Miscon duct at elections. Election precincts. Official ballot. Election officers. General election laws to govern. Violation of act a felony. of supervisors or other board having charge and control of elections shall inspect the registering or recording and receiving device of the machines and file a report of said inspection with the county clerk or registrar of voters. Said report of said board when so certified and filed shall be prima facie evidence of the vote at such election. Any supplementary or duplicate record of an election, which may be furnished by a machine, shall be preserved by the county clerk or registrar of voters for one year following such election. SEC. 13. The provisions of the law relating to misconduct at elections shall apply to elections with voting or ballot machines. SEC. 14. For any election in any county, city and county, city or town, in which voting or ballot machines are to be used, the election precincts in which such machines are to be used may be created by the officers charged with the duty of creating election precincts, so as to contain not to exceed six hundred votes each. SEC. 15. The list of candidates used or to be used on the voting or ballot machine shall be deemed an official ballot under this act for an election precinct in which a voting or ballot machine is used, pursuant to law. The word "ballot" as used in this act (except when reference is made to independent ballots) means that portion of the cardboard, or paper, or other material within the ballot frames, containing the name of the candidate for office, or a statement of a proposed constitutional amendment, or other question or proposition with the word "for" or the word "against," or "yes" or "no." SEC. 16. The provisions of section eleven hundred and forty-two of the Political Code shall apply where voting or ballot machines are used. SEC. 17. All laws and parts of laws of this state relating to elections and prescribing the powers and duties of election officers, shall, so far as applicable to the use of voting or ballot machines, remain in full force and effect; and all laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith, shall not be applicable in each county, city and county, city or town election precinct wherein such voting or ballot machines are used, pursuant to this act, so long as such voting or ballot machine or machines shall be used therein, and nothing in this act contained shall be construed as repealing any existing law or authorizing any deviation or omission therefrom, except as provided for or set forth herein. SEC. 18. Any willful violation of any provision of this act or any willful injury to any voting or ballot machine tending to injure its effectiveness or to change the true expression given by the voters at any election shall be a felony and punishable as such, in accordance with the provisions of the Penal Code of the state. SEC. 19. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXVII. An act to amend section 11 of an act entitled "An act to define the duties of and to license land surveyors," approved March 31, 1891. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eleven of an act entitled "An act to define the duties of and to license land surveyors," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, is hereby amended to read as follows: surveys. record must show. Section 11. Within sixty days after a survey relating to the Record of sale or subdivision of lands, the retracing or establishing of property and boundary lines, public roads, or trails, original cemetery or town sites, and their subdivisions, has been made. by a licensed surveyor, he shall file with the recorder of the county in which such survey or any portion thereof lies, a record of survey. Such record shall be made in a good draughtsman-like manner, on one or more sheets of firm paper of the uniform size of twenty-one by thirty inches. This record of survey shall be either an original plat or a copy thereof, and must contain all the data necessary to enable any competent practical surveyor to retrace the survey. The record what of survey must show: All permanent monuments set, describing their size, kind, and location with reference to the corners which they are intended to perpetuate; all bearing or witness trees marked in the field; complete outlines of the several tracts or parcels of land surveyed within courses, and lengths of boundary lines; the angles, as measured by Vernier readings, which the lines of blocks or lots, if the record relate to an original townsite survey, make with each other and with the center lines of adjacent streets, alleys, roads, or lanes; the variations of the magnetic needle with which old lines have been retraced; the scale of the map; the date of survey; a proper connection with one or more points of an original or larger tract of land, and the name of the same; the name of the grant or grants, or of the townships and ranges within which the survey is located; the signature and seal of the surveyor; provided, that nothing in this section shall require a record to be made of surveys of a preliminary nature where no monuments or corners are established; pro- Diagram vided further, that if the survey can be as well described in may be writing, or by a small diagram, or by both, the surveyor shall file with said recorder a record of such a survey, either in writing or by diagram, or by both writing and diagram. Such record shall be on one or more sheets of writing paper, drawing paper, or cloth, of a uniform size of eight by twelve and one half inches, and shall contain all the data as required on the larger record as described above; provided further, that if the survey filed. Retracings. relate to the retracing of lines of lots or tracts of land of which a map or plat is already on file in said recorder's office, and no changes are made in dimensions or angles, by the resurvey, from those given on said map or plat, the surveyor shall not be required to file a record of such a survey. Tax on collateral inheritances. CHAPTER CCXXVIII. An act to amend section one of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a tax on collateral inheritances, bequests, and devises, to provide for its collection, and to direct the disposition of its proceeds,' approved March 23, 1893,' approved March 9, 1897," which became a law March 14, 1899. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a tax on collateral inheritances, bequests, and devises, to provide for its collection, and to direct the disposition of its proceeds,' approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,' approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven," which became a law March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Section one of an act entitled "An act to establish a tax on collateral inheritances. bequests, and devises, to provide for its collection, and to direct the disposition of its proceeds, approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three," approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. All property which shall pass, by will or by the intestate laws of this state, from any person who may die seized or possessed of the same while a resident of this state, or if such decedent was not a resident of this state at the time of death, which property, or any part thereof, shall be within this state, or any interest therein or income therefrom which shall be transferred by deed, grant, sale, or gift, made in contemplation of the death of the grantor or bargainor, or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after such death, to any person or persons, or to any body politic or corporate, in trust or otherwise, or by reason whereof any person or body politic or corporate shall become beneficially entitled, in possession or expectancy, to any property, or to the income thereof, other than to or for the use of his or her father, mother, husband, wife, lawful issue, the wife or widow of a son, or the husband of a daughter, or any child or children adopted as such in con formity with the laws of the State of California, or to any person to whom the deceased, for not less than ten years prior to death, stood in the mutually acknowledged relation of a parent, or to any lineal descendant of such decedent born in lawful wedlock, or any lineal ancestor, or the societies, corporations, and institutions now or hereafter exempted by law from taxation, or to any public corporation, or to any society, corporation, institution, or association of persons engaged in or devoted to any charitable, benevolent, educational, public, or other like work (pecuniary profit not being its object or purpose), or to any person, society, corporation, institution, or association of persons in trust for or to be devoted to any charitable, benevolent, educational, or public purpose, by reason whereof any such person or corporation shall become beneficially entitled in possession or expectancy, to any such property, or to the income thereof, shall be and is subject to a tax of five dollars on every hundred dollars of the market value of such property, and at a proportionate rate for any less amount, to be paid to the treasurer of the proper county, as hereinafter defined, for the use of the state; and all administrators, executors and trustees shall be liable for any and all such taxes until the same shall have been paid as hereinafter directed; provided, that an estate which may be valued at a less sum than five hundred dollars shall not be subject to such duty or tax. SEC. 2. The exemptions contained in this act shall apply Exempto all property which has passed, by will, succession, or trans- tions. fer, since the approval of the act of which this act is amendatory, except in those cases where the tax has been paid to the treasurer of the proper county. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CCXXIX. An act to prevent misrepresentations of conditions of employment, making it a misdemeanor to misrepresent the same and providing penalties therefor. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: resenta SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, partner- False repship, company, corporation, association, or organization of any tons of kind, doing business in this state directly or through any agent conditions of employor attorney, to induce, influence, persuade, or engage any per- ment." son to change from one place to another in this state or to change from any place in any state, territory, or country to any place in this state, to work in any branch of labor, through or by means of knowingly false representations, whether spoken, written, or advertised in printed form, concerning the kind Penalty. or character of such work, the compensation therefor, the sanitary conditions relating to or surrounding it, or the existence or non-existence of any strike, lockout, or other labor dispute affecting it and pending between the proposed employer or employers and the persons then or last theretofore engaged in the performance of the labor for which the employé is sought. SEC. 2. Any violation of section one or section two hereof shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding two thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on the date of its passage. Contracts; when valid. CHAPTER CCXXX. An act to amend section 2527 of the Political Code relating to the powers of the state harbor commissioners. [Approved March 20, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two thousand five hundred and twentyseven (2527) of the Political Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 2527. No contract or obligation entered into by the harbor commissioners, which creates a liability or authorizes the payment of money, shall be valid or of binding force unless signed by all three of the commissioners, and countersigned by the secretary of the board; nor shall any contract, involving the payment of money, be made by the said commissioners unless the amount then to the credit of the harbor improvement fund, together with the revenue estimated to accrue up to the time of the maturity of such contract, over and above the current expenses of the commission, be sufficient to meet the payments to become due thereon; provided, such estimate of revenue shall be limited, as to time, to fifteen (15) years. Where the work to be done is the construction of a new wharf, bulkhead, or new work. breakwater and its appurtenances, the board may lease said wharf, bulkhead, or breakwater and its appurtenances for a period not to exceed fifteen years, and for an amount not to exceed the cost of constructing said work, the rents therefrom to be applied, in whole or in part, in payment for the cost of such construction, and said board may provide in the contracts for the same that the rents therefrom shall be so applied, or the work be paid for, in whole or in part, from such rents and revenues. Construc tion of Leases. SEC. 2. All leases hereunder shall be made upon competitive bids after such public advertisement as the commissioners |