself or his deputies for the purpose of procuring regis- affidavits tration, for at least five years from the dates thereof. After of registrasaid affidavits and duplicates shall have been preserved for five years, upon order of the board of supervisors, they may be destroyed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXII, An act to amend section one thousand and ninety-five of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to the registration of voters. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one thousand and ninety-five of the Political Code of the State of California, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: electors entered in register. 1095. In the register of voters the clerk must, as herein- Names of after provided, enter the names of the qualified electors of the must be county, and the provisions of section one thousand and ninetysix of this code are hereby declared to be mandatory. Any officer charged with the registration of voters who neglects or refuses to make all of the entries provided for in section one thousand and ninety-six of the Political Code, or neglects or refuses to take the oath of the voter applying to him for registration in respect to the same, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor for each and every such omission. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXIII. An act to amend section twelve hundred and seventy-five of the [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section twelve hundred and seventy-five of the Civil Code of California is hereby amended to read as follows: 1275. A testamentary disposition may be made to any person capable by law of taking the property so disposed of, except corporations other than those formed for scientific, literary, or solely educational or hospital purposes, cannot take under a will, unless expressly authorized by statute. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Veterinary medicine and surgery; restrictions on practice. Examinations and certificates. CHAPTER CCXXIV. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of California," approved March 23, 1893. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Sections one and four of an act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of California," approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of California without having previously obtained a diploma from a college duly authorized to grant such to students in veterinary medicine and surgery, or to those who have passed satisfactory examinations before the state veterinary medical board, as hereinafter provided for; provided, that nothing in this act shall prevent the medical or surgical treatment of stock by the owners or the employés of owners, or by neighbors who do not assume to be practitioners of veterinary medicine or surgery. Section 4. All examinations of persons not graduates shall be made directly by the state veterinary medical board, and the certificates given by said board shall authorize the possessor to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of California. All examinations of ungraduated practitioners must take effect before the eighteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and three; after that date no certificates shall be granted except to persons presenting diplomas from legally chartered colleges. CHAPTER CCXXV. An act to regulate the sale of commercial fertilizers or materials used for manurial purposes, and to provide penalties for the infraction thereof, and means for the enforcement of the act. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: cial fertil SECTION 1. Every lot, parcel, or package of commercial fer- Commertilizers or materials to be used for manurial purposes (except- izers shall ing the dung of domestic animals), sold, offered, or exposed be labeled. for sale, within this state, shall be accompanied by a plainly printed label, stating the name, brand, and trademark, if any there be, under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer, importer, or dealer, the place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis, stating the percentages claimed to be therein; of nitrogen, specifying the form or forms in which it is present; of phosphoric acid, available and insoluble; and of potash, soluble in distilled water, and the materials from which all of said constituents are derived. analyses are to be made according to the methods agreed upon by the American Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. In the case of those fertilizers, the selling price of which is less than eight dollars ($8) per ton, said label need only give a correct general statement of the nature and composition of the fertilizer it accompanies. All statement SEC. 2. No person shall sell, offer, or expose for sale in this Explicit state, any pulverized leather, hair, ground hoofs, horns, or must be wool waste, raw, steamed, roasted, or in any form as a fertil- affixed. izer, or as an ingredient of a fertilizer or manure, without an explicit statement of the fact; said statement to be conspicuously affixed to every package of such fertilizer or manure, and to accompany and go with every lot, parcel, or package of the same. SEC. 3. The manufacturer, importer, agent of, or dealer in Certificate of registraany commercial fertilizers, or materials used for manurial pur- tion reposes, the selling price of which to the consumer is eight ($8) quired. dollars or more per ton, shall, before the same is offered for sale, obtain a certificate of registration from the secretary of the board of regents of the University of California, countersigned by the director of the agricultural experiment station of the said university, authorizing the sale of fertilizers in this state, and shall securely fix to each lot, parcel, or package Analyses of fertilizer the word "registered" with the number of registry. SEC. 4. The said director shall annually, on or before the to be made. first day of September, take samples in accordance with the provisions of section five hereof of the substance made, sold, or offered for sale, under every such name or brand, and cause analyses to be made thereof in accordance with the provisions of section one hereof, and said analyses may include such other determinations as said director may at any time deem advisable. Dealers in, or manufacturers of fertilizers, must give free access to the director of the agricultural experiment station, or his duly authorized deputy, to all the materials which they may place on the market for sale in California. Whenever the analysis certified by the said director shall show a deficiency of not more than one fourth of one per cent of nitrogen, or one per cent of soluble or available phosphoric acid, or one half of one per cent of potash soluble in distilled water, the statement of the manufacturer or importer, as required in section one of this act, shall not be deemed to be false in the meaning of this act; provided, that this act shall not apply to sales of fertilizing materials made to a registered manufacturer of fertilizers, or to sales for export outside of this state; proHow users vided further, that the said director of the agricultural experimay obtain ment station of the University of California shall, upon the receipt of a sample of fertilizer, accompanied with a nominal fee of two ($2) dollars, furnish to the user of said commercial fertilizer, such examination or analysis of the sample as will substantially establish the conformity or non-conformity of the said fertilizer to the guarantee under which it was sold. analyses. Samples to party whose stock is sampled, and by SEC. 5. The director of the agricultural experiment station be kept by of the University of California, in person or by deputy, is hereby authorized to take a sample not exceeding two pounds in weight for analysis by the said director, or his deputies, from university. any lot, parcel, or package of fertilizer, or material, or mixture of materials used for manurial purposes, which may be in the possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent, or dealer, but said sample shall be drawn in the presence of said party or parties in interest, or their representatives. In lots of five tons or less, samples shall be drawn from at least ten packages, or, |