Powers. Articles of tion to set forth, what. lawful for the bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder of such religious denomination, society, or church to become a sole corporation, in the manner prescribed in this title, as nearly as may be, and with all the powers and duties, and for the uses and purposes in this title provided for religious incorporations, and subject to all the conditions, limitations, and provisions in said title prescibed. Every corporation sole shall, however, for the purposes of the trust, have power to contract in the same manner and to the same extent as a natural person, and may sue and be sued, and may defend, in all courts and places, in all matters and proceedings whatever, and shall have authority to borrow money, and give promissory notes therefor, and to secure the payment thereof by mortgage or other lien upon property, real or personal; to buy, sell, lease, mortgage, and in every way deal in real and personal property in the same manner that a natural person may, and without the order of any court; to receive bequests and devises for its own use or upon trusts to the same extent as natural persons may; and to appoint attorneys in fact. The articles of incorporation to be filed shall set forth the facts authorizing such incorporation, and declare the manner in which any vacancy occurring in the incumbency of such bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder is required by the rules, regulations, or discipline of such denomination, society, or church to be filled, which statement shall be verified by affidavit, and for proof of the appointment or election of such bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder, or of any succeeding incumbent of such corporation, it shall be sufficient to record with the clerk of the county in which such bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder resides, the original or a copy of his commission, or certificate, or letters of election or appointment, duly attested; provided, all property held by such bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder shall be in trust for the use, purpose, and behoof of his religious denomination, society, or church. The limitation in section limitation five hundred and ninety-five shall not apply to corporations formed under this section, when the land is held or used for churches, hospitals, schools, colleges, orphan asylums, parsonages, or cemetery purposes. Any judge of the Superior Court in the county in which any corporation is formed under this chapter shall at all times have access to the books of such incorporation. Any corporation sole heretofore organized and Continua existing under the laws of this State may elect to continue its existence under this title by filing a certificate to that effect, under its corporate seal and the hand of its incumbent, or amended articles of incorporation, in the form required by this title, and as prescribed by section two hundred and eighty-seven of this Code; and from and after the filing of such certificate or amended articles, such corporation shall be entitled to the privileges and subject to the duties, liabilities, and provisions in this title expressed. Certain does not apply. tion of corpora tion sole. CHAPTER XCIX. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable school districts in cities of the fifth class, and school districts which embrace territory a portion of which is within and a portion of which is without such cities of the fifth class, to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to purchase school lots, and for building or purchasing one or more school-houses, and supplying the same with furniture, necessary apparatus, and improving the grounds, and for liquidating any indebtedness already incurred for such purposes, and to repeal an Act approved March 31, 1891, entitled an Act to enable cities of the fifth class to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to purchase school lots, and for building or purchasing one or more school-houses, and supplying the same with furniture, necessary apparatus, and improving the grounds, and for liquidating any indebtedness already incurred for such purposes," approved March 23, 1893, by amending sections one, eight, and nine thereof, so as to provide more fully for carrying into effect the intention of the provisions of said Act. [Approved March 11, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Act SECTION 1. Section one of an Act entitled "An Act to School disenable school districts in cities of the fifth class, and school tricts of districts which embrace a territory a portion of which is within fifth class. and a portion of which is without such cities of the fifth class, amended. to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to purchase school lots, and for building or purchasing one or more schoolhouses, and supplying the same with furniture, necessary apparatus, and improving the grounds, and for liquidating any indebtedness already incurred for such purposes, and to repeal an Act approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled an Act to enable cities of the fifth class to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to purchase school lots and for building or purchasing one or more school-houses, and supplying the same with furniture, necessary apparatus, and improving the grounds, and for liquidating any indebtedness already incurred for such purposes," approved March twentythird, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: education money The board of education of any school district in a city Duty of of the fifth class, or of any school district which embraces board of territory, a portion of which is within and a portion of as to which is without such city of the fifth class, may, when in raising their judgment it is advisable, and must, when requested by for school the Board of Trustees of such city, call an election and submit to the electors of the district whether the bonds of such district shall be issued and sold for the purpose of raising money to purposes. Duty of Supervisors. Duties of of Equali Controller. purchase school lots, and for building or purchasing one or more school-houses, and supplying the same with furniture, necessary apparatus, and improving the grounds, and for liquidating any indebtedness already incurred for such purposes. SEC. 2. Section eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 8. The Board of Supervisors, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, must levy a tax for that year upon the taxable property in such district for the interest and redemption of said bonds; and such tax must not be less than sufficient to pay the interest of said bonds for that year, and such portion of the principal as is to become due during such year, and in any event must be high enough to raise, annually, for the first half of the term said bonds have