tions on SEC. 672. No demand or claim of any nature can be Restricentertained by the Legislature unless recommended by the Board, or upon appeal from their action. Stats. 1858, p. 212. NOTE. This section will not be very effectual, but we retain it. power of Legislature. claims SEC. 673. Claims upon the Contingent Fund of either Certain House of the Legislature and for official salaries are empted. exempted from the operation of the provisions of the preceding twelve sections. SEC. 674. Whenever the Board has reason to believe that the Controller has drawn or is about to draw his warrant without authority of law, or for a larger amount than the State actually owes, the Board must notify the Treasurer of State not to pay the warrant so drawn or to be drawn; and thereupon the Treasurer is prohibited. from paying the warrant, whether already drawn or not, until he is otherwise directed by the Legislature. Stats. 1858, p. 213. SEC. 675. As often as it may deem proper the Board must examine the books of the Controller and Treasurer, the accounts and vouchers in their offices, and count the money in the Treasury; and for that purpose they may demand and the Controller and Treasurer must furnish without delay all information touching the books, papers, vouchers, or matters pertaining to their offices. Stats. 1867-8, p. 296, Sec. 1; 1858, p. 212, Sec. 2-- Board may prevent payment of Controller's warrants. when. money in SEC. 676. The counting of the moneys in the State Must count Treasury must take place at least once a month, without Treasury. the Board or any member thereof giving the Treasurer any previous notice of the day or hour of counting. The Board may at any counting place any sum in bags or boxes, and weigh each bag or box separately, and mark the same with the weight thereon plainly specified, and place thereon a seal to be kept by them, and may at subsequent countings count or reweigh each bag or box separately, and estimate the contents of such bags or Must make affidavit thereof. Controller and Treasurer must permit examination and counting. Printing Conversion of School Fund into bonds. boxes as part of the money counted by them without making a detailed count of its contents. Stats. 1867-8, p. 296, Sec. 1. SEC. 677. They must at least once in each month make and file in the office of the Secretary of State, and publish in some newspaper in Sacramento City, an affidavit showing: 1. The amount of money that ought to be in the State Treasury; 2. The amount and kind of money actually therein. Stats. 1858, p. 212, Sec. 3. SEC. 678. The Controller and Treasurer must permit the Board of Examiners to examine the books and papers in their respective offices; and the Treasurer must permit the moneys in the Treasury, without delay on any pretence whatever, to be counted whenever the Board may wish to make an examination or counting. Stats. 1858, p. 212, Sec. 4. SEC. 679. The Board must appoint a Printing Expert, who must examine and report to the Board all accounts for printing presented by the State Printer or any other person; specifying whether the work has been executed in a workmanlike manner or not, and the amount for which the same should be allowed. The report is not conclusive on the Board, but is in aid of the discharge of their duties. The Expert must receive a salary of fifty dollars a month, payable on the last day of each month. Stats. 1858, p. 214, Sec. 13-modified. SEC. 680. Whenever and as often as there is in the State Treasury the sum of ten thousand dollars, as proceeds of the sale of State school lands, the Board must invest the same in civil funded bonds of this State or in bonds of the United States, at the lowest price at which they may be offered by the holders thereof, and as prescribed in the succeeding section. Stats. 1868, p. 523, Sec. 56. SEC. 681. The Board must advertise for two weeks in of School bonds. one daily newspaper published in each of the Cities of Conversion Sacramento and San Francisco for sealed proposals for Funds into the purchase of civil bonds or bonds of the United States. At the expiration of two weeks from the first publication of the advertisement the Board must open the bids at the time and place specified in the advertisement therefor, in the presence of the Treasurer and Controller of State. They may accept or reject all bids at their pleasure; but if they accept any bids they must accept the bids offering such bonds at the lowest price. Stats. 