conducted, as far as may be, as by law prescribed for such general municipal elections, and with like effect. SEC. 2. The reorganization of any city under the provisions of this act shall not affect the title to any property held by such city, or in trust therefor, or any debts, liabilities, or obligations in favor of or against such city, or any proceedings then pending, or any ordinances theretofore adopted, or any liability incurred for the violation of any ordinance; provided. such ordinance or ordinances are not in conflict with such general laws. SEC. 3. As soon as the officers elected under the provisions of section one of this act shall have qualified in accordance with law, all persons in possession of the offices of said city shall surrender such possession to such elected officers, and deliver to them all moneys, books, papers and other things in their official custody, and all property of such city in their hands, notwithstanding the terms of office for which they were elected, or appointed, respectively, may not then have expired. SEC. 4. The census taken under the direction of the congress of the United States in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, and every ten years thereafter, shall be the basis upon which the respective populations of municipal corporations shall be determined, unless a direct enumeration of the inhabitants thereof has been made since such census, in which case such enumeration shall constitute such basis; provided, that if no such census, or direct enumeration, shall have been taken or made within three years next preceding the presenting of the petition for reorganization mentioned in section one of this act, such population shall be determined by multiplying by five the number of voters voting at the last general election held. in such city. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. [Became a law, under constitutional provision, without Governor's approval, March 8, 1899.] CHAPTER LXIII. An act to amend sections three hundred and fifty-four, fourteen hundred and eighty-nine, and fourteen hundred and ninetytwo of the Political Code, relating to state normal schools. [Approved March 8, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three hundred and fifty-four of the Political Code of California is hereby amended to read as follows: schools, trustees. 354. The normal schools at San José, Los Angeles, Chico, State and San Diego, and any normal school established by the normal legislature of the state of California after the first day of boards of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall be known as "state normal schools," and shall each have a board of trustees, constituted as follows: The governor of the state and the state superintendent of public instruction shall be ex officio members of each board. There shall also be five other members of the local board for each normal school, whose term of office shall be four years, and who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate of the state of California. It shall be the duty of the governor, on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, to appoint five trustees as members of each local board, one trustee to serve one year, one to serve two years, one to serve three years, and two to serve for four years, and thereafter to fill vacancies in such board, the terms of office thereafter to be for four years, and to begin July first of each fourth year. SEC. 2. Section fourteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Political Code of California is hereby amended to read as follows: 1489. The powers and duties of each board of trustees are as follows: 1. To elect a secretary, who shall receive such salary (not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum) as may be allowed by the board; 2. To prescribe rules for their government and the government of the school; 3. To prescribe rules for the report of officers and teachers of the school, and for visiting other schools and institutions; 4. To provide for the purchase of school apparatus, furniture, stationery, and text-books for the use of pupils; 5. To establish and maintain model and training schools of the kindergarten, primary, and grammar grades, and require the students of the normal schools to teach and instruct classes therein; 6. To elect the president of the school, and to elect the teachers, upon their nomination by the president of the school, fix their salaries, and prescribe their duties; provided, that after the president or a teacher has served successfully and acceptably in the school for the period of two years prior to or after the passage of this act, his or her appointment thereafter may, at the discretion of the board of trustees, be made for a term not to exceed four years, unless removed for cause; 7. To control and expend all moneys appropriated for the support and maintenance of the school, and all moneys received for tuition or donations; 8. To cause a record of all their proceedings to be kept, which shall be open to public inspection at the school; 9. To keep open to public inspection an account of receipts and expenditures; 10. To annually report to the governor a statement of their transactions, and of all matters pertaining to the school; Powers and duties of local boards of trustees. Powers 11. To transmit with such report a copy of the president's and duties annual report; of local boards of trustees. Joint board of trustees. Duties of joint board of trustees. 12. To revoke any diploma by them granted, on receiving satisfactory evidence that the holder thereof is addicted to drunkenness, is guilty of gross immorality, or is reputedly dishonest in his dealings; provided, that such person shall have at least thirty days' previous notice of such contemplated action, and shall, if he ask it, be heard in his own defense. SEC. 3. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-two of the Political Code of California is hereby amended to read as follows: 1492. There shall be a joint board of normal school trustees, to be composed of the chairman and two other members of each local board, such other members to be selected by their respective local boards for each joint meeting; the presidents of the different state normal schools shall also be ex officio members of the joint board. Said joint board shall meet on the second Friday in April of each year, alternately at the different state normal schools. The first meeting after the passage of this act shall be at San José; the second meeting at Chico; the third at Los Angeles; and the fourth at San Diego. Thereafter the places of meeting shall be in the order named above. A special meeting may be called by the governor for the transaction of any urgent business affecting the welfare of any or all of the state normal schools. It shall be the duty of this joint board: 1. To prescribe a uniform series of text-books for use in the state normal schools; the state series of text-books shall be used, when published, in the grades and classes for which they are adapted. 