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sons so doing shall first obtain, from the board of health, health-officer, mayor, or other head of the municipal government of the city, town, or city and county where the same are deposited a permit for said purpose. Nor shall such body or remains disinterred, exhumed, or taken from any grave, vault, or other place of burial or deposit, be removed or transported in or through the streets or highways of any city, town, or city and county, unless the person or persons removing or transporting such body or remains shall first obtain, from the board of health or healthofficer (if such board or officer there be), and from the mayor or other head of the municipal government of the city or town, or city and county, a permit, in writing, so to remove or transport such body or remains in and through such streets and highways.

Sec. 2. Permits to disinter or exhume the bodies or remains of deceased persons, as in the last section, may be granted, provided the person applying therefor shall produce a certificate from the coroner, the physician who attended such deceased person, or other physician in good standing cognizant of the facts, which certificate shall state the cause of death or disease of which the person died, and also the age and sex of such deceased; and provided further, that the body or remains of the deceased shall be inclosed in a metallic case or coffin, sealed in such manner as to prevent, as far as practicable, any noxious or offensive odor or effluvia escaping therefrom, and that such case or coffin contains the body or remains of but one person, except where infant children of the same parent or parents, or parent and children, are contained in such case or coffin. And the permit shall contain the above conditions and the words: "Permit to remove and transport the body of

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," and the name, age and sex shall be written therein. The officer of the municipal government of the city or town, or city and county, granting such permit, shall require to be paid for each permit the sum of ten

dollars, to be kept as a separate fund by the treasurer, and which shall be used in defraying expenses of and in respect to such permits, and for the inspection of the metallic cases, coffins, and inclosing boxes herein required; and an account of such moneys shall be embraced in the accounts and statements of the treasurer having the custody thereof.

Sec. 3. Any person or persons who shall disinter, exhume, or remove, or cause to be disinterred, exhumed, or removed, from a grave, vault, or other receptacle, or burial place, the body or remains of a deceased person, without a permit therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by fine not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Nor shall it be lawful to receive such body, bones, or remains on any vehicle, car, barge, boat, ship, steamship, steamboat, or vessel, for transportation in or from this state, unless the permit to transport the same is first received, and is retained in evidence by the owner, driver, agent, superin tendent, or master of the vehicle, car, or vessel.

Sec. 4. Any person or persons who shall move or transport, or cause to be moved or transported, on or through the streets or highways of any city or town, or city and county, of this state, the body or remains of a deceased person, which shall have been disinterred or exhumed without a permit, as described in section two of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punishable as provided in section three of this act.

Sec. 5. Any person who shall give information to secure the conviction of any person or persons for the violation of the provisions of this act shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be paid from the fund collected from fines imposed and accruing under this act.

Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be taken to apply to the removal of the remains of deceased persons

from one place of interment to another cemetery or place of interment within this state; provided, that no permit shall be issued for the disinterment or removal of any body unless such body has been buried for one year or more without the written consent of the mayor, chairman of the board of supervisors or city council of any municipality of the state. [Amendment approved March 13, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 139.]

Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from the thirtieth day after its passage and approval.

SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY.

Act relating to commitments to school of industry: See post, title School of Reform.

Act to prevent evil-disposed persons from coming on grounds of: See post, title School of Reform.

An act to establish a school of industry, to provide for the maintenance and management of the same, and to make an appropriation therefor.

[Approved March 11, 1889; 1889, 100. Amended 1893, 39.]

Section 1. There shall be established at or within a convenient distance from Ione City, in the county of Amador, in said state, an educational institution to be designated as the Preston school of industry.

Sec. 2. The sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing and preparing grounds for the erection of buildings thereon, for the purchase of the necessary furniture, machinery and supplies, and for the payment of the current expenses of said school.

Sec. 3. The general government and supervision of said school shall be vested in a board of trustees consisting of three citizens of the state of California, who shall be appointed by the governor. The members of said board

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shall hold their offices for the respective terms of two, three and four years, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and until their successors shall be appointed and qualified, said respective terms to be designated in their appointments; and thereafter, upon the expiration of such terms, there shall be one of said board appointed, whose term of office shall be continued four years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Said trustees, before entering on the discharge of the duties of their office, shall each take an oath faithfully to discharge the same. [Amendment approved February 27, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 39. In effect July 1, 1893.]

Sec. 4. The board shall, with all convenient dispatch, select and establish a site at some suitable place in said county for said institution, and procure the right of way for suitable drainage; said site to contain not less than one hundred acres nor more than three hundred acres of land, to have water facilities sufficient for the uses of said school, and for power in operating machinery; the land to be of a quality suitable for general farming purposes, and adapted to the cultivation of vines and fruit trees. The land so set apart by said purchase shall hereafter be used exclusively for the occupancy and purposes of said school. It shall be indicated by fixed corners and definite boundaries. A description thereof, together with the deed therefor, shall be filed with the secretary of state at his office within thirty days after the purchase of the

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Sec. 5. Thereafter the board shall cause to be prepared and shall adopt plans for the grounds, buildings, and fixtures necessary for such an institution, of such form, dimensions, and style as to it shall seem best adapted to the purposes thereof. In the preparation of such plans, and in the construction of the buildings, it may employ a competent architect at a reasonable compensation.

Sec. 6. No member of the board or employee of the institution shall be interested in any contract or enterprise

in connection with said school.

[Amendment approved February 27, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 39. In effect July 1, 1893.]

Sec. 7. This act shall be construed as the sole and exclusive act on the subject-matter contained herein, unless specially or otherwise herein provided; and none of the provisions of an act entitled "An act to regulate contracts on behalf of the state in relation to erections of buildings," approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, or any other act, unless herein specially referred to, shall apply to or govern or limit this act, or any of the powers or duties in this act conferred upon said board.

Sec. 8. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to permit any convict or convicts, undergoing sentence in either of the state prisons of California, to associate with, or be so employed as to mingle with, any person or persons undergoing commitment in the said school.

Sec. 9. The said school shall be conducted on such plan as to the board may seem best calculated to carry out the intentions of this act, and its inmates shall be subject to military discipline, including daily drill. They shall be clothed in military uniform of such pattern and material as may be prescribed by the board, but under no circumstances shall such inmates be clothed in convict stripes while undergoing commitment in said school. [Amendment approved February 27, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 39. In effect July 1, 1893.]

Sec. 10. The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed their reasonable expenses incurred while in the discharge of their official duties. The superintendent shall receive a salary, to be fixed by the board, not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum. The military instructor shall receive a salary, to be fixed by the board, not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum. The secretary and

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