without cost to themselves, attend the lectures of any university established; and also the terms and conditions upon which the museums, and art galleries, and conservatories of music, connected with any such institution, shall be open to all deserving persons without charge, and without their becoming students of the institution. sue and be SEC. 4. The Trustee or Trustees named in such grant, and Trustees may their successors, may, in the name of the institution or insti- sued. tutions, as designated in such grant, sue and defend, in relation to the trust property, and in relation to all matters affecting the institution or institutions endowed and established by such grant. Trustee. SEC. 5. The person making such grant, by a provision Grantor may therein, may elect, in relation to the property conveyed, and hole in relation to the erection, maintenance, and management of such institution or institutions, to perform, during his life, all the duties, and exercise all the powers which, by the terms of the grant, are enjoined upon and vested in the Trustee or Trustees therein named. If the person making Wife may be such grant, and making the election aforesaid, be a married Trustee. person, such person may further provide that if the wife of such person survive him, then such wife, during her life, may, in relation to the property conveyed, and in relation to the erection, maintenance, and management of such institution or institutions, perform all the duties and exercise all the powers which, by the terms of the grant, are enjoined upon and vested in the Trustee or Trustees therein named, and in all such cases the powers and duties conferred and imposed by such grant upon the Trustee or Trustees therein named, shall be exercised and performed by the person making such grant, or by his wife during his or her life, as the case may be; provided, however, that upon the death of such person, or his surviving wife, as the case may be, such powers and duties shall devolve upon and shall be exercised by the Trustees named in the grant, and their successors. grant. SEC. 6. The person making such grant may therein reserve Grantor may the right to alter, amend, or modify the terms and conditions alter the thereof, and the trusts therein created, in respect to any of the matters mentioned or referred to in subdivisions one to six, inclusive, of section two hereof; and may also therein reserve the right, during the life of such person or persons, of absolute dominion over the personal property conveyed, and also over the rents, issues, and profits of the real property conveyed, without liability to account therefor in any manner whatever, and without any liability over against the estate of such person; and if any such person be married, such person may, in said grant, further provide that if his wife survive him, then such wife, during her life, may have the same absolute dominion over such personal property, and such rents, issues, and profits, without liability to account therefor in any manner whatever, and without liability over against the estate of either of the spouses. SEC. 7. The person making such grant may therein pro- Trustees may vide that the Trustees named in the grant, and their suc- be guardians cessors, may, in the name of the institution or institutions, of minors. Grant to be acknowledged. Actions affecting title to property within two years. become the custodian of the person of minors, and when any such provision is made in a grant, the Trustees and their successors may take such custody and control in the manner and for the time and in accordance with the provisions of sections two hundred and sixty-four to two hundred and seventy-six, inclusive, of the Civil Code of the State of California. SEC. 8. Any such grant may be executed, acknowledged, and recorded in the same manner as is now provided by law for the execution, acknowledgment, and recording of grants of real property. SEC. 9. No suit, action, or proceeding shall be commenced or maintained by any person to set aside, annul, or affect said to be begun conveyance, or to affect the title to the property conveyed, or the right to the possession, or to the rents, issues, and profits thereof, unless the same be commenced within two years after the date of filing such grant for record; nor shall any defense be made to any suit, action, or proceedings commenced by the Trustee or Trustees named in said grant, or their successors, privies, or persons holding under them, which defense involves the legality of said grant, or affects the title to the property thereby conveyed, or the right to the possession, or the rents, issues, and profits thereof, unless such defense is made in a suit, action, or proceeding commenced within two years after such grant shall have been filed for record. Except as to mechanics' liens, property not subject to execution. Grantor may devise the the State. SEC. 10. The property conveyed by such grant shall not, after a lapse of two years from the date of the filing for record of the grant, be subject to force sale under execution, or judicial proceedings of any kind, against the grantor or his privies, unless the action under which the execution shall be issued, or the proceedings under which the sale shall be ordered, shall have been commenced within two years after such grant shall have been filed for record. Nor shall such property be subject to execution or forced sale under any judgment obtained in any proceedings instituted within said two years, if there be other property of the grantor subject to execution or forced sale sufficient to satisfy such judgment; provided, nothing in this section contained shall be construed to affect mechanics' or laborers' liens. SEC. 11. Any person or persons making any such grant property to may, at any time thereafter, by last will or testament, devise and bequeath to the State of California all or any of the property, real and personal, mentioned in such grant, or in any supplemental grant, and such devise or bequest shall only take effect in case, from any cause whatever, the grant shall be annulled, or set aside, or the trusts therein declared Faith of the shall for any reason fail. Such devise and bequest is hereby permitted to be made by way of assurance that the wishes of the grantor or grantors shall be carried out, and in the faith that the State, in case it succeeds to the property, or any part thereof, will, to the extent and value of such property, carry out, in respect to the objects and purposes of any such grant, all the wishes and intentions of the grantor or grantors; provided, that no wish, direction, act, or condition expressed, made, or given by any grantor or grantors, under or by virtue State pledged, except as to tenets to be religious taught. of this Act, as to religious instruction to be given in such school, college, seminary, mechanical institute, museum, or gallery of art, or in respect to the exercise of religious belief, on the part of any pupil or pupils of such school or institution of learning, shall be binding upon the State; nor shall the State enforce, or permit to be enforced or carried out, any such wish, direction, act, or condition. SEC. 12. