from becoming and serving as an officer of any board of such trustees. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CXXXI. An act making an appropriation to pay for printing, binding and ruling, and all other work performed and materials furnished by the state printing office to the various state officers, boards, commissions, prisons, schools, hospitals, and other state institutions, for the remainder of the fifty-fourth fiscal year. [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tion for mainder of fiscal year. SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-seven thousand nine hundred Appropriaand eighty-five dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money printing, in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay for all etc., for re printing, binding, and ruling and all other work performed fifty-fourth and materials furnished by the state printing office to the various state officers, boards, commissions, prisons, schools, hospitals and other state institutions for the remainder of the fifty-fourth fiscal year; provided, that said appropriation shall be apportioned as follows: Adjutant-General, twenty-five hundred dollars. Code Commissioners, eight hundred and eighty-five dollars. Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution, one hundred dollars. Lick Observatory, five thousand dollars. Governor, one hundred dollars. Surveyor-General, four hundred and fifty dollars. Home for Feeble-Minded Children, one hundred dollars. State Normal School, Chico, two hundred and fifty dollars. State Normal School, San José, two hundred and fifty dollars. State Normal School, San Diego, two hundred and fifty dollars. State Normal School, San Francisco, two hundred and fifty dollars. California Polytechnic School, San Luis Obispo, two hundred and fifty dollars. State Prison, San Quentin, two hundred and fifty dollars. Preston School, two hundred and fifty dollars. Whittier State School, two hundred and fifty dollars. Superintendent of Public Instruction, three thousand dollars. dollars. Superintendent of State Printing, lithographing, five hundred dollars. State Treasurer, two hundred and fifty dollars. State University, five thousand dollars. Débris Commission, one hundred dollars. SEC. 2. The controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the amount herein made payable, and the treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Appropriation for construction of building CHAPTER CXXXII. An act making an appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand ($250,000.00) dollars for the construction of a building to be erected by the regents of the University of California in Alameda county on the grounds of the university for the accommodation of the students of the university, also providing for the time of payment thereof and prescribing the duties of the controller and the treasurer in relation thereto. [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and fifty thousand ($250,000.00) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated to be expended on grounds by the regents of the University of California in the construcsity of Cali- tion of a building at Berkeley, California, on the university of Univer fornia. grounds for the use and accommodation of the students in the university. Seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) dollars, parcel thereof, shall be paid on the first day of July, A. D., 1903; seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) dollars, parcel thereof, on the first day of January, A. D., 1904, and one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars, remaining parcel thereof, on the first day of July, A. D., 1904. SEC. 2. The controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants for the same payable to the order of the treasurer of the University of California, and the treasurer of state is hereby directed to pay such warrants. CHAPTER CXXXIII. An act to establish a poultry experiment station in the county of [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: periment SECTION 1. There is hereby established in the county of Poultry exSonoma, at or near the city of Petaluma, a poultry experiment station. station, to be known as the "California Poultry Experiment Station." SEC. 2. The purposes of said station shall be the study of Purposes. the diseases of poultry to ascertain the causes of such diseases, and to recommend treatment for the prevention and cure of the same; to ascertain the relative value of poultry foods for the production of flesh, fat, eggs, and feathers; to recommend methods of sanitation, and to conduct investigations for the purpose of securing results conducive to the promotion of the poultry interests of the state. This act shall be liberally construed to the end that the station hereby established may at all times contribute to the technical and general knowledge of the public upon the subject of poultry husbandry. SEC. 3. The said station shall be under the supervision Superof the director of the agricultural experiment stations of the vision. State of California, who shall, from time to time, cause to be Bulletins. issued bulletins of information regarding the care of poultry. of site. SEC. 4. Within thirty days after the passage of this act Selection the governor shall appoint three persons, two of whom shall be from the staff of professors in the agricultural department of the University of California, and one a practical poultry raiser, which said persons shall constitute a board or commission to select and secure a site of not less than five acres for such poultry experiment station. Such board shall have full power to secure such site, by lease, purchase, or donation thereof, and shall proceed to the performance of the duties herein imposed within thirty days after receiving notice of their appointment. SEC. 5. All moneys appropriated for the use of the station control of hereby established shall be under the control of the regents of moneys. the University of California. tion. SEC. 6. