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Property exempt from execution.

or carriage, for one or two horses, by the use of which a cartman, drayman, truckman, huckster, peddler, hackman, teamster, or other laborer habitually earns his living; and one horse, with vehicle and harness or other equipments, used by a physician, surgeon, constable, or minister of the gospel, in the legitimate practice of his profession or business; with food for such oxen, horses, or mules for one month;

7. One fishing-boat and net, not exceeding the total value of five hundred dollars, the property of any fisherman, by the lawful use of which he earns his livelihood;

8. Poultry not exceeding in value seventy-five dollars;

9. The wages and earnings of all seamen, sea-going fishermen and sealers, not exceeding three hundred dollars, regardless of where or when earned, and in addition to all other exemptions otherwise provided by any law;

10. The earnings of the judgment debtor for his personal services rendered at any time within thirty days next preceding the levy of execution or attachment, when it appears, by the debtor's affidavit, or otherwise, that such earnings are necessary for the use of his family, residing in this state, supported in whole or in part by his labor; but where debts are incurred by any such person, or his wife or family, for the common necessaries of life, or have been incurred at a time when the debtor had no family, residing in this state, supported in whole or in part by his labor, the one half of such earnings above mentioned is nevertheless subject to execution, garnishment, or attachment to satisfy debts so incurred;

11. The shares held by a member of a homestead association duly incorporated, not exceeding in value one thousand dollars if the person holding the shares is not the owner of a homestead under the laws of this state;

12. All the nautical instruments and wearing apparel of any master, officer, or seaman of any steamer or other vessel;

13. All fire engines, hooks and ladders, with the carts, trucks and carriages, hose, buckets, implements, and apparatus thereunto appertaining, and all furniture and uniforms of any fire company or department organized under the laws of this state;

14. All arms, uniforms, and accoutrements required by law to be kept by any person, and also one gun, to be selected by the debtor;

15. All court-houses, jails, public offices, and buildings, lots, grounds, and personal property, the fixtures, furniture, books, papers and appurtenances belonging and pertaining to the jail and public offices belonging to any county of this state; and all cemeteries, public squares, parks, and places, public buildings, town halls, markets, buildings for the use of fire departments and military organizations, and the lots and grounds thereto belonging and appertaining, owned or held by any town or incorporated city, or dedicated by such town or city to health, ornament, or public use, or for the use of any fire or military company organized under the laws of this state;

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16. All material, not exceeding one thousand dollars in Property value, purchased in good faith for use in the construction, from alteration, or repair of any building, mining claim or other execution. improvement, as long as in good faith the same is about to be applied to the construction, alteration, or repair of such building, mining claim, or other improvement;

17. All machinery, tools and implements, necessary in and for boring, sinking, putting down and constructing surface or artesian wells; also the engines necessary for operating such machinery, implements, tools, etc., also all trucks necessary for the transportation of such machinery, tools, implements, engines, etc.; provided, that the value of all the articles exempted under this subdivision shall not exceed one thousand dollars;

18. All moneys, benefits, privileges, or immunities accruing or in any manner growing out of any life insurance, if the annual premiums paid do not exceed five hundred dollars, and if they exceed that sum, a like exemption shall exist which shall bear the same proportion to the moneys, benefits, privileges, and immunities so accruing or growing out of such insurance that said five hundred dollars bears to the whole annual premiums paid;

19. Shares of stock in any building and loan association to the value of one thousand dollars.

No article, however, or species of property mentioned in this section, is exempt from execution issued upon a judgment recovered for its price, or upon a judgment of foreclosure of a mortgage or other lien thereon.

CHAPTER CIV.

An act providing for an appropriation of five thousand dollars ($5000.00) for the purpose of improving the grounds and repairing the buildings of Sutter's Fort and for the necessary incidental expenses for maintenance.

[Approved March 10, 1903.] .

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

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SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5000.00) is Improvehereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury Sutter's not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of improving the Fort, etc. grounds and repairing the buildings of Sutter's Fort, and for the necessary incidental expense of maintenance.

SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant in favor of the board of Sutter's Fort trustees for the amount herein made payable, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and four.

Appropriation to pay

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CHAPTER CV.

An act making an appropriation to pay a deficiency in the costs
and expenses of suit fund of the attorney-general's office of
California for the fifty-second and fifty-third fiscal years.

[Approved March 10, 1903.]

