of the Home, and to audit the bills therefor, and to forward the same to the State Board of Examiners. When approved by said State Board, the Controller must issue his warrants in payment thereof.

SEC. 9. The Board of Directors is empowered and author- Price of ized to fix the market price of all wares manufactured in the wares made. Home, and all wares manufactured elsewhere by the nonresident beneficiaries, and to provide for and regulate the sale of all such manufactured wares. The Board is hereby Wages fixed. authorized to fix the compensation of common laborers and all other employés at the Home, whose wages are not herein established.

SEC. 10. It shall not be a condition for the admission of Feeble blind any applicant that he be of such physical strength as to be admitted. able to work every day. And the Board is authorized to receive and maintain at the Home, free of charge, or at a nominal charge, such aged and enfeebled blind persons as seem to them proper, and not in conflict with the interest of the Home.

SEC. 11. The Board of Directors is authorized and empow- Directors to ered to grade and fix the prices of skilled and unskilled labor. rade price The Board may fix the amount of work required in the various departments to constitute a day's labor, and, in accordance with such regulations, may permit inmates to work at piece-work.

SEC. 12. The Board of Directors may authorize work to To let work be let out to blind people, so that such beneficiaries as in to blind. their judgment may require it, shall receive it at their residence; and for such piece-work liberal prices shall be paid, so as to equal, as nearly as possible, the compensation of resident laborers. But in no case shall the Board incur any indebtedness for labor contracts with beneficiaries, resident or otherwise, except when there is sufficient money on hand to pay the same.

SEC. 13. The Board shall provide dormitories for males Dormitories. and females in separate apartments, and may prescribe conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, for the admission of applicants.

SEC. 14. The Directors shall receive no compensation for Compensa their services.

tion of Directors.

bequests.

SEC. 15. The Board of Directors of the Industrial Home Directors to of Mechanical Trades for the Adult Blind of the State of Cal- receive ifornia, is hereby authorized and empowered to take, receive, manage, and invest all moneys or property hereafter bequeathed or donated to said Home, in accordance with the wishes of the testator or donor; or, if no conditions are attached to the bequests or donations, then to invest such moneys or proceeds of property for the best interests of the Home; provided, that if any donation or bequest be tram- Religious meled with any religious conditions of a sectarian character, bequests. or conditioned in any manner antagonistic to the provisions of this Act, or in conflict with any necessary rule or regulation of the Home, the Board may refuse to accept such donation or bequest, and is hereby authorized to reject the same. Donations or bequests may be received by the State Treas

conditions to

go to Fund.

urer, or by the President of the Board of Directors; but no donations or bequest accompanied by any condition shall be received until such donation or bequest shall have been ordered approved and received by the Board, and notice Bequests to thereof given by the Secretary to the State Controller. Any bequest or donation received or collected by the President of the Board, must be immediately paid over by him to the State Treasurer, and at the same time the President must forward to the State Controller a statement thereabout verified by his oath. All moneys received by the State Treasurer must be placed to the credit of the "Fund of the Industrial Home of Adult Blind." The investment of funds by the Board can be made only in the same manner as the approval of claims, subject likewise to the action of the State Board of Examiners thereon.

President to

agement.

SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the President of the Board report man to make careful and diligent inquiry into the general management of the Home, and to report the result thereof at each meeting of the Board, together with such recommendations as he may wish to make concerning the management of the Home.

Officers to
Directors.

They to report.

Superintend

ent.

Duties.

SEC. 17. Every officer and employé of the Home, and any other person acquiring possession, by any means whatever, of moneys belonging to the Home, must, at the close of each and every month, deliver the same to the Board of Directors, accompanied by a statement thereabout verified by his oath, taking the Secretary's receipt therefor. The Board of Directors must, at least once in every month, forward to the State Treasurer all moneys in their charge belonging to the Home. The Secretary of the Board must at the same time forward to the State Controller a statement thereabout verified by his oath. All such moneys received by the State Treasurer must be placed to the credit of the "Fund of the Industrial Home of Adult Blind."

SEC. 18. Immediately upon the election or dismissal of any officer, whose salary is fixed by the provisions of this Act, the Board must cause the Secretary to forward to the Controller of State a certified copy of the resolution of said election or dismissal, which the Controller must file in his office.

SEC. 19. The President of the Board shall appoint all committees, unless otherwise ordered by the Board, and he shall be ex officio a member of each of the standing committees.

ARTICLE IV.

The Superintendent is the chief executive officer of the Home, with powers and duties as follows:

First-To superintend the grounds, buildings, workshops, manufacturing departments, and property of the Home.

Second-To recommend to the Board of Directors the number of instructors and employés required, together with their duties, and to recommend their appointment or removal by the Board.

Third-To prescribe and enforce the performance of the duties of instructors and employés.

inmates.

Fourth-To admit inmates only, upon the certificate of the Admit attending physician, or by order of the Board, as hereinafter provided; to control the inmates, and to prescribe and enforce a system of instruction and labor.

Fifth-To suspend any instructor or employé pending a Suspend recommendation to the Board for his permanent dismissal, employés. and to appoint substitutes during the absence of any or all employés.

inmates.

