the state constitution, the state board of education shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, meet and appoint three members of said board, to wit, the governor, the superintendent of public instruction and one other member of said state board of education as a standing committee on school textbooks.

[Powers of committee.] The said committee shall be designated and known as the state text-book committee, and shall immediately organize and enter upon the discharge of its duties, and shall have power, subject to the approval of the state board of education, to revise in whole or in part and to manufacture such text-books as are now in use; to compile or cause to be compiled under its direction, and to manufacture such other or additional text-books or books as it may deem necessary or proper for use in the primary and grammar schools of the state; to purchase or hire plates, maps, and engravings of copyright matter; to contract for, or lease copyrights, for the purpose of being used in compiling, printing and publishing such books; to provide for the payment of royalties or for the leasing of plates for the making of the whole or any part of a book or books, and to do any and all acts that may be necessary for the purpose of procuring a meritorious uniform series of text-books for use in all the primary and grammar schools of the state of California. Said committee shall have power, subject to the approval of the state board of education, to prescribe and enforce the use of a uniform series of text-books.

[Duty of county superintendent of schools.] As soon as any text-book shall have been been compiled, printed, adopted, and is ready for distribution, it shall be the duty of every county and city and county superintendent of schools in the state to order a sufficient number thereof to give at least one copy of every such book to every public school district library in the county or city and county in which he is superintendent, and payment therefor shall be made by him by drawing his order on the unapportioned county school fund.

2. [Instructions, subjects of.] Instruction shall be given in the following subjects in the primary and grammar schools of the state in the several grades. in which they may be required, viz.: Reading, writing, orthography, language lessons and English grammar, arithmetic, geography, history of the United States, elements of physiology and hygiene, vocal music, elementary bookkeeping, drawing, nature study, and civil government; and it shall be the duty of the said text-book committee to revise such of the books of the present state series or publish such new ones in any of the above-mentioned subjects as may be necessary for the proper study and teaching of them, and for the purposes of compilation and publication may make use of any copyright matter deemed suitable, and may purchase or hire plates, maps, or engravings of such copyright matter, may contract and arrange for the payment of royalties, and shall designate such book or books, when published, as belonging to and forming a part of the state series of school text-books, subject to the approval of the state board of edu cation.

3. [Copyrights, committee may secure.] The said text-book committee may secure copyrights, in the name of the people of the state of California, to any book that may be compiled under this act, and whenever any one or more of the state school text-books shall have been compiled, published, and adopted, the superintendent of public instruction shall issue an order to all county, and

city and county boards of education by sending notice by registered mail to the secretaries of all such boards requiring the uniform use of said book or books in all the primary and grammar schools of this state, and when said order shall have thus been given and published, the same shall remain in force and effect for a term of not less than four nor more than eight years;

[Books adopted to remain in force four years.] Provided, that said order for the uniform use of said book or books shall not take effect until the expiration of at least one year from the time of the completion, purchase, or the leasing of the electrotype plates of said book or books; but nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any county, city, or city and county from adopting any one or more of the state series of school text-books whenever said book or books shall have been published and is ready for distribution;

[Contracts.] Provided further, that whenever any plates, maps, or engravings of any publisher or author are adopted for use as hereinbefore provided, the state text-books committee shall enter into a contract for not less than four nor more than eight years for the use of the same, and shall require a good and sufficient bond of the owner of such plates, maps or engravings, guaranteeing that the same shall be kept revised and up to date as may be required by the state board of education.

4. [Refusal to use state series, penalty for.] Any county, city and county, city or school district that refuses or neglects to use the state series of school textbooks in the grades and in the subjects for which they are intended and at the time as required in the foregoing subdivisions of this act must, upon satisfactory proof of such refusal or neglect, have the state money to which it is otherwise entitled, withheld from it by the superintendent of public instruction.

5. [Superintendent of state printing, duties of.] The superintendent of state printing shall have the supervision of all mechanical work connected with the printing and publishing of such books as may be compiled and adopted by said text-book committee and approved by the state board of education, and all such printing and binding shall be done in the state printing office. The superintendent of state printing shall annually on the first day of July, and oftener, if requested, submit to the said text-book committee a detailed statement showing the number and name of books of the state series published by him during each year.

