1024 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS-PUBLIC BUILDINGS. necessary expenditure, or the money in such fund is insufficient to make such necessary expenditure, then the board of supervisors may advance such money out of the general fund of the county, and the same shall be a credit to the county as a payment of the assessments against the county to that extent; or if such money advanced shall exceed the assessments against the county, then as soon as there is sufficient money in the fund of such protection district to pay the excess, the board of supervisors shall direct the county treasurer to transfer to the general fund from the fund of such protection district, a sum great enough to balance the accounts. Sec. 29. The provisions of this act shall be liberally construed to promote the objects thereof. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ACT 2809. TITLE 381. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS. For relief of purchasers at sales made by. [Stats. 1860, p. 16.] This act validated sales made without first having obtained letters of administration. ACT 2810. Providing for, in certain cases. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 796.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, 490, secs. 142 to 147, prescribing the duties of coroner. cases. This act made the coroner the public administrator in certain ACT 2815. TITLE 382. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Public buildings and structures, regulating erection of. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 925.] Superseded as to state officers and works, 1875-6, 427. ACT 2816. State, contracts in behalf of, in relation to buildings. [Stats. 1875-6, p. 427.] Amended 1891, 457; 1895, 237. ACT 2817. To provide for the completion of unfinished county, city and county, city, and township buildings. [Stats. 1887, p. 95.] Amended 1891, 83; 1893, 126; 1895, 166. ACT 2818. Concerning the completion of unfinished public buildings in any county, city, city and county, or town in this state, and permitting alterations of the original plans or designs for the construction thereof. [Stats. 1895, p. 165.] Concerning the war debt of the state, and providing for the redemption thereof. [Stats. 1856, p. 206.] ACT 2824. Loan commissioners, granting additional powers to, adding to act of April 2, 1870, 646. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 235.] Superseded by 1891, 210. ACT 2825. An act to authorize cities of not less than twenty-six thousand nor more than thirty thousand inhabitants, to vote upon the question of paying indebtedness incurred in the years 1889 and 1890. [Approved February 20, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 8.] Section 1. The board of trustees or the governing body of all cities of not less than twenty-six thousand nor more than thirty thousand inhabitants are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified electors of such city, at either a general or municipal election in said city, or special election, the question whether or not any indebtedness incurred by or claimed to be due from said city, contracted in the years eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be paid. Sec. 2. Said board of trustees or other governing body shall specify particularly, in the proclamation for such election, the amount of the claimed indebtedness, and for what services it is claimed to be due, and shall specify, if the election is a special one, the form of ballots to be used by the electors, and the time, place and manner of holding said election and canvassing the returns thereof, and declaring the result thereof. If said question is voted upon at a general or municipal election, the ballots shall contain the words, "For the payment-Yes" and "For the payment-No," in addition to the other matters contained therein. Sec. 3. If two thirds of the votes cast upon such question vote in the affirmative, the said board of trustees or other governing body shall immediately order paid, as other claims against said city are paid, the said amount so voted; and for that purpose shall be and are hereby authorized to incorporate the said amount in the next tax levy, if the same has not been already levied, for the year in which such election is held; and if such tax levy has been levied, then they shall make a new assessment and levy for the said amount, using the last assessment roll as a basis therefor. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ACT 2826. An act to prohibit the creation of debts against the state in excess of appropriations made by law except in cases of actual necessity, and on consent of the board of examiners. [Approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 285.] Section 1. No officer or employee in the service of the state shall have power to create any deficiency in excess of any appropriation of money made by law, except in case of actual necessity, and only then upon the written authority, first obtained, of the governor, secretary of state, and attorney-general; and any indebtedness attempted to be created against the state in violation of the provisions of this act shall be absolutely null and void, and shall not be allowed by the state board of examiners. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. To create the office of attorney for the state board of health and the board of health of the city and county of San Francisco. 1891, p. 209.] Cal.Rep.Cit. 116, 109. ACT 2832. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. To protect public health from infection caused by exhuma. tion and removal of the remains of deceased persons.! [Stats. 1877-8, p. 1050.] This act appears in full in the Appendix to the Penal Code, p. 654. ACT 2833. To prevent the introduction, and provide for the investigation and suppression, of contagious or infectious diseases, and appropriating money to be used for such purpose. [Stats. 1901, p. 10.] Repealed 1903, 414. ACT 2834. To protect the public health, to prevent the introduction and spreading of disease, and to provide for the protec tion of the health of criminals under sentence on conviction of a misdemeanor. [Stats. 1883, p. 280.1 This act authorized the cutting of the hair of persons convicted of a misdemeanor. It appears in full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 719. ACT 2835. An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the state of California. [Approved March 15, 1883. Stats. 1883, p. 376.] Railroad cars to be inspected. Section 1. Whenever there shall exist, in the opinion of the state board of health, imminent danger of the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the state of California, by means of railroad communication with other states, the said state board of health are au thorized, and it is hereby made their duty, to make or cause to be made, by an accredited agent or inspector, an inspection of all railroad cars, coming into the state at such point, or between such points within the state limits as may be selected for the purpose. Detention of train a minimum. Sec. 2. Such inspection shall be made, where prac ticable, during the ordinary detention of a train at a station, or while in transit between stations, and in all cases shall be so conducted as to occasion the least possible detention or interruption of travel or inconvenience to the railroad companies, so far as consistent with the purposes of this act. Infected cars to be side-tracked. Sec. 3. Should the discovery be made of the existence among the passengers of any case or cases of dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease, the said board of health, or their agent or inspector, under rules and conditions prescribed by them as being applicable to the nature of the disease, shall have power to cause the side-tracking or detention of any car or cars so infected, to isolate the sick or remove them to a suitable place for treatment, to establish a suitable refuge-station, to cause the passengers and materials in such infected car to be subjected to disinfection and cleansing before proceeding farther into the state, and, in the ease of smallpox, to offer free vaccination to all persons exposed in any car or at any station. Appropriation. Sec. 4. The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended solely for the purposes of this act, and all expenditures herein authorized shall be specified in an itemized account to be presented to the state board of examiners, and paid as other demands on the treasury are paid; provided, that in no case shall the sum expended exceed that herein specially appropriated for the purpose. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. ACT 2836. An act to prevent the introduction, and provide for the investigation and suppression of contagious or infec |