STANFORD LIBRARIES making of such entry or defense but such action may be commenced or entry or defense made, within the period of five years after such disability shall cease, or after the death of the person entitled, who shall die under such disability; but such action shall not be commenced, or entry or defense made, after that period. [Code Civil Procedure.] Time not to run. SEC. 352. If a person entitled to bring an action, mentioned in chapter three of this title, be, at the time the cause of action accrued, either: 1. Within the age of majority; or, 2. Insane; or, 3. Imprisoned on a criminal charge, or in execution under the sentence of a criminal court for a term less than for life; or 4. A married woman, and her husband be a necessary party with her in commencing such action: The time of such disability is not a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action. [Code Civil Procedure.] Persons not entitled to vote. SEC. 1084. No native of China, no idiot, insane person, or person convicted of any infamous crime, and no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, shall ever exercise the privilege of an elector. [Pol. Code.] Conveyances by prisoners. (Stats. 1862, p. 496.) Disbarment of convicts. SEC. 287. An attorney and counsellor may be removed or suspended by the supreme court, or any department thereof, or by any superior court of the state for either of the following causes, arising after his admission to practice: 1. His conviction of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral * N 34 PRISON LAWS OF CALIFORNIA. 111 placed in prison. E. MINORS. 36. No child under the age of sixteen years must be any prison, or place of confinement, or in any courtn any vehicle for transportation to any place, in comadults charged with or convicted of crime, except in ce of a proper official. [Pen. Code.] hool of Industry at lone. apr. 16, 1909 There shall be established in said school a system and grading upon merit or attainments in school and eneral conduct, by which the boy committed under this work out his way to parole and honorable discharge. he opinion of the superintendent a boy, by the regulalished for that purpose, has earned the right to a shall cause to be obtained a reputable home or place ent where said boy may be employed and earn a onorable labor, and then shall recommend said boy to or parole, and if the board is satisfied that it is for of such boy to be paroled, it shall grant such parole condition as it may deem best, which shall be consuch boy has proved his ability for honorable selfen he shall, upon the recommendation of the superinhonorably discharged. Any boy who, while on parole, conditions of the parole may be returned to said mitment to industrial school for crime not punishor is school a prison for some purposes: 118 S. W. Any boy committed to said school who, after due ad to be, in the opinion of the superintendent, ineformation or so morally deficient or incorrigible as retention detrimental to the interests of said school, is ascertained by good and sufficient evidence that misrepresented his age to the court who sentenced been previously convicted of a felony, he may uch boy to the board for return to the said court, pard is satisfied that it is for the best interests of at such boy be returned, it shall so cause him to to the said court, and it shall be lawful for said 8.964 court to annul and set aside the previous commitment to said Preston School of Industry and resume proceedings where the same were suspended when such commitment was made. SEC. 20. Any boy under the age of eighteen years, who is undergoing sentence in any state prison in this state (except such as are undergoing a life sentence), and who shall be deemed a fit subject for training in the said school, may, upon the recommendation of the state board of prison directors, with the approval of the governor, be transferred to said school for the unexpired period of his sentence, and when honorably discharged from said school, as hereinbefore provided, shall be entitled to such benefits and immunities as are provided for the other inmates of the institution. [Stats. 1889, p. 100; as amended April 16, 1909, chap. 626.] School for the reformation of juvenile delinquents to be known as the Whittier State School. APRIL 19, 1909 1988 p.a SEC. 15. Whenever said institution shall have been so far completed as to properly admit of the reception of inmates therein, the governor shall make due proclamation of the fact, and thereafter it shall be lawful for said board of trustees to receive into its care and guardianship, boys between the ages of eight and nineteen years, and girls between the ages of eight and eighteen years, committed to its custody, as hereinafter provided. Juveniles committed because of conviction. SEC. 16. When any boy between the ages of eight and nineteen years, or any girl between the ages of eight and eighteen years, shall be found guilty of any offense punishable by fine or imprisonment, or by both, in any court of competent