improvements as shall introduce precision and clearness into the wording of the codes and statutes.

5. All or any of the reports, records, or proceedings of said Reports to be printed. commission shall be printed by the state printer, on the requisition of said commissioner, when so ordered and directed by said commissioner.

6. Said commissioner shall have the power to order the state printer to print and deliver to him such number as said commissioner may designate of any report, record, or proceedings of said commission.

7. Said commissioner shall attend at the capital, during Shall act as legislative the sitting of said session of the legislature, and act as advisor. legislative counsel or advisor, in drafting or passing upon the form of any bill, or proposed bill, pending or to be introduced before the legislature; and also, when requested, give advice to said legislature, or such committee, as to the form of any proposed legislation, and its effect upon existing laws, and as to whether said bill, as drawn and presented, is so constructed and worded as to carry out the purpose intended, and shall advise as to the constitutionality thereof.

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8. Thirty days prior to every session of the legislature, said Report of commissioner shall make and file with the secretary of state tions. a report of his transactions relating to legislative matters, or which would give any information or knowledge to said legislature as to legislation in the past, and as to the policy for future legislation. And he shall also report to said legislature such Suggessuggestions as he may deem proper for the promotion of the tions. public welfare and the best interests of the state, or any locality or citizens thereof, and file therewith schedules or exhibits, showing the form or substance of all proposed legislation which he may recommend. And he shall suggest all such improvements as shall conduce to precision and clearness in the wording of the codes and statutes, and propose such measures as may be necessary to improve or give unity and completeness to the system of the laws of this state. Said Duty of reports, schedules, and exhibits shall be printed by the state printer. printer, upon the requisition and under the supervision of the commissioner. They shall be so printed as to show, in the readiest manner, the changes proposed by the commissioner, and in those cases wherein he shall recommend the repeal of a law, and propose a substitute therefor, such law and substitute shall be printed in the manner most convenient for comparison; and his report, when so printed, shall be mailed to every member who has been elected to sit in such legislature.

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9. Said commissioner shall, at all such times as he may Hearings designate by rules and regulations which he may adopt, hear against in public such printed or oral arguments as may be addressed proposed legislation. to him, for or against any proposed or existing legislation, and a record of all proceedings shall be kept and preserved by the secretary of said commission.

SEC. 7. Section 7, of said act, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Salary.

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Expenses.

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Section 7. Said commissioner shall receive for his services, from the state, the sum of thirty-six hundred dollars per annum; such compensation shall be paid in the same manner as the salaries of the justices of the supreme court are now paid.

2. The stenographer of the commission shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) per month, payable in like manner as the salary is paid to the commissioner,

3. The expenses incurred by said commission, or commissioner, exclusive of salaries, shall be set forth in detail in an itemized statement, and thereupon a requisition shall be made by said commissioner upon the state eontroller, accompanied by the sworn certificate of the commissioner that the services have been performed and the materials used or things furnished, and that said sums are justly due.

4. Said state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the payment of said salaries, when due and payable, as herein provided, and also for such sums as are covered by said requisitions, and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same out of any money not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 8. Section 8, of said act, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the fifteenth day of April, 1903; provided, however, that the commissioners appointed under the act of March 28th, sion of 1895 1895, of which this act is amendatory, shall hold office and perform the duties prescribed by said act, to and including the 30th day of April, 1903, and receive the compensation prescribed by said act, of which this act is amendatory.

Tenure of commission.

State boazi of charities and corrections.

SEC. 9. The commission hereby created shall cease to exist and this act shall become inoperative on and after the 1st day of May, 1905.

SEC. 10. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER CCCLXIII.

An act to create a state board of charities and corrections, prescribing its duties and powers, and appropriating money therefor.

[Approved March 25, 1903.]

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

SECTION 1. A state board of charities and corrections is hereby created of six members, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, not more than three of whom shall be of the same political party. Such members shall hold office for the period of twelve years and until their successors are appointed and qualified; provided,

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that the members of the first board appointed under this act shall, at their first meeting, so classify themselves by lot that two of them shall go out of office at the end of four years, two at the end of eight years, and two at the end of twelve years, and an entry of such classification shall be made in the minutes of said board, and a duplicate thereof shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. Women may be appointed Women members of said board, or hold any position in the appoint- appointed. ment of said board. No person shall be appointed a member, or continue to act as such, while he is a trustee, manager, director, or other administrative officer of an institution subject to the terms of this act. Appointments to fill vacancies before Vacancies. the expiration of such terms, shall be made for the residue of terms in the same manner as original appointments. The governor shall be ex officio a member of said board.

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SEC. 2. The members shall act without compensation, but secretary; shall be allowed their actual necessary expenses. The said salary. board may appoint a secretary, who shall receive such salary as may be determined by said board, not to exceed twenty-four hundred ($2,400) dollars per annum. All the expenses of said Expenses board, including the salary of the secretary, shall not exceed the sum of six thousand ($6,000) dollars in any one fiscal year, and said sum of six thousand ($6,000) dollars is hereby appropriated annually therefor out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. The secretary of said board shall Bond of execute a bond in the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, and take the oath of office prescribed by the Political Code for the executive officers of this state. The board shall provide office. itself with an office in the city and county of San Francisco. Meetings of the board may be held at such times and in such Meetings. places in the State of California as said board may deem fit. It may make such rules and orders for the regulation of its Rules. own proceedings as it may deem necessary, and may fix the number of members necessary to constitute a quorum. The failure of a member to attend three consecutive meetings of said board during any calendar year, unless excused by formal vote of the board, may be construed by the governor as a resignation of said non-attending member.