2. To prescribe a uniform course of study, and time and standard for graduation from the state normal schools; 3. To prescribe a uniform standard of admission for students entering the normal schools; 4. To sit as a board of arbitration in matters concerning the management of each state normal school that may need adjustment. 5. The joint board shall also have the power to pass any general regulations that may be applied to all the state normal schools, thus affecting their well-being; 6. Members in attending the meetings of the joint board shall receive mileage while in actual attendance upon the meeting, the same to be paid out of any appropriation made by the legislature for that purpose; 7. The superintendent of public instruction shall be the secretary of the joint board. The secretary shall keep a full record of all proceedings of the joint meetings of the trustees, and shall notify the secretary of each board of trustees of any changes made in the course of study, or the text-books to be adopted. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXIV. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a Political Code," by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered eighteen hundred and eighteen a, providing for special funds for the payment of teachers' salaries in counties constituting but one school district, and defining the duties of boards of education, auditors, and treasurers in relation thereto. [Approved March 8, 1899.] 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 said code, to be numbered section eighteen hundred and eighteen a, to read as follows: fund for payment of salaries. demands such fund. 1818a. In every county, or city and county, constitut- Special ing but one school district, a portion of the school funds for any fiscal year subsequent to the present fiscal year equal in teachers amount to the sum total of teachers' salaries for the next preceding fiscal year payable out of the school fund in question, shall constitute a special fund, to be used only for the payment of teachers' salaries as hereinafter provided, and to be known as the teachers' salary fund; provided, that no portion of any school fund consisting of moneys which are applicable exclusively to some special purpose defined by statute other than the payment of teachers' salaries shall be deemed a part of such school fund for the purposes of this act. Out of the teachers' salary fund shall be paid the salaries of all teachers holding in the fiscal year positions which existed in the preceding fiscal year. No other demands whatsoever shall be paid out of such No other fund. If, by any increase in the rate of salaries, or for any shall be other cause, such fund should be insufficient to pay all of the paid from salaries which constitute demands against it, such fund shall be divided pro rata among such demands, and the portion of such demands unpaid shall be payable out of any available money in the school fund of which said teachers' salary fund constitutes a part. If teachers' positions other than or in addition to those which existed in the preceding fiscal year are created, the salaries of teachers holding such different or additional positions shall not be paid out of the teachers' salary fund, but out of any other available moneys, but the amount of such salaries shall be included in determining the amount of the teachers' salary fund for the succeeding fiscal year. If there remain in any fiscal year any money in any teachers' salary fund after the payment of all legal demands for such year against such fund, such money so remaining shall be transferred to the general school fund of which said teachers' salary fund is a part, and shall become available for the payment of any unpaid lawful demands against such general fund. It shall be the duty of any officer whose duty it is to audit demands against the school fund of any such county, or city and county, in this state, on or before the first Monday of the fiscal year, to file with the board of supervisors of such county, or city and county, and with the officer whose duty it is to pay demands against the school fund of any such county, or city and county, a certified copy of a statement made by him of the amount of money used in such county, or city and county, for the payment of teachers' salaries for the next preceding fiscal year, and no demands against the school funds of such county, or city and county, shall be allowed, audited, or paid until said copies shall have been filed, as aforesaid. The allowance, audit, or payment of any demand out of a teachers' salary fund in violation of this act, may be enjoined by the suit of any teacher whose salary is payable from said fund. The members of the Liability governing body of any such county, or city and county, in this state, who shall pass a demand against said teachers' salary fund in violation of the provisions of this act, and any officer whose duty it is to audit demands against such fund and who shall audit a demand against said teachers' salary fund in violation of the provisions of this act, and any officer whose duty it is to pay demands against such funds, and who shall pay a demand against said teachers' salary fund in violation of this act, shall each be jointly and severally liable therefor to any teacher whose salary is payable from said fund who shall have been damaged by the allowance, audit, and payment of such demand. for viola tion of this act. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Detail of officers to ascertain and pay armory CHAPTER LXV. An act to ascertain and pay armory rents, armorers' wages, and other expenses arising out of the mustering in of portions of the national guard and naval militia into the United States volunteer service; also, the expenses incurred in reorganizing the national guard and to result therefrom; and making an appropriation to pay the same. [Approved March 8, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to detail one or more officers of the national guard, as he may deem necessary, to ascertain and determine what, if any, rents rents, etc. for armories, wages of armorers, and any other proper expenses should be paid in consequence of the mustering in of any of the national guard or naval militia, who were mustered into the United States volunteer service during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and also the claims existing or |