jurisdiction in the state, and who, in the opinion of the judge thereof. would be a fit subject for training in said school, it shall be lawful for such judge to suspend judgment or sentence, except when the penalty is life imprisonment or death, and commit such boy or girl to the custody and guardianship of said school until he or she shall become twenty-one years of age. Juveniles committed on complaint. SEC. 16c. Any judge of any superior court of this state may commit any boy between the ages of eight and nineteen years, or girl between the ages of eight and eighteen years to the 113 PRISON LAWS OF CALIFORNIA. nd guardianship of the said school on the conditions e manner following: he complaint in writing filed and due proof thereof the parent or guardian of said boy or girl, showing ason of the incorrigible or vicious conduct of such boy or she is beyond the control and power of such parent n. omplaint in writing filed and due proof thereof made, hat such boy or girl is a proper subject for the care Hanship of said school, by reason of vagrancy or inor vicious conduct; or in cases where, from moral or otherwise, the parent or guardian having control y or girl is incapable of exercising, or unwilling to he proper care or discipline over such boy or girl, and where such boy or girl has no parent, guardian or ector. omplaint in writing filed and due proof thereof made ther, or guardian when the father is dead, or has his family, or is an habitual drunkard, or does not s family, and it appears that such boy or girl is deshome and adequate means of obtaining an honest is in danger of being brought up to lead an idle or e. hearing. In all cases where complaint is made by another arent or guardian having the custody of said boy or tion shall issue requiring the person having custody. of said boy or girl, or with whom the said boy or girl appear with him or her at a place and time stated cion. Service of such citation must be made at least • hours before the time stated therein. The parents 1 of the boy or girl, if residing in the county in which its, and if their places of residence be known to the or if there be neither parent or guardian so residing, places of residence be not known to petitioner, then ve of the boy or girl, if there be any residing in said 1 if his residence and relationship to such boy or girl to petitioner, shall be notified of the proceedings by citation requiring them to appear at the time and stated in such citation. In any case the judge may ne suitable person to act in behalf of the boy or girl, and may order such further notice of the proceeding to be given as he may deem proper. If any person, cited as herein provided, shall fail, without reasonable cause, to appear and abide by the order of the court, or to bring the boy or girl, if so required in the citation, such failure shall constitute a contempt of said court and may be punished as provided for in cases of contempt of court. In case any such citation can not be served, or the party served fails to observe the same, and in any case in which it shall be made to appear to the court that such citation shall be ineffectual, a warrant of arrest may issue on the order of the court, either against the parent or guardian, or the person having the custody of the boy or girl, or with whom he or she may be, or against the boy or girl, or any of said persons; or if there be no person to be served with citation as above provided, a warrant of arrest may be issued against the boy or girl immediately. On the return of the citation or other process, or as soon thereafter as may be, the court shall proceed to hear and dispose of the case in a summary manner. Until the final disposition of any case, the boy or girl may be retained in the possession of the person having charge of the same, or may be kept, upon the order of the court, in some suitable place, provided by the county, or city and county, or may be held otherwise, as the court may direct. In all cases of commitment to said school the same shall be until said boy or girl is twenty-one years of age, and it shall be the duty of the court committing such boy or girl to such school to certify to the superintendent thereof, the date of birth or age of such boy or girl so committed, as nearly as the same can be ascertained by testimony taken under oath either before the court or in such manner as he may direct. Honorable dismissals. SEC. 18. It shall be lawful for the board whenever it may deem any inmate of said institution to have been so far reformed as to justify his discharge, to give him an honorable dismissal and to cause an entry of the reasons for such dismissal to be made in the book of records prepared for that purpose. All persons thus honorably dismissed and all those who have attained the age of twenty-one years shall thereafter be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offenses or crimes for which they were committed. Upon the final discharge of any inmate as in this section provided, the superintendent shall |