Rules. SEC. 2. For the purpose of enforcing and properly understanding the above code of signals, the following rules are hereby established: Rule 1-In giving signals make strokes on bell at regular intervals. The bar (-) must take the same time as for one stroke of the bell, and no more. If timber, tools, the foreman, bucket, or cage, are wanted to stop at any level in the mine, signal, by number of strokes on the bell, the number of the level first before giving the signal for timber, tools, etc. signals to be double bars (——). Examples: 6 Time between -5, would mean stop at sixth level with tools. 1-1-1- -1, would mean stop at fourth level, man on, hoist. 2- -1-4, would mean stop at second level with foreman. Rule 2-No person must get off or on the bucket or cage while the same is in motion. When men are to be hoisted, give the signal for men. Men must then get on bucket or cage, then give the signal to hoist. Bell cord must be in reach of man on the bucket or cage at stations. Rule 3-After signal "Ready to shoot in shaft," engineer must give his signal when he is ready to hoist. Miners must then give the signal of "Men to be hoisted," then "spit fuse," get into the bucket, and give the signal to hoist. Rule 4-All timbers, tools, etc., "longer than the depth of the bucket," to be hoisted or lowered, must be securely lashed at the upper end to the cable. Miners must know they will ride up or down the shaft without catching on rocks or timbers and be thrown out. Rule 5-The foreman will see that one printed sheet of these signals and rules for each level and one for the engine-room are attached to a board not less than twelve inches wide by thirty-six inches long, and securely fasten the board up where signals can be easily read at the places above stated. Rule 6-The above signals and rules must be obeyed. Any violation will be sufficient grounds for discharging the party or parties so doing. No person, company, corporation, or individuals operating any mine within the State of California, shall be responsible for accidents that may happen to men disobeying the above rules and signals. Said notice and rules shall be signed by the person or superintendent having charge of the mine, who shall designate the name of the corporation or the owner of the mine. Responsibility. SEC. 3. Any person or company failing to carry out any of the provisions of this act shall be responsible for all damages arising to or incurred by any person working in said mine during the time of such failure. Time act shall take effect. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. See Manning vs. App. Consolidated Gold Mining Co., 149 Cal. p. 35. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. An act to provide for the organization, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations. Approved March 13, 1883; stats. 1883, p. 93. The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ED. NOTE.-Cities eligible, by reason of their population, for incorporation as cities of the first, first and one half, second, third, and fourth classes, as well as some cities in the fifth class, containing over 3,500 inhabitants, are operating under their own charters, under the provisions of article XI, sections 8 and 82 of the Constitution of California. CHAPTER VI. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS OF THE FIFTH CLASS. [Cities having a population of more than 3,000 and not exceeding 10,000 inhabitants.] [Subdivisions 3 and 13 provide for granting contracts and franchises.] SEC. 764. The board of trustees of such city shall have power: 1. To pass ordinances not in conflict with the constitution and laws of this state, or of the United States. 2. To purchase, lease, or receive such real estate and personal property as may be necessary or proper for municipal purposes, and to control, dispose of, and convey the same for the benefit of the city; provided, that they shall not have any power to sell or convey any portion of any water front; but may rent such water front for a term not exceeding ten years for the purpose of erecting bath houses thereon. 3. To contract for supplying the said city with water, and gas, and electric lights or other lights for municipal purposes; to purchase, lease, construct or otherwise acquire water works, electric plants, and gas works or plants or any of same, and all machinery, conductors, lands, appliances and all other things needed therefor, and to supply said city with, and to sell to the inhabitants of said city, gas, electric light or other light, and heat, and power; provided that no such purchase or lease shall be made unless the question of acquiring such property is submitted to the voters of such city in the same manner as other propositions, at a general or special municipal election, and a majority of the electors, voting at such election shall vote in favor of such proposition. 4. To establish, build and repair bridges; to establish, lay out, alter, keep open, open, improve and repair streets, sidewalks, alleys, squares, and other public highways and places within the city, and to drain, sprinkle, oil, and light the same; to remove all obstructions therefrom; to establish the grades thereof; to grade, pave, macadamıze, gravel and curb the same in whole or in part, and to construct gutters, culverts, sidewalks, and crosswalks therein, or upon any part thereof; to cause to be planted, set out, and cultivated, shade trees therein; and generally to manage and control all such highways and places. 