shall be issued for the disinterment or removal of any body, unless such body has been buried for one year or more, without the written consent of the mayor, chairman of the board of supervisors, or city council of any municipality of the state. [Amendment approved March 13, 1889; Stats. 1889, 139. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from the thirtieth day after its passage and approval.

TITLE 77.

ACT 549.

CEMETERY CORPORATIONS.

Authorizing incorporation of rural cemetery associations. [Stats. 1859, p. 281.]

Amended 1863-4, 12; 1891, 264; 1899, 36.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 115, 373.

See note to act 632, post.

ACT 550.

To provide the manner of execution of deeds by cemetery corporations. [Stats. 1895, p. 75.]

This act appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 710.

An act to authorize any city, or city and county of this state to take its census.

[Stat. approved February 25, 1897; Stats. 1897, 28.] Cal.Rep. Cit. 123, 85.

Section 1. The council, or other legislative body of any city in this state, and the board of supervisors, or other legislative body of any city and county of this state, is hereby authorized, whenever said council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body, may deem it necessary, between the years of taking the federal census, to take the census of such city, or city and county, in the manner prescribed by section two of this act.

Sec. 2. Said council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body of any city, or city and county of this state electing to take a census, as in this act provided for, shall pass a resolution of intention declaring its inten

tion to cause such census to be taken by one or more suitable persons appointed therefor by such council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body, at the expense of said city or cities desiring such census taken, and such census shall, by such persons so appointed, be taken of all the inhabitants of such city, or city and county, and in said census the full name of each person shall be plainly written and the names alphabetically arranged and regularly numbered in one complete series, and when completed shall be verified before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and be filed with the clerk of such city, or city and county.

Sec. 3. A certified copy of such census shall be prepared by said clerk after being so filed, and shall be filed by him with the secretary of state for this state, and thereupon the same shall be known and be the official state census of said city, or city and county.

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

To aid construction of, and to secure the use of the same to this state for military and other purposes. [Stats. 1863-4, p. 344.]

Cal.Rep.Cit. 66, 39; 70, 176.

ACT 562.

To aid in carrying out the provisions of the Pacific railroad and telegraph act of congress. [Stats. 1863-4, p. 471.]

Cal.Rep.Cit. 71, 86.

ACT 563.

For relief of. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 432.]

This act validated the certificate of incorporation of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad, which consolidated with other railroads under the name of the Central Pacific Railroad.

ACT 568.

TITLE 80.

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.

To provide for the formation of chambers of commerce, boards of trade, mechanics' institutes, and other kindred protective associations. [Stats. 1865-6, 469.] Amended 1867-8, 5; 1885, 76.

See note to act 632, post. This act appears in full in Civil Code, Appendix, p. 689.

ACT 573.

TITLE 81.

CHARITIES AND

CORRECTIONS.

An act to create a state board of charities and corrections, prescribing its duties and powers, and appropriating money therefor.

[Approved March 25, 1903; Stats. 1903, 482.]

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

Section 1. A state board of charities and corrections is hereby created of six members, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, not more than three of whom shall be of the same political party. Such members shall hold office for the period of twelve years and until their successors are appointed and qualified; provided, that the members of the first board appointed under this act shall, at their first meeting, so classify themselves by lot that two of them shall go out of office at the end of four years, two at the end of eight years, and two at the end of twelve years, and an entry of such classification shall be made in the minutes of said board, and a duplicate thereof shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. Women may be appointed members of said board, or hold any position in the appointment of said board. No person shall be appointed a member, or continue to act as such, while he is a trustee, manager, director, or other administrative officer of an institution subject to the terms of this act. Appointments to fill vacancies before the expiration of such terms, shall be made for the residue of terms in the same manner as original appointments. The governor shall be ex-officio a member of said board.

Sec. 2. The members shall act without compensation, but shall be allowed their actual necessary expenses. The said board may appoint a secretary, who shall receive such salary as may be determined by said board, not to exceed twenty-four hundred ($2400) dollars per annum. All the expenses of said board, including the salary of the secretary, shall not exceed the sum of six thousand ($6,000) dollars in any one fiscal year, and said sum of six thousand ($6,000) dollars is hereby appropriated annually therefor out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. The secretary of said board shall execute a bond in the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, and take the oath of office prescribed by the Political Code for the executive officers of this state. The board shall provide itself with an office in the city and county of San Francisco. Meetings of the board may be held at such times and in such places in the state of California as said board may deem fit. It may make such rules and orders for the regulation of its own proceedings as it may deem necessary, and may fix the number of members necessary to constitute a quorum. The failure of a member to attend three consecutive meetings of said board during any calendar year, unless excused by formal vote of the board, may be construed by the governor as a resignation of said non-attending member.

Sec. 3. The board is hereby empowered and authorized, and it shall be its duty as a whole, or by committee, or by its secretary, to investigate, examine, and make reports upon the charitable, correctional, and penal institutions of the state, including the state hospitals for the insane, of the counties, cities and counties, cities and towns of the state, and such public officers as are in any way responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief or maintenance of the poor in public institutions or of any of the inmates of said institutions. All the persons or officers in charge of or connected with such public institutions or with the administration of said funds are hereby required to furnish to the board or its committee or secretary such information and statistics as they may request or require, and allow said board, committee or secretary free access to all departments of such institutions and to all of their records. In order to secure accuracy, uniformity and completeness in such

statistics and information, the board may prescribe such forms of report and records by the state commission in lunacy regarding the state hospitals for the insane and by such other officers, boards or institutions as it may deem necessary and also such forms of registration at all public institutions referred to in this section as it may require. The state commission in lunacy on behalf of the institutions under its charge and the officers of all other institutions, and all officers, in any way responsible for public funds used for the relief of the poor or the maintenance of any inmates of said public institutions, are hereby required to follow such forms, records and registration so prescribed; provided, that the intent of this law is that so far as possible, the board shall make use of the forms of report, record and registration now obtaining in the state commission of lunacy and other state boards and institutions. All plans of new buildings, or parts of buildings for any of the public institutions coming under the provisions of this act, or any additions or alterations in such buildings, shall, before their adoption by the proper officials, be submitted to the board for suggestions and criticism.

Sec. 4. The board shall have the power to issue compulsory process to compel the attendance of any witness before said board or any member thereof, and to require the production of such books or papers relating to any public institution mentioned in section 3 of this act as they may deem necessary; provided, that no witness shall be required to attend before said board out of the county in which he resides. Any member of said board shall have power, and he is hereby authorized to administer an oath to any and all witnesses coming before said board, or any member thereof, for examination, and to examine such witness or witnesses in reference to any matter relating to public institutions mentioned in section 3 of this act appertaining to the inquiry before the board, or said member. Disobedience of a subpœna issued by said board, or refusal to be sworn, or to answer, shall subject such person disobeying or refusing to a forfeiture of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction by said board in its name as plaintiff, the money recovered to be appropriated to the use of said board.