Assets of district corporation. shall be sufficient. Proceedings shall be had in the same manner and with the same effect as if brought by the board of directors. SEC. 7. A corporation may be organized under general laws may be ac- for the purpose of acquiring the assets of said district, includquired by ing the irrigation system, if any, dams, reservoirs, canals, franchises and water rights, which corporation shall have all the powers, rights and franchises of corporate bodies organized under general laws, and in addition shall have such further powers as may be necessary to possess and carry on said irrigation system and exercise such franchises and water rights. Power of court. Sale of assets. Assess SEC. 8. The court in its decree shall have power to make the orders necessary to carry out said proposition for the discharge of the indebtedness and distribution of the property of said district, including the right to apportion any indebtedness found due, and to declare said portions liens upon the various parcels and lots of land within the district, and may decree a sale of its assets in such manner as may effectuate said proposition and as the said court may judge best, either in one lot or in such parcels as may be provided, and may provide for conveyance of said irrigation system, including dams, reservoirs, canals, franchises, and water rights, and also of any other assets of the district, including lands sold thereto and the assessments due it. SEC. 9. The amounts of any assessment or assessments ments to be found due upon the various parcels and lots of real estate within said district, and the amounts for which sales have been made, which sales have been determined to be valid by said court, together with legal interest from the date of said sales and from the time when said assessments become delinquent, shall be liens respectively on the lots and parcels affected thereby, and the purchaser or purchasers at said sale may foreclose the same by action in the superior court, and shall in said action join all lots, assessments, and sales which may have been purchased by him and which remain unredeemed. A redemption may be made at any time by payment of the amount due to the clerk of the court for the use of the district if before sale, and for the use of the purchaser if after sale, and the clerk shall thereupon enter a minute of said payment, which payment shall be in the discharge of said lien. Redemption from the lien created for any portion of the indebtedness can be had in this manner. Redemptions. Disposition of surplus money. SEC. 10. Whenever all the property of such irrigation district shall have been disposed of, and all the indebtedness and obligations thereof, if any there be, shall have been discharged, the balance of the money of said district shall be distributed to the assessment-payers in said district upon the last assessment roll in the proportion in which each has contributed to the total amount of said assessment, and the court shall enter a final decree declaring said district to be dissolved. SEC. 11. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER VI. An act to amend section four of an act entitled "An act to promote the apicultural interests of the State of California by providing county inspectors of apiaries, and defining their duties, and providing for their compensation and repealing the act entitled 'An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties of this state to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of bee culture,' approved March 13, 1883," said first named act having been approved February 20, 1901, and adding five new sections to said act, to be numbered and designated as sections seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven, and providing for making the violation of certain sections thereof a misdemeanor. [Approved February 10, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four of an act entitled "An act to pro- Inspectors of apiaries. mote the apicultural interests of the State of California by providing county inspectors of apiaries, and defining their duties, and providing for their compensation, and repealing the act entitled 'An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties of this state to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of bee culture,' approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three," approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. The salary of the county inspector of apiaries Salary. shall be four dollars per day when actually engaged in the performance of his duties, and itemized necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of his duties as prescribed in this act. SEC. 2. There is hereby added to said act five new sections to be numbered and designated as section seven, section eight, section nine, section ten, and section eleven, and to read as follows: inspector. Section 7. The inspector of apiaries may, in his discretion, Powers of order the owner, or owners, or other person in charge of bees kept in box or other immovable or stationary comb-hives in apiaries infected with foul brood or any other infectious or contagious disease, or within a radius of three miles of such diseased apiaries, to transfer such bees to movable frame hives within a reasonable time, to be specified in such order or notice, and in default of such transfer by the owner, or owners, or other person in charge of such bees, the inspector may destroy, or cause to be destroyed, all such hives, together with their contents, and the expense thereof shall be a county charge, as provided in section two of this act. Imported bees. Must be inspected. "Foul brood" not to be removed. Infected apiary a misde meanor. Section 8. Any person or persons who shall import bees into the State of California, which said bees are not accompanied with a certificate from a duly authorized inspector of apiaries, or bee inspector, certifying that such bees are free from foul brood and other infectious or contagious diseases, or who shall import bees from another county within this state not having a bee inspector, into a county having a bee inspector shall immediately, upon the receipt of such bees, cause them to be inspected by a duly authorized inspector of apiaries, and if such bees are found to be infected with foul brood or other infectious or contagious disease, such inspector shall proceed to have such disease eradicated as provided in section two of this act. