regulations and management shall be performed by the commissioners as hereinafter provided. Duties, how performed.

Sec. 4. At the end of the term of office of the present harbor-master of San Francisco, either by lapse of time, resignation, or otherwise, the state harbor commissioners shall require said duties to be performed by the chief wharfinger, or other executive officer of said board, as they may deem most advantageous to the public interests, but no special office shall be created for that purpose

alone.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

An act to authorize the board of state harbor commissioners to adjust and pay certain claims. [Approved March 26, 1874; 1873-4, 664.]

This act provided for the payment of so much or all of certain claims that might be found equitably due, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in all.

An act to authorize the compromise of certain litigation concerning a portion of the waterfront of the city and county of San Francisco. [Approved April 3, 1876; 1875-6, 905.]

This act authorizes the governor, mayor of San Francisco, and board of state harbor commissioners to compromise and settle with claimants for the premises lying between Jackson and Pacific streets, and outside of the water-front line as established by the beach and water lot act of March 26, 1851. The compromise contemplated was to accept deeds of the entire property to the state, and pay therefor such amount as might be determined on out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund.

Au act granting further powers to the board of state harbor commissioners.

[Approved March 30, 1874; 1873-4, 912.]

Dredging.

Section 1. The board of state harbor commisFol. Code-88.

sioners are hereby authorized and empowered to do the dredging necessary to be done under the operations of said department, and for that purpose to build or purchase such dredgers, barges, and other engines, machinery, and appliances as may be necessary to do and perform said work, and to employ all necessary men and means therefor, and to pay for the same out of the funds in the state treasury to the credit of said board, or any moneys arising from the revenues of the wharves and docks under their charge.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

An act to transfer certain funds in the state treasury belonging to the state harbor commission. [Approved April 3, 1876; 1875-6, 761.]

Treasurer to transfer funds.

Section 1. The state treasurer is hereby directed to close the account in his office known as the "San Francisco harbor protection fund," and to transfer the money to its credit to the account of "San Francisco harbor improvement fund."

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

NATIONAL GUARD.

An Act to define the duties of inspectors of rifle practice of the national guard of California. [Approved March 30, 1878; 1877-8, 758.]

This act was incorporated in the Political Code in 1897. See sec. 2008.

An Act to reimburse the members of company C. sixth regiment of infantry, third brigade, National Guard of California, located at the city of Fresno, for moneys expended by them for uniforms and outfits, and appropriating money therefor.

[Approved March 16, 1889; 1889, 224.]. Seventeen hundred and sixty-four dollars appropriated for the purposes indicated.

was

An Act to authorize the acquisition, by donation, of a site or sites for camps of instruction for the national guard of the state of California, and to improve the same.

[Approved March 9, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 123.] Section 1. The adjutant-general, major-general, and the senior brigadier-general of the national guard of the state of California, are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of selecting a suitable site or sites for camps of instruction for the national guard of the state of California.

Sec. 2. After the selection of such site by the commissioners named in the preceding section, and their action meeting the approval of the governor, the said commissioners shall have the power to procure, by donation, any site or sites so selected for camps of instruction. The deeds therefor shall be duly executed to the people of the state of California by the attorney general.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall also have power to make such improvements on the grounds and the approaches thereto, and erect such buildings thereon, as will put the property so selected in a condition suitable for the reception of organizations of the national guard ordered to camps of instruction. The said commissioners are also charged with making such repairs to buildings and alterations as may from time to time be necessary.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

NAVAL BATTALION.

An Act to establish a naval battalion, to be attached to the national guard of California. [Approved March 1, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 62.] Consult the statutes of 1893 for the act.

NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Consult the following acts:

An Act to establish a branch state normal school in northern California.

[Approved March 9, 1887; 1887, 60.]

An Act to establish a branch state normal school. [Approved March 14, 1881; Stats. 1881, p. 89.] The Act established a state normal school at Los Angeles. See also Stats. 1883, p. 281.

An Act to provide for the construction and furnishing of an additional school building for the use of the state normal school at Los Angeles, California, and to appropriate money therefor. [Approved March 9, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 120.] Seventy-five thousand dollars was appropriated for the purpose indicated.

An Act to provide for the construction and furnishing of a manual and gymnasium building for the use of the state normal school at Los Angeles, California, and to appropriate money therefor.

[Approved March 19, 1889; 1889, 333.]

Ten thousand dollars was appropriated for the purpose indicated.

An Act establishing a state normal school in San Diego county, California, and making an appropriation of fifty thousand dollars therefor. [Stats. Approved March 13, 1897; Stats. 1897; chap. cv.]

An Act to provide for the erection of additional buildings for the use of the state normal school at San Jose, California, and making an appropriation therefor

[Approved April 6. 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 497.] Thirty-seven thousand dollars was appropriated for the purpose indicated.

An Act appropriating the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars for completing and furnishing the training department building of the state normal school at San Jose, California. [Approved February 27, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 48.]

An Act to authorize the trustees of the state normal school to construct a sidewalk around the grounds of the state normal school located in the city of San Jose, California, and to appropriate money therefor.

[Approved March 16, 1889; 1889, 210.]

The act appropriated six thousand four hundred dollars for the purpose indicated.

An Act to provide for finishing the state normal school building and paying the indebtedness incurred in the construction thereof.

[Approved March 29, 1872; 1871-2, 669.]

This act, as its title imports, provided for the completion of the state normal school building at San Jose.

An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of apparatus for the state normal school. [Approved March 23, 1874; 1873-4, 518.]

This act appropriated three thousand dollars for the purpose indicated in the title.

An Act to appropriate money to complete the state normal school building, and for the improving of the grounds.

[Approved March 25, 1874; 1873-4, 603.]

This act appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose indicated.

An Act to appropriate the sum of thirteen thousand dollars to make certain repairs on the state normal school and to provide furniture therefor, and also to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh fiscal years, for said school. [Approved March 25, 1876; 1875-6, 482.]

An Act to provide for the erection of a building for the use of the normal school.

[Approved April 12, 1880; 1880, 40 (Ban. ed. 192.)] By this act one hundred thousand dollars was appropriated for the rebuilding of the normal