1. The qualification of members, mode of election or appoint- what byment, and terms of admission to membership;

laws, etc., may pro

2. The fees of admission and dues to be paid to their treasury vide for. by members;

3. The number of persons that shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the corporation, and that an election of officers of the corporation by a meeting so constituted, or the appointment or selection of such officers, or any of them, in any manner required by the rules, regulations, or discipline of any specified religious denomination, society, or church, shall be as valid as if made at an election at which a majority of the members of the corporation were present and voted;

4. The expulsion and suspension of members for misconduct or non-payment of dues, also for restoration to membership;

5. A special method of organizing the board of directors, and a special method of increasing or diminishing the number of directors within the limits as to number prescribed by section five hundred and ninety-three of this Code;

6. Contracting, securing, paying, and limiting the amount of their indebtedness;

7. That the rules, regulations, or discipline, for the time being, of any specified religious denomination, society, or church, shall always be a part of their by-laws, ordinances, constitutions, or articles of incorporation;

8. Other regulations not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the State and consonant with the objects of the corporation.

CHAPTER CLXXXV.

An Act to amend section thirty-seven hundred and thirteen of the
Political Code, relating to the levy of taxes.

[Approved March 31, 1897.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section three thousand seven hundred and thirteen of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

for state purposes.

3713. The State Board of Equalization must, for State Tax levy purposes for the forty-ninth and fiftieth fiscal years, fix such an ad valorem rate of taxation upon each one hundred dollars in value of taxable property in this State as, after allowing five per cent for delinquencies in and costs of collection of taxes, as provided in section three thousand six hundred and ninety-six of the Political Code, will raise for the forty-ninth fiscal year: First-For the general fund, two million five hundred and For fortyfifty-three thousand six hundred and two dollars.

Second-For the school fund, two million three hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars.

ninth fiscal year.

For fiftieth

fiscal year.

Third-For the interest and sinking fund, one hundred and forty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars. And for the fiftieth fiscal year:

First-For the general fund, two million five hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred and two dollars.

Second-For the school fund, two million three hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars. Third-For the interest and sinking fund, one hundred and forty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars.

Duties of Supervisors relative to roads.

Survey.

CHAPTER CLXXXVI.

An Act to amend section two thousand six hundred and fortythree of the Political Code, relating to the duties of Boards of Supervisors, respecting roads.

[Approved March 31, 1897.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section two thousand six hundred and forty-three of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2643. The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties of the State shall have general supervision over the roads within their respective counties. They must, by proper order:

1. Cause to be surveyed, viewed, laid out, recorded, opened, and worked, such highways as are necessary to public convenience, as in this chapter provided;

Record as 2. Cause to be recorded as highways all highways which highways. have become such by usage, dedication, or abandonment to the public, or by any other means provided by law, and to prepare and record proper deeds and titles thereto;

Abolish. Acquire right of way.

Tax.

Guideposts.

Apportion

3. Abolish or abandon such as are not necessary;

4. Acquire the right of way over private property for the use of public highways, and for that purpose require the District Attorney to institute proceedings under title seven, part three, of the Code of Civil Procedure, and to pay therefor from the general road fund or the district road fund of the county; 5. Levy a property tax for road purposes;

6. Cause to be erected and maintained, at the intersections and crossings of highways, guide-posts, properly inscribed;

7. Cause the road tax collected each year to be apportioned road tax. to the several road districts entitled thereto, and kept by the County Treasurer in separate funds;

8. Audit all claims on the funds set apart for highway purposes, and specify the fund or funds from which the whole or any part of any claim or claims must be paid;

9. In their discretion, they may provide for the establishment of gates on the public highways in certain cases, to avoid the necessity of building road fences, and prescribe rules and regulations for closing the same, and penalties for violating said

roads.

rules; provided, that the expense for the erection and maintenance of such gates shall in all cases be borne by the party or parties for whose immediate benefit the same shall be ordered; 10. For the purpose of watering roads in any part of the Watering county, the Board of Supervisors may erect and maintain waterworks, and for such purpose may purchase or lease real or personal property. The costs for such waterworks and the watering of said roads may be charged to the general county fund, the general road fund, or the district fund of the district or districts benefited;

amounts

11. Whenever it shall be determined that any grading, When the graveling, macadamizing, ditching, sprinkling, or other work expenses upon highways is necessary, and is to be done, and where the to $300. estimated cost of such work amounts to three hundred dollars, the Board of Supervisors must, by proper order, direct the County Surveyor to make definite surveys of the proposed work, and to prepare profiles and cross-sections thereof, and to submit the same, with the estimate of the amount or amounts of work to be done, and the cost thereof, and with specifications therefor. Said report shall be prepared in duplicate, one copy to be filed in the Surveyor's office, and the other to be filed with the clerk of the Board of Supervisors. The board, upon receipt of such report, must advertise for bids for the performance of the work specified. Such advertisement for bids must be published for two weeks in two newspapers, one published at the county seat and the other at a point nearest the proposed work. Such advertisement must be in the following form:

"Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Form of

"Sealed bids will be received by the clerk of the Board of Supervisors of County, at his office, until

o'clock,

"Specifications for this work are on file in the office of the said board, to which bidders are hereby referred.

advertisement.

advertise

"Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of And such advertisement must also be posted, for at least two Posting weeks prior to the opening of the bids for the proposed work, advert in three conspicuous places in the district or districts in which the proposed work lies, and one at the site of the proposed work. Bids must be inclosed in a sealed envelope, addressed to the clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and must be indorsed, " Bids for ," and must be delivered to said clerk prior to the hour specified in the advertisement. The board shall publicly Awarding open and read such bids as may be submitted, and must award of contract. the contract for the work to the lowest bidder; unless it shall appear to the board that the bids are too high, and the work can be done more cheaply by day labor, in which case the bids must be rejected, and the work ordered done by the road com

on contracts.

missioner or commissioners in whose district or districts the Payments work may be situated. In case the work shall be let by contract, monthly or quarterly payments may be made thereon, upon the receipt of a certified estimate by the County Surveyor of the amount of work done during the preceding month or quarter, to the extent of seventy-five per cent of the value of said work, the remaining twenty-five per cent being due on the completion of the work. The services of the surveyor in making such partial estimates must be paid for by the contractor. Upon Surveyor. the completion of the work the County Surveyor must examine the same, and, if completed in accordance with the specifications therefor, he must submit to the Board of Supervisors a certificate, over his signature and official seal, to the effect that such work by the contractor therefor has been completed in accordance with the specifications therefor, and recommending its acceptance. The board shall thereupon audit the same, and direct its payment out of the proper fund or funds.

Duty of County

Side walks and bicycle

paths.

12. In their discretion they may set apart, on any public road or highway, a strip of land not exceeding six feet in width, for a side path; and make an order, designating the width of such path, and cause the line separating the path from the road to be located and marked by stakes or posts placed at such distances apart as they shall deem proper. After said path has been set apart and the line separating the same from the road has been located and marked, as aforesaid, the use of same is hereby restricted to pedestrians and riders of bicycles and other vehicles propelled solely by the power of the rider. The expense of erecting and maintaining such path may be charged to the general county fund, the general road fund, and the district fund of the district or districts benefited.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

Board to

audit and examine

claims.

CHAPTER CLXXXVII.

An Act to provide for the auditing and examination of the claims against the State, of soldiers who served in the Indian wars in California, during the years from 1847 to 1857, to authorize the Adjutant-General to appoint a clerk for that purpose, and making an appropriation for his salary.

[Approved March 31, 1897.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Treasurer of State, Comptroller, and Adjutant-General are hereby authorized and instructed to examine Indian war and audit any and all claims presented to them under the provisions of an Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act to be entitled an Act authorizing the Treasurer of the State to issue bonds for the payment of the expenses of the Mariposa, Second El Dorado, Utah, Los Angeles, Clear Lake, Klamath, Trinity,

and Monterey expeditions against the Indians," approved May third, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Treasurer of State to issue bonds for the payment of expenses incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities in certain counties in this State," approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and report the result of such examination to the Governor on or before the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

SEC. 2. The Adjutant-General is hereby authorized and Clerk, and empowered to appoint a clerk to assist in auditing and exam- salary. ining such claims. Such clerk shall be paid a sum not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars, as compensation, such sum to be paid in equal monthly installments.

tion.

SEC. 3. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby appro- Appropriapriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of this Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER CLXXXVIII.

An Act to authorize, empower, and direct the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children to admit idiots, epileptics, and mentally enfeebled paralytics into said institution; to provide for the support of all inmates therein, and to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act.

[Approved March 31, 1897.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

ing admis

irrespect

SECTION 1. The management of the California Home for Authoriz the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children is hereby o authorized, empowered, and directed to admit therein and idiots, etc., thereto, in addition to imbeciles and feeble-minded persons, ive of age. such idiots, epileptics, and mentally enfeebled paralytics, irrespective of age, as the accommodations of the home may permit, and as may, in the judgment of the management, appear suitable subjects for such admission, and upon such formal commitment as is now prescribed by law for the feeble-minded. But for each idiotic, imbecilic, feeble-minded, county paralytic, or epileptic person thus committed to the said home, $10 per the Judge of the Superior Court who officiates shall make such month, order or orders as are requisite and proper to secure the payment by the county from which the applicant is committed, to the State Treasurer, of the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) monthly for and during each and every month or part of a month the said applicant so committed remains an inmate of said. institution. The superintendent of the said California Home Superinfor the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children shall, home to on or before the fifth day of each month, prepare, or cause to report.

must pay

each.

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