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appro- Appropriapriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for securing the necessary site, and for equipping and maintaining said California poultry experiment station as provided by this act. Of the amount herein appropriated, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred three and nineteen hundred four, and two thousand five hundred dollars shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred four and nineteen hundred five. SEC. 7. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrants for the sum herein appropriated in favor of the treasurer of the regents of the University of California, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect immediately. Only one form of ballot. Party can-. didates in parallel columns. Style of printing. CHAPTER CXXXIV. An act to amend sections 1197, 1205 and 1211 of the Political [Approved March 14, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred and ninety-seven of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1197. 1. There shall be provided at each polling place, at each election at which public officers are voted for, but one form of ballot for all the candidates for public office, and every ballot shall contain the names of all the candidates whose nominations for any office specified on the ballot have been duly made and not withdrawn, as provided in this code, together with the title of the office, arranged in tickets under the titles of the respective political parties as certified in the certificates of nomination. The arrangement of the ballot shall, in general, conform as nearly as practicable to the plan hereinafter given. 2. The list of candidates of the several parties shall be printed in parallel columns, each column to be headed by the party name, in such order as the secretary of state may direct, precedence, however, being given to the party which polled the highest number of votes for governor at the last preceding general election for such officer, and so on. The number of such columns shall exceed by one the number of separate tickets of candidates to be voted for at the polling place for which the ballot is provided, except as otherwise provided in this section. The party name shall be printed in display, the name or designation of the office in brevier lower case, and the name of the candidate therefor in brevier capital type. The title of the office, together with the name of the candidate therefor, shall be printed in a space one half inch in depth, and at least two inches in width, defined by light, horizontal ruled lines, with a blank space on the right thereof one half of an inch wide, inclosed by heavier dark lines, which space (called the voting square) shall be of the same depth as the space containing the title of the office and the name of the candidate; provided, however, that when two or more persons are voted for, for offices having the same title, for the same term, on the same party ticket, as, for instance, presidential electors, the title of the office shall be printed in each space, with the name of each candidate for such office, and after such title there shall be stated the number of persons to be voted for for such offices by words in parenthesis in nonpareil type, thus: (vote for two), giving the correct number to be voted for, as the case may be. 3. On the right of each ballot shall be a column in which Blank shall be printed in spaces as above provided, only the titles of the offices for which candidates may be voted for by the electors at the polling places for which such ballot is printed. Such column is designated as the "blank column," and in such column the voting squares shall be omitted, but in all other respects such blank column shall conform to the political party columns on such ballot. In the space of such column above the heavy ruled line at the top thereof shall be printed in eighteen-point gothic capitals the words "blank column," and below such words shall be printed in brevier capital type the following: "The elector may write in the column below, under the title of the office, the name of any person whose name is not printed upon the ballot, for whom he desires to vote. Do not use a voting stamp, or make any cross in this column." The heading of each party or independent ticket shall be sepa.rated from the rest of the ticket by a heavy printed line. 4. Immediately under the heading of each party or independ- Party votent ticket and above the heavy printed line shall be inserted ing circle. a printed circle at least three fourths of an inch in diameter, and of uniform size and appearance for all tickets, which shall be called the party voting circle, in which circle a stamp may be made by those who wish to vote for such party ticket. Opposite such circle and in the same space shall be printed the following words in lower case brevier type: "To vote a straight ticket stamp a cross (X) within this circle." The space occupied by such circle and words shall not exceed two inches in length. nations. 5. In the case of nominations provided for in section eleven Independhundred and eighty-eight, herein referred to as independent ent nomitickets, the ballot shall be so arranged that at the right of the last column for nominations made pursuant to section eleven hundred and eighty-seven the several tickets of the names of the candidates nominated under section eleven hundred and eighty-eight shall be printed in one or more columns according to the space required, having above each of the tickets the political or other name selected to designate such independent nominations and a circle as aforesaid to provide the party voting circle for such independent nominations. The independent tickets occupying the same column shall be separated from each other by a solid black line one eighth of an inch wide. At the top of such column, or columns, for independent nominations, shall be printed in type known as eighteen-point gothic capitals, the words "independent nominations." The Column independent nominations shall be placed in said column in filled. sequence, preference being given to the office of the head of the must be |