by metes and bounds and a map or plat of such lands be filed in the proper office of record in the county in which the same are situated; and provided further, that this State reserves the right to serve and execute on said lands all civil process, not incompatible with this cession, and such criminal process as may lawfully issue under the authority of this State against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without said lands. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Police CHAPTER LVII. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create a police relief, health and life insurance, and pension fund in the several counties, cities and counties, cities, and towns of the State," approved March 4, 1889. [Approved March 2, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of the "Act to create a police relief, relief fund. health and life insurance, and pension fund in the several counties, cities and counties, cities, and towns of the State," approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Qualifications to receive pension. Physical disability. Section 3. Whenever any person at the taking effect of this Act, or thereafter, shall have been duly appointed or selected, and sworn, and have served for twenty years, or more, in the aggregate, as a member, in any capacity or any rank whatever, of the regularly constituted police department of any such county, city and county, city, or town which may hereafter be subject to the provisions of this Act, said board may, if it see fit, order and direct that such person, after becoming sixty years of age, be retired from further service in such police department, and from the date of the making of such order the service of such person in such police department shall cease, and such person so retired shall thereafter, during his lifetime, be paid from such fund a yearly pension equal to one half of the amount of salary attached to the rank which he may have held in said police department for the period of one year next preceding the date of such retirement. SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. Whenever any person, while serving as a policeman in any such county, city and county, city, or town, shall become physically disabled by reason of any bodily injury received in the immediate or direct performance or discharge of his duty as such policeman, said board may, upon his written request, or without such request, if it deem it to be for the good benefi of said police force, retire such person from said department, and order and direct that he shall be paid from said fund, during his lifetime, a yearly pension equal to one half of the amount of salary attached to the rank which he may have held on such police force at the date of such retirement, but on Death of the death of such pensioner his heirs or assigns shall have no ciary. claim against or upon such police relief or pension fund; prorided, that whenever such disability shall cease such pension Pension shall cease, and such person shall be restored to active service when. at the same salary he received at the time of his retirement. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. shall cease, CHAPTER LVIII. An Act to amend section four hundred and seven of the Code of [Approved March 2, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section four hundred and seven of the Code of Civil Procedure of California is hereby amended to read as follows: must 407. The summons must be directed to the defendant, summons signed by the clerk, and issued under the seal of the court, and must contain: 1. The names of the parties to the action, the court in which it is brought, and the county in which the complaint is filed; 2. A direction that the defendant appear and answer the complaint within ten days, if the summons is served within the county in which the action is brought; within thirty days, if served elsewhere; 3. A notice that, unless the defendant so appears and answers, the plaintiff will take judgment for any money or damages demanded in the complaint as arising upon contract, or will apply to the court for any other relief demanded in the complaint. contain. CHAPTER LIX. An Act to protect candidates for certain public offices, to prohibit certain acts by such candidates, and to provide a punishment for infractions of this law. [Approved March 2, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: not to be SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, either indi- Candidates vidually or as an officer or member of any committee or associa- solicited. tion, to demand or solicit of any candidate for the Legislature, or of any candidate for Supervisor, or of any candidate for Not to sign pledges. Penalty. School Director, or of any candidate for any legislative body, that he shall vote for any particular bill or specific measure which may come before any such legislative body to which he may be elected; provided always, that this inhibition shall not in any case apply to the pledges exacted of a candidate by the platform or resolutions of any convention by which any such candidate may be nominated. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any candidate for the Legislature, or for any candidate for Supervisor, or for any candidate for School Director, or for any candidate for any other legislative body, to sign or give any pledge that he will vote for or against any particular bill or specific measure that may be brought before any such legislative body; provided always, that this prohibition shall not apply to any pledge or promise that any such candidate may give to a convention by which he may be nominated for any such office, or to those who may sign a certificate for his nomination. SEC. 3. Any person violating any provision of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and any candidate violating any provision of this Act shall, in addition, be disqualified from holding the office to which he may be elected. Salaries of CHAPTER LX. An Act relating to fire departments of municipalities of the first class, and fixing the salaries of officers thereof. [Approved March 3, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In municipalities of the first class the following fire depart officers of its fire department shall receive the following salaries: ment in cities of first class. Chief engineer, five thousand dollars. Assistant chief engineer, three thousand six hundred dollars. Assistant engineers, two thousand one hundred dollars each. Said salaries shall be paid in the same manner as is now provided by law. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXI. An Act relating to pension matters and claims against counties. [Approved March 3, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and pension SECTION 1. No fees or other compensation shall be collected Fees in for services rendered in an affidavit or application relating to claims. the securing of a pension, or for the payment of a pension voucher, or any matters relating thereto, nor filing, nor swearing to any claim or demand against any county in this State. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER LXII. An Act to amend section nine hundred and thirty-nine of the [Approved March 3, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section nine hundred and thirty-nine of the Code of Civil Procedure of California is hereby amended to read as follows: 939. An appeal may be taken: taken. 1. From a final judgment in an action or special proceeding Appeal commenced in the court in which the same is rendered, within may be six months after the entry of judgment. But an exception to the decision or verdict, on the ground that it is not supported by the evidence, cannot be reviewed on an appeal from the judgment, unless the appeal is taken within sixty days after the rendition of the judgment; 2. From a judgment rendered on an appeal from an inferior Judgment. court, within ninety days after the entry of such judgment; 3. From an order granting or refusing a new trial; from an Orders, etc. order granting or dissolving an injunction; from an order refusing to grant or dissolve an injunction; from an order appointing a receiver; from an order dissolving or refusing to dissolve an attachment; from an order granting or refusing to grant a change of the place of trial; from any special order made after final judgment; from an interlocutory judgment in actions for partition of real property; and from an order confirming, changing, modifying, or setting aside the report, in whole or in part, of the referees in actions for partition of real property in the cases mentioned in section seven hundred and sixty-three of this Code, within sixty days after the order or interlocutory judg ment is made and entered in the minutes of the court, or filed with the clerk. County shall not private moneys CHAPTER LXIII. An Act to add a new section to the Penal Code of the State of California, to be known and designated as section one hundred and eighty, relating to the acceptance and holding of private deposits of moneys in the county treasury by the County Treas urers. [Approved March 3, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Penal Code, to be known and designated as section one hundred and eighty, to read as follows: 180. Any County Treasurer who shall accept, or allow, Treasurer any deposit in the county treasury of moneys from any private receive and unofficial source, is guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than on deposit. six months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than five thousand dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and, in addition thereto, shall forfeit his office. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. When order or judgment may be stayed. CHAPTER LXIV. An Act to amend section nine hundred and forty-three of the [Approved March 3, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section nine hundred and forty-three of the Code of Civil Procedure of California is hereby amended to read as follows: 943. If the judgment or order appealed from direct the assignment or delivery of documents or personal property, the execution of the judgment or order cannot be stayed by appeal, unless the things required to be assigned or delivered be placed in the custody of such officer or receiver as the court may appoint, or unless an undertaking be entered into on the part of the appellant, with at least two sureties, and in such amount as the court, or a judge thereof, may direct, to the effect that the appellant will obey the order of the appellate court upon the appeal. If the judgment or order appealed from |