shall be let or contracted out at a price less than one dollar per day for each convict; provided further, that this section shall not apply to contracts heretofore entered into.

SEC. 26. The board of directors shall have power to contract for the supply of gas and water for said prisons, upon such terms as said board shali deem to be for the best interest of the state, or to manufacture gas or furnish water themselves, at their option.

SEC. 27. No officer or employee shall receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation for his services other than that prescribed by the directors; nor shall he receive any compensation whatever, directly or indirectly, for any act or service which he may do or perform for or on behalf of any contractor, or agent, or employee of a contractor. For any violation of the provisions of this section, the officer, agent, or employee of the state shall be discharged from his office or service; and every contractor, or employee, or agent of a contractor engaged therein, shall be expelled from the prison grounds, and not again permitted within the same as a contractor, agent, or employee.

SEC. 28. No officer or employee of the state, or contractor or employee of a contractor, shall, without permission of the board of directors, make any gift or present to a convict, or receive any from a convict, or have any barter or dealings with a prisoner. For every violation of the provisions of this section the party engaged therein shall incur the same penalty as prescribed in section twenty-seven.

SEC. 29. No officer or employee of the prison shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or purchase made or authorized to be made by any one for or on behalf of the prisons.

SEC. 30. Repealed. [In effect March 14, 1881. ]

SEC. 31. There shall be printed annually, for the use of the prisons, five hundred copies of the annual report of the board of directors, and the clerk shall annually transmit to each of the state prisons in the United States one copy of such report. SEC. 32. All the bonds of officers and employees under this act shall be deposited with the secretary of state.

SEC. 33. If any of the shops or buildings in which convicts are employed are destroyed in any way, or injured by fire, or otherwise, they may be rebuilt or repaired immediately, under the direction of the board of directors, by and with the advice and consent of the governor, attorney-general, and secretary of state, and the expenses thereof paid out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated by law. SEC. 34. The board of directors must report to the governor from time to time the names of any and all persons confined in the state prisons who, in their judgment, ougat to

be pardoned out and set at liberty on account of good conduct, or unusual term of sentences, or any other cause, which, in their opinion, should entitle such prisoner to pardon.

SEC. 35. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. In effect April 15, 1880 Stats. 1850, p. 67, Ban. Ed. 243. As amended by act of March 14, 1881.]

An Act to create an additional police judge's court for the city and county of San Francisco, to define its powers and jurisdiction.

SECTION 1. There is hereby created and established in and for the city and county of San Francisco an additional police judge's court, to be known and designated as the "police judge's court, number 2," which court shall have concurrent jurisdiction of all preliminary examinations of persons charged with felony, and of all misdemeanors and violations of city and county ordinances, and all other offenses of which the police judge's court of said city and county now has jurisdiction.

SEC. 2. There shall be, as far as practicable, an equal distribution of cases between the said courts, which cases shall be alternately set down for trial to each court in the order in which the warrants are issued.

SEC. 3. The mode of examination, trial, and procedure in the police judge's court number 2 shall in all cases be governed by the same rules prescribed by law for other police courts in similar cases.

SEC. 4. A judge of the police judge's court number 2 shall be elected at the same time and in a like manner as the police judge of the police judge's court of said city and county, and whose term of office shall be the same. The governor of the state of California shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, appoint some suitable person as judge of the police judge's court number 2, who shall hold such office until his successor has been elected and qualified. The compensation of the judge of the police judge's court number 2 shall be four thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as the salary of the police judge of said city and county is now paid.

SEC. 5. The said police judge's court number 2 shall hold its session in the city and county of San Francisco, in such central and convenient place as shall be provided for that purpose by the board of supervisors. The said board of supervisors shall also, within thirty days after the passage of this act, elect some suitable person as prosecuting attorney of the said police judge's court number 2, at the same salary per annum as is now paid to the prosecuting attorney of the police

judge's court of said city and county. And said board of supervisors shall elect a clerk of court, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as the salaries of the judge and clerk of the police judge's court of said city and county are now paid.

SEC. 6. The judge of the police judge's court number 2 shall be a conservator of the peace in said city and county, and may exercise all the powers conferred by law upon the police judge as magistrate.

SEC. 7. The judge of said court shall appoint a suitable person to act as bailiff of said Court, who shall receive a like compensation for such services as is now paid to the bailiff of the police judge's court for said city and county. [In effect March 7, 1881.]