to run, a sufficient sum to pay the interest thereon, and during the balance of the term, high enough to pay such annual interest; and to pay, annually, a proportion of the principal of said bonds equal to a sum produced by taking the whole amount of said bonds outstanding and dividing it by the number of years said bonds then have to run; and all moneys so levied, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the building fund of such district, and be used for the payment of principal and interest on said bonds, and for no other purpose. The principal and interest on said bonds shall be paid by the County Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Auditor, out of the fund provided therefor; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor to cancel and file with the Treasurer the bonds and coupons as rapidly as they are paid. This section shall also apply to all cases where bonds were issued under the provisions of the aforesaid Act, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in such cases all moneys collected under the provisions of this section shall be paid by the County Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Auditor, to the City Treasurer of the city where such bonds and the interest thereon are payable. Warrants for all such moneys shall be drawn by the Auditor from time to time, upon the demand of such City Treasurer. SEC. 3. Section nine of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 9. If the Board of Supervisors of any county in which any school district has issued bonds, under the provisions of this Act, or under the provisions of said Act approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall fail to make the levy necessary to pay such bonds or interest coupons at maturity, and the same shall have been presented to the County Treasurer, and the payment thereof refused, the owner may file the bonds, together with all unpaid coupons, with the State Controller, taking his receipt therefor, and the same shall be registered in the State Controller's office; and the State Board of Equalization shall, at their next session, and at each annual equalization thereafter, add to the state tax to be levied in said district a sufficient rate to raise the amount of principal and interest past due prior to the next levy, and the same shall be levied and collected as a part of the state tax, and paid into the state treasury, and passed to the special credit of such district bond tax, and shall be paid by warrants, as the payments mature, to the holder of such registered obligations, as shown by the register in the office of the State Controller, until the same shall be fully satisfied and discharged; any balance then remaining shall be transmitted to the Treasurer of the county in which is situated the district by which such bonds were issued, and shall be placed by the County Treasurer to the credit of the general school fund of said district. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER C. An Act to provide for the purchase of a portrait of ex-Governor John McDougall, by the State Board of Examiners, and to appropriate money therefor. [Approved March 11, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and of ex-Gov SECTION 1. The State Board of Examiners are hereby author- Portrait ized to contract with a competent artist for the purchase of a ernor Mcportrait of ex-Governor John McDougall, the same to be appro- Dougall, priately framed, at a price not to exceed five hundred dollars; and upon delivery of such portrait, so framed, to the said Board of Examiners, the Controller shall draw his warrant as said Board of Examiners may direct, for the amount of the contract price, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. tion. SEC. 2. The sum of five hundred dollars, or so much Appropriathereof as may be necessary to pay the Controller's warrant, drawn under the provisions of section one of this Act, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose named in section one of this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Accepting tution. Description. CHAPTER CI. An Act to accept from the Veterans' Home Association the conveyance of, and to vest the title in the State of California to, the tract of land in Napa County known as the Veterans' Home, with the improvements and furnishings thereon, to make the same a state home for United States soldiers, sailors, and marines, and to provide for the government thereof by the State. [Approved March 11, 1897.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The State of California accepts from the Veterans' home as Home Association, a private corporation, and for the purposes State insti- of a home for aged and indigent ex-soldiers, sailors, and marines of the United States army, a conveyance of the following described real estate, with all the improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto belonging, and the personal property connected therewith, situate in Napa County, State of California, to wit: Commencing at a point in the center of the county road leading from Napa City to Yountville, from which point a stone in the center of said road bears north thirty degrees west fifteen (15) links distant, said stone being sixty and eight one hundredths (60.08) chains southerly from the intersection of said road with the south line of lands formerly belonging to George C. Yount and granted to him by the Mexican government, and running thence south thirty degrees east, thirtythree and eighty-five one hundredths (33.85) chains to a point in the center of the above-mentioned road from which a white oak thirty inches in diameter bears north eighty-seven degrees east one and eighteen one hundredths (1.18) chains distant, thence south fifty-nine degrees west seventy-eight (78) chains and eight (8) links; thence north thirty degrees west about thirty-five (35) chains to the southerly line of the one hundred (100) acre tract commonly known as the Jessee one hundred (100) acre tract, thence south fifty-nine degrees west to the southwesterly corner of said Jessee tract; thence north thirty degrees west to the western line of the land granted by the Mexican government to Salvador Vallejo; thence north fourteen degrees east along said grant line to where said grant line intersects the northerly line of said Jessee tract; thence in the northerly line of said Jessee tract north fifty-nine degrees east to the northeastern corner of said Jessee tract; thence south thirty degrees east about twenty-one chains to the northerly line of land conveyed by J. M. Harbin to W. S. Clark by deed dated June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, recorded in liber "C" of deeds, page five hundred and nineteen, records of Napa County; thence in a northerly line of said last-mentioned tract north fifty-nine degrees east three and ninety-three one hundredths (3.93) chains to a stake in a mound of stones; thence |