in any part of this state as though issued or done by any court of record of this state.

Sec. 16. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the thirtieth day of March, A. D. nineteen hm dred and one.

ACT 2743.

An act to provide for prosecuting attorneys of police courts in cities of the second class, and regulating the com pensation of such officers.

[Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 664.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The police court in all cities of the second class shall have a prosecuting attorney, to be appointed by the district attorney of the county in which said city is situated, who shall hold office for the period of four years from the date of his appointment. He shall receive an annual salary of two thousand (2,000) dollars, payable in equal monthly installments, out of the treasury of said city, which salary shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him. It shall be the duty of said prosecuting attorney to attend the sessions of said court. and conduct on behalf of the people all prosecutions for public offenses of which said court has jurisdiction.

Sec. 2. All other acts or parts of acts in conflict here with are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

An act to establish a poultry experiment station in the county of Sonoma, and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved March 13, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 143.] The people of the state of California, represented in senste and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. There is hereby established in the county of Sonoma, at or near the city of Petaluma, a poultry experi ment station, to be known as the "California Poultry Experiment Station."

Sec. 2. The purposes of said station shall be the study of the diseases of poultry to ascertain the causes of such diseases, and to recommend treatment for the prevention and cure of the same; to ascertain the relative value of poultry foods for the production of flesh, fat, eggs, and feathers; to recommend methods of sanitation, and to conduct investigations for the purpose of securing results conducive to the promotion of the poultry interests of the state. This act shall be liberally construed to the end that the station hereby established may at all times contribute to the technical and general knowledge of the public upon the subject of poultry husbandry.

Sec. 3. The said station shall be under the supervision of the director of the agricultural experiment stations of the state of California, who shall, from time to time, cause to be issued bulletins of information regarding the care of poultry.

Sec. 4. Within thirty days after the passage of this act the governor shall appoint three persons, two of whom shall be from the staff of professors in the agricultural department of the University of California, and one a practical poultry raiser, which said persons shall constitute a board or commission to select and secure a site of not less than five acres for such poultry experiment station. Such board shall have full power to secure such site, by lease, purchase, or donation thereof, and shall proceed to the performance of the duties herein imposed within thirty days after receiving notice of their appointment.

Sec. 5. All moneys appropriated for the use of the station hereby established shall be under the control of the regents of the University of California.

Sec. 6. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for securing the necessary site, and for equipping and maintaining said California poultry experiment station as provided by this act. Of the amount herein appropriated, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred three and nineteen hundred four, and two thousand five hundred dollars shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred four and nineteen hundred five.

Sec. 7. The state controller is hereby authorized to

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draw his warrants for the sum herein appropriated in favor of the treasurer of the regents of the University of California, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

Sec. 8. This act shall take effect immediately.

TITLE 374.

ACT 2753.

PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY.

To establish the Preston school of industry, and to provide for the management and maintenance of the same. [Stats. 1889, p. 100.]

Amended 1893, 39.

In full in Appendix to Penal Code, p. 657.

ACT 2754.

To provide for the purchase of additional land for. [Stats. 1897, p. 422.]

In full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 668.

ACT 2755.

To prevent evil-disposed persons from coming upon the grounds of the Whittier state school or the Preston school of industry. [Stats. 1895, p. 92.]

In full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 688.

ACT 2756.

Relating to the commitments to the state school at Whit tier, and to the Preston school of industry; fixing the authority to examine and commit to such schools with the superior court judges of the counties and fixing the responsibilities from which commitments are made to the state for maintenance of the persons com mitted therefrom; providing the manner of payment thereof and fixing the responsibility of the parents to the counties from which their children are committed. [Stats. 1895, p. 122.]

In full in Appendix to Penal Code, p. 686.

To provide for a branch state prison at Folsom.

1873-4, p. 785.]

This act appears in full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 705.

[Stats

ACT 2761.

[Stats.

For the government of the state prison convicts and to provide for the location of a branch prison. 1858, p. 295.]...

ACT 2762.

Regulating and governing state prison.

832.]

[Stats. 1875-6, p.

Repealed by the constitution of 1879, 1880, 67, chap. LXXI:

1889, 404.

ACT 2763.

To regulate and govern the state prisons.

404.]

[Stats. 1889, p.

This act appears in full in Penal Code, Appendix, p, 691.

ACT 2764.

Concerning conveyances. [Stats. 1862, p. 496.]

This act provided for the acknowledgments of deeds and instruments by prisoners. Compare sec. 675, Penal Code.

ACT 2765.

To provide for the erection and operation of rock-crushing plants at the state prisons, for the preparation of highway material for the benefit of the people of the state and providing for the necessary advances and appropriation of money to carry out said work. [Stats. 1895, p. 274.]

This act appears in full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 710.

ACT 2766.

Authorizing the state board of prison directors to pur

chase California-grown hemp to be used in the manufacture of grain bags, and to fix the price at which such bags shall be sold. [Stats. 1901, p. 515.]

This act appears in full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 716.

ACT 2767.

Providing for furnishing to sheriffs and chiefs of police of certain information, descriptions and photographs of convicts about to be discharged from state prison. [Stats. 1897, p. 213.]

ACT 2768.

Providing for the confinement of prisoners of the United States. [Stats. 1856, p. 29.]

Supplemented 1863-4, 24. Superseded by Penal Code, sec. 1581.

ACT 2769.

To provide for the erection at Folsom state prison of a building for the accommodation of the insane pris oners and making an appropriation therefor. [Stats. 1903, p. 519.]

ACT 2770.

To provide for the erection at San Quentin of a building to accommodate insane prisoners. [Stats. 1889, p. 419.] Repealed 1893, 148.

ACT 2771.

To provide for the construction of a sewerage system at the state prison at Folsom. [Stats. 1899, p. 29.]

ACT 2772.

To regulate and govern the operation of the rock-crushing plant at the Folsom state prison, to provide for the sale of crushed rock and the disposition of the reve nues derived therefrom. [Stats. 1897, p. 99.]

This act appears in full in Penal Code, Appendix, p. 713. ACT 2773. Directing the state prison directors of the state of Callfornia to employ at least twenty prisoners in the construction of roads to the state prisons at San Quentin and at Folsom. [Approved March 12, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 127.]

This act can be found in the Appendix to the Penal Code, p. 719.

ACT 2774.

Directing the state prison directors to employ at least twenty prisoners in the construction of roads to the state prison at San Quentin. [Stats. 1893, p. 141.] Probably superseded by the act of 1903, 127.

ACT 2775.

See act 2773, ante.

An act creating the office of matron of the jail or prison in and for cities and towns of the first, first and one half, second, and third classes, wherein official ma trons or their duties are not now provided for by law. defining the duties and powers and fixing the term of office and compensation of, and providing for the appointment of, and the giving of official bond by, such matron.

[Approved March 23, 1901.

Stats. 1901, 573.]