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certified by the Board of Examiners as the proper and just amount to be paid. Nothing herein shall authorize or empower the Board of Examiners to increase the amount allowed by the Legislature.

SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER CCXXI.

An Act to add a new article to chapter one, of title two, part three, of the Political Code of the State of California, to be known and designated as article four; and to add six new sections, to be known and designated as sections one thousand and seventy-five, one thousand and seventy-six, one thousand and seventy-seven, one thousand and seventy-eight, one thousand and seventy-nine, and one thousand and eighty, relative to County, City, and City and County Boards of Election Commissioners.

[Approved March 28, 1895.]

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

SECTION 1. A new article is hereby added to chapter one, title two, part three, of the Political Code of the State of California, to be known and designated as article four; and six new sections are hereby added to said Political Code, under said new article, to be known and designated as sections one thousand and seventy-five, one thousand and seventy-six, one thousand and seventy-seven, one thousand and seventy-eight, one thousand and seventy-nine, and one thousand and eighty, to read as follows:

ARTICLE IV.

CITY, CITY AND COUNTY, AND COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.

1075. Board of Election Commissioners.

1076. Powers to be exercised by Commissioners.

1077. Clerks of Boards.

1078. Duties of Clerks.

1079. Expenditure of moneys.

1080. Statutes continued in force.

1075. The Board of Supervisors of each county is ex officio the Board of Election Commissioners in and for the county, and the Common Council, or other governing body of a city, is ex officio the Board of Election Commissioners in and for such city; provided, that in cities and cities and counties of this State having one hundred and fifty thousand or more inhabitants the Board of Election Commissioners shall consist of four persons, citizens and electors of such city, or city and county, each of whom must be a freeholder, and have been an actual resident of said city and county at least five years pre

ceding his appointment, who shall be appointed by the Mayor; provided, that the respective Executive Committees of the State Committees of either of the political parties who may be entitled under the provisions of this Act to have members of their party appointed as members of said Board of Election Commissioners, shall have the right, within ten days after such appointment, to file with the Mayor a written protest against the appointment of a member of said Board of Election Commissioners, as having been appointed as one of affiliation with said party, on the grounds that said appointee is not a person of well-known affiliation and standing with said party from which he has been appointed; and the Mayor thereupon shall make another appointment in the place of the party against whom the protest has been filed. The members of said Commission shall be ineligible to any other office or public employment, elective or appointive, during the term for which they have been appointed and for one year thereafter. Two of the persons so appointed shall be selected from the body of citizens and electors of such city, or city and county, of known affiliation with and belonging to the political party or organization which at the last Presidential election held in such city, or city and county, polled within said city, or city and county, the highest number of votes cast for the candidates of the political party for Presidential Electors at such election; and the two remaining members of said Board shall be selected from the body of electors of such city, or city and county, of known affiliation with and belonging to the political party which, at the last Presidential election held at such city, or city and county, polled within such city, or city and county, the next highest number of votes cast for the candidates for Presidential Electors of a political party. The members of said Commission shall, every two years, choose one of their number as Chairman; in the event of their failure to select a Chairman in five ballots, the oldest of said members in point of years shall be Chairman. The persons first appointed as such Board of Election Commissioners shall be appointed on the first Monday of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and shall each hold their office for the term of four years from and after the date of their appointment, except that of those first appointed, two (one belonging to each political party or organization, as aforesaid), to be designated by the Mayor, shall retire at the end of two years, when their successors shall be appointed by the Mayor. Whenever any vacancy shall occur in the said Board, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment as herein prescribed, and the person so appointed to fill such vacancy shall be selected in the same manner and from the same political party or organization with which his predecessor in office affiliated and belonged at the time of his appointment thereto, and shall hold office for the balance of the unexpired term to which he was appointed. The salary of each member of the Board of Election Commissioners in and for a city, or city and county, having one hundred thousand or more inhabitants, shall be seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, payable in equal

monthly installments, out of the treasury of such city, or city and county, in the same manner as the salaries of other officers of such city, or city and county, are paid.

1076. The Board of Election Commissioners, as provided for in this article, shall, within their respective counties, cities, or cities and counties, be invested with and shall exercise all the powers conferred, and shall discharge and perform all the duties imposed by this Code or by any law of this State, upon Boards of Supervisors of the several counties, or upon the Common Council or other governing body of cities, or upon any other Board or body, in respect to the conduct, control, management, and supervision of elections, and all matters pertaining to elections held within the respective counties, cities, or cities and counties, as the same are now or may be hereafter prescribed by law.

1077. The County Clerk is ex officio Clerk of the Board of Election Commissioners of the county, and the Clerk or Secretary of the Common Council or other governing body of a city is ex officio the Clerk or Secretary of the Board of Election Commissioners; provided, that in cities, or cities and counties, of this State having one hundred and fifty thousand or more inhabitants, the Board of Election Commissioners shall appoint a suitable person, not one of their own number, to act as Secretary, at a salary not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per month, payable in the same manner as the salaries of the Commissioners are paid. Such Secretary shall hold his office during the pleasure of the said Board.

