1. To establish, manage and control the Salinas Public Library and all property belonging or appertaining thereto.

2. To adopt and enforce such rules and regulations for the administration, government and protection of such library and all property belonging, loaned, devised, or donated thereto, as it may deem proper.

3. To appoint, hire and discharge all librarians, janitors and other officers and employees in and about said library, and to prescribe their powers and duties and fix their compensation.

4. To purchase such real property as may be required for library purposes, erect or lease library buildings, furnish the same and provide for the heating, lighting and cleaning thereof.

5. To purchase all books, papers, publications, documents, maps and other articles of personal property for said library. 6. To exclude from the library all books, papers and publications of an indecent, immoral or offensive character.

7. To insure all property in or belonging to said library. 8. To audit and allow and cause to be paid, in whole or in part, or reject all claims payable out of the library fund, as the same are found just and lawful or otherwise.

9. To exercise and administer any trust created for the benefit of said library.

10. To perform such other acts and exercise such other powers as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions. of this article.

SEC. 5. After adopting the ordinance providing for the Tax levy. establishment of the library, as herein before provided, the council shall annually include in the general tax levy a tax of not less than three nor more than five cents upon each one hundred dollars in valuation of property appearing upon the city assessment roll, for the support and maintenance of the Salinas Public Library.

fund.

SEC. 6. All money and revenue, derived from taxation Library for library purposes or contributed, donated, given, devised or bequeathed for such purpose and the income or revenue of all property or funds held in trust for the benefit of said library shall be paid into and belong to a fund, to be designated as the "Library Fund," and shall be kept by the city treasurer separate and apart from all other public moneys, and shall be used only for the establishment, enlargement, maintenance and support of the Salinas Public Library, including the purchase of the necessary property and the erection of library buildings, rent of room, salaries and other necessary expenses, and shall be paid out as herein provided.

SEC. 7. All claims payable out of the library fund shall be Claims. made out, itemized and verified in the manner prescribed by law for other claims against the city treasury, and filed with the secretary of the board of library trustees. At each regular meeting said board shall examine all such claims on file with the secretary and allow in whole or in part or reject the same as found just and legal or otherwise. The secretary shall forthwith draw and countersign a warrant for all allowed

Annual report.

Ordinances.

claims in favor of the claimant against the library fund, which warrant shall be signed by the president of the board and delivered to the person entitled thereto.

SEC. 8. The library trustees shall, on the first Monday in July of each year make a report to the council of the condition of the public library during the past fiscal year; containing a full statement of all money and property received, whence derived and how used and expended; the number of books, journals and other publications on hand; the number added by purchase, gift or otherwise during the year; the number lost, destroyed or disposed of, and such other statistics concerning said library as may be of general interest. Such report shall be in writing and duly verified by the oath of the president and secretary of the board. The board shall accompany said report with a careful estimate of the amount of public funds and money to be raised by taxation for the support of the public library during the ensuing fiscal year.

SEC. 9. The council shall pass proper ordinances for the protection of the public library and property belonging thereto, and imposing penalties upon persons injuring the same or unlawfully obtaining or detaining books or other property from such library.

Fiscal year

Definition of words.

Contracts;

officers not

to be in

terested in.

Forfeited

ARTICLE XVI.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 1. The fiscal year of Salinas City shall commence on the first day of July of each year and shall end on the last day of June of the succeeding year.

SEC. 2. The word "city" wherever it occurs in this charter means Salinas City; and every commission, commissioner, department, board or officer herein mentioned means (unless expressly otherwise stated) a commission, commissioner, department, board or officer, as the case may be, of Salinas City.

SEC. 3. No councilman or other officer or employee of Salinas City shall be or become, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract to which said city or any officer thereof in his official capacity is a party; or in any work or the sale of any article, the cost or price of which is payable from the city treasury; or in the sale, purchase or lease of any real estate or other property sold or leased to or by said city; and any such contract, sale, purchase or lease in which any such officer or employee is interested, in violation of the provisions of this section, shall be void as to said city. Any officer or employee of said city violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished in the manner prescribed by law and in addition thereto shall forfeit his office or employment.

SEC. 4. All franchises and privileges heretofore granted by franchises. Salinas City which are not in actual use or enjoyment or which the grantees thereof are not in good faith exercising, are hereby declared forfeited and void.

officer.

SEC. 5. If any officer of Salinas City absents himself from Absence of said city for a period of thirty days or more without first obtaining permission of the council, his office shall be declared

vacant.

laws to

SEC. 6. In all matters pertaining to municipal affairs, General concerning which special provision is not made in this charter, govern. the general laws of the state in force at the time shall apply to and govern Salinas City.

inspection.

SEC. 7. All books and records of every officer and depart- Books, etc., ment, other than the police department, shall be open to the po inspection of citizens at any time during business hours. Copies and extracts from such books and records, duly certified, shall be given by the officer having the same in custody, to any person demanding the same, upon payment or tender of the fees therefor fixed by the council.