An Act to prevent fraud and deception in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese.

SECTION 1. Whoever manufactures, sells, or offers for sale, or causes the same to be done, any substance purporting to be butter or cheese having the semblance of butter or cheese, which substance is not made wholly from pure cream or milk, unless the same be manufactured under its true and appropriate name, and unless each package, roll, or parcel of such substance, and each vessel, containing one or more packages of such substance has distinctly and durably painted, stamped, or marked thereon in English the true and approriate name of such substance, in ordinary bold face capital letters, not less than five lines pica, shall be punished as provided in section three of this act.

SEC. 2. Whoever shall sell any such substance as is raentioned in section one of this act, or causes the same to be done without having on each package, roll, or parcel so sold a label attached thereto, on which is plainly and legibly printed in English in roman letters, the true and appropriate name of such substance, shall be punished as is provided in section three of this act.

SEC. 3. Whoever shall violate section one or section two of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; provided, that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to prevent the use of skimmed milk, salt rennet, or harmless coloring matter in the manufacture of butter or cheese.

SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. [In effect March, 2, 1881.1

An Act to authorize the appointment of an interpreter of the Italian language and dialects, in criminal proceedings, in cities and cities and counties of one hundred thousand inhabitants.

SECTION 1. In all cities and cities and counties of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, where an interpreter of the Italian language is necessary, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Police Judge of such city, or city and county, and of the Superior Judge of said city and county, or of the county in which said city is situated, or where there are more Judges than one, then it shall be the duty of the presiding Judge of said Superior Court, and the Mayor and Police Judge, to appoint an interpreter of the Italian language, who shall be an Italian, and who must also be able to interpret the Italian dialects into the English language, to be employed in criminal proceedings, when necessary, in said cities, or cities and counties.

SEC. 2. The said interpreter shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which shall be paid out of the General Fund of such city, or city and county. SEC. 3. This Act shall not repeal any Act heretofore made and now in force for the appointment of interpreters, except so much of any Act which may conflict with this Act in the appointment of Italian interpreters. [In effect March 12th, 1885.]

An act to provide for the commitment of persons convicted of crime to the House of Correction.

SECTION 1. Any Court or judicial officer authorized by law to commit persons to the county jail in any county, or city and county, of this State, wherein there is situated a House of Correction, may commit to said House of Correction, instead of to the county jail, any person convicted of crime, the punishment for which now is imprisonment in the said jail; but no person shall be sentenced to imprisonment therein for a shorter or longer term than that for which he might be sentenced in the county jail. [In effect March 9th, 1885.]

An Act to provide for the Police Courts in cities having thirty thousand and under one hundred thousand inhabitants, and to provide for officers thereof.

SECTION 1. The judicial power of every city having thirty thousand and under one hundred thousand inhabitants, shall be vested in a Police Court to be held therein by the city Justices, or one of them, to be designated by the Mayor, but either of said city Justices may hold such Court without such designation, and it is hereby made the duty of said clty Justices, in addition to the duties now required of them by law. to hold said Police Court.

SEC. 2. The Police Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the following public offenses committed in the city.

1. Petit larceny.

2. Assault or battery not charged to have been committed upon a public officer in the discharge of official duty or with intent to kill.

3. Breaches of the peace, riots, affrays, committing willful injury to property, and all misdemeanors punishable by fine or by imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

4. Of proceedings respecting vagrants, lewd, or disorderly persons.

SEC. 3. Said Court shall also have exclusive jurisdiction of all proceedings for violation of any ordinance of said city, both civil and criminal, and of an action for the collection of any license required by any ordinance of said city.

SEC. 4. Neither of said Justices shall sit in cases in which he is a party, or in which he is interested, or where he is related to either party by consanguinity or affinity within the third degree: and in case of the sickness or inability of the city Justices, either of them may call in a Justice of the Peace residing in the county to act in his place and stead.

SEC. 5. Each of the city Justices, while acting as Judge of said Court, shall also have power to hear cases for examination, and may commit and hold the offender to bail for trial in the proper Court, and may try, condemn, or acquit, and carry his judgment into execution, as the case may require, according to law, and punish persons guilty of contempt of Court, and shall have power to issue warrants of arrest in case of a criminal prosecution for a violation of a city ordinance, as well as in case of the viola