for such election. In union and joint union districts, the said same. notice shall be given in each school district therein. Said election shall be conducted in the manner provided by law for conducting school elections. The ballots shall have printed on them the words "For disincorporation"; and the voters shall write or print thereafter the word "yes" or the word "no." The election officers shall report the result of such election within five days thereafter to the County Superintendent of Schools of the counties of which they are residents. If a majority of all the votes cast at such election be opposed to disincorporation, no further petition shall be entertained or election ordered for a similar purpose within the three years next following such election. If two thirds of all votes cast at such election be in favor of disincorporation, the superintendent shall, at the end of existing school year, suspend said high school district, and report the result of the election and the fact of such suspension to the Board of Supervisors; provided, that when a joint union high school district is disincorporated under the provisions hereof, each of the superintendents of the counties having territory therein, shall immediately certify to the others the result of the election in his own county, and all of them shall join in the order of suspension, and each superintendent shall thereafter, and before the end of the existing school year, report the result of such election and such suspension to the Board of Supervisors of his county. Upon receiving such report, said boards, and each of them, shall, at the first meeting thereafter, make an order declaring said high school district duly disincorporated and disorganized, to take effect at the end of the existing school year. When a city, district, Sale of or union high school has disincorporated under the provisions and dispoof this section, the property thereof shall be sold, and the proceeds of such sale, together with any moneys in the treasury to the credit of such disincorporating high school district, shall be disposed of as in subdivision twenty-third hereof. When a joint union high school is disincorporated under this section, the Board of Supervisors of the county within which the high school building and other property belonging to the disincorporated district is situated, shall sell the same and place the proceeds thereof to the credit of the school districts composing such disincorporated district. Such division of said proceeds shall be in proportion to the value of property in the districts among which division is made, as determined by the last previous assessment for school purposes, and the portions of said proceeds belonging under such division to the districts in other counties than the one in which the sale is made shall be transferred, by the board making the division, to the county or counties within which such school districts are situated; but the joint union high school funds in such counties collected by taxation, for the maintenance of said joint union high school, shall be distributed by the Supervisors of such counties to the districts from which they were collected. Twenty-fifth-When, in consequence of distance or of con- Non-resi venience in traveling, it is more convenient for pupils residing pupils. property sition of funds. dent Joint in any high school district to attend the high school in another high school district, the high school board of the latter district may admit such pupils to the high school in their district, upon such terms as the two boards may arrange. Twenty-sixth-(1) When a majority of the heads of families. union high residing in two or more adjacent districts, not in the same school district. Organiza tion. Joint union high school board. Levy and collection joint union high school. county, shall unite in a petition to the County Superintendents of their respective counties for the establishing and maintaining of a joint union high school district, it shall be the duty of said superintendent, within twenty days after receiving said petition, to call an election in the district or districts in his county petitioning, for the purpose of determining the question, and appoint three qualified electors in each district. petitioning, to conduct the election therein. Said election shall be called and conducted in all respects as specified in subdivision fourth of this section, and the result thereof shall be reported by the election officers in each district to the superintendents of the counties in which the districts are situated, within five days subsequent to the holding of said election. (2) If a majority of the votes cast in the districts shall, in the aggregate, be in favor of establishing a joint union high school, the County Superintendent in each county shall, within fifteen days after receiving the returns of the election, direct the board of trustees in the district, or districts, in his respective county, to call a meeting of the qualified electors, as provided in subdivision sixth of this section. At said meeting the qualified electors in each district shall select representatives, as provided in said subdivision. The representatives so chosen shall meet at a time and place to be agreed upon among themselves for the purpose of determining the name of the high school. The location of the school shall be determined by the joint action of the representatives chosen and the County Superintendents of the counties in manner and form as provided for the location of union high schools. (3) The joint union high school board shall be composed as provided in subdivision eighth of this section; and their powers and duties shall be such as are specified in this section for union high school boards; provided, that the estimate provided for in subdivision fourteenth of this section shall be furnished to the authorities in each of the counties in which the districts uniting are situated; and provided further, that the portion of the amount to be raised in each district shall be in proportion to the taxable property therein, as shown by the last preceding assessment roll thereof. (4) All the provisions relative to the levy and collection of of tax for the tax necessary to maintain the high school shall apply to the levy and collection of the tax for joint union high schools; provided, that the amount collected in each district shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which said district is located, to the credit of a fund to be known as the joint union high school fund, and shall be paid out as provided in subdivision nineteenth of this section. