ity of com manding officer. equipments, when selected by the Board, as hereinafter prescribed, shall be issued to the several organizations of the National Guard, upon requisition from the proper officer. Each organization of the National Guard may wear at parades and reviews, such full dress uniforms and equipments as have been heretofore adopted and used by them, until it shall be Responsibil- furnished with the "service" uniform and equipments. The commanding officer of each organization shall be responsible for the keeping and return of all uniforms and other military Distribution property committed to his charge. Each commanding officer of uniforms. who shall receive, according to the provisions of this section, uniforms or equipments, or portions of uniforms or equipments, for the use of his command, shall distribute the same to his command as he shall deem proper. The "service" uniCommander- form and equipments shall be furnished, as aforesaid, by Board which is hereby provided, to consist of the Quartermaster-General and of two commissioned officers to be appointed by the Commander-in-Chief. Said two officers shall at all times be residents of the City and County of San Francisco. This Board is authorized and directed to purchase the cloth, arrange for its cutting, and also for its making, when required by the commander of any organization, and also equipments, and the bills of said Board shall be audited, allowed, and paid as are other military demands. Board appointed by in-Chief. Authority and power of Board. Appropriation; how distributed. Brigadier- MajorGeneral. Adjutant- SEC. 7. Section two thousand and ninety-four of this Code is amended to read as follows: 2094. There must be audited, and allowed by the Board of Military Auditors, and paid out of the appropriations for military purposes, upon the warrant of the State Controller, to the commanding officer of each infantry or artillery company of the National Guard, the sum of one hundred dollars per month; to the commanding officer of each artillery company and Gatling gun battery having not less than four guns with which they regularly drill and parade, the sum of two hundred dollars per month; and to the commanding officer of each cavalry company, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per month; the sum so paid to be used for armory rent, care of arms, and proper incidental expenses of the company. There must also be audited, allowed, and paid out of the same appropriation, to the commanding officer of each regiment or battalion, the sum of five dollars per month for each company in his command, for clerical expenses; and if the regiment or battalion has more than four companies, and has attached to it an organized and uniformed band of not less than twelve pieces, the additional sum of thirty-five dollars per month for such band; and if the regiment or battalion has attached to it a signal corps of not less than eight members, the additional_sum of fifteen dollars per month for such corps; to each Brigadier-General, five dollars per month for each company in his command, and to the Major-General, six hundred dollars per annum; and to each company, a sum necessary for uniforms and to keep the same in repair, not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; and to the Adjutant-General, three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be expended by him in promoting rifle practice. There shall also be paid, from the military appropriations of the State, the sum of six hundred dollars, for the purchase of light carriages for the four Gatling guns now in possession of Company "A," Second Artil- Company lery Regiment, Second Brigade, National Guard of California, which shall be suitable for hand service, and for the purpose of making said company a more efficient arm of the military service. SEC. 8. Section one thousand nine hundred and twentythree of the Political Code is hereby repealed. SEC. 9. Section two thousand and seven of this Code is amended to read as follows: "A." Brigadier 2007. The staff of each General of Brigade consists of one Defining Surgeon, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; one Assistant staff of Adjutant-General, who shall be Chief of Staff; one Signal General. Officer, one Engineer Officer, one Ordnance Officer, one Quartermaster, one Commissary, one Paymaster, one Brigade Inspector, one Judge Advocate, and one Inspector of Rifle Practice, each with rank of Major; two Aids-de-Camp, with the rank of Captain, and two Staff Orderlies, with the rank of Sergeant Major, who are appointed by the Brigadier-General, and hold office at his pleasure, or until their successors are appointed and qualified. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER LXXVII. An Act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be known as section five hundred and thirty-seven, relative to personal property mortgaged. [Approved March 10, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Penal seven: property. Defining 537. Every person who, after mortgaging any of the prop- Removal of erty mentioned in section two thousand nine hundred and mortgaged fifty-five of the Civil Code, except locomotives, engines, roll- Exceptions. ing stock of a railroad, steamboat machinery in actual use, crime. and vessels, voluntarily removes or permits the removal of the mortgaged property from the place where it was situated at the time it was mortgaged, without the written consent of the mortgagee, with intent to deprive the mortgagee of his interest therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropria CHAPTER LXXVIII. An Act to appropriate money to meet a deficiency in the appropriation for the State's portion of the salaries of the Superior Judges, for the thirty-eighth fiscal year. [Approved March 10, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of six thousand dollars is hereby apries Superior propriated out of any money in the State Treasury not other tion. Sala Judges. wise appropriated, to pay any deficiency that may be in the More than 100,000 inhabitants. CHAPTER LXXIX. Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 16. [Approved March 10, 1887.] A Resolution to propose an amendment to section eight, of article eleven, of the Constitution of the State of California, relating to the framing of a charter for cities of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, and for cities of over ten thousand and less than one hundred thousand inhabitants. Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of California, at its regular session, commencing on the third day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two thirds of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of said Legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby propose that section eight, of article eleven, of the Constitution of said State be amended so as to read as follows: Section 8. Any city containing a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the ConElection of stitution and laws of this State, by causing a Board of fifteen freeholders, who shall have been for at least five years qualiFreeholders. fied electors thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters of such city, at any general or special election, whose duty it pare charter. shall be, within ninety days after such election, to prepare Board of Time to pre be filed. and propose a charter for such city, which shall be signed in duplicate by the members of such Board, or a majority of them, and returned, one copy thereof to the Mayor or other chief where to be executive officer of such city, and the other to the Recorder filed. of Deeds of the county. Such proposed charter shall then Publication be published in two daily papers of general circulation in of charter. such city, for at least twenty days; and within not less than Submission thirty days after such publication, it shall be submitted to of charter. the qualified electors of such city, at a general or special election, and if a majority of such qualified electors voting thereat shall ratify the same, it shall thereafter be submitted to the Legislature for its approval or rejection as a whole, submit to without power of alteration or amendment; and if approved Legislature. by a majority vote of the members elected to each House, it shall become the charter of such city, or if such city be consolidated with a county, then of such city and county, and shall become the organic law thereof, and supersede any existing charter, and all amendments thereof, and all special laws inconsistent with such charter. A copy of such char- Where ter, certified by the Mayor, or chief executive officer, and charter must authenticated by the seal of such city, setting forth the submission of such charter to the electors, and its ratification by them, shall be made in duplicate, and deposited, one in the office of the Secretary of State, the other, after being recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the county, among the archives of the city. All Courts shall take judicial notice thereof. The charter, so ratified, may be May be amended at intervals of not less than two years, by proposals amended by therefor, submitted by legislative authority of the city to the qualified voters thereof, at a general or special election held at least sixty days after the publication of such proposals, and ratified by at least three fifths of the qualified electors voting thereat, and approved by the Legislature as herein provided for the approval of the charter. In submitting any such charter, or amendment thereto, any alternative article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others. Any city containing a population of more than ten thousand Population and not more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, may and less than frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and 100,000. subject to the Constitution and laws of this State, by causing a Board of fifteen freeholders, who shall have been for at Election of least five years qualified electors thereof, to be elected by the freeholders. qualified voters of said city, at any general or special election, whose duty it shall be, within ninety days after such election, Time to preto prepare and propose a charter for such city, which shall pare charter. be signed in duplicate by the members of such Board, or a majority of them, and returned, one copy thereof to the Where to be Mayor, or other chief executive of said city, and the other to the Recorder of the county. Such proposed charter shall Publication then be published in two daily papers of general circulation in such city, for at least twenty days; and the first publication shall be made within twenty days after the completion over 10,000 filed. of charter. Where charter must be filed. Submission of the charter; and within not less than thirty days after of charter. such publication it shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said city, at a general or special election, and if a majority of such qualified electors voting thereat shall ratify Submit to the same, it shall thereafter be submitted to the Legislature Legislature. for its approval or rejection as a whole, without power of alteration or amendment; and if approved by a majority vote of the members elected to each House it shall become the charter of such city, and the organic law thereof, and shall supersede any existing charter, and any amendments thereof, and all special laws inconsistent with such charter. A copy of such charter, certified by the Mayor or chief executive officer, and authenticated by the seal of such city, setting forth the submission of such charter to the electors, and its ratification by them, shall be made in duplicate, and deposited, one in the office of Secretary of State, and the other, after being recorded in said Recorder's office, shall be deposited in the archives of the city; and thereafter all Courts shall take judicial notice of said charter. The charter so ratified may be amended, at intervals of not less than two years, by proposals therefor, submitted by the legislative authority of the city to the qualified electors thereof, at a general or special election held at least sixty days after the publication of such proposals, and ratified by at least three fifths of the qualified electors voting thereat, and approved by the Legislature as herein provided for the approval of the charter. In submitting any such charter, or amendment thereto, any alternative article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others." May be amended by election. License to transact business of a savings bank. CHAPTER LXXX. An Act to amend "An Act creating a Board of Bank Commissioners, and prescribing their duties and powers," approved March 13, 1878. [Approved March 10, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of an Act creating a Board of Bank Commissioners, and prescribing their duties and powers, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. The duties of the Bank Commissioners shall be to prepare and furnish to every savings bank, bank, and banking company incorporated under the laws of this State, or any other State or Territory, or foreign country, doing busi |