transportation], and he shall be entitled, if he so elect, to immunity from having his hair cut, or from being shaved, for three calendar months immediately prior to his discharge. It shall not be lawful for the officers of the prison to furnish, or permit to be furnished, to any one, for publication, the name of any prisoner about to be discharged. * [Pen. Code.] Rewards to convict for meritorious service. SEC. 1590. * * * The board shall have power to give for meritorious service to any convict discharged or about to be discharged, a sum in addition to that already allowed, not exceeding ten dollars. [Pen. Code.] Directors to report to governor names of exemplary prisoners. SEC. 1596. The board of directors must report to the governor from time to time the names of any and all persons confined in the state prisons who, in their judgment, ought to be pardoned out and set at liberty on account of good conduct, or unusual term of sentence, or any other cause, which, in their opinion. should entitle the prisoner to pardon. [Pen. Code. ] Warden required to furnish information and photographs, see page 137. Haircutting. SEC. 1615. Whenever the board of health of any city or county, or the board of supervisors of any county, or the county physician of any county of this state, presents, or causes to be presented to the sheriff, or other officer having charge of any county jail or prison in any county or city, in this state, a certificate or order, in writing to the effect that it is by them or him considered necessary for the purpose of protecting the public health, or to prevent the introduction or spreading of disease or to protect or improve the health of criminals under sentence, that the hair of any criminal or criminals be cut, such sheriff or other officer must cut, or cause to be cut, the hair of any such person or persons in his charge convicted of a misdemeaenor and sentenced to a longer term of imprisonment than fifteen days, to a uniform length of one and one half inches from the scalp of such person or persons so imprisoned. [Pen. Code.] Prison directors to assist discharged prisoners. SECTION 1. The state board of prison directors shall have the power and authority to provide for assisting discharged prisoners to secure employment and for that purpose they may employ one or more persons, may purchase tools or give any other assistance that in their judgment they may deem proper for the purpose of carrying out the objects and the spirit of this act. SEC. 2. Upon this act becoming effective, the state board of prison directors may draw upon the moneys herein appropriated in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) without submitting vouchers therefor, which amount shall, from time to time, be replenished by demands upon said appropriation equal to the amount of expenditures represented by vouchers submitted to the state board of examiners and filed with the controller. SEC. 3. The sum of $8000.00 is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of this act, and the state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant therefor, payable to the state board of prison directors in such amount as may be required from time to time and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately after passage [Stats. 1909, chap. 563.] Duties of wardens. SEC. 1578. * * Third--To supervise the government, discipline, and police of the prisons, and to enforce all orders and regulations of the board in respect to such prisons. A registry of convicts shail be kept by them respectively, in which shall be entered the name of each convict, the crime of which he is convicted, the period of his sentence, from what county sentenced, by what court sentenced, his nativity, to what degree educated, at what institution and under what system, an accurate description of his person, and whether he has been previously confined in a state prison in this or any other state, and if so, when and how he was discharged. Fourth-To report to the governor before the twentieth of each month the names of all prisoners whose terms are about to expire, giving in such report the terms of their sentences, the date of imprisonment, the amount of total credits to the date of such report, and the date when their service would expire by limitation of sentence. Fifth-To grade and classify the prisoners in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board of directors, now existing or which may hereafter be made, and to provide for clothing them in such manner that the different grades or classes may be readily distinguished. * [Pen. Code.] * * The trade and record of convicts to be ascertained. SEC. 1192a. Before judgment is pronounced upon any person convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, it shall be the duty of the court, assisted by the district attorney, to ascertain, in a summary manner, and by such evidence as is obtainable, whether such person has learned and practiced any mechanical or other trade, and also such other facts tending to indicate the causes of the criminal character or conduct of such convicted person, or calculated to be of assistance to the court in determining the proper punishment of such person, or to the state board of prison directors in the performance of the duties imposed upon it by law, as the court shall deem proper. Within thirty days after judgment has been pronounced, the judge and the district attorney respectively shall cause to be filed with the clerk of the court a brief statement of their views respecting the person convicted or sentenced and the crime committed. Within twenty days after the filing of such statement, the clerk of the court shall mail a copy thereof, certified by such clerk, with the postage thereon prepaid, addressed to the clerk of the prison to which such convicted person shall have been sentenced. The testimony pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be reported and transcribed by the clerk or official reporter. Within thirty days after judgment