Appropria of F. B. CHAPTER CVII. An act to appropriate the sum of $125 to pay the claim of F. B. Colver for money due and owing the said F. B. Colver from the state of California. [Approved March 20, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money tion to pay in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to pay the claim of F. B. Colver, the said sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars being now due and owing from the state of California to the said F. B. Colver. Colver. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of the said F. B. Colver for the said sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred. The California Paris exposition commission. CHAPTER CVIII. An act appropriating money to pay the expense of collecting, preparing, forwarding, installing, maintaining, and returning an exhibit of the products of the state of California, at the Paris exposition in nineteen hundred; also, for preparing and printing literature for distribution at said exposition, and providing a commission, and expenses of commission and attachés. [Approved March 20, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It is made the duty of the governor of California, within ten days after the passage of this act, to appoint three commissioners, one from the northern portion of the state, one from the central portion of the state, and one from the southern portion of the state, who shall constitute "The California Paris exposition commission," not more than two members of which shall belong to the same political party. Said California Paris exposition commission shall have the exclusive charge and control of the expenditures of all moneys appropriated by the state of California, for the collecting, preparing, forwarding, installing, and maintaining an exhibit of the products of the state of California, and for properly representing the state of California at the Paris exposition to be held in the city of Paris, France, in the year nineteen hundred, and for preparing and printing literature descriptive of the state of California, its resources, industries, and capabilities, for distribution at said exposition; also, for the purpose of returning such portion of the exhibit as is desired to the terminal point of shipment, within the state of California, after the close of the exhibition. Each of said commissioners shall execute and file with the Bonds. secretary of state, within thirty days after his appointment by the governor, a good and sufficient bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars, made to the people of the state of California, which bond must be approved by the governor. Said bond shall be conditioned for the faithful performance by said commissioners of all the duties enjoined upon them by this act. SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall be experienced in exposi- qualification work, and shall receive from the money hereby appropri- tions. ated, as full compensation for services rendered, the sum of Compenfive thousand dollars each, and in addition thereto, their actual traveling expenses. sation. SEC. 3. The sum of one hundred and thirty thousand Appropria dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby tion. appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to collect, prepare, forward, install, and maintain an exhibit of the products of the state of California at the Paris exposition, to be held in the city of Paris, France, in nineteen hundred, and return such portion of the exhibit, so desired, to the terminal shipping point in California, to prepare, print, and distribute literature as provided in section one of this act, and also pay salaries and traveling expenses of commission and attendants; the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars by this act appropriated shall be available immediately after the passage of this act, and the remaining one hundred and five thousand dollars thereof shall not be paid and shall not become available until December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and the controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants on the general fund, as provided herewith, in favor of the said commission, and the state treasurer is hereby empowered and directed to pay the same. Said commission to return to the controller vouchers properly certified for all money expended by it. stitutions SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the public institutions of the Public instate of California to assist the commission in every possible to assist. way, by loaning it such material in their possession as will add to the attractive features of the state exhibit. SEC. 5. This act is exempted from the provisions of section six hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Office of revenue clerk abolished. Expert to controller. CHAPTER CIX. An act to repeal an act entitled "An act authorizing the controller to appoint an additional clerk in his office, in addition to the number now allowed by law, to be known as the revenue clerk, and making an appropriation for the payment of his salary for the remainder of the forty-sixth fiscal year"; to create the office of expert to the controller, and prescribing his compensation. [Approved March 20, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act authorizing the controller to appoint an additional clerk in his office, in addition to the number now allowed by law, to be known as the revenue clerk, and making an appropriation for his salary for the remainder of the forty-sixth fiscal year," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. The controller is hereby authorized to appoint an expert for his office, to be known as the expert to the controller, and who shall be a civil executive officer. The salary of said expert shall be two thousand dollars per annum, payable at the same time and in the same manner as other state officers. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Water ditches, etc., penalty for trespass or interfer CHAPTER CX. An act to amend section five hundred and ninety-two of the Penal [Approved March 20, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section five hundred and ninety-two of the Penal Code of California is hereby amended to read as follows: 592. Every person who shall, without authority of the owner or managing agent, and with intent to defraud, take water from any canal, ditch, flume or reservoir used for the purpose of holding or conveying water for manufacturing, agrience with. cultural, mining, irrigating or generation of power, or domestic uses, or who shall without like authority, raise, lower or otherwise disturb any gate or other apparatus thereof, used for the control or measurement of water, or who shall empty or place, or cause to be emptied or placed, into any such canal, ditch, flume or reservoir, any rubbish, filth or obstruction to the free flow of the water, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CXI. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act approved February 28th, 1887, entitled 'An act to amend an act to appropriate money for the support of aged persons in indigent circumstances, residing in the home of the Veterans' Home Association, approved March 7th, 1883,' providing for an increase in the annual appropriation thereof, and changing the time for the payment thereof," approved March 23d, 1893, reducing the amount of such appropriation per capita. [Approved March 20, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tion for home at SECTION 1. Section one of an act approved March twenty- Appropriathird, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An act support of to amend an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen veterans' hundred and eighty-seven, entitled 'An act to amend an act to Yountappropriate money for the support of aged persons in indigent ville. circumstances, residing in the home of the Veterans' Home Association,' approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, providing for an increase to the annual appropriation thereof, and changing the time for the payment thereof." is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the Veterans' Home of California, located at Yountville, Napa county, state of California, the sum of seventy-five dollars per annum for each and every aged and indigent United States ex-soldier, sailor, or marine duly admitted to and residing in such home, or proportionate amount thereof for any less than one year that such inmate may be an inmate of such home; provided, that in no one year shall a sum exceeding forty-five thousand dollars be paid by virtue of such appropriation. port commence. SEC. 2. Section two of this act is hereby amended so as When supto read as follows: The support hereby provided shall com- shall mence for each United States ex-soldier, sailor, or marine upon the day following his admittance as a bona fide resident in said home, and shall continue as long as he shall continue to reside and be supported therein. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Annual encamp ments at CHAPTER CXII. An act providing that all encampments of the national guard shall be held at the state camp of instruction, unless otherwise ordered. [Approved March 20, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The commander-in-chief may annually order an encampment for discipline and drill, either by division, state camp. brigade, regiment, battalion, or unattached company. All encampments shall be held at the state camp of instruction for the national guard of California, unless otherwise ordered by the commander-in-chief. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Location of mining claims. CHAPTER CXIII. An act to repeal "An act prescribing the manner of locating mining claims upon the public domain of the United States, recording notices of location thereof, amending defective locations, and providing for the deposit of district records with county recorders, and prescribing the effect to be given to recordation of notices of location and affidavits," approved March 27, 1897. [Approved March 20, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. An act to repeal "An act prescribing the manner of locating mining claims upon the public domain of the United States, recording notices of location thereof, amending defective locations, and providing for the deposit of district records with county recorders, and prescribing the effect to be given to recordation of notices of location and affidavits," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |