Appropriation. empowered by said board to do and perform all things pertaining to the duties of said board. SEC. 4. The sum of one thousand five hundred ($1,500) dollars, five hundred ($500) dollars of which shall be available for the purposes herein above set forth immediately after the passage of this act, and the remaining one thousand ($1,000) dollars, in the fifty-fifth fiscal year, is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the state treasury for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section three of this act. The controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant in favor of said board for the money herein made payable, and the treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 5. This act shall go into effect immediately. Appropriation for CHAPTER CCCXV. An act appropriating money to pay the expenses of erecting and maintaining a building, collecting, forwarding, installing, maintaining and returning an exhibit of the products of the State of California at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, in nineteen hundred and four. Also for preparing and printing literature relating to the state for distribution at said exposition, and providing a commission and expense of commission and attachés. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and thirty thousand exploiting dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby Louisiana appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not Purchase otherwise appropriated for the purpose of adequately exploiting Exposition California and its resources and progress at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition to be held in St. Louis, Mo., in nineteen hundred and four. When available. Appoint ment of commissioners. Duty of commissioners. SEC. 2. Of the sum herewith appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars shall be available immediately; thirty-five thousand dollars October 1st, 1903; seventy thousand dollars January 1st, 1904. SEC. 3. It is made the duty of the governor of California to appoint two commissioners to carry out the purposes of this act. One shall have had one year's residence in the northern half of the state and the other at least one year's residence in the southern half of the state. Both must have had experience in installing and managing exhibits at former expositions. SEC. 4. It is made the duty of the commissioners appointed to collect, prepare, forward, install and maintain exhibits of the products of the resources and progress of this state at the Exposition at St. Louis and return or dispose of such exhibits Clarke Ex as directed by the governor; to build and maintain a California state building after the plans for such building shall have been approved by the governor; to remove such building at the close of such exposition; to prepare, print and distribute literature helpful to the state; at least thirty days before the close Lewis and of the exposition to report to the governor what exhibits may position. be suitable for exhibition at the Lewis and Clarke Exposition to be held in Portland, Oregon, in 1905; to appoint such employés and heads of horticultural, agricultural, forestry, educational and promotion and publicity departments as in their judgment it is thought best; and to do everything necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this act in the fullest and broadest sense. SEC. 5. The head of the mining department shall be the Head of mining destate mineralogist who is hereby directed to act under the direc- partment. tion of the commissioners in collecting, forwarding, and maintaining an adequate mineral exhibit at St. Louis Exposition. He shall have his personal actual expenses paid while outside the state the same as when traveling away from home in the state. tion of SEC. 6. Each of said commissioners shall receive for his Compensaservices $250 per month from the time of his appointment and commisqualification as such commissioner until his services are dis- sioners. continued by the governor and actual traveling expenses, not to exceed a total of $2000 to each commissioner for his term of office. Each of said commissioners in qualifying must file with the secretary of state a bond approved by the governor for $10,000 conditioned upon a faithful performance of each and all the duties imposed by this act and his oath. SEC. 7. The commissioners shall appoint a secretary with Secretary. the approval of the governor. Said secretary shall be allowed $200 per month and actual traveling expenses not to exceed a total of $1500. report. SEC. 8. The commissioners must make a monthly report Monthly to the governor of California of all expenditures and receipts together with original vouchers for the same. If such expenditures are in accordance with the provisions of this act then the state board of examiners must approve the same and file them with the state controller. If not then said commissioners shall be liable upon their bonds for a misappropriation of public funds. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the public institutions of the Duty of public inState of California to assist the commission in every possible stitutions. way, by loaning it such material in their possession as will add to the attractive features of the state exhibit. SEC. 10. This act is exempted from the provisions of section six hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code. SEC. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Appropria Edward Fanning. CHAPTER CCCXVI. An act to appropriate the sum of $432.03 to pay the claim of [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money claim of in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and thirty-two and three one-hundredths (432.03) dollars to pay the claim of Edward Fanning. The said sum of four hundred and thirty-two and three onehundredths (432.03) dollars being due and owing from the State of California to said Edward Fanning for paving, curbing and sidewalking the streets in front of the Toland Medical College in the city and county of San Francisco. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of said Edward Fanning for the sum of four hundred and thirty-two and three onehundredths (432.03) dollars and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropria CHAPTER CCCXVII. An act to appropriate the sum of $2,218.50 to pay the claim of [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys tion to pay in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Wm. Fahey two thousand two hundred and eighteen and fifty hundredths claim of dollars, to pay the claim of William Fahey against the State of California, the said sum of two thousand two hundred and eighteen and fifty hundredths dollars being now due and owing to the said William Fahey from the State of California. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of said William Fahey for the sum of two thousand two hundred and eighteen and fifty hundredths dollars, and the state treasurer said treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. The claim of said William Fahey is hereby exempted from the provisions of section six hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and In effect. after July 1st, 1903. CHAPTER CCCXVIII. An act to appropriate money to pay the claim of T. W. Spring Co. against the State of California, during the railroad strike of 1895. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tion to pay SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred dollars is hereby appro- Appropriapriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise claim of T. appropriated, to pay the claim of T. W. Spring Co. SEC. 2. The controller of state is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of T. W. Spring Co. for said sum of one hundred dollars, and the treasurer of state is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same. W. Spring Co. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and In effect. after its passage. CHAPTER CCCXIX. An act to provide for the erection and equipment of an oil storage and pumping plant at the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children, to appropriate money therefor, and to authorize the expenditure of the same. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tion for Home for SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money Appropriain the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of pumping twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be plant, necessary, for the erection and equipment of an oil storage and Feeblepumping plant at the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children. SEC. 2. The controller of state is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the sum or sums herein appropriated, and the treasurer of state is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Minded Appropria Louis CHAPTER CCCXX. An act to pay the claim of Louis Shuckman, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of three hundred dollars ($300) is claim of hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay the claim of Louis Shuckman. SEC. 2. The controller of the state is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for said sum in favor of Louis Shuckman, or his assigns, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same, and the direction herein is hereby exempted from the provisions of section six hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and four. In effect. Appropriation for CHAPTER CCCXXI. An act making an appropriation for traveling expenses of the attorney-general for the remainder of the fifty-fourth fiscal year. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby approtraveling priated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise expenses, appropriated, for traveling expenses of the attorney-general for the remainder of the fifty-fourth fiscal year. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. general. Appropriation to pay CHAPTER CCCXXII. An act to pay the claim of James T. Boyd. [Approved March 25, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury Boyd. not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claim of James T. Boyd. claim of James T. |