ACT 1628. To provide for the submission of amendments to the constitution. [Stats. 1883, p. 53.] Repealed 1899, p. 24. The section in the repealing act purporting to re-enact the first section of the act of 1883 is unconstitutional: People ex rel. Attorney General v. Curry, 130 Cal. 83, 62 Pac. 516. ACT 1629. An act to provide for the dissemination of knowledge regarding the various propositions and constitutional amendments which are to be submitted to the people of the state of California and for the distribution of copies of said propositions and amendments to various institutions of learning throughout the state. [Approved April 27, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 1162.] 1. Copies of constitutional amendments to be furnished schools. § 2. Superintendent of public instruction to make statement to heads of schools. § 1. Copies of constitutional amendments to be furnished schools. For the purpose of encouraging the study and investigation of the various propositions and constitutional amendments which are hereafter submitted to the people and to stimulate interest therein, and study thereof by addresses, debates and general discussions throughout the various institutions of learning of the state of California, the secretary of state shall, within six months after the adjournment of each session of the legislature, have printed in the manner prescribed by section 1195 of the Political Code a sufficient number of all propositions and constitutional amendments which are to be submitted to a vote of the people at any election thereafter, to supply each institution of higher learning with twenty-five copies, and each high school and grammar school with ten copies thereof and deliver the same to the superintendent of public instruction. § 2. Superintendent of public instruction to make statement to heads of schools. The superintendent of public instruction shall immediately prepare such instructions to the heads of said institutions and schools, as he may deem sufficient to properly accomplish the object expressed in section 1 of this act, and shall forward said propositions and constitutional amendments to the heads of said institutions and schools together with such instructions. Election pamphlets: See Pol. Code, §§ 1195a, 1195b. ACT 1639. TITLE 130. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. Assessors of, compensation of for collection of personal property taxes. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 529.] Superseded by the County Government Act, 1897, p. 536, § 183. See Act 1864. Justices of the peace in, fees of. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 269.] ACT 1643. Fees of office and compensation of officers. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 84.] Repealed by fee bill of 1895, p. 267, as to officers therein named. See Act 2502. ACT 1644. Salaries and compensation of officers of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 91.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 536, § 183. See Act 1864. ACT 1645. To provide for the appointment of three additional notaries public for. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 46.] Superseded by Political Code, § 791. ACT 1646. Public administrator authorized to act as coroner. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 170.] Probably repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 473, § 55. See Act 1864. ACT 1647. Concerning bonds of public administrator. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 183.] Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, p. 475, § 66. See Act 1864. ACT 1648. Roads and highways in. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 779.] ACT 1649. To repeal all special road laws in the county of Contra Costa. [Stats. ACT 1650. 1873-74, p. 170.] Roads and highways in. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 237.] ACT 1651. Quieting title to certain salt-marsh and tide-lands in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 616.] ACT 1652. Fixing bonds of sheriff of. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 158.] Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, p. 475, § 66. See Act 1864. ACT 1653. To provide for the extermination of squirrels in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 815.] Superseded by subd. 26, § 25, County Government Act, 1897, p. 465. See Act 1864. ACT 1654. School moneys, distribution of. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 182.] Repealed by Political Code, § 1858, as amended 1893, p. 264. ACT 1655. An act to provide one additional judge of the superior court of the county of Contra Costa. [Approved June 4, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 449.] This act increased the number of judges from one to two. ACT 1665. TITLE 131. Authorizing the appointment of an additional clerk by the controller. [Stats. 1895, p. 67.] Repealed 1899, p. 146. ACT 1666. Creating the office of expert to the controller and prescribing his compensation. [Stats. 1899, p. 146.] Codified by § 440, Political Code. ACT 1667. An act authorizing the state controller to destroy certain reports and other documents. [Approved May 18, 1921. Stats. 