Board of Silk appointed by Qualifications. CHAPTER CLXV. An Act to establish a State Board of Silk Culture, and to provide moneys for the expenses thereof. [Approved March 18, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There shall be established a State Board of Culture to be Silk Culture, consisting of seven persons appointed by the Governor. Governor from the State at large, three of whom shall be members of the Ladies' Silk Culture Society of California. SEC. 2. A majority of the members so appointed shall be specially qualified by practical experience and study of the silk industry. Each member shall hold office for the term of four years except those first appointed, three of whom, to be determined by lot, shall retire at the end of two years, when their successors shall be appointed by the Governor. Term. To appoint Bond of Board to receive donations. SEC. 3. The Board may appoint and prescribe the duties of a Secretary, and elect one of their own number Treasurer, both to hold office at the pleasure of the Board. The Treasurer shall give a bond to the State, approved by the Board, in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his or her duties. SEC. 4. The Board may receive, manage, and use donations or bequests for promoting silk culture in this State. To establish They shall establish a filature or silk reeling school in San a filature. Duties of Board to report biennially. Pages and copies of report limited. Treasurer. Francisco, wherein free instruction shall be given in silk reeling. The Board shall use the moneys appropriated by the State to advance the interest of silk culture in this State as they deem best and proper. SEC. 5. The Secretary, in addition to performing such official duties as the Board may direct, shall collect statistics and other information showing the condition and progress of sericulture throughout the State; correspond with various societies and individuals, both at home and abroad, who are engaged in the promotion of silk culture, and shall prepare a full report thereof to be made to the Board annually for their publication. SEC. 6. The Board shall, biennally, in the month of December, have their biennial report printed, and submit the same to the Legislature upon its convening. The detailed report so made shall, under the direction of the Controller, be printed in pamphlet form, not to exceed fifty printed pages, and not to exceed three thousand copies thereof, to be distributed as the Board may direct. All printing required to be done by the Board for their official use shall be done by the State Printer. SEC. 7. The Treasurer shall hold all moneys of the Board and pay out the same only on orders approved by the Board, and shall account therefor in his or her annual report. SEC. 8. No remuneration or salaries shall be paid to any sation for member of the Board, its officers, or Superintendent, for ser- No compenvices rendered; nor shall any moneys be used in the pur-s chase of trees, cuttings, eggs, cocoons, or anything pertaining Free distrito silk culture, for the purpose of a free distribution of the ton same, in excess of five hundred dollars per year. bution restricted. SEC. 9. There is hereby appropriated for the use of the AppropriaState Board of Silk Culture, as set forth in this Act, out of tion. any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars for the year commencing the first of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and five thousand dollars for the year commencing the first of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and the State Controller shall draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer in favor of the Treasurer of the Board, as such officer, for the said sums, or any parts thereof, when they become available, upon the proper demand of said Board. be turned over. SEC. 10. Upon the organization of the Board of Silk Property to Culture, provided for in this Act, the present State Board of Silk Culture shall turn over to the Board herein provided for all books, papers, and property in its possession belong- Debts of ing to the State, and the Board hereby created shall pay the Board. just debts of the present Board of Silk Culture. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. former CHAPTER CLXVI. An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. [Approved March 21, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. All property of this State pertaining to said Trustees of Mining Bureau, and the money and financial affairs thereof, State Minshall be vested in and be under the direction and control of a Board of Trustees of said Bureau. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Governor of the State to appoint five (5) citizens and residents of this State to be such Trustees. ing Bureau. SEC. 3. The appointees herein mentioned, when assembled, shall constitute the Board of Trustees of the State Mining Bureau, three of whom shall constitute a quorum. The Board shall have power, by said name, to sue and defend. They shall keep a record of all their proceedings, and they shall elect one of those so appointed to be President of the Board, and shall have the right to appoint a custodian of the museum and other employés. The State Mineralogist shall be the State Minerdirector of the museum, and shall have the right to appoint Director. a custodian of the museum, and other employés, subject to alogist a Trustees to report. To pay moneys. To receive legacies. the approval of the Board of Trustees, and it shall be his duty to consult the Board in all matters of importance. SEC. 4. Said Board shall make rules for its own government, for regulating the custody and disbursement of funds, and the mode of drawing the same from the State Treasury. SEC. 5. The Board of Trustees shall, annually, report to the Governor of the State the condition of the Bureau, with a statement of the receipts and expenditures in detail, which report shall be published in the annual report of the State Mineralogist, provided for in the Act to which this is supplementary. SEC. 6. The Trustees are hereby empowered to pay out of any moneys coming into their hands, the amount advanced by Wells, Fargo and Company, shown in the financial statement of the State Mineralogist, and published in his reports. SEC. 7. The Board of Trustees shall be empowered to receive, on behalf of the State, bequests or gifts, legacies and devices, real estate and other property, and to use the same in accordance with the wishes of the donors; and if no instructions are given, to use their discretion for the best interests of the State Museum. SEC. 8. The Board of Trustees may, with the assistance of the State Mineralogist, prepare a special collection of ores and minerals of California, to