Sixth-Pending a recommendation to the Board for his Remove final dismissal, to suspend the privileges of and to remove from the premises any inmate whose presence appears to be in conflict with the interests of the Home. Should any inmate so suspended or removed be in destitute condition, the Superintendent must, upon his demand, furnish him. with suitable lodgings and board elsewhere, until the decision of the Board is made thereabout. The bill therefor must be presented to the Board for payment in the same manner as other claims.

Residence.

Seventh-To reside at the Home. Eighth-To keep a daily record of his official acts in the To keep manner prescribed by the Board, and to present the same to record. the Board at each monthly meeting, verified by his oath, in accordance with the blanks furnished by the Board for that purpose, and to make in said monthly reports such recommendations to the Board as he may deem proper. The monthly report must contain a statement of all stock, goods, and supplies of any nature received at the Home during the month, as well as an invoice of all goods on hand.

Ninth-To turn over to the Board, at the close of each and Return every month, together with the balance sheet, all moneys moneys. derived by him from the sale of manufactured goods, and all revenues derived by him from any source whatsoever in behalf of and for the benefit of the Home, and to take the Secretary's receipt therefor.

accounts.

Tenth-To make up, and present to the Board in the month Annual of July of each year, his annual accounts and statement of the affairs of the Home, verified by his oath. The annual statement shall be an epitome of the daily record, and shall contain the number and names of all inmates, officers, and employés, and their respective dates of admission, or beginning of employment, and the respective dates of dismissals made during the year. It shall contain a full review of all receipts and expenditures, and an invoice of all goods and stock and supplies on hand. It shall contain, also, the aver- what to age weekly cost of board per capita of all persons residing at contain. the Home, without considering the labor credits, and the average annual cost of instruction per capita. It shall show clearly the relation of the gross products to the gross cost, and the percentage lacking in order to become self-supporting. For the making up of said statement, the Superintendent shall have full access to the Secretary's and other books of the Home, and said statement shall be independent of each and all of the other annual reports.

Salary.

Bonds.

Physician.
Duties.

Monthly statement.

Annual report

Eleventh-To make requisitions on the Board of Directors for articles and goods needed at the Home, and to order the same as directed by the Board. He must, in addition, perform such further services as may be required of him by the Board. The annual salary of the Superintendent shall not exceed twenty-four hundred dollars. He must execute an official bond in the sum of five thousand dollars. The Superintendent must be a man of good education, of good moral character, and business experience.

ARTICLE V.

It shall be the duty of the Physician to examine at his office, at a stated hour daily, and at the Home, at a stated hour upon the days of his visits, all applicants for admission, as to their blindness. If the applicant appears to be a proper subject for admission to the benefits of the Home, the Physician must forth with deliver to him his certificate of admission directed to the Board and to the Superintendent of the House. Upon presentation of the certificate, the Superintendent must admit the applicant as a beneficiary. Any applicant rejected by the attending Physician shall have the right of appeal to the Board. The Physician must present to the Board, monthly, a statement of the sanitary condition of the Home, and must therein specify the days and dates of his visits, and the ages and nativity of each person to whom he has issued during the month a certificate of admission, together with the cause or causes of their blindness, their physical condition, and also as to whether any such inmates would be benefited by medical treatment, as well as any other matters which the Board may deem proper to require of him. The monthly statements must be made upon blanks furnished by the Board for that purpose. He must present to the Board, in the month of July, his annual report, which shall be an epitome of his monthly reports, and in which he must specify with particularity all sickness at the Home during the year; and such observations and recommendations may be therein made as seem to him pertinent to the sanitary welfare of the Home. The attending Physician must, in no instance, permanently treat any inmate for blindness, or any optical affection, without permission in each case first being given by the Board at the request of the person so afflicted. The attending Physician must visit the Home at least once every day.

ARTICLE VI.

This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER XX.

An Act for the relief of Robert McKillican.

[Approved March 5, 1885.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

Robert

SECTION 1. The sum of eighteen thousand three hundred Appropria($18,300) dollars is hereby appropriated, payable to Robert on to pay McKillican, of the County of Alameda, on account of and to McKillican. reimburse the said Robert McKillican, for direct loss sustained by him while in the service of the State of California, to wit: caused by the fall and destruction of the building known as "The Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Building," erected by the said Robert McKillican, under contract with the State of California. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant therefor, and the Treasurer of State is required to pay the same out of the General Fund to the said Robert McKillican. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER XXI.

An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of a
Public Morgue in the City and County of San Francisco.

[Approved March 5, 1885.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

Disinter

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and Proceeds County of San Francisco are hereby authorized to appro- ment Fund. priate the surplus of money accumulated from the disinterment fund, for the purpose of erecting a Morgue in the City and County of San Francisco.

SEC. 2. The building so erected shall be known as "The To provide Public Morgue" of San Francisco, and the title to the same for Morgue shall be vested in the said city and county, absolutely and cisco. forever. The said Morgue shall contain offices for the Coroner, suitable rooms for holding inquests and autopsies upon the dead, and all the appliances necessary to enable the Coroner to discharge the duties of his office in an efficient man

ner.

SEC. 3. The said Board of Supervisors are hereby author- Advertise for ized and required to advertise for proposals for the construc- Proposals. tion, furnishing, and finishing of said Morgue, and to cause the said work to be commenced and completed in a prompt and efficient manner.