Sec. 14. The department of highways shall have the 'power and authority to employ, when in its judgment it is deemed necessary, such assistance of a special character as may be necessary and proper, for the discharge of its duties. The department shall also have the power to purchase such supplies, fixtures, and conveniences, as may be necessary in the performance of its work. The commissioners of the department of highways, or any employee thereof, shall be allowed their necessary traveling expenses while engaged in the discharge of their duties within the state. All of the expenses mentioned in this section, except as otherwise herein provided, shall be paid from the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the department of highways. The employment and compensation of assistants under the provisions of this section must receive the approval of the state board of examiners. The expense incurred in locating and definitely surveying state highways in a county shall be paid from the funds apportioned thereto for state highway purposes.

Sec. 15. The commissioners of highways shall each receive the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum; the secretary the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum; and the stenographer the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum. Such salaries

shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as are the salaries of other state officers.

Sec. 16. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the salaries of the officers, and employees and the other expenses of said department for the remainder of the forty-eighth fiscal year. Sec. 17. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 18. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ACT 1463.

An act to provide for the protection and preservation of public highways from damage by storm watc-3 and floods, and to authorize the expenditure of public moneys for the purposes thereof.

[Approved April 1. 1897. Stats. 1897, 404.]

Section 1. Whenever it appears to the board of supervisors that any public road, in any road district of the county, is in danger of being damaged by storm waters, or floods, or whenever any public highway has already been damaged by storm waters, or floods, it is hereby made the duty of the board of supervisors to adopt such measures as may be necessary to prevent such damage, or to repair the same; and the board of supervisors is hereby author-. ized to construct flumes, ditches, or canals, for the purpose of carrying off such storm waters, or floods, to a place of safety, and may condemn the right of way for such flumes, ditches, or canals for such purpose; provided, however, that no more than the sum of one thousand dollars shall be used for such purpose in any one road district of the county in any one year.

Sec. 2. All moneys used for the purposes of this act may be taken from the general road fund of the county. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Sec. 3.

АСТ 1464.

An act relating to the granting by counties and municipalities of franchises for the construction of paths and roads for the use of bicycles and other horseless vehicles.

[Approved March 27, 1897. Stats. 1897, 191.]

Section 1. The legislative or other body to whom is intrusted the government of any county, city and county, city, or town, may, under such regulations, restrictions, and limitations as it may provide, subject to existing laws, grant franchises for the construction of paths and roads, either on the surface, elevated, or depressed, on, over, across, or under the streets and public highways of any such county, city and county, city, or town, for the use of bicycles, tricycles, motor-cycles, and other like horseless vehicles, propelled by the rider, for a term not exceeding fifty years; provided, that in incorporated cities no franchise shall be granted for the purpose herein expressed, unless the consent in writing of the owners of a majority of the frontage upon the road or street, along which said path or road is sought to be constructed, be first had and obtained and filed with such legislative or governing body. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

HOGS.

General acts relating to hogs running at large were repealed by the estray law of 1897, p. 198. For acts relating to particular localities, see particular title.

An act authorizing boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of municipalities to declare holidays.

[Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, 658.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1.

The board of supervisors or other governing body of any county, town, city, or city and county, may declare the day on which a primary or other election is held in such municipality to be a holiday therein.

Incorporating. [Stats. 1873-4, p. 675.]

Superseded by incorporating under statute of 1883, in 1901.

ACT 1479.

TITLE 203,

HOME OF ADULT BLIND.

Appropriating money for the establishment and management of the industrial home of mechanical trades for the adult blind. [Stats. 1885, p. 18.]

Superseded 1887, 160, chap. CXLVIII.

ACT 1480.

Establishing an industrial home of mechanical trades for the adult blind, and creating a board of directors for the government thereof. [Stats. 1887, p. 160.] Amended 1889, 147.

ACT 1485.

TITLE 204.
HOMESTEADS.

[Stats. 1867-8, 116.]

In relation to homesteads.

Superseded by Civil Code, secs. 1237-1269.

Cal. Rep.Cit. 46, 266; 47, 80; 71, 508.

Extending the privileges of the homestead law to certain persons. [Stats. 1860, 87.1

Cal. Rep. Cit. 102, 497; 102, 500; 119, 372.

This act extended the law to unmarried men and women and to widows and widowers. The homestead acts are superseded by

Civil Code, secs. 1237 et seq:

ACT 1487.

Alienating or incumbering.

1

[Stats. 1873-4, p. 582.]

Cal. Rep.Cit. 108, 220; 114, 670; 126, 25.

This act appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 718. It provided for the alienation of the homestead in case of the insanity of either husband or wife.

TITLE 205.

ACT 1492.

HOMESTEAD CORPORATIONS.

To authorize formation of homestead corporations. [Stats." 1861, p. 567.]

Repealed. See note to act 632, ante.

See supplementary act of 1873-4, 525, which appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 720. Cal.Rep.Cit. 131, 341.

An act for the protection of the Antwerp messenger, or homing pigeon.

[Approved February 26, 1897. Stats. 1897, 37.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the owner thereof, to shoot, maim, or kill any Antwerp messenger, or homing pigeon, either in flight or at rest.

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the owner thereof, to forcibly entrap or detain any Antwerp messenger, or homing pigeon.

Sec. 3. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, for every such offense, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) or more than

twenty-five (25) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding fifty (50) days.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

An act fixing rate of tare on baled hops.

[Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 452.] Section 1. There shall be allowed on baled hops a tare at the rate of two per centum of the weight of the bale for the cloth and other material used in baling; that is, the tare shall be at the rate of two pounds per hundred on the weight of the bale.

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

Incorporating town of. Stats. 1869-70, p. 471.]

TITLE 209.

HORTICULTURE.

See Agriculture; Forestry; Viticulture.

ACT 1512.

To create and establish a state board of horticulture, and appropriate money for the expenses thereof. [APproved March 13, 1883; 1883, 289.]

Amended 1885, 4; 1889, 8, 89. Repealed 1903, 524.

ACT 1513.

An act to create a state commission of horticulture, to provide for a state commissioner of horticulture, and prescribe his powers, duties and compensation, and to provide methods, means and penalties for the enforcement of such powers and duties, and appropriating money for the use and support and to pay the expenses thereof, and to repeal chapter sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, chapter