STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA PASSED AT THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. CHAPTER I. An Act to appropriate money to pay the contingent expenses of the Senate, for the twenty-seventh session of the Legislature. [Approved February 5, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is Appropriahereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treas- tion. ury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses of the Senate, for the twenty-seventh session of the Legislature. SEC. 2. The Controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants on the General Fund for the amounts herein made payable, and the Treasurer to pay the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER II. An Act to increase the number of Judges of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, and for the. appointment of such additional Judges. [Approved February 7, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Two SECTION 1. The number of Judges of the Superior Court additional of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, is hereby Superior increased from two to four. Court for SEC. 2. Within ten days after the passage of this Act, the county. appoint. When. Governor to Governor shall appoint two additional Judges of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, who shall hold office until the first Monday after the first day of January, A. D. eighteen.hundred and eighty-nine. At the next general election two Judges of the Superior Court of said county shall be elected in said county, who shall be successors of the Judges appointed hereunder, to hold office for the term prescribed by the Constitution and by law. Salaries. SEC. 3. The salaries of said additional Judges shall be the same in amount, and be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of the other Judges of the Superior Court of said county now authorized by law. SEC 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. University of from ad valorem tax. CHAPTER III. An Act to provide for the permanent support and improvement of the University of California by the levy of a rate of taxation and the creation of a fund therefor. [Approved February 14, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There is hereby levied, annually, for each Support of, fiscal year, an “ad valorem" tax of one cent upon each one hundred dollars of value of the taxable property of the State, which tax shall be collected by the several officers charged with the collection of State taxes, in the same manner and at the same time as other State taxes are collected, upon all or any class of property, which tax is for the support of the University of California. State Board tion to SEC. 2. The State Board of Equalization, at the time. of Equaliza- when it annually determines the rate of State taxes to be declare levy. collected, must at the same time declare the levy of said rate of one cent, and notify the Auditor and Board of Supervisors of each county thereof. Money col paid into State SEC. 3. The money collected from said rate, after deductlected to be ing the proportionate share of expenses of collecting the same to which other State taxes are subject, must be paid into the State Treasury, and to be by the State Treasurer converted into a separate fund, hereby created, to be called the "State University Fund." State University Fund, how appro SEC. 4. The money paid into the said "State University Fund" is hereby appropriated, without reference to fiscal priated, etc. years, for the use and support of the University of California, and is exempted from the provisions of part three, title one, article eighteen, of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Political Code," approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred drawn from and seventy-two, relating to the Board of Examiners. When there is any money in the said fund, the same may be drawn out upon the order of the Board of Regents of the University Fund by Board of of California, or such officers of the Board as may be duly authorized thereto. Upon the receipt of the order, the Controller must draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer, payable to the order of the Treasurer of the University of California, out of the said "State University Fund." to support, SEC. 5. The money derived from said fund must be Money to be applied only to the support and permanent improvement of applied only the University, and the Board of Regents must include in etc. its biennial report to the Governor a statement of the manner and for what purposes the money was expended. SEC. 6. This Act takes effect immediately. CHAPTER IV. An Act to provide for an improvement of the State Capitol, and for an appropriation to pay for the same. [Approved February 17, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and ladies. Cost. SECTION 1. The Secretary of State is authorized to alter a Room for room on the first floor of the State Capitol, to be used exclusively by ladies, and the sum of twelve hundred and forty-six and thirteen one hundredths ($1,246 13) dollars is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund in the State Treasury to pay for the same. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER V. An Act to provide for a Contingent Fund for the Assembly, for the twenty-seventh session of the Legislature. [Approved February 18, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and tion. SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand (25,000) dol- Approprialars is hereby appropriated out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, to provide a Contingent Fund for the Assembly for the twenty-seventh session of the Legislature. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Deficiency CHAPTER VI. An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the support of the State Prison, at Folsom, for the thirty-eighth fiscal year. [Approved February 24, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of thirteen thousand dollars is appropria- hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the support of the State Prison, at Folsom, for the thirty-eighth fiscal year. tion State Prison, at Folsom. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Deficiency appropriation State Prison, at CHAPTER VII. An Act making an appropriation to pay the deficiency_in the appropriation for the support of the State Prison, at Folsom, for the thirty-seventh fiscal year. [Approved February 24, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of twelve thousand nine hundred CHAPTER VIII. An Act to amend section two thousand nine hundred and fiftyfive of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civil Code," approved March 21, 1872, relating to chattel mortgages. [Approved February 28, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two thousand nine hundred and fiftyfive of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civil Code," approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, is hereby amended so as to read: 2955. Mortgages may be made upon: First-Locomotives, engines, and other stock of a railroad. Amends secSecond-Steamboat machinery, the machinery used by ma chinists, foundrymen, and mechanics. Fifth-Printing presses and material. tion Civil Code relat ing to chattel mortgages. of surveyors, Seventh-Instruments of surveyors, physicians, or dentists. Instruments Eighth-Upholstery and furniture used in hotels, lodging etc. or boarding houses, when mortgaged to secure the purchase money of the articles mortgaged. Ninth-Growing crops. Tenth-Vessels of more than five tons burden. Eleventh-Instruments, negatives, furniture, and fixtures of a photograph gallery. etc., used in Twelfth-The machinery, casks, pipes, tubes, and utensils Machinery, used in the manufacture or storage of wine, fruit brandy, manufacture fruit syrups, or sugar; also, wines, fruit brandy, fruit syrup, of wine, etc. or sugar, with the cooperage in which the same is contained. Thirteenth-Pianos and organs. SEC. 2. This Act shall have effect and be in force on and after its passage. CHAPTER IX. An Act concerning the payment of the expenses and costs of the trial of persons charged with the violation of the laws for the preservation of fish in the navigable waters of this State. [Approved February 28, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and trials of per sons violatvisions of SECTION 1. The costs and expenses of all trials which Expenses of shall hereafter be had in any county of this State, of any person charged with having, on any of the navigable waters ing proof this State, violated any of the provisions of any law of this law for presState for the preservation of fish, and the costs of keeping and ervation of guarding such person, and the execution of the sentence of whom said person by said county, shall be borne and paid by the borne. State. fish, by State. SEC. 2. Any claim against the State for costs or expenses Claims named in this Act shall be presented to the Board of Exam- against iners of the State, certified by the District Attorney of the county in which the trial was had, and shall be acted upon by said Board as other claims against the State are acted on, and paid in the same manner. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. |