6. [Prices of books, how fixed.] Whenever any book authorized to be published under this act is ready for sale or delivery to pupils, the state printer shall submit to the said state text-book committee, and it in turn to the state board of education, an itemized statement, showing the exact cost of the material, printing, binding, and finishing of such book in editions of five thousand or more, and the state board of education shall thereupon determine and fix the price of such book as required by law, by adding to the cost of manufacturing, the price contracted to be paid as royalty, or for the use of the plates, maps or engravings of the copyright matter therein contained, and said price shall be deemed to be the whole cost of publication of such book at Sacramento. [Royalty fund.] The amount fixed for royalty or cost of plates of copyright matter shall, as the books are sold, be kept separate from other proceeds from the sale of state school text-books, and deposited in the state treasury to the credit of a fund to be designated and known as the "text-book royalty fund,”

the same to be paid out quarterly or semi-annually, as may be agreed between the owners of copyright matter and said text-book committee, on the order of the said state text-book committee, in payment of royalties or hire of plates, maps or engravings or copyright matter in the same manner as other claims upon the state treasurer are paid.

7. [Claims for expenses of commission.] The appropriation heretofore made known as the "text-book appropriation," shall be subject to the drafts of the said text-book committee for all the expenses incurred by it, except the salary of the secretary, which is otherwise provided for by law; provided, that all claims. shall be presented to the state board of examiners for their approval; said appropriation shall be subject to the drafts of the said committee for all moneys needed for the payment of royalties, for the purchase or hire of such plates, maps, or engravings that may be necessary but which cannot be arranged to be paid for as provided in subdivision seventh hereof, for expert opinions as provided for in subdivision nine of this act, for printing, stationery, postage, and expressage that will be required by said committee, and for manufacturing any edition of any book of the state series now in use or which may hereafter be adopted for use in the primary and grammar schools.

8. [School-book fund.] It is provided that all moneys that have been received or that may hereafter be received from the sales of state series of school text-books, except that which is received in payment of royalties and provided in this act to be deposited to the credit of the text-book royalty fund, shall be kept by the state treasurer as a separate and distinct fund, to be known as the "state school-book fund," which fund shall be subject to the drafts of the said text-book committee for all expenses incurred by the superintendent of state printing for all material, labor, and other expenses necessary in the mechanical work of printing and publishing state school text-books; all claims to be drawn after being certified to by the superintendent of state printing, as provided in subdivision four of section five hundred and twenty-six of the Political Code; [Demands against fund.] Provided, that all demands on the state schoolbook fund excepting that of the salary of the secretary of the state text-book committee, shall be presented to the state board of examiners in itemized form for their approval; and upon the approval of the state board of examiners, and the state controlier is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same, in conformity with the provision of this section.

9. [Experts to pass on merits of books.] Before selecting any text-book matter to be used in the compilation or revision of a state school text-book, the said committee may, subject to the approval of the state board of education, secure one or more educational experts to examine and give their opin ions on the merits of any book or books or parts of a book that may be taken under consideration, and the claims for payment of such expert service shall be paid in like manner as other claims are paid out of the state text-book appropriation; provided, that the expense of such expert examination and opinion shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars for any one book that may be adopted and published as a book of the state series.

10. [Manner of distribution.] The existing law which provides the manner and the means for the distribution of state school text-books is hereby continued in force and effect.

History: Amended March 23, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 946.

§ 1888a. CHANGES OF BOUNDARIES OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, LIA. BILITY FOR INDEBTEDNESS. When school districts are created or abolished or the boundaries thereof are changed, the liability to taxation for the outstanding bonded indebtedness thereof as hereinafter set forth, and the authorities whose duty it is to levy taxes for the payment of principal and interest on said bonds shall levy the same upon the districts affected in such proportions as are herein provided, or are determined under the authority hereof.

Subd. 1. When any school district is united or in any manner merged with one or more school districts so as to form a single district, the district so formed is liable for all the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the districts so united, or merged.