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER XLVIII. An Act making an appropriation for the establishment of a permanent fund for the purchase of jute, to be manufactured at the State Prison at San Quentin. [Approved March 9, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and jute at San SECTION 1. The sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby Fund for appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not purchase of otherwise appropriated, to provide and maintain a perma- Quentin. nent revolving fund for the purchase of jute for the State Prison at San Quentin; all moneys taken therefrom to be used exclusively in payment for jute, to be used in manufacturing in said State Prison; and so much of the money, received from the sale of any goods manufactured from said jute, shall be returned to the said revolving fund, so that the fund shall contain forty thousand dollars before any of the proceeds from the sale of said manufactured goods are used for any other purpose than the purchase of jute. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER XLIX. An Act to appropriate money for the purpose of assisting to defray the expenses of a public nature incident to the holding of a National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in this State. [Approved March 9, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Encamp SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys Appropriain the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty- tion National five thousand dollars ($25,000), to be expended, in the discre- ment Grand tion of the Governor, for the purpose of assisting to defray Army of the the expenses of a public nature incident to the holding of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Repub Republic. lic in this State, during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six; provided, that if said encampment shall not be held in this State in said year, said moneys shall be returned to the General Fund unexpended. SEC. 2. The Governor of the State, immediately upon having satisfactory evidence presented to him that such National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held at San Francisco, California, shall demand from the State Controller, and the State Controller is hereby authorized and instructed upon such demand to draw his warrant in favor of the Governor of the State for the sum of twentyfive thousand ($25,000) dollars, to be expended by him as above provided, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. Supervisors of Humboldt County to transfer funds to General Fund. CHAPTER L. An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County to transfer certain funds, and to pay certain claims out of the General Fund. [Approved March 9, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County are hereby authorized and empowered to transfer all moneys in Humboldt County now in that certain fund created under and by virtue of a certain Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled "An Act to annex the territory comprised in the present County of Klamath to the Counties of Humboldt and Siskiyou," approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and all Acts amendatory and supplementary thereto, from said fund into the General Fund, and upon presentation of any claim now existing and payable out of said fund so created, said Board of Supervisors are hereby further authorized and directed to pay said claims out of the General Fund. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER LI. An Act to add a new section to the Political Code, to be known as section three thousand and eighty-four, relating to certification of cause of death and granting burial permits for a deceased person. [Approved March 10, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There shall be added to the Political Code a new section, to be known as section three thousand and eighty-four, as follows: bury dead, certificate of 3084. Whenever, by existing law, or by ordinance of any Permit to incorporated city, or city and county, or by ordinance or not granted resolution of the Board of Supervisors of any county, a per- without mit is required from a Board of Health, Health Officer, or physician or other officer or person, before depositing or burial in any Coroner. cemetery of any human body, such permit shall not be granted without the production and filing with such Board of Health, Health Officer, or other authorized officer or person, a certificate, signed by a physician, or a Coroner, or two reputable citizens, setting forth, as near as possible, the name, age, color, sex, place of birth, occupation, date, locality, and the cause of death of the deceased. And no certificate shall be received, upon which to grant such permit, unless signed by a physician, Coroner, or two reputable citizens, registered as such under his proper signature at the office of such Board of Health, Health Officer, or other authorized officer or per son. CHAPTER LII. An Act to legalize acknowledgments of certificates in writing required by section two of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the formation of Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, Mechanic Institutes, and other kindred protective associations,' approved March 31, 1866, heretofore made or taken, and to legalize all certificates heretofore made, signed, and acknowledged, and filed under section two of said Act. [Approved March 10, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and legalized. SECTION 1. All acknowledgments heretofore made or taken Acknowlto the certificate in writing required by section two of an Act unt entitled "An Act to provide for the formation of Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, Mechanic Institutes, and other kindred protective associations," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, whether proven by a witness |