visors to Sec. 9. The board of supervisors must, at the time of levy- Supering the county taxes, levy a tax upon all the taxable property levy tax. within the fire limits of the unincorporated town or village voting such tax sufficient to raise the amount voted. The rate of taxation shall be ascertained by deducting fifteen per cent for anticipated delinquencies from the aggregate assessed value of the property in the district, as it appears on the assessment roll of the county, and then dividing the sum voted by the remainder of such aggregate assessed value. The taxes so levied shall be computed and entered on the assessment roll of the county auditor, and collected at the same time and in the same manner as state and county taxes; and when collected shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of the district in which the tax was voted. how kept. Sec. 10. All moneys arising from the tax herein authorized Moneys, to be levied and collected shall be kept by the treasurer of the county in which said town or village is situated, subject only to the order of said board of fire commissioners of said town or village voting said tax. Sec. 11. The treasurer shall receive no compensation for No comthe receipt and disbursement of moneys derived under the provisions of this act. pensation to treasurer. Sec. 12. The board of fire commissioners are hereby directed Powers of and empowered to make all necessary arrangements for the board. purchase of rights of making connections with the pipes of water companies for fire-plugs or hydrants, in such part of the town or village as they shall deem best for the common interest, and also for purchasing fire-hose and carriages, subject, however, to the provisions herein before contained. Sec. 13. They shall procure all necessary books and blanks same. for the purpose of keeping a correct record of their proceedings; and they shall keep a record of all their acts, of all moneys received and disbursed by them, which said books shall be open to public inspection at all times. Sec. 14. All accounts, bills, and demands against the fire Auditing department shall be audited, allowed, and paid by the board of demands. fire commissioners by warrants drawn on the county treasurer, and the county treasurer shall pay the same in the order in which they are presented. additional Sec. 15. The board of fire commissioners shall, from time to Levyi time, and in like manner, submit to a vote of the electors of tax. said town, or village, the propriety of levying and raising an additional tax for keeping in repair the apparatus of said fire department, and maintaining the same in good order and condition. Sec. 16. No officer or officers created by this act shall compenreceive any compensation for his or their services. sation. Sec. 17. In case of a vacancy of any or all of the members Vacancies, of the board of fire commissioners, after election had, by death, how filled. resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors of the county in which said vacancy may happen. Refusal to levy tax defers election. Election, Sec. 18. That in case an election be had under the provisions of this bill, and the electors, by vote, shall decline to equip and maintain a fire department, and refuse to levy and collect a tax for that purpose, no other election shall be called or held under this act within one year next thereafter. Sec. 19. An election shall be held annually, on the first when held. Monday of April, for the election of three fire commissioners, who shall take their office on the next succeeding Monday in the same month; and it shall be the duty of the board of fire commissioners to give notice of such elections by posting notices thereof in three public places in the town, for at least two weeks before the day of election. They shall also appoint the judges of election. To turn over prop erty to Act to be liberally construed. Sec. 20. Each board of fire commissioners shall, at the expiration of their term of office, turn over to their successors all successors. the books and documents belonging to the office of said board of fire commissioners, taking their receipt for the same. Sec. 21. No assessment or act relating to assessment or collection of taxes, or elections held under the provisions of this act, shall be illegal, void, or voidable on account of any error, omission, or informality, or failure to comply strictly with the provisions of this act, nor on account of any misnomer; but the same shall be liberally construed, with a view to hold valid all acts done under this act. Commissioners, what may Sec. 22. The said board of fire commissioners may regulate the construction of, and order the suspension, discontinuance, regulate. removal, repair, or cleaning of, fireplaces, chimneys, stoves and stovepipes, flues, ovens, boilers, kettles, forges, or any apparatus used in any building, manufactory, or business which may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires, and prescribe limits within which no dangerous nor obnoxious and offensive business may be carried on. May adopt ordinances. Misde meanor. Jurisdiction of, justice of peace. Sec. 23. They may adopt such ordinance, within the purview of the preceding section, as they may deem proper to prevent fires and conflagrations, and for the protection of property at and during the pendency of any fire, and for that purpose may provide that at and during the pendency of any fire the officers of the fire company or companies present shall be vested with police powers. Such ordinances shall be signed by the said fire commissioners, and published in a newspaper printed in said town or village, or posted in three of the most public places thereof, for the period of two weeks, at the end of which time it shall be and become a law for the government of the inhabitants of said town or village. Sec. 24. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions. of said ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 25. Any justice of the peace within the townships within which said town or village is situated shall have jurisdiction of all prosecutions under this act, and sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six to fourteen hundred and forty-nine, both inclusive, title nine, chapter one, of the Penal Code, are hereby made applicable to proceedings under this act. SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts, so far as they do conflict with the provisions hereof, are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER LX. An act providing for the construction and furnishing of a residence for the governor of the state of California, and appropriating the sum of $50,000 for the erection and furnishing of said residence, and of all expenses connected therewith. The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: residence; SECTION 1. The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) Governor's is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury appro not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of erecting and priation. furnishing a residence for the governor of the state of California, and in payment of other expenses incident thereto. SEC. 2. The erection of said residence, the letting of the contracts therefor, and the expenditure of all moneys for the construction and furnishing thereof, shall be under the control and direction of the state capitol commission. SEC. 3. Said governor's residence shall be erected in the city Location. of Sacramento, and on the grounds of the state capitol park; and the state capitol commissioners are hereby directed to set apart such portion of said capitol park as may be necessary for such purposes. commis SEC. 4. The said commission shall let the contracts for the Duties of erection of the governor's residence, and the furnishing of the capitol same, and shall pay all expenses incident thereto. It may sioners. employ a superintendent of construction, clerks, or other necessary employés, at salaries to be fixed by the commission, to be paid out of the appropriation herein provided, and approved by them. It may offer prizes for competitive plans, and the commission shall be allowed the necessary contingent expenses incurred in the prosecution of its duties, but such salaries, prizes and expenses, together with the cost of construction and furnishing, shall not in the aggregate exceed the amount herein appropriated. Said appropriation of fifty thousand dollars Apportionshall be subdivided and expended as follows: For the erection ment of of the governor's residence, and the payment for the necessary tion. plans therefor, and all necessary expenses therefor, forty thousand dollars; for the furnishing of the governor's residence, ten thousand dollars; and in no case shall indebtedness be created by the commission, or allowed by the state board of examiners, for any of the items heretofore mentioned in this section in excess of the amount herein named. And all items of expenditure shall, before payment, be audited by said commission, and be approved by the state board of examiners; and appropria Date of completion. Report to all of the expenses for erecting and furnishing said governor's residence shall be payable out of the appropriation made in this act. SEC. 5. The governor's residence herein provided for shall be of stone, or other permanent material; and it shall be completed and ready for occupancy by or before the first day of January, A. D. nineteen hundred and one. SEC. 6. Upon the erection, completion, and furnishing of legislature. said governor's residence, said commission shall make a full report of their acts and expenditures to the next session of the legislature of the state of California. Duty of controller and treasurer. In effect. SEC. 7. The state controller is hereby directed to issue his warrants, from time to time, and in such sums as may be necessary for the payment of any contracts or other expenses incurred by the commission under the provisions of this act, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after its passage; provided, that no contract price nor any portion thereof shall be payable before the first day of January, nineteen hundred. [Became a law, under constitutional provision, without Governor's approval, March 7, 1899.] Contingent CHAPTER LXI. An act making an appropriation for the contingent expenses of the senate for the thirty-third session of the legislature. [Approved March 8, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for contingent expenses of the senate for the thirty-third session of the legislature; and the controller of the state is authorized to draw his warrants for the same, and the treasurer of the state is directed to pay the same. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXII. An act to provide for the reorganization of municipal corporations and for determining the population thereof. The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: zation of tions. SECTION 1. The legislative body of any municipal corporation Reorganiof the sixth class, upon receiving a petition for the reorganiza- municipal tion of said corporation under a higher or lower class, according to corpora the classification now provided by law, signed by not less than one fifth of the qualified electors of said corporation, as shown by the vote cast at the last municipal election held therein, shall submit to the electors of such city, at a special election to be called within two weeks after receiving such petition, the question whether such city shall so reorganize under and in accordance with the provisions of this act. Such election shall be held within four weeks after the time when so called. Notice of such election shall be given by publication for at least ten days in a newspaper published in said city; or, if there be no newspaper published therein, by printing and posting the same in at least four public places therein. Such notice shall state the proposition to be submitted at said election. The ballots to be used at such election shall contain the words: "reorganization-yes," and "reorganization-no." Such election shall be held in accordance with the general laws of the state so far as applicable. The legislative body of said city shall, at the time of the next regular meeting of said body after such election, canvass the votes cast thereat and declare the result. If a majority of all the electors voting at said election shall be found to have voted for such reorganization such legislative body shall, at said time, and by an order to be entered in its minutes, cause the clerk of said city to forthwith make and transmit to the secretary of state a certified abstract of such vote showing the whole number of electors voting at said election, the number of votes cast for reorganization, and the number of votes against reorganization; and thereafter, at the time prescribed by law for a general municipal election in municipal corporations of the class under which it has been so voted to reorganize, such officers shall be elected in said city as are or may be by law required to be elected at such general municipal election; and from and after the qualification of such officers, said city shall belong to such class; provided, that if such canvass of votes, on reorganization, shall occur within less than thirty-five days prior to the time of a general municipal election in cities of the class into which it has been so voted to reorganize, or within three months after such time, then the said legislative body shall immediately call a special election, to be held within at least six weeks after said canvass of votes, which election shall be in lieu of, and be |