Subd. 2. When territory is taken from one school district and annexed to another, such territory thereby becomes liable to taxation for the bonded indebtedness of the district to which it is annexed, and the board of supervisors of the county in which such territory is situated shall, by order entered on its minutes within sixty days after the change, determine what proportion of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the district from which it was taken was incurred for the acquisition or improvement of school lots or buildings or fixtures therein situated in the territory so transferred, and the district to which such territory was annexed shall thereupon become liable for the proportion of such indebtedness so determined.

Subd. 3. When any new school district shall be formed from a portion of the territory of one or more existing districts, either by incorporation of a city or town, or under section fifteen hundred and seventy-seven of this code. or otherwise, the board of supervisors of the county shall, within sixty days. after the formation of such new district, by order entered on its minutes, determine what proportion of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the district or districts out of which the said new district is formed was incurred for the acquisition or improvement of school lots or buildings or fixtures therein situated in such new district, and the said new district shall thereupon become liable for the proportion of such indebtedness so determined. In the case of joint districts the board of supervisors of each county shall determine such liability as to the territory in its county.

History: Enacted March 23, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 934.
In effect immediately.

Note: See paragraph 21, § 1670 ante.

§ 1892. RESTORATION OF THOSE LOST OR DESTROYED. Whenever satisfactory proof is presented to a county or city and county board of education by a teacher to whom such board has heretofore granted a certificate, in accordance with law, that such certificate has been destroyed by conflagration or other public calamity, such board shall, without fee, issue

to such teacher, in lieu of the certificate lost or destroyed a new certificate of the same kind, grade, character and tenure of the certificate originally granted. Such proof shall consist of an affidavit by said teacher, giving the grade of such certificate, the date of issue if possible, and upon what it was issued; accompanied by a statement from the county or city and county school superintendent to the effect that such teacher had, in pursuance of the requirements of section sixteen hundred and ninety-six of the Political Code, filed his certificate for record with such official. Said proof of loss or destruction of a certificate shall be a credential upon which a county or city and county school superintendent may issue a temporary certificate, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision seventh of section fifteen hundred and forty-three of the Political Code.

History: Enacted June 14, 1906, Stats and Amdts. 1906, p. 53.
In effect immediately.

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

$1908. STAFF OF The staff of the commander-in-chief shall consist of one adjutant-general with the rank of brigadier-general, one assistant adjutant-general, one assistant inspector-general (who may be the officer regularly detailed on duty with the national guard of California by the secretary of war), one assistant paymaster-general, one chief engineer, one judge advocate-general, one surgeon-general, each with the rank of colonel; one aid-de-camp with the rank of commander, and additional aids-de-camp with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; all appointed by and holding office at the pleasure of the commander-in-chief, or until their successors are appointed and have qualified, except as provided in section [subdivision] five of section nineteen hundred and twenty-three of this code, relating to the assistant adjutant-general. There shall also be two staff orderlies with the rank of sergeant-major, appointed and warranted by the adjutant-general and holding office at his pleasure.

History: Amended March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 819.

§ 1914. ORGANIZATION OF RESERVE MILITIA WHEN ORDERED OUT. The portion of reserve militia ordered out or accepted into the service, as indicated in sections nineteen hundred and nine and nineteen hundred and ten of this chapter, shall be immediately mustered into the service of the state for one year, or such less period as the commander-in-chief may direct, and shall be organized into troops, batteries, or companies, which may be arranged in squadrons, battalions, or regiments, or assigned to organizations. of the national guard already existing. The commander-in-chief is authorized. to appoint the officers necessary to commence or complete any organization thus created, provided that before being commissioned such officers shall be required to comply with section nineteen hundred and fifty-four of the Political Code. Such new organization shall be equipped, disciplined and governed according to the military regulations of the state.

History: Amended March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 820.

§ 1916. COMMISSION OF OFFICERS CALLED INTO ACTIVE SERVICE. The commission of any officer called into active service continues until he is relieved by order of the governor. Upon expiration of the commission.