has been pronounced by the court, one copy of such transcript shall be filed with the clerk of the court, and another copy thereof shall be sent by mail, with postage prepaid, addressed to the warden of the prison to which such convicted person shall have been sentenced. [Pen. Code.] Photographs of convicts to be sent to sheriffs. SECTION 1. The wardens of the state prisons of the State of California shall within thirty days after receiving persons convicted of crime and sentenced to serve terms in the respective prisons, send to the sheriffs of the State of California, to the legalized bureau of identification and to the chiefs of police of all regularly constituted police departments of incorporated cities and towns within said state, photographs, together with minute descriptions including marks of identification of all such persons, and also a statement of the nature of the crime for which said persons are imprisoned. [Stats. 1909, chap. 260.] SEC. 2. Any expenditure incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid for out of the appropriation made for the support of the state's prison. [Stats. 1905, p. 532.] ap 26, 1909 Asexualization of inmates of the state hospitals, home for feeble- SECTION 1. Whenever in the opinion of the medical superintendent of any state hospital, or the superintendent of the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children, or of the resident physician in any state prison, it would be beneficial and conducive to the benefit of the physical, mental, or moral condition of any inmate of said state hospital, home, or state prison, to be asexualized, then such superintendent or resident physician shall call in consultation the general superintendent of state hospitals and the secretary of the state board of health, and they shall jointly examine into all the particulars of the case with the said superintendent or resident physician, and if in their opinion, or in the opinion of any two of them, asexualization will be beneficial to such inmate, patient or convict, they may perform the same; provided, that in the case of an inmate or convict confined in any of the state prisons of this state, such operation shall not be performed unless the said inmate or convict has been committed to a state prison in this or in some other state or country at least two times for some sexual offense, or at least three times for any other crime, and shall have given evidence while an inmate in a state prison in this state that he is a moral and sexual pervert; and provided further, that in the case of convicts sentenced to state prison for life who exhibit continued evidence of moral and sexual depravity, the right to asexualize them, as provided in this act, shall apply, whether they have been inmates of a state prison either in this or any other state or country more than one time. [Stats. 1909, chap. 720.] Bodies required to be buried at public expense. SEC. 3094. Any sheriff, coroner, keeper of a county poorhouse, public hospital, county jail or state prison, or the mayor or board of supervisors of the city of San Francisco, must surrender the dead bodies of such persons as are required to be buried at the public expense to any physician or surgeon, to be by him used for the advancement of anatomical science, preference being always given to medical schools by law established in this state, for their use in the instruction of medical students. But if such deceased person during his last sickness requested to be buried, or if within twenty-four hours after his death some person claiming to be of kindred or a friend of the deceased requires the body to be buried, or if such deceased person was a I stranger or traveler who suddenly died before making himself known, such dead body must be buried without dissection. [Pol. Code.] Presents, exchange thereof, by state employees and convicts, forbidden. SEC. 1592. No officer or employee of the state, or contractor, or employee of a contractor, shall, without permission of the board of directors, make any gift or present to a convict, or receive any from a convict, or have any barter or dealings with a prisoner. For every violation of the provisions of this section, the party engaged therein shall incur the same penalty as prescribed in section fifteen hundred and ninety-one of this code. [Pen. Code.] * * * Insane convicts. * SEC. 1587. Fifth-* other officers as may be designated by the directors to act with him in such cases, shall be of opinion that any convict is insane. they shall make proper examination, and if they remain of the opinion that such person is insane, the warden shall certify the fact to the superintendent of one of the state asylums for the insane, and shall forthwith send such convict to said asylum for care and treatment. If at the expiration of the term of sentence the insane convict is still in the insane asylum, he shall be allowed to remain there until discharged cured. It shall be the duty of the warden, also, to send to the directors a copy of such certificate, and thereafter a statement as to his subsequent acts regarding the said insane convict, And it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the insane asylum to receive such insane convict and keep him until cured. It shall be his duty, upon receipt of such insane convict, to notify the directors of the fact, giving name, date, and where from, and from whose hands received. When, in the opinion of the superintendent, such insane convict is cured of insanity, it shall be his duty to immediately notify the directors thereof; and it shall be his duty also to notify the warden of the prison from whence he was received, who shall immediately send for, take, and receive the said convict back into the prison, the time passed at the asylum counting as a part of such convict's sentence. Before discharging any convict who may be insane at the time of the expiration of his sentence, the warden shall first give notice in writing, to a judge of a * When the warden, and such |