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any person owning or controlling bees within this state, which are known to be infected with foul brood or other infectious or contagious disease, to remove said bees to a new location, without first giving ten days' notice to the county inspector of apiaries, stating when and where he intends moving said bees. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 10. Any person or persons whose apiary is infected with foul brood or any other infectious or contagious disease, and who sells, or offers for sale, from such infected apiary any bees, hives, bee fixtures or appurtenances, or who shall expose in his bee yard, or elsewhere, any infected comb-honey, beeswax, or other infected thing, or who conceals the fact that his apiary is so infected, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 11. Any person or persons who shall resist, impede, inspector a or hinder in any way, the inspector of apiaries in the discharge of his duties under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Resisting misde meanor. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 CHAPTER VII. An act to provide for proceedings for the ascertainment of the [Approved February 10, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and trusts stitution of SECTION 1. The trustee or trustees of any trust or trusts Trustees of heretofore or hereafter created for the founding, endowment created to and maintenance of a university, college, school, seminary of found inlearning, mechanical institute, museum, gallery of art, library learning. or any other institution, or any or all thereof, 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, or under or pursuant to an act entitled "An act to encourage and provide for the dissemination of a knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature, and the founding, maintaining, and perpetuating public libraries, museums, and galleries of art, and the receipt of donations and contributions thereto when established; for the conveyance, holding and protection of real property within this state suitable for the purposes herein designated, and the erection thereon of buildings appropriate to Special proceeding to determine gifts. title to trustees. such purposes, and for the creation of trusts necessary or proper for the better preservation of such institutions, and the control and management thereof," approved March 5, 1887, may commence a special proceeding in and by which may be determined all questions of law and fact affecting the existence validity of of, and the due and voluntary execution and delivery, and the terms, validity and legal effect of the grant or grants founding the same, and of all amendments or attempted amendments. thereof, and of any supplemental grants or gifts, and of any confirmatory conveyances, of the founder or founders, or surviving founder, or wife or widow of any such founder; and in and by which may be determined all questions of law and fact affecting the due and voluntary execution and delivery, and the validity and legal effect, of any gift or grant made in general terms for the benefit of the institution or institutions, or of any department thereof, or of any gift or grant made in general terms for the benefit of the institution or institutions, or of any department thereof, upon the trusts provided for in the grant founding the institution or institutions, and amendments thereof and grants, bequests and devises supplementary thereto; and in and by which may be determined all quesPassing of tions bearing upon the passing to the trustee or trustees of the legal title to the properties, real and personal, conveyed or attempted to be conveyed, so far as such property or the proceeds thereof, or any property acquired in exchange therefor or with proceeds thereof, may be described in the petition herein provided for, and the interest or title of the trustee or trustees in or to any such property described in such petition; and in and by which may be determined all questions of law and fact affecting the due and voluntary execution and delivery, and the validity and legal effect, of any grant or surrender by any such founder or founders, surviving founder, or wife or widow of any founder, to, or in favor of, such trustee or trustees, of any rights, powers, privileges or duties reserved to or vesting in any such person or persons over or concerning any property described in the petition herein provided for, or over or concerning any such institution or institutions so founded, which would otherwise vest in or devolve upon such trustee or trustees upon the death of the person or persons so granting or surrendering the same, and of any relinquishment or release by the founder or founders, surviving founder, or wife or widow of any founder, of any other such rights, powers, privileges or duties so reserved to or vesting in any such person or persons. To this end the trustee or trustees of any trust herein before referred to, in the name of the institution or institutions so founded, or in the name of the trustee or trustees of such institution or institutions, or in the name of the board of trustees of such institution or institutions, may file, in the superior court of the Where pro- county in which the lands described in the founding grant or grants, or some portion thereof, are situated, or, if no real estate has been granted as herein provided to such trustees, then in the county where the main part of any such institution or institutions is situated, a petition in writing, signed by counsel ceedings shall be initiated. |