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXXXVI. An Act to authorize the Board of Fish Commissioners to dispose of the hatchery located on Battle Creek, in Tehama County, and to expend the proceeds of the same. [Approved March 9, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and missioners may sell on Battle SECTION 1. The Board of Fish Commissioners of this State Fish Comare hereby authorized and empowered to sell to the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, the hatchery hatchery building located on Battle Creek, in Tehama County, together Creek. with the leases and water rights belonging thereto, for the original cost of the same, to wit: twenty-six hundred dollars. SEC. 2. The proceeds of said sale shall be deposited in the state treasury, to the credit of the fish commission fund, to be expended in the erection or improvement of the state hatcheries. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on and after its passage. CHAPTER LXXXVII. An Act to amend section eight hundred and seventy-four of an [Approved March 9, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eight hundred and seventy-four of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: for public Section 874. In the erection, improvement, and repair of all Letting of public buildings and works, in all street and sewer work, and contracts in all work in or about streams, bays, or waterfronts, or in or work. about embankments, or other works for protection against overflow, and in furnishing any supplies or materials for the same, when the expenditure required for the same exceeds the sum of one hundred dollars, the same shall be done by contract, and shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, after notice by publication in a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in such city or town, for at least two weeks, or if there be no newspaper printed or published therein, by printing and posting the same in at least four public places therein for the same period; such notice shall distinctly and specifically state the work contemplated to be done; provided, that the Board of Trustees may reject any and all bids presented and readvertise, Contracts in their discretion. The Board of Trustees shall annually, at a for public stated time, contract for doing all city printing and advertising, which contract shall be let to the lowest bidder, after notice, as provided in this section. printing. Minimum rate of tion for labor on public work. CHAPTER LXXXVIII. An Act fixing the minimum rate of compensation for labor on public work. [Approved March 9, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The minimum compensation to be paid for labor compensa- upon all work performed under the direction, control, or by the authority of any officer of this State acting in his official capacity, or under the direction, control, or by the authority of any municipal corporation within this State, or of any officer thereof acting as such, is hereby fixed at two (2) dollars per day; and a stipulation to that effect must be made a part of all contracts to which the State, or any municipal corporation Exception. therein, is a party; provided, however, that this Act shall not apply to persons employed regularly in any of the public institutions of the State, or any city, city and county, or county. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Close season valley quail, CHAPTER LXXXIX. An Act to repeal sections six hundred and twenty-six a, six hundred and twenty-six b, six hundred and twenty-six c, six hundred and twenty-six d, six hundred and twenty-six e, six hundred and twenty-six f, six hundred and twenty-six g, six hundred and twenty-six h, six hundred and twenty-six i, six hundred and twenty-seven a, six hundred and twenty-seven b, six hundred and twenty-seven c, and six hundred and twentyseven d, and to amend sections six hundred and twenty-six and six hundred and twenty-seven of the Penal Code of the State of California, relating to game. [Approved March 9, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six hundred and twenty-six of the Penal 626. Every person who, between the first day of March duck, rail. and the first day of October in each year, shall hunt, pursue, grouse. companies. take, kill, or destroy, or have in his possession, any valley quail, bob-white, partridge, or any kind of wild duck or rail; every person who, between the fifteenth day of February and the Mountain first day of September in each year, shall hunt, pursue, take, kill, quail, or destroy, or have in his possession, any mountain quail or grouse; every person who, between the fifteenth day of Feb- Doves. ruary and the fifteenth day of July in each year, shall hunt, pursue, take, kill, or destroy, or have in his possession, any dove or doves; every person who shall take, gather, Eggs. or destroy the eggs or nest of any quail, bob-white, partridge, pheasant, grouse, dove, robin, or any kind of wild duck or rail; every person who, in the State of California, shall at any song birds. time hunt, shoot, shoot at, take, kill, or destroy, buy, sell, give away, or have in his possession, except for the purpose of propagation, or for educational or scientific purposes, any English skylark, robin, canary, humming-bird, thrush, or mocking-bird, or any part of the skin, skins, or plumage thereof, or who shall rob the nests or take or destroy, or offer for sale, the eggs of any of the said birds; every person who, before the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety- Pheasant. nine, shall hunt, pursue, take, kill, or destroy, or have in his possession, any pheasant; every cold-storage company, coldperson keeping a cold-storage warehouse, tavern or hotel storage keeper, restaurant or eating-house keeper, market-man, or etc. other person, who shall buy, sell, expose or offer for sale, or give away, or have in his possession, any quail, bob-white, partridge, robin, grouse, dove, pheasant, wild duck, or rail, during the time it shall be unlawful to kill such birds; every person who shall hunt, pursue, take, kill, or have in his posses- Male deer. sion, or destroy, any male deer between the fifteenth day of October and the fifteenth day of July of the following year; every person who shall at any time hunt, pursue, take, kill, or Female destroy, or have in his possession, any female deer, or spotted fawn, or any antelope, elk, or mountain sheep; every person who shall at any time buy, sell, or offer for sale, the hide or meat of any deer, elk, antelope, or mountain sheep; every person who shall buy, sell, offer, or expose for sale, transport Deer-skins. or carry, or have in his possession, the skin, hide, or pelt of any deer from which the evidence of sex has been removed, is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that the right For propaof possession for the purpose of propagation shall first be gation. obtained by a permit in writing, from the Board of Fish Commissioners of the State of California. Any person found guilty Penalty. of a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail in the county in which the conviction shall be had, not less than ten days or more than one hundred and fifty days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be no defense Nodefense. in a prosecution for a violation of any of the provisions of this section that the birds or animals were taken or killed outside this State; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall deer, etc. |