Forfeitures go into "prisoners fund." When any convict shall willfully violate the terms of his employment, or the rules of the road camp or of the terms of his parole the board of prison directors may in its discretion determine what portion of all moneys earned by the convict shall be forfeited by the said convict and such forfeiture shall be deposited in the state treasury in a fund to be known as the "prisoners fund," which said fund is hereby created. All the money in said fund is hereby appropriated for educational and recreational purposes at the prison road camps as the same shall be established and shall be expended under the direction of the highway commission upon warrants drawn upon the state treasury by the state controller after approval of the claim therefor by the state board of control.

§ 2. Duties of highway commission. The state highway commission shall designate and supervise all road work done under the provisions of this act. It shall provide, supervise and maintain necessary camps and commissariat.

§ 3. Jurisdiction of prison directors. The board of prison directors shall have full jurisdiction at all times over the discipline and control of the convicts employed on said roads.

§ 4. Expenses. The expenses of transportation of labor, necessary guarding, commissariat, camps, and all other expenses incidental to such work shall be borne by the respective funds provided for such state road or highway in the manner provided by law, subject, however, to the provisions of section one hereof.

§ 5. Convicts not to build bridges, etc. Said convicts when employed under the provisions of this act shall not be used for the purpose of building any bridge or structure of like character which requires the employment of skilled labor.

§ 6. Additional good time allowance. The state board of prison directors is hereby empowered and directed to adopt a special rule applicable solely to convicts employed as herein authorized and contemplated, whereby convicts so employed shall be granted additional good time allowance in addition to the compensation herein provided, conditioned upon their loyal obedience and efficient co-operation with the state in the construction, improvement and maintenance of the state highway system or stato roads and in the maintaining of discipline and good conduct in the prison road camps. but such additional good time allowance shall not exceed one day for each two calendar days that the convict is absent from the prison.

§ 7. Penalties for interference with convicts, etc. Any person, who, without authority, interferes with or in any way interrupts the work of any convict employed pursuant to this act and any person not authorized by law, who gives or attempts to give to any state prison conviet so employed any opium, cocaine or other narcotics, or any intoxicating liquors of any kind whatever, or firearms, weapons or explosives of any kind is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than one year nor more than five years and shall be disqualified from holding any state office or position in the employ of this state. Any person who

interferes with the discipline or good conduct of any convict employed pursuant to this act, while such convict is in the confines or limits of the state prison road camp is guilty af a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not more than six months or by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any peace officer or any officer or guard of any state prison or any superintendent of such road work, having in charge the convicts employed upon such highways or state roads, may arrest without a warrant any person violating any provisions of this act.

§ 8. Repealed. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby expressly repealed.

ACT 1678.

To prevent the importation of convicts into this state. [Stats. 1850, p. 202.]

Superseded by Penal Code, §§ 173, 175.

ACT 1679.

Providing for furnishing sheriffs and chiefs of police with certain information, description, and photographs of convicts about to be discharged by the wardens of state prisons. [Stats. 1897, p. 213.] Repealed 1905, p. 532. See post, Act 1680.

АСТ 1680.

An act requiring the wardens of the state prisons of California to furnish the sheriffs of California and the bureaus of identification with certain information concerning convicts within thirty days after receiving said convicts, and providing for payment of the expenses incurred thereby.

[Approved March 20, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 532.]

Amended 1909, p. 398.

§ 1. Description of prisoners to be furnished to whom. § 2. Expenses incurred, how paid.

§3. Repeal of former act.

§ 1. Description of prisoners to be furnished to whom. The wardens of the state prisons of the state of California shall within thirty days after receiving persons convicted of crime and sentenced to serve terms in the respective prisons, send to the sheriffs of the state of California, to the legalized bureau of identification and to the chiefs of police of all regularly constituted police departments, of incorporated cities and towns within said state, photographs together with minute descriptions including marks of identification of all such persons and also a statement of the nature of the crime for which said persons are imprisoned. [Amendment of March 18, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 398.]

§ 2. Expenses incurred, how paid. Any expenditures incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid for out of the appropriation made for the support of state's prisons.

§ 3. Repeal of former act. This act shall be in effect immediately and be enforced from and after its passage and repeals an act approved March 27, 1897, on pages 213, 214 of Statutes and Amendments to the Codes of California of 1897.

ACT 1681.

An act to provide indemnity to persons erroneously convicted of felonies in the state of California.

[Approved May 24, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 245.]

Claim of persons erroneously convicted.

Presented to board of control.

§ 1.

§ 2.

§ 1. Claim of persons erroneously convicted. Any person who, having been convicted of any crime against the state of California amounting to a felony, and having been imprisoned therefor in a state prison of this state shall hereafter, on a retrial of the case, or on reversal on appeal of the final judgment of conviction, be acquitted or discharged for the reason that the crime with which he was charged was either not committed at all, or, if committed, was not committed by him, or who shall hereafter be granted a pardon by the governor of this state for either of the foregoing reasons, or who, being innocent of the crime with which he was charged for either of the foregoing reasons, shall have served the term for which he was imprisoned, may, under the conditions hereinafter provided, present a claim against the state to the state board of control for the pecuniary injury sustained by him through such erroneous conviction and imprisonment.