The Secretary of the Board of Election Commissioners shall not, during the term of his office, engage in any other calling or trade, or profession or employment, and shall be ineligible to be a candidate or delegate to any convention which shall nominate candidates for office, and he shall be ineligible to be voted for for any office while acting as such Secretary; and if these provisions of the law are not obeyed, it shall be the duty of the Board of Election Commissioners forthwith to declare his place vacated, and the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner and terms as provided for in the original appointment. Each member of the Board of Election Commissioners, and the Secretary elected by said Board of Election Commissioners, shall, within fifteen days after receiving notice of their appointment, take the usual oath of office before any Judge of the Superior Court of said county, or city and county, and said oaths of office shall be filed with the County Clerk of said city and county.

The Board of Election Commissioners shall have the power to appoint all deputies, and such clerks as may be necessary, and to fix their salaries at the time of their employment. All deputies and clerks thus appointed shall be equally divided between the representatives of the political parties that polled the highest and the next to the highest number of votes at the preceding Presidential election. The salaries of all deputies and clerks that may be appointed by said Board of Election Commissioners shall be payable in equal monthly installments

out of the treasury of said city, or city and county, in the same manner as the salaries of other officers of such city, or city and county, are paid.

The members of the Board of Election Commissioners, the Secretary of the Board of Election Commissioners, all deputies and clerks appointed by the Board of Election Commissioners, and all election officers, shall have the power to administer oaths; and any false oaths taken before them, or either of them, shall be deemed to be perjury, and the person so convicted thereof shall be punished according to law.

1078. The County Clerk of each county, and the Clerk or Secretary of the Common Council of a city, shall, within their respective counties or cities, exercise all the powers conferred, and shall discharge and perform all the duties imposed by this Code, or by any law of this State, upon such officers in respect to the conduct, management, and supervision of elections, and matters pertaining to elections, held within the respective counties or cities, as the same are now or may be hereafter prescribed by law; provided, that in cities, or cities and counties, having one hundred and fifty thousand or more inhabitants, the Secretary of the Board of Election Commissioners, under the direction of the Board of Election Commissioners, shall exercise all the powers conferred, and shall discharge and perform all the duties imposed by this Code, or by any law of this State, upon the County Clerk or any other officer in such cities, or cities and counties, in respect to the conduct and supervision of matters relating to elections held within such cities, or cities and counties, as the same are now or may be hereafter prescribed by law.

1079. Whenever the Clerk, Secretary, or any officer of a county, city, or city and county, is charged with the performance of any official duty in respect to elections which involves the expenditure of public moneys, such expenditures shall be subject to the control and supervision of the Board of Election Commissioners; and when any printing or other service is to be performed, or materials are to be furnished, the amount of which in the aggregate shall exceed the value of five hundred dollars, it shall be the duty of the Board of Election Commissioners to invite proposals for the work, or the furnishing of the materials, and to let the contract for the same to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, in the same manner and upon the same conditions as is required in the letting of contracts for doing other and similar work, or furnishing other and similar materials, for county, city, or city and county purposes; provided, that no such proposal or bid shall be required for the contract to print ballots, if the time within which such ballots must be had does not reasonably admit of such proposal and bid.

1080. Nothing contained in this article affects any of the provisions of this Code, or of any statute of this State, touching the registration and qualification of voters and the method of calling, holding, and conducting elections, in force in any county, city, or city and county; but such provisions and statutes are recognized as continuing in force, except so far as

they are inconsistent with the provisions of this article upon the subject to which this article relates.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

CHAPTER CCXXII.

An Act to create and establish a Commission for revising, systematizing, and reforming the laws of this State, and for the appointment of the members of said Commission, to be known as "The Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the Law," and to prescribe their powers and duties; and to authorize the appointment of a Secretary and Stenographer therefor; and to provide for the compensation and expenses of said Commission, Secretary, and Stenographer, and to appropriate money therefor.

[Approved March 28, 1895.]

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

The Commission.

SECTION 1. A non-partisan Commission, consisting of three persons as hereinafter designated, is hereby created and established, for the purposes of revising, compiling, correcting, amending, systematizing, improving, and reforming the laws of this State, for the advancement and welfare of the people thereof. Qualifications of Members.

SEC. 2. The members of said Commission shall be known and designated as "The Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the Law," and the term of office shall be two (2) years from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. They shall not belong to the same political party, but shall be members of the legal profession who have for more than five years prior to their appointment been engaged in the practice of the law in this State, and admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. Each shall be appointed from and represent a separate portion of the State.

Manner of Appointment.

SEC. 3. Said Commissioners shall be appointed by the Governor within ten days from the passage of this Act. In case of a vacancy or vacancies in said Commission by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, a successor or successors to fill such vacancy or vacancies for the unexpired term shall be appointed in like manner.

Notice of Appointment.

SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall, after the passage of this Act and the appointment of such Commissioners, immediately notify each appointee thereof, and issue to each appointee a commission, under the great seal of this State, notifying him of the passage of said Act and of his appointment by the Governor. Each appointee shall immediately upon receiving said

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