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SEC. 3. The board is hereby empowered and authorized, and it General shall be its duty as a whole, or by committee, or by its secretary, duties of to investigate, examine, and make reports upon the charitable, board. correctional, and penal institutions of the state, including the state hospitals for the insane, of the counties, cities and counties, cities and towns of the state, and such public officers as are in any way responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief or maintenance of the poor in public institutions or of any of the inmates of said institutions. All the persons Public inor officers in charge of or connected with such public institu- stitutions tions or with the administration of said funds are hereby required informato furnish to the board or its committee or secretary such information and statistics as they may request or require, and allow said board, committee or secretary free access to all departments of such institutions and to all of their records. In order to

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secure accuracy, uniformity and completeness in such statistics. and information, the board may prescribe such forms of report and records by the state commission in lunacy regarding the state hospitals for the insane and by such other officers, boards or institutions as it may deem necessary and also such forms of registration at all public institutions referred to in this section as it may require. The state commission in lunacy on behalf of the institutions under its charge and the officers of all other institutions, and all officers, in any way responsible for public funds used for the relief of the poor or the maintenance of any inmates of said public institutions, are hereby required to follow such forms, records and registration so prescribed; provided, that the intent of this law is that so far as possible, the board shall make use of the forms of report, record and registration now obtaining in the state commission of lunacy and other state boards and institutions. All plans of new buildings, or parts of buildings for any of the public institutions coming under the provisions of this act, or any additions or alterations in such buildings, shall, before their adoption by the proper officials, be submitted to the board for suggestions and criticism.

SEC. 4. The board shall have power to issue compulsory witnesses. process to compel the attendance of any witness before said board or any member thereof, and to require the production of such books or papers relating to any public institution mentioned in section three of this act as they may deem necessary; provided, that no witness shall be required to attend before said board out of the county in which he resides. Any member of said board shall have power, and he is hereby authorized to administer an oath to any and all witnesses coming before said board, or any member thereof, for examination, and to examine such witness or witnesses in reference to any matter relating to public institutions mentioned in section three of this act appertaining to the inquiry before the board, or said member. Disobedience of a subpoena issued by said board, or refusal to be sworn, or to answer, shall subject such person disobeying or refusing to a forfeiture of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction by said board in its name as plaintiff, the money recovered to be appropriated to the use of said board.

Disobedience of subpœna.

Plenary investigation by gover

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Biennial reports.

SEC. 5. No provision in this act contained shall in any way be construed as preventing the governor of this state from making a plenary investigation in reference to the conduct of any public institutions under the terms of any act of the legislature of this state. Furthermore, the governor may at any time order an investigation by the board, or by a committee of its members, of the management of the above-named institutions, or any thereof.

SEC. 6. Three months prior to each regular session of the legislature, the board shall make a full and complete report to the governor of all its transactions during the preceding two years, showing fully and in detail all expenses incurred and moneys paid out by it, and giving a list of all officers and agents

employed, and the actual condition of all institutions under its supervision, with such suggestions as it may deem necessary and pertinent, and with recommendations for legislative and executive action.

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SEC. 7. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the InstituVeterans' Home of California, located at Yountville, Napa cepted. county, nor to the Woman's Relief Corps Home at Evergreen, Santa Clara county.

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

SEC. 9. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER CCCLXIV.

An act to repeal Chapter I of Title V of Part III of the Political Code, and to substitute therefor a new Chapter I, to define the powers and duties of the state commission in lunacy, to provide for the government and management of state hospitals for the insane and other incompetent persons, and to provide for the care, custody, apprehension, commitment and maintenance of insane and other incompetent persons.

[Approved March 26, 1903.]

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

SECTION 1. Chapter first of title fifth of part third of the Chapter Political Code is hereby repealed and there is hereby substi- repealed. tuted to take the place thereof in such code a new chapter first to read as follows:

CHAPTER I.

STATE

COMMISSION IN LUNACY, STATE HOSPITALS, AND CARE, CUSTODY, APPREHENSION, COMMITMENT OF INSANE AND OTHER INCOMPETENT PERSONS.

SEC. 2136. Commission in lunacy-of whom consists.

2137. The superintendent, his appointment, qualification, and salary. 2138. Office and meetings of the commission.

2139. The seal of the commission.

2140. Expenses and salary of commission.

2141. Powers of commission.

2142. Duties of commission.

2142a. Special investigations by commission.

2143. Visits, examinations, and reports.

2144. Information to be furnished to the commission.

2145. State hospitals.

2146. The property of the hospitals.

2147. Managers of the state hospitals, and their appointment.

2148. Managers, eligibility of, and causes of forfeiture of office.

2149. Managers' compensation.

2150. Powers and duties of the managers.

2151. Limitation upon the powers of managers.

2152.

Appointments by the managers.

2153. The medical superintendent and his duties.

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