useful to have answered, which instructions and forms shall be furnished to any person applying for them, and shall also be sent in sufficient numbers to the County Clerks in the several counties of the State. tion for pupils. SEC. 10. If the capacity of the Home allows the reception Compensaof any additional pupils, the Trustees may admit younger or older persons of same class upon the same terms before specified, and also non-residents of the State; but for all of this last class, the Trustees shall charge and receive for the Home a fair rate of compensation to be fixed by the Trustees; and residence in the Home, on the part of a person admitted as a non-resident of the State, shall not be held to change that status. institution. SEC. 11. The object aimed at in the institution shall be objects of such care, training, and educating of those received as to render them more comfortable, happy, and better fitted to care for and support themselves. To this end the Trustees shall furnish them such agricultural and mechanical education as they may be capable of receiving, and as the facilities offered by the State will allow, including farm work, shops, and the employment of trade teachers, who may at any time be discharged for cause. supplies. SEC. 12. The Trustees are hereby authorized and required Trustees to to contract for provisions, clothing, medicines, fuel, and all contract for other supplies necessary for the support of the Home, for any period not exceeding one year, and such contracts shall be limited to bona fide dealers in the articles contracted for. Such contracts shall be given to the lowest bidder, at a public letting thereof, if the price bid is a fair and reasonable one, and not greater than the usual market rates. Each bid shall be accompanied by such security as the Board may require, conditioned upon the bidder entering into contract upon the terms of his bid, on notice of the acceptance thereof, and presenting a penal bond, with securities satisfactory to the Board, in such sum as the Board may direct, that he will faithfully perform his contract. Notice of the time, place, Notice to be and conditions of the letting of each contract shall be given published. thence weekly for two successive weeks, in one daily paper published in the City of San Francisco, and once weekly, for two successive weeks, in a paper published in the county, and nearest the place where the Home shall be located. SEC. 13. The Trustees, on the fifteenth day of November Reports. annually, shall make a report to the Governor of the condition and progress of the Home, together with an exhibit in detail of all receipts and expenditures. SEC. 14. The Superintendent shall, annually, after the close of the fiscal year, and before the date at which the Trustees are required to make their annual report, make to the Trustees a report giving the names, age, sex, nativity, residence, and date of reception of each pupil in the institution within the preceding year, and the average number in attendance during the year, and as far as can be ascertained, the causes of imbecility; also the number discharged, with the date and reason therefor in each case, together with the names of all paying pupils, and the amounts charged for Visitations monthly. Vouchers. Trustees no pay. Treasurer. Bond. them, and the amounts paid or unpaid; and also such other information and suggestions as to him may seem proper, which report shall be sent through the Board to the Governor, with the report of the Trustees, and shall be printed for the use of the Legislature. SEC. 15. There shall be visitations and thorough examinations of all departments of the institution, monthly, by one or more of said Trustees, and quarterly by a majority of them; and at each visitation there shall be drawn and placed on record a detailed statement of the condition of the Home, to be signed by the Trustees making the statement, and to be at all times open to the inspection of legislative committees charged with the duties of examining public institutions. The Trustees, during their monthly visitation, shall examine the books and accounts, and no account or claim shall be paid until it has been examined and certified as correct by at least two of the Trustees. SEC. 16. No bill shall be paid except upon accounts, certificates, or vouchers, duly certified by the Superintendent, approved by the Board of Trustees. SEC. 17. The Trustees shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to receive their necessary expenses while attending to the business of the Home. SEC. 18. The Board of Trustees shall elect a Treasurer, who shall not be one of their number, and shall fix his compensation. He shall be required to give a bond in such sum as the Trustees may determine, with good and sufficient sureties, to their satisfaction, for the faithful performance of his duties, and shall have the custody of all moneys, bonds, notes, mortgages, and other securities and obligations belonging to the Home. He shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and payments, in the manner directed by the by-laws, and such other accounts as the Trustees shall prescribe. He shall balance all his accounts annually, at the close of the fiscal year, and make a statement of the balances therein, and an abstract of all receipts and payments of the past year, which he shall, upon demand, deliver to the Auditing Committee of the Board of Trustees, who shall compare the same with his books and vouchers, and verify the same by a further comparison with the books of the Superintendent, and certify their findings upon such examinations to the Trustees at their annual meeting. He shall further render an account of the state of his books, and of the funds and other property in his custody, whenever required to do so by the Trustees. SEC. 19. The Trustees are authorized and empowered to receive, on behalf of the State, from the "California Association for the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children," the pupils now in their charge, and also any property, moneys, credits, or things of value, which said association may desire to transfer to this State institution. SEC. 20. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars for the purposes of this Act. SEC. 21. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CLVII. An Act to amertd sections one, four, five, and eight, of an Act approved March 3, 1883, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create Hastings College of the Law, in the University of the State of California," approved March 26, 1878. [Approved March 18, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of the Act of which this is amendatory, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create Hastings College of the Law, in the University of the State of California," approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, is amended to read as follows: authorized who are. Section 1. That S. C. Hastings be authorized to found and s.C. Hastings establish a law college, to be forever known and designated to found as Hastings College of the Law. That the officers of said col- Hastings College shall be a Dean, Registrar, and three Trustees; that the lege of Law. Trustees shall be Thomas P. Stoney, Louis T. Haggin, and Officers, R. Porter Ashe, and when vacancies shall occur among the Trustees, such vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the Trustees. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, by and with Vacancies, the consent of the remaining Trustees, or Trustee, if any such Regents of there be. The Regents of the University of California shall University of have the same control of the college as they possess over the academic department of the University, except as herein provided. SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is amended to read as follows: how filled. California. President of Trustees Section 4. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Cali- Chief Justice fornia shall be ex officio President of the Trustees, and, with ex officio the concurrence of the Trustees, shall draw the funds of the Trustees. college from the State Treasury, and the Treasurer of the State of California is hereby authorized to pay any and all moneys appropriated to said college upon the order of the Chief Justice of the State of California, as above provided. If, from any cause, there shall be no Chief Justice, or he when refuses or neglects to act, the Board of Trustees shall appoint to elect one of their number to draw the funds as above provided, President. and also to fill any vacancy in the Board. The Dean of said Dean ex college shall be ex officio of the Faculty of the University, officio of and entitled to attend meetings of the Board of Regents at University. all times when he shall have business of the college to lay before them, and to be heard on all questions affecting the Trustees may college. The Trustees may acquire, by gift or otherwise, acquire such real estate and other property as may be necessary for the use of said college. SEC. 3. Section five of said Act is amended to read as follows: Faculty of property. College to course of Section 5. The business of the college shall be to afford establish a facilities for the acquisition of legal learning in all branches studies. Matriculation. Lectures. of the law, and to this end it shall establish a curriculum of studies, and shall matriculate students who may reside at the University of the State, as well as students residing in other parts of the State; provided, there shall always be in said college a course of lectures upon the duties of municipal officers in the City and County of San Francisco; and, provided further, that there shall always be in said college a course instruction. of lectures upon legal ethics and morality in business. All instruction in said college shall be free. Free Appropriation. SEC. 4. Section eight of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section 8. The sum of seven per cent per annum upon one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars is to be appropriated by the State to said college, and paid in two semi-annual payments according to the terms of the original foundation. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. Petition for drainage district. Trustees. Petition filed with Clerk CHAPTER CLVIII. An Act to promote drainage. [Approved March 18, 188.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Whenever the owners of two thirds of any body of lands susceptible of one mode of drainage, desire to drain the same, they may present to the Board of Supervisors of the county in which the lands, or the greater portion thereof, are situated, at a regular meeting of the Board, a petition setting forth that they desire to adopt measures to drain the same, the description of the land, the number of acres in the whole district, and the number of acres in each tract, and the names of the owners thereof, and the names of three persons who may desire to serve as Trustees for the first three months; the petition must be verified by the affidavit of one of the petitioners, and must be published for four weeks next preceding the hearing thereof, in some newspaper published in the county in which the lands are situated; or if there is no newspaper published in the county, then it must be published in some newspaper having a general circulation in the county, and an affidavit of such publication must be filed with the petition. SEC. 2. When a district is situated partly in different of Board of counties, the Trustees must, after the petition has been Supervisors, granted, forward a copy thereof to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of any county in which any portion of the district may lie, and the Board to which the same is forwarded must not allow another district to be formed within such district, unless with the consent of the Trustees thereof. Trustees for three months. SEC. 3. If the Board of Supervisors find, upon the hearing of such petition, that the statements are correct, and that no land is improperly included in or excepted from the district, they must note their approval on the petition, which approval must be signed by the President, and attested by the Clerk, and from and after the approval the district is duly formed, and the persons named in the petition are the Trustees for the first three months, and until their successors are appointed. SEC. 4. The petition must then be recorded by the County Recorder. SEC. 5. After the approval of the petition, the petitioners By-laws. may make such by-laws as they deem necessary for future appointment of Trustees, and to effect the work of drainage, keep the same in repair and operation, and for the control and management thereof, by the votes or consent of the owners of a majority of the land in the district. signed. SEC. 6. The by-laws adopted must be signed by persons By whom owning a majority of land in the district, and must be recorded by the County Recorder. SEC. 7. The Board thus formed shall have power to elect President. one of their number President thereof, and to employ engineers to survey, plan, locate, and estimate the cost of the works necessary for drainage, and the land needed for right of way, including drains, canals, sluices, water gates, embankments, and material for construction, and to construct, maintain, and keep in repair all works necessary to the object in view. SEC. 8. The Board of Trustees must report to the Board of Report. Supervisors of the county, or if the district is situated in more than one county, then to the Board of Supervisors of each county in which the district is situated, the plans of the work and estimates of the costs, together with the estimates of the incidental expenses of superintendence, repairs, etc. sioners. SEC. 9. The Board by which the district was formed must Commisappoint three Commissioners, disinterested persons residing in the county in which the district, or some part thereof, is situated, and such Commissioners must view and assess upon the lands situated in the district a charge proportionate to the whole expense, and to the benefit which will result from such work, which charge must be collected and paid into the county treasury as hereinafter provided, and must be placed by the Treasurer to the credit of the district, and paid out .for the work of drainage upon the warrants of the Trustees appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the county. SEC. 10. The warrants drawn by the Trustees must, after Warrants. they are approved by the Board of Supervisors, be presented to the Treasurer of the county, and if they are not paid on presentation, like indorsements must be made thereon, and they must be registered in like manner as county warrants. SEC. 11. If a district is situated partly in different counties, the charges must be paid into the treasury of the county in which the particular tract may be situated. SEC. 12. If the original assessment is insufficient to provide Assessment for the complete drainage of the lands of the district, or if for drainage. further assessments are from time to time required to provide for the protection, maintenance, and repairs of the works, the Trustees must present to the Board of Supervisors by which |