Fees. during said month. He shall, upon payment of the money, file with the treasurer an affidavit, stating that the money so paid is all the taxes or funds that he has collected or received during the preceding month. He shall, upon the receipt of any tax list, give his receipt for the same to the clerk, and shall, upon depositing with the clerk the delinquent tax list, take his receipt therefor. He shall receive from the clerk all licenses, and collect the same. He shall have charge of the prison and prisoners, and of any chaingang which may be established by the board of trustees. He shall for service of any process receive the same fees as constables, but his fees for services in any criminal action or proceeding upon process issued from the recorder's court shall not be a charge against the county. He may appoint, subject to the approval of the Deputies. board of trustees, one or more deputies, for whose acts he and his bondsmen shall be responsible, whose only compensation shall be fees for the service of process, which shall be the same as those allowed to the marshal. He may also, with the concurrence of the president of the board of trustees, when the same may be by them deemed necessary for the preservation of public order, appoint additional policemen, who shall discharge the duties assigned them for one day only. He shall Compensa perform such other services as this act and the ordinances of the board of trustees shall require, and shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by ordinance. tion. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Limitation of realty CHAPTER CXXV. An act to amend section 595 of an act entitled "An act to establish a Civil Code, approved March 21, 1872," relating to the amount, character and location of real estate that may be owned or held by corporations whose object is not pecuniary profit. [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section five hundred and ninety-five of the act entitled "An act to establish a Civil Code, approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 595. All such corporations may hold all the property holdings. of the association owned prior to incorporation, or acquired thereafter in any manner, and transact all business relative thereto; but no such corporation must own or hold more real estate than may be necessary for the business and objects of the association, and providing burial grounds for its deceased members, not to exceed six whole lots in any city or town, nor more than fifty acres in the country, the annual increase, income, or profit whereof must not exceed fifty thousand dollars; provided, that any such corporation now or hereafter having, and having had continuously, for the next preceding three years, the care, custody, control, and maintenance each year, upon an annual average of not less than one hundred orphans, half orphans, and indigent minor children, at any one orphan asylum, shall be entitled and allowed to own and possess any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of land in the country, outside of any incorporated city or town, and the annual income or profit of which does not exceed fifty thousand dollars; and provided further, that the limitations herein provided for shall not apply to corporations formed, or to be formed, under section six hundred. and two of the Civil Code, when the land is held or used for churches, hospitals, schools, colleges, orphan asylums, parsonages, or cemetery purposes, or to corporations organized other than for profit, when the land is timber land, and not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in extent, and is held or used for the purposes of the organizations, in which case said land shall be subject to all laws regulating the preservation of forests. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately from and after its passage. CHAPTER CXXVI. An act to amend an act entitled, "An act to establish a Penal Code," by adding a new section thereto to be numbered six hundred and twenty-five a, relating to unlawful interferences with public fire alarms. [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That an act entitled, "An act to establish a Penal Code," be amended by adding a new section thereto to be numbered six hundred and twenty-five a, and to read as follows: interfer fire-alarm 625a. Any person who willfully and maliciously tampers Unlawful with, molests, injures, or breaks any public fire-alarm appa- ences with ratus, wire, or signal, or willfully and maliciously sends, gives, apparatus; transmits, or sounds any false alarm of fire, by means of any penalty. public fire-alarm system or signal, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding one year, or by a fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation to pay els & Bros. CHAPTER CXXVII. An act authorizing and empowering the board of state harbor [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and SECTION 1. The board of state harbor commissioners are claim of J. hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay the claim of D. Spreck J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co., for such damages, if any, as may be found to have been sustained, not to exceed the sum of $21,000.00 in all, by reason of the collapse of a certain wharf and coal bunkers thereon, in the harbor of the city and county of San Francisco. Co. SEC. 2. The board of state harbor commissioners are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to draw their draft on the state controller, payable out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund, for any sum found due to J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co., as damages, as aforesaid, not to exceed the sum of $21,000.00. SEC. 3. Upon presentation of the aforesaid draft, the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of said J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co., for the amount of said draft, payable out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 1 Appropriation to pay claim of Pacific CHAPTER CXXVIII. An act appropriating the sum of $2,345.75 to pay the claim of [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-three hundred and forty-five Steamship the Pacific Coast Steamship Company arising from the loss of merchandise by the collapse of a portion of pier nine (9) in the city and county of San Francisco, California, on August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. SEC. 2. The controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant in favor of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for the said sum of twenty-three hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents ($2,345.75), said warrant to be payable out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund, at any time. after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and three. CHAPTER CXXIX. An act to prohibit the use of the bristle bur, tack bur, or other like devices on horses or other animals in this state. [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful hereafter in this state for Bristle bur, tack bur, any one, owner, driver or other person, having the care, custody etc., on or control of any horse or other animal, to use what is known horses, prohibited. as the bristle bur, tack bur, or other like device, by whatsoever name known or designated, on any said horse or other animal for any purpose whatsoever. SEC. 2. A violation of the provisions of this act shall be Penalty. deemed a misdemeanor and any one found guilty thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten nor more than one hundred and seventy-five days, or may be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Founder of a school, etc., may surrender reserved rights. CHAPTER CXXX. An act supplemental to an act entitled "An act to advance learning, the arts and sciences, and to promote the public welfare, by providing for the conveyance, holding, and protection of property, and the creation of trusts for the founding, endowment, erection, and maintenance within this state of universities, colleges, schools, seminaries of learning, mechanical institutes, museums, and galleries of art," approved March 9, 1885, concerning the resignation, relinquishment or surrender of rights, powers, privileges and duties reserved to or vesting in the founder or founders, surviving founder, or wife or widow of any founder, of any institution created or founded under or pursuant to said act, and concerning the assumption and exercise of powers and duties by the trustee or trustees of such institution. [Approved March 13, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The founder or founders, surviving founder, or wife or widow of any founder, of a university, college, school, seminary of learning, mechanical institute, museum, gallery of art, library or any other institution, or any or all thereof, founded under or pursuant to an act entitled "An act to advance learning, the arts and sciences, and to promote the public welfare, by providing for the conveyance, holding, and protection of property, and the creation of trusts for the founding, endowment, erection, and maintenance within this state of universities, colleges, schools, seminaries of learning, mechanical institutes, museums, and galleries of art," approved March 9, 1885, may, by an instrument in writing, resign, relinquish and surrender all the rights, powers, privileges and duties reserved to or vesting in such founder or founders, surviving founder, or wife or widow of such founder, over, in, or concerning any of the property granted or given to such institution or institutions, or over or concerning any such institution or institutions so founded, and thereupon all estates, rights, powers, privileges, trusts and duties which would otherwise vest in or devolve upon the trustee or trustees of the trusts and estates created for the founding, endowment and maintenance of any such institution or institutions upon the death of the person or persons so resigning, relinquishing and surrendering, by the terms of the grant founding the institution or institutions, and amendments thereof, and by the terms of any grants, gifts, bequests, and devises supplementary thereto, or of any confirmatory grants, shall immediately vest in and devolve upon such trustee or trustees. Nothing herein contained shall prevent such person or persons so resigning, relinquishing and surrendering such rights, powers, privileges or duties from thereafter becoming and serving as one of such trustees, or |