4. The height of affiant in feet and inches.

5. The country or state of nativity of affiant.

6. If foreign born, how citizenship was acquired; whether by citizenship of father, by provisions of a treaty or act of congress, by order of a court of naturalization, by marriage to a citizen, bv naturalization of a parent or husband, or otherwise. The date or year when, and the place or state where affiant became a citizen shall be shown, except in the case of citizenship acquired by citizenship or naturalization of parents, by treaty, or by act of congress. When citizenship depends upon the citizenship or naturalization of parent or husband the name of such parent or husband shall appear.

7. The fact whether or not the eléctor desiring to be registered is able to read the constitution in the English language and to write his or her name, and whether or not the elector has any physical disability, by reason of which he or she can not mark the ballot; and if he or she can not mark the ballot by reason of physical disability, then the nature of such disability must be entered. The affiant, if able to write, shall sign such affidavit with his or her customary signature and the county clerk or registrar before whom such affidavit is made shall insert therein the date of such affidavit, which shall be the date of the jurat. The affiant may state in such affidavit the name of any political party or organization with which he intends to affiliate at the ensuing primary election, whether or not such party or organization is a party or organization qualified, at the time of such registration, to participate in such primary election according to the provisions of the direct primary law. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1334.]

Declaration of party affiliation.

§ 1096a. At the time of registration and of transferring registration, in all places where the primary election law is in force, each elector shall declare the name of the political party with which he intends to affiliate at the ensuing primary election or elections, and the name of such political party shall be stated in the affidavit of registration and the index thereto. If the elector declines to state the fact, the fact of such declination shall likewise be stated and no person shall be entitled to vote the ticket of any political party at any primary election, by virtue of such registration, unless he has stated the name of the political party with which he intends to affiliate at the time of such registration. Nor shall he be permitted to vote on behalf of any party or for delegates to the convention of any party other than the party so designated in the registration.

In case any elector shall have declined to designate or shall have changed his political affiliation prior to the close of registration for primary elections he is entitled to have such change recorded prior to the close of said registration upon application to the county clerk or registrar of voters as hereinafter provided. In case any elector shall have declined to designate or shall have changed his political affiliations prior to the close of registration, he may appear in person before the county clerk or registrar

of voters, or any registration deputy of said county clerk or registrar of voters, and make affidavit substantially in the following form:

State of California,

County of

SS.

--, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is registered on the great register of said county of

a

as

(insert former party affiliation, or that he had declined to designate his party affiliation); that since the date of such registration he has changed his political views and in good faith declares his affiliation with

of

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this

19___.

party.

day The county clerk or registrar of voters shall take such affidavit without charge and shall file the same. [Enacted, Statutes 1917, p. 1335.]

Affidavit of registration.

§ 1097. Subdivision 1. No person shall be registered as an elector except by affidavit of registration. Such affidavit must be made before the county clerk or officer charged with the registration of voters, or their deputy or registration clerk and shall set forth all the facts required to be shown in sections one thousand ninety-six and one thousand ninetyseven of the Political Code. If an elector is absent from the county in which he or she claims residence, he or she may appear before any judge or clerk of any court of record, or notary public, or if in a foreign country, before any minister, consul, or vice consul of the United States, and may make and subscribe an affidavit as to his or her residence, specifying in what ward or precinct he or she claims residence; that he or she will be necessarily and unavoidably absent from said county, or city and county, on all the days allowed by law for general registration of electors, and setting forth in such affidavit each and all the matters required by sections one thousand ninety-six and one thousand ninety-seven of the Political Code of the State of California, and forward such affidavit, in duplicate, duly authenticated as above, by mail, enclosed in an envelope addressed to the county clerk of any county, or the registrar of voters in any county or city and county in which he or she claims to be an elector. Upon receipt of such affidavit by such clerk or registrar of voters within the time allowed by law for registration, the said affidavit shall be entered and bound by the clerk in the proper register in such precinct.

Registering foreign born.

Sub. 2. No foreign born person shall be registered unless :

(a) If a naturalized citizen upon the production of his or her certificate of naturalization or upon the production of a certificate of registration in the county of his or her last residence in the state, showing the date and place of naturalization, or upon his or her affidavit stating date and place of naturalization; provided, that any person registering for the first time in the state must produce his or her certificate of naturalization.

(b) If a citizen by virtue of his or her father being a citizen at the time of his or her birth, upon his or her sworn statement that his or her father was a citizen of the United States at the time of his or her birth and has been a resident thereof. Such statement need not be noted in full upon the affidavit of registration, but the words "I acquired citizenship by the citizenship of my father (naming him)" shall be sufficient.

(c) If a citizen by virtue of the naturalization of his or her parent, upon his or her affidavit that he or she became a citizen by such naturalization of his or her parent, naming such parent, that such naturalization took place during his or her minority and that he or she began to reside permanently in the United States while such minor child. Such statement need not be noted in full upon the affidavit, but the words "I acquired citizenship by my father's, or mother's, naturalization" as the case may be, naming him or her, shall be sufficient.

(d) If a citizen by virtue of marriage to a citizen, the date and place of such marriage shall be entered upon the affidavit of registration together with the name of the husband.

(e) If a citizen by virtue of the naturalization of her husband the date or year and place of such naturalization together with the name of the husband shall be entered.