SEC. 8. This charter, so far as it relates to the election of Charter; officers and their terms of office, shall take effect and be in force when in from and after the first day of March, 1903, at 12 o'clock noon, and for all other purposes said charter shall take effect and be in force from and after the first Monday in July, 1903, at 12 o'clock noon of that day.

election.

SEC. 9. The mayor and common council of Salinas City First shall provide for holding the first election of officers created by this charter and shall canvass the returns and declare the result of such election.

officers.

SEC. 10. No municipal or charter election for the election of Tenure of city officers shall be held in Salinas City from and after the present first day of March, 1903, until the time provided for holding the first election of officers provided for in this charter. The city officers in office on said first day of March, 1903, shall continue to hold their respective offices until the first Monday of July, 1903, when they shall surrender and cease to hold the same.

cease to exist.

SEC. 11. All offices of Salinas heretofore existing, unless Offices to expressly continued by the provisions hereof, shall cease to exist at the time this charter takes effect and shall be supplanted by the offices hereby created. All ordinances, rules Prior laws and regulations of Salinas City in force at the time this char- in force. ter takes effect and not inconsistent therewith, shall continue in full force and effect until amended, repealed or annulled by proper authority. No business of, or pending before any officer or department of the city at the time the charter takes effect, shall be discontinued or abandoned by reason thereof, but the same may be carried on and completed by or before the proper officer or department herein provided for.

CERTIFICATE.

of free

holders.

WHEREAS, Salinas City, a city containing a population of Certificate more than three thousand five hundred inhabitants, did, on the 11th day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and two, at a special election, and under and in pursuance of the provisions of Section 8, Article XI of the

Constitution of the State of California, elect the undersigned, a board of fifteen freeholders, to prepare and propose a charter for said city;

BE IT KNOWN, That we, the members of said board of freeholders, in pursuance of said provisions of the constitution, and within a period of ninety days after such election, have prepared and do hereby propose the foregoing, signed in duplicate, as and for the charter of Salinas City.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands, in duplicate, this third day of November in the year one thousand nine hundred and two.

I, John J. Kelly, City Clerk of Salinas City, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the proposed charter of Salinas City, prepared and proposed by a duly qualified board of freeholders, duly elected on the eleventh day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred two; that a copy of said charter was duly filed with the mayor of Salinas City on the third day of November in the year one thousand nine hundred two, said copy having been duly signed by all of the members of said board; that another copy, signed by all of the members of said board, was, on the ninth day of November in said year one thousand nine hundred two, duly filed with the recorder of the county of Monterey; that thereafter said proposed charter was duly published in a daily newspaper of general circulation in said Salinas City for at least twenty days, and the first publication thereof was made within twenty days after the completion of said charter; that within not less than thirty days after such publication, said charter was submitted to the qualified voters of said city at a special election called therefor, said election being held on Monday, the twelfth day of January in the year one thousand nine hundred three, and at such election a majority of such qualified voters

voting thereat duly ratified the same; and I further certify that at all of the times herein mentioned said Salinas City contained a population of more than three thousand five hundred and less than ten thousand inhabitants.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of Salinas this twenty-first day of January, in the year one thousand nine hundred three.

JOHN J. KELLY
City Clerk of Salinas City.

lature.

Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the senate of the State of California, the assembly Approval concurring (a majority of the members elected to each house by legis voting for and concurring herein), That said charter of Salinas City, as presented to, and adopted and ratified by the qualified electors of said city, be and the same is hereby approved as a whole, for and as the charter of said Salinas City.

CHAPTER XVI.

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 7, relating to the creation of proposed forest reserves in the State of California, and requesting the boards of supervisors and district attorneys of counties therein affected thereby to gather and compile data, information, statistics and maps showing the injurious effects of the creation of such reserves.

[Adopted February 12, 1903.]

WHEREAS, A Commissioner of the General Land Office has Forest caused to be withdrawn from entry over seven million acres of reserves. government land in this state, as proposed forest reserves; and WHEREAS, No definite action has yet been taken by the President of the United States and the Department of the Interior towards making these proposed reserves, permanent reserves; and

WHEREAS, Many and divers interests of the people of the whole state are involved in the said proposed reservations, including mining, stock and agricultural interests; and

WHEREAS, The financial interests of many counties of this state will be seriously disturbed and greatly impaired, should the said temporary withdrawals be made permanent reserves; and

WHEREAS, The permanent establishment of these reserves, under present, existing reserve laws, will cause great and lasting damage to many of the aforesaid interests and counties, and will be the means of advancing the ulterior designs of persons and corporations, not well disposed toward the welfare of this state; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the legislature of the State of California, Protest. representing the whole people of this state, requests the boards