be sent to any World's Fair, or Exposition, at which they may deem it desirable to display the mineral wealth of the State. SEC. 9. All Acts or laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect immediately. Salaries of CHAPTER CLXVII. An Act to amend section two hundred and seventy-four of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Civil Procedure," relative to the compensation of Court Reporters. [Approved March 21, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two hundred and seventy-four of the 274. The official reporter shall receive as compensation for his services a monthly salary, to be fixed by the Judge by an order duly entered on the minutes of the Court, which salary shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in the same manner and at the same time as the salaries of county officers; provided, that said monthly salary for each Superior Court, or department thereof, shall not exceed the following maximum: In counties having a population of one hundred thousand and over, three hundred dollars; in counties having a population less than one hundred thousand and ex written ceeding fifty thousand, two hundred and seventy-five dollars; in counties having a population less than fifty thousand and exceeding thirty thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars; in counties having a population less than thirty thousand and exceeding twenty thousand, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; in counties having a population less than twenty thousand and exceeding fifteen thousand, two hundred dollars; in counties having a population less than fifteen thousand and exceeding twelve thousand five hundred, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; in counties having a population less than twelve thousand five hundred and exceeding ten thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars; in counties having a population less than ten thousand and exceeding seven thousand five hundred, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; in counties having a population less than seven thousand five hundred and exceeding five thousand, one hundred dollars; and in counties having a population less than five thousand, seventy-five dollars; and, further provided, that where both parties to a civil action, or either, Extra require the testimony therein to be written out in full as the expense for trial progresses, the official reporter shall be allowed the extra testimony. expense occasioned, to be audited by the Judge, and paid by the party or parties ordering the same; provided further, that in departments of Superior Courts devoted exclusively to the trial of criminal cases, the Judge of the Court shall, in addition, fix and allow a reasonable compensation for the transcription of testimony, to be paid out of the county, or city and county, treasury, upon the order of the Judge. In civil Per diem. cases in which the testimony is taken down by the official reporter, each party shall pay a per diem of two dollars and fifty cents before judgment or verdict therein is entered; and where the testimony is transcribed, the party or parties ordering it shall pay ten cents per folio for such transcription on delivery thereof; said per diem and transcription fees to be paid to the Clerk of the Court, and by him paid into the treasury of the county, and such portion as shall be paid by the prevailing party may be taxed as costs in the case. Where there is no regular official reporter, and one is ap- Reporter pro pointed temporarily by the Court, he shall receive for his tem., Court services and expenses of attendance, in lieu of the salary for compenprovided in this section, such compensation as the Court sation. may deem reasonable; to be paid, if a civil case, by both parties, or either of them, as the Judge shall direct; and, if a criminal case, to be paid out of the treasury of the county on the order of the Court. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage. to provide What waters are navigable. CHAPTER CLXVIII. An Act to amend section two thousand three hundred and fortynine of an Act entitled an Act to establish a Political Code, approved March 12, 1872, relating to public ways and navigable streams. [Approved March 21, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two thousand three hundred and fortynine of the Political Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 2349. The following streams and waters are declared public ways: So much of a slough as lies between Simon's Canal, in the Town of Alviso, and the Bay of San Francisco; Petaluma River, from its mouth to a distance one third of one mile above Washington Street, in the City of Petaluma; the Sonoma River, between its mouth and a point opposite Fowler's Hotel, in the Town of San Luis; the Napa River, between its mouth and the toll bridge; the Suisun River, between its mouth and the Town of Suisun embarcadero; the Sacramento River, between its mouth and the mouth of Middle Creek; Feather River, between its mouth and a point fifty feet below the bridge crossing Feather River first above the mouth of the Yuba River; the Yuba River, between its mouth and a point at the mouth of the slough at the foot of "F" Street, in the City of Marysville; the San Joaquin River, between its mouth and Sycamore Point; the Stockton Slough, between its mouth and the west line of El Dorado Street, in Stockton; the Mokelumne River, between its mouth and the first falls; the Tuolumne River, between its mouth and Dickinson's Ferry; Deer Creek, between the house of Peter Lassen and its mouth; Big River, three miles from its mouth; Noyo River, three miles from its mouth; Albion River, three miles from its mouth; San Antonio Creek, in the County of Alameda, from its mouth to the old embarcadero of San Antonio; the Arroyo del Medo, in the County of Santa Clara, from its mouth to the upper line of the Town of New Haven; Mission Creek, in the County of San Francisco; that portion of Channel Street, in the City of San Francisco, and lying east of and between the easterly line of Harrison Street and the waterfront of the Bay of San Francisco, the width thereof to be sixty feet from Harrison to the northeasterly line of Seventh Street, and one hundred and forty feet from the northeasterly line of Seventh Street to the city front; that certain creek running through tide land survey, numbered sixty-eight, and swamp and overflowed land survey, numbered one hundred and forty-five, from its mouth to the head of tide-water therein; San Leandro Creek, from its mouth at San Francisco Bay to Andrews' Landing; San Lorenzo Creek, from its mouth at San Francisco Bay to Roberts' Landing; Johnson's Creek, from its mouth at San Francisco Bay to Simpson's Landing; |