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

SECTION 1. The sum of five hundred thirty-three and deficiency ninety-nine one hundredths ($533.99) dollars is hereby approfund, attor- priated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise ney-gen- appropriated, to pay the deficiency in the costs and expenses eral's office of suit fund of the attorney-general's office of the State of

California for the fifty-second and fifty-third fiscal years.

SEC. 2. This appropriation is hereby exempted from the provisions of section six hundred seventy-two of the Political Code.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Primary elections, how conducted.

Ballots.

CHAPTER CVI.

An act to amend section 1359 of the Political Code of the State
of California, relating to primary elections.

[Approved March 10, 1903.]

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

SECTION 1. Section thirteen hundred and fifty-nine of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

1359. Elections herein provided for and known and designated as primary elections shall be conducted, managed, and controlled as to selection of precinct officers, their powers and duties, publication of notices, use of original affidavits of registration, indexes, and supplements thereto, challenging of voters, voting booths, printing and use of the ballots, cards of instruction, ascertainment of results, time for opening and closing of the polls, and all other details, in the same manner, and subject to the same regulations as are elections for state, district, county, city and county, city, town, and local officers as far as applicable, except as otherwise provided in this chapter; provided, that sample ballots shall not be printed or distributed, and that there shall be but one ballot-box at each polling place; also, provided, that there shall be printed for each primary election precinct only as many ballots for each

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participating political party as there are names appearing on the register, indexes or supplements thereto as persons entitled to vote thereat; also, provided, that the compensation which compensashall be allowed to each primary precinct election officer shall officers. not exceed four dollars per day, and it shall be the duty of every person so chosen to act as such primary precinct election. officer at such primary election to perform the services required of him in such capacity. That the primary precinct Precinct election officers shall be an inspector, two judges, two clerks, and one ballot clerk, for each primary election precinct, who must have been registered electors thereof for at least thirty days prior to their appointment; provided, that the same person shall not, without his consent, be compelled to serve as such primary precinct election officer more than once in every two years.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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CHAPTER CVII.

An act limiting the hours of service of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of, or work done for, the State of California, or of, or for any political subdivision thereof; imposing penalties for violation of the provisions of said act, and providing for the enforcement thereof.

[Approved March 10, 1903.]

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

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SECTION 1. The time of service of any laborer, workman, or Hours of mechanic employed upon any of the public works of the State public of California, or of any political subdivision thereof, or upon works. work done for said state, or any political subdivision thereof, is hereby limited and restricted to eight hours during any one calendar day; and it shall be unlawful for any officer or agent of said state, or of any political subdivision thereof, or for any contractor or subcontractor doing work under contract upon any public works aforesaid, who employs, or who directs or controls, the work of any laborer, workman, or mechanic, employed as herein aforesaid, to require or permit such laborer, workman, or mechanic, to labor more than eight hours during any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency, caused by fire, flood, or danger to life or property, or except to work upon public military or naval defenses or works in time of war.

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SEC. 2. Any officer or agent of the State of California, or of Contracts any political subdivision thereof, making or awarding, as such vide for officer or agent, any contract, the execution of which involves limit of or may involve the employment of any laborer, workman, or service. mechanic upon any of the public works, or upon any work,

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herein before mentioned, shall cause to be inserted therein a stipulation which shall provide that the contractor to whom said contract is awarded shall forfeit, as a penalty, to the state or political subdivision in whose behalf the contract is made and awarded, ten (10) dollars for each laborer, workman, or mechanic employed, in the execution of said contract, by him, or by any subcontractor under him, upon any of the public works, or upon any work, herein before mentioned, for each calendar day during which such laborer, workman, or mechanic is required or permitted to labor more than eight hours in violation of the provisions of this act; and it shall be the duty of such officer or agent to take cognizance of all violations of the provisions of said act committed in the course of the execution of said contract, and to report the same to the representative of the state or political subdivision, party to the contract, authorized to pay to said contractor moneys becoming due to him under the said contract, and said representative, when making payments of moneys thus due, shall withhold and retain therefrom all sums and amounts which shall have been forfeited pursuant to the herein said stipulation.

SEC. 3. Any officer, agent, or representative of the State of California, or of any political subdivision thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage.

Appropria-
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San José
Normal
School.

CHAPTER CVIII.

An act making an appropriation for certain improvements and repairs at the State Normal School at San José, Santa Clara county, California.

[Approved March 10, 1903.]

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

SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), in addition to any moneys heretofore appropriated and remaining unexpended, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the trustees of the State Normal School at San José, Santa Clara county, California, as follows, to wit: Five thousand dollars ($5,000) for repair work and improvements necessary to be made at the State Normal School in San José, such as repairing

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