§ 2. Presented to board of control. Such claim, accompanied by a statement of the facts constituting the claim, verified in the manner provided for the verification of complaints in civil actions, must be presented by the claimant to the board of control within a period of six months after judgment of acquittal or discharge given, or after pardon granted, or after release from imprisonment, and at least four months prior to the next meeting of the legislature of this state; and no claim not so presented shall be considered by the board of control.

§ 3. Hearing on claim. Upon presentation of any such claim, the board of control shall fix a time and place for the hearing of the claim, and shall mail notice thereof to the claimant and to the attorney general of this state at least fifteen days prior to the time fixed for such hearing.

§ 4. Proof of claimant. On such hearing the claimant shall introduce evidence in support of the claim, and the attorney general may introduce evidence in opposition thereto. The claimant must prove the facts set forth in the statement constituting the claim, including the fact that the crime with which he was charged was either not committed at all, or, if committed, was not committed by him, the fact that he did not, by any act or omission on his part, either intentionally or

negligently, contribute to the bringing about of his arrest or conviction for the crime with which he was charged, and the pecuniary injury sustained by him through his erroneous conviction and imprisonment.

§ 5. Board to report approved claim to legislature. If the board of control shall be satisfied from the evidence that the crime with which the claimant was charged was either not committed at all, or, if committed, was not committed by the claimant, and that the claimant did not, by any act or omission either intentionally or negligently, contribute to the bringing about of his arrest or conviction, and that the claimant has sustained pecuniary injury through his erroneous conviction and imprisonment, it shall, with the sanction of the governor of this state, report the facts of the case and its conclusions to the next legislature of this state, with a recommendation that an appropriation be made by the legislature for the purpose of indemnifying the claimant for such pecuniary injury; but the amount of the appropriation, so recommended shall not exceed in any case, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000).

§ 6. Statement to controller. The board of control shall make up its report and recommendation and shall give to the controller of this state a statement showing its recommendations for appropriations under the provisions of this act, as provided by the law in cases of other claimants against this state for which no appropriations have been made.

§ 7. Rules. The board of control is hereby authorized to make all needful rules and regulations consistent with the law for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act.

ACT 1691.

TITLE 133.

CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS.

Defining and providing for the organization and government of co-operative business corporations. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 883.]

Superseded by 1895, p. 221.

Codified in part by § 653a of Civil Code: See Civil Code, § 653a, note. "The portion of the statute declaring that the by-laws may provide for the number of votes to which each stockholder shall be entitled is probably unconstitutional as being special legislation. (See Krause v. Durbrow, 127 Cal. 681.) The remaining portion is superseded by Civil Code, § 653a, as adopted in 1905."-Code Commissioner's Note. ACT 1692.

To provide for the incorporation, operation, and management of cooperative associations. [Stats. 1895, p. 221.]

Codified by §§ 653b-6531 of Civil Code, adopted 1905.

TITLE 134.
CORONADO.

Incorporated under the Municipal Corporation Bill of 1883, p. 93 in 1890.

Act 1702.

An act conveying certain tide-lands and lands lying under inland navigable waters situate in the bay of San Diego to the city of Coronado in furtherance of navigation, commerce and fisheries and providing for the government, management and control thereof. [Approved April 27, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 85.]

ACT 1712.

TITLE 135.
CORONERS.

An act to provide an official stenographic reporter to the coroner of each county, or city and county, having one hundred thousand or more inhabitants, and providing the mode in which such reporter shall be appointed, and establishing the compensation and prescribing the duties of such reporter.

[Approved March 26, 1895. Stats. 1895, p. 168.]

Superseded as to San Francisco.

by its charter.

Superseded as to San Francisco,

§ 1. Coroners of cities and counties of one hundred thousand to appoint stenographer.

§ 1. Coroners of cities and counties of one hundred thousand to appoint stenographer. It shall be lawful for the coroner of every county, or city and county, of this state, having one hundred thousand or more inhabitants, to select and appoint as an official stenographic reporter, such reporter to hold office during the pleasure of the coroner making the appointment.

§ 2. Salary. The said official reporter shall be allowed and shall receive compensation as follows: One hundred and fifty dollars per month.

§ 3. Duties. It shall be the duty of said reporter to attend all inquests held by the coroner of the said county, or city and county, and report in shorthand all testimony of witnesses, and all the proceedings of said inquests, and to transcribe the same into legible longhand and furnish two typewritten copies thereof, and shall certify the same, and file one of the copies with the said coroner and the other copy with the clerk of the said county, or city and county. He shall also, within a reasonable time after such testimony is taken, file with the said clerk the shorthand notes taken by him at each inquest.

§ 4. Oath. The said official reporter shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. § 5. Certified report prima facie correct. Any report of the said official reporter duly appointed and sworn, when written out in