1921, p. 155. In effect July 29, 1921.] § 1. State controller may destroy certain reports. § 1. State controller may destroy certain reports. All reports from county and city officials and individuals which have been in the custody of the controller for a period of five years preceding, may be destroyed; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to claims upon which warrants have been issued nor warrants which have been canceled nor other records involving the expenditure of state money, nor books of original entry. ACT 1677. TITLE 132. An act authorizing the use of convict labor on state highways or state roads; providing for the compensation of such convict labor; regulating the handling of such convict labor; providing for payment of compensation to the dependents of such convicts; providing for a forfeiture of such compensation; providing for creation of prisoners recreation and educational fund; providing for manner of payment of compensation to said convicts upon release on parole or release or discharge from prison; authorizing allowance of extra time credits for such labor; providing penalties for interference with such convict labor and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith. [Approved June 9, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 667.] § 1. Highway commission may employ convicts. Compensation. Not to drive trucks. Payment of part of earnings to dependents. Disposition of balance. Forfeitures go into "prisoners fund." Duties of highway commission. Jurisdiction of prison directors. § 2. § 3. § 4. Expenses. § 5. Convicts not to build bridges, etc. § 1. Highway commission may employ convicts. Compensation. Not to drive trucks. Payment of part of earnings to dependents. Disposition of balance. Forfeitures go into "prisoners fund." The state highway commission of the state of California may employ or cause to be employed, convicts confined in the state prisons in the construction, improvement and maintenance of the state highway system, provided for in the "state highways act" approved March 22, 1909, the "state highways act of 1915," approved May 20, 1915, and in section two of article sixteen of the constitution, and in the construction, improvement and maintenance of any other state roads in California. Compensation. Upon the requisition of the state highway commission, the state board of prison directors shall send to the place and at the time designated the number of convicts requisitioned or such number thereof as are in the judgment of the warden available. All convicts so employed as aforesaid shall receive not to exceed the sum of two dollars fifty cents per day for the number of days which such convict shall actually perform labor upon the construction, improvement and maintenance of the state highway system; provided, however, in no event shall said convict earn more than seventy-five cents net per day; Expense of maintenance. provided, however, that the convicts, when so employed, shall be charged with his or their proportionate share of all expenses for the proper maintenance of the road camp, including the expenses of transportation from the prison to the road camp, clothing, food, medicine, medical attendance, toilet articles, tools and appliances for the performance of such labor, and the pro rata cost of reward for capturing escapes from the road camp, which award is hereby fixed at the sum of two hundred dollars for the capture and return of each escaped prisoner, payable to any individual or peace officer. Not to drive trucks. No convict while engaged in such construction, maintenance and improvement of the state highway system or any other state roads shall be engaged as drivers of motor trucks or other vehicle or wagon used in the construction, improvement or maintenance of such highways or state roads or in the transportation of supplies and materials to or from the road camp where the said motor trucks or other vehicle or wagon in the course of such hauling of materials and supplies in such construction, improvement or maintenance of such state highways or state roads, shall be required to travel to places or locations away from the camp limits of the prison road camp. Payment of part of earnings to dependents. After deducting all such expenses as aforesaid the California highway commission shall give two-thirds of the balance of such sums so earned to the dependents of the convict or convicts; provided, that the dependents of the convict or convicts are in need and are obtaining state aid or if the dependents of the convict or convicts are not obtaining state aid then the convict or convicts may direct to which of the dependents of the said convict or convicts the said money herein provided for shall be given; Disposition of balance. and the remaining sum after such deductions as aforesaid, if any, shall be retained until the convict shall have completed his term of parole or earned his release or discharge from prison; provided, however, that in case said convict shall not have obtained work or employment at the time of his release on parole and there shall be a balance of money to the credit of said convict with the California highway commission then the said balance shall not be paid to the convict in any sum greater than fifty dollars per month until such convict shall obtain employment; Provided, further, that in case of a release of the said convict on parole the state board of prison directors may in its discretion specify a reasonable amount of such balance to be retained by the California highway commission for the purpose of insuring the good behavior of such convict while on parole and transportation to the place of confinement in case of the violation of the terms of his parole; Provided, further, however, that it shall be within the discretion of the board of prison directors in the case of a convict released or discharged from a prison to direct that certain portions or amounts of any sum due to such convict from the California highway commission, be advanced or furnished to such convict either for the purposes of business, transportation to any place of employment or such other purposes as the board shall deem proper and necessary. Every convict upon his release on parole or release or discharge from prison shall deliver to the California highway commission all tools and appliances mentioned herein and for which said convict is charged and shall thereupon be entitled to receive in addition to the amount herein specified the amount so charged against him for the tools and appliances. |