1868, p. 523, Sec. 56. SEC. 682. The Board must thereupon certify the Same. accepted bids to the Controller, who must draw his warrant in favor of the successful bidders for the amount respectively due, and the State Treasurer must pay the same from the proceeds of the sale of school lands, and the bidders must deliver the bonds so purchased to the State Treasurer, who must keep them as a special School Fund deposit, the interest upon such bonds to be subject to such disposition as is provided in the Title of this Code relating to common schools. Any member of the Board may be a bidder either at the purchase or sale of bonds. Stats. 1868, p. 523, Sec. 56. State SEC. 683. At any sale of civil bonds by the State Purchase of Treasurer the Board may become bidders and purchase bonds. bonds with the funds at their disposal, and the appropriate transfer of funds must be made by the Treasurer on the books of his office. Stats. 1868, p. 523, Sec. 56. members. SEC. 684. The annual salary of each member of the Salary of Board except the Attorney General is one thousand dollars. The annual salary of the Attorney General for services performed under this Article is fifteen hundred dollars. SEC. 685. The annual salary of the Clerk of the Board Salary of is twelve hundred dollars. Clerk. NOTE. We are indebted to the Hon. Edward R. Taylor, Private Secretary to Governor Haight and Clerk of the Board of Examiners, for many valuable suggestions made relative to the Board of Examiners, and for much labor bestowed by him in perfecting this Article. ARTICLE XIX. POWERS AND DUTIES OF OTHER EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. SECTION 695. Vaccine Agent. 696. Commissioner of Immigration. 697. State Capitol Commissioners. 698. Tide Land Commissioners. 699. Port Wardens. 700. Harbor Commissioners. 701. Pilots. 702. San Francisco Marine Board. 703. Pilot Commissioners. 704. Boards of Health. 705. Board of Agriculture. 706. Board of Equalization. 707. Regents of University. 708. State Board of Education. 709. Trustees of Normal School. 710. Officers of Libraries. 711. Directors of State Prison. 712. Officers of Insane Asylum. 713. Trustees of Asylum for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. 714. Trustees of State Burying Grounds. 715. Yosemite and Big Tree Commissioners. SEC. 695. The powers and duties of the Vaccine Agent are prescribed in Title VII of Part III of this Code. SEC. 696. Those of the Commissioner of Immigration are prescribed in Title VII, Part III of this Code. SEC. 697. Those of the State Capitol Commissioners are prescribed by "An Act to provide for the construction of the State Capitol in the City of Sacramento," approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty, and the Acts amendatory thereof, which are hereby continued in force. SEC. 698. NOTE.-Many of the provisions of the Act referred to are functus, and before this Code goes into effect the duties imposed will have been in a great measure performed. For these reasons it is deemed unnecessary to incumber the Code with many provisions of the Act referred to. Those of the Tide Land Commissioners are Tide Land Commisprescribed by "An Act to survey and dispose of certain sioners. salt marsh and tide lands belonging to the State of California," approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the Acts amendatory thereof, approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy, which are hereby continued in force. NOTE. We omit the Acts in question for substantially the same reasons given for the omission of the Acts referred to in the preceding section. SEC. 699. Those of Port Wardens are prescribed in Port Title VI of Part III of this Code. Wardens. SEC. 700. Those of Harbor Commissioners are pre- Harbor scribed in Title VI of Part III of this Code. Commissioners. SEC. 701. Those of Pilots are prescribed in Title VI Pilots. of Part III of this Code. SEC. 702. Those of members of the Marine Board for the port of San Francisco in Title VI of Part III of this Code. San Fran cisco Ma rine Board. missioners. SEC. 703. Those of Pilot Commissioners are prescribed Pilot Comin Title VI of Part III of this Code. SEC. 704. Those of the Boards of Health are pre- Boards of scribed in of Title VII of Part III of this Code. Health. SEC. 705. Those of the Board of Agriculture are pre- Board of scribed in the special statute creating the Board. NOTE.-Public Institutions. Agriculture. SEC. 706. Those of the Board of Equalization are pre- Board of scribed in Title IX of Part III of this Code. Equaliza tion. University. SEC. 707. Those of the Regents of the University of Regents of California in Chapter I of Title III of Part III. |