Sub. 4. Whenever any elector, between the time of her last registration and the time for the closing of registration for any given election in the same county or city and county, shall have lawfully changed her surname by a change or assumption of marital relation she shall be entitled to reregister under her new or changed name, upon an additional statement made at the time of such reregistration, giving the name under which she was so last registered in said county or city and county, and the residence given and contained in said last affidavit of registration, which additional statement shall be printed or written upon the margin of such affidavit of reregistration before the said affidavit is signed, and shall be deemed a part thereof. Upon such registration the last previous registration of such elector shall be canceled. And in case any elector shall reregister or transfer his or her registration from one precinct to another the former address or precinct shall be noted in the margin of such affidavit, and the former registration shall thereupon be canceled. * [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1338.]

Home teachers.

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§ 1615. Boards of school trustees or city boards of education of any school district, may employ teachers to be known as "home teachers," not exceeding one such home teacher for every five hundred units of average daily attendance in the common schools of said district as shown by the report of the county superintendent of schools for the next preceding school year. It shall be the duty of the home teacher to work in the homes of the pupils, instructing children and adults in matters relating to school

attendance and preparation therefor; also in sanitation, in the English language, in household duties such as purchase, preparation and use of food and of clothing and in the fundamental principles of the American system of government and the rights and duties of citizenship. The qualifications of such teachers shall be a regular kindergarten primary, elementary or secondary certificate to teach in the schools of California and special fitness to perform the duties of a home teacher; provided, that the salaries of such teachers shall be paid from the city or district special school funds. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 742.]

Cigarette smoking.

§ 1685. Continued wilful disobedience, open and persistent defiance of the authority of the teacher, habitual profanity or vulgarity, or smoking cigarettes or having cigarettes upon school premises, constitutes good cause for suspension or expulsion from school. [Amended, Statutes 1915, p. 770.]

ORPHAN AID.*

Appropriation for support of orphans.

§ 2283. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each and every institution in this state conducted for the support and maintenance of needy minor orphans, half orphans, or abandoned children, and to each and every county, city and county, city, or town maintaining such orphans, half orphans, or abandoned children, or any or all of such classes of persons, aid as follows: For each whole orphan and abandoned child supported and maintained in any institution, not in excess of one hundred dollars per annum; and for each half orphan, not in excess of seventy-five dollars per annum; but each abandoned child must have been an inmate thereof for one year prior to receiving any support as provided in this chapter; provided, that in addition to the amount paid by the state for each half orphan maintained at home by its mother, the county, city and county, city or town may pay for the support of such half orphan an amount equal to the sum paid by the state; and provided, further, that in any case where any such half orphan is denied aid by the county, upon a petition setting forth the facts in full as to the necessity of aid, verified by five reputable citizens of the county, city and county, city, or town, the mother of such child shall have the right of appeal direct to the state board of control for aid for her child, .and should her appeal be sustained by said board payment must be made for the child as above provided. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 560.]

*Section 2283 of the Political Code was amended in 1913 to make legal the practice of permitting half orphans for whose support state aid was given to remain with their mothers. This section therefore has become known popularly as the "mothers' pension law."

Books to be kept by institutions.

§ 2285. Every institution, county, city and county, city, or town entitled to aid under this chapter must keep the following records, which at all times must be open to the state board of control or to any person appointed by them to examine the same, or to any committee of the legislature, or to any clerk or officer thereof duly authorized to make such examination: 1. A record on which must be entered the date of admission, name, age, sex, and place of birth of each and every orphan, half orphan, and abandoned child, who is or may hereafter be received or admitted into such institution, or to county aid, and the date of discharge of any such child, when such discharge is made, the parentage, if known; the estate, if any, to which the child is heir, and the insurance, if any, on the father's or mother's life; so far as can be ascertained, the place where either parent or both died, the nativity of the parents, where married,, the marriage certificate, where recorded, when they came to California, place of residence in California, and habits of sobriety.

2. A book entitled "monthly accounts." In it must be entered on the debtor side, all the moneys received from any and all sources segregated under the proper heads; on the credit side must be entered all disbursements made, specifying for what purposes made, and the amount entered in detail so disbursed, segregated under their proper heads.

3. A pay roll of the employees, and the amounts disbursed to each. 4. A book in which must be entered in detail the amounts paid for the specific support of every orphan, half orphan, or abandoned child and the date of such payments.

5. A transcript of the books and pay roll, verified under oath by the manager or person in charge of such institution entitled to or claiming state aid under this chapter, must, when demanded by the state board of control, be made and forwarded to the said board at the time of presenting claim for state aid.

6. A list of all the inmates other than employees or orphans supported wholly or in part by any institution presenting a claim for state aid under this chapter, must also be forwarded with such claim for aid. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 561.]

Board of control may inquire into institutions.

§ 2286. The state board of control is authorized, in behalf of the state, at any time to inquire, either in person or by authorized agent, into the management of any such institution; and any institution refusing, upon due demand, to permit such inquiry or to comply with regulations established by said board for the proper maintenance and care of children receiving state aid must not thereafter receive any aid under this chapter until it has complied with all requirements. To carry out the provisions of this act, the state board of control may appoint a chief children's agent and three children's agents who shall, under the rules of said board, visit the homes and the institutions in which are children to whom state aid is being given or for whom aid is being asked, to obtain such information as the board may need in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Such