5. To establish, construct and maintain drains and sewers, and to provide by ordinance for a general system of sewers, and the expense of building and maintaining the same. 6. To provide fire engines and all other necessary or proper apparatus for the prevention and extinguishment of fires. 7. To impose and collect from every male inhabitant between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, an annual street poll tax, not exceeding two dollars, and no other road poll tax shall be collected within the limits of such city; provided, that any member of a volunteer fire company in such city shall be exempt from such tax. S. To impose and collect an annual license, not exceeding two dollars on every dog owned or harbored within the limits of the city. 9. To levy and collect annually a property tax, which shall be apportioned as follows: For the general fund, not exceeding sixty cents on each one hundred dollars; for street fund, not exceeding thirty cents on each one hundred dollars; for school fund, not exceeding twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars; for sewer fund, not exceeding ten cents on each one hundred dollars. The levy for all purposes for any one year for all purposes to which such funds are applicable shall not exceed one dollar on each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all real and personal property within such city. 10. To license, for purposes of regulation and revenue, all and every kind of business, including the sale of intoxicating liquors, authorized by law and transacted or carried on in such city, and all shows, exhibitions, and lawful games carried on therein; to fix the rates of licenses upon the same, and to provide for the collection of the same by suit or otherwise. 11. To improve the rivers and streams flowing through such city, or adjoining the same; to widen, straighten, and deepen the channels thereof, and to remove obstructions therefrom; to improve the water front of the city, and to construct and maintain embankments and other works to protect such city from overflow. 12. To erect and maintain buildings for municipal purposes. 13. To permit, under such restrictions as they may deem proper, the laying of railroad tracks and the running of cars drawn by horses, steam, electricity, or other power thereon, and the laying of gas or water pipes in the public streets, and to construct and maintain, and to permit the construction and maintenance of telephone, telegraph and electric light lines. therein. 14. In its discretion to divide the city, by ordinance, into a convenient number of wards, not exceeding five, to fix the boundaries thereof, and to change the same from time to time; provided, that no change in the boundaries of any ward shall be made within sixty days next before the date of said general municipal election, nor within twenty months after the same shall have been established or altered. Whenever such city shall be divided into wards, the board of trustees shall designate by ordinance the number of trustees to be elected from each ward, apportioning the same in proportion to the population of such ward; and thereafter the trustees so designated shall be elected by the qualified electors resident in such ward, or by the general vote of the whole city, as may be designated in such ordinance. 15. To appoint and remove such policemen and such other subordinate officers as they may deem proper, and to fix their duties and compensation. 16. To impose fines, penalties, and forfeitures for any and all violations of ordinances, and for any breach or violation of any ordinance to fix the penalty by fine or imprisonment, or both, but no such fine shall exceed three hundred dollars, nor the term of such imprisonment exceed three months. 17. To cause all persons imprisoned for violation of any ordinance to labor on the streets, or other property or works within the city. 18. To establish fire limits, and the same to alter at pleasure; to regulate or prevent the erection of wooden or other buildings or structures of combustible materials; to regulate the construction of all buildings, shades, awnings, signs, or any structure of a dangerous or unsafe character; to provide, by regulation, for the prevention and summary removal of all filth and garbage in the streets, sloughs, alleys, backyards or public grounds of such city, or elsewhere therein; to regulate or prohibit the storage of gunpowder and combustible or explosive materials of every kind and nature within the city limits, and to prescribe the limits in which the same may be kept or stored. 19. To do and perform any and all other acts and things necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and to exact and enforce within the limits of such city all other local, police, sanitary, and other regulations as do not conflict with general laws. [Sec. 764 amended April 16, 1909; stats. 1909, p. 937; in effect immediately.] MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS OF THE SIXTH CLASS. [Cities having a population of not exceeding 3,000 inhabitants.] [Subdivisions 3 and 13 provide for granting contracts and franchises.] SEC. 862. The board of trustees of said city shall have power: |