Owner must destroy. Penalty. destroy all hives ascertained to be so affected, together with the combs and bees therein, by burning or burying the same in the ground the following night. SEC. 4. If the owner or person in charge of an apiary, by his own inspection or through any other source, discovers foul brood in any hive in said apiary, it shall be his duty to destroy such hive and contents in the manner provided in section three of this Act. SEC. 5. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of the last section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for the first offense, and by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each subsequent offense. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Thirty-fifth year. Thirty-sixth year. CHAPTER LIX. An Act to provide for the levy of the tax for State purposes for the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth fiscal years. [Approved March 13, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. There is hereby levied, and the State Board of Equalization must, for State purposes, for the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth fiscal years, fix such an ad valorem rate of taxation upon each one hundred dollars in value of taxable property of this State as, after allowing twelve per cent for delinquencies in and costs of collection of taxes, as provided in section three thousand six hundred and ninety-six of the Political Code of the State of California, will raise for the thirty-fifth fiscal year: First-For the General Fund, one million seven hundred thousand three hundred dollars. Second-For the School Fund, one million three hundred thousand dollars. Third-For the Interest and Sinking Fund, three hundred and one thousand nine hundred dollars. And for the thirty-sixth fiscal year: First-For the General Fund, one million six hundred and sixty-seven thousand two hundred dollars. Second-For the School Fund, one million three hundred thousand dollars. Third-For the Interest and Sinking Fund, three hundred and one thousand nine hundred dollars. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LX. An Act to authorize the Governor of the State of California, to reconvey to the United States a part of the lands heretofore granted the State of California by Act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and listed to the State of California, under the agricultural college grant of one hundred and fifty thousand acres. [Approved March 13, 1883.] WHEREAS, Under and by virtue of an Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories of the United States for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and amendments thereto, the Regents of the University of California, acting under and in conformity with an Act of the Legislature of the State of California entitled "An Act to create and organize the University of California," approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, did select as a part of said grant, certain lands which were duly listed to the State by the United Statesand it now appearing that it is to the interest of the University of California to secure the cancellation of said selections, it is therefore necessary to reconvey to the United States said lands, and thereby secure the right to select other lands instead thereof; therefore, The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Preamble. report. SECTION 1. The Regent of the University of California Regents to are authorized and required to report to the Governor of the State of California a description of such of the lands granted to the State of California by authority of the Act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and amendments thereto, and listed to the State of California, that should be reconveyed to the United States. reconvey. SEC. 2. Whenever the report provided for in the first sec- Governor to tion of this Act shall have been received by the Governor, he may and is authorized in the name and by the authority of the people of the State of California to grant and reconvey to the United States such lands as may be embraced and described in said report. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Duties of CHAPTER LXI. An Act to amend section two thousand one hundred and thirtyseven of an Act entitled an Act to establish a Political Code, approved March 12, 1872, relating to insane asylums. [Approved March 13, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two thousand one hundred and thirtyseven of an Act entitled an Act to establish a Political Code, approved March 12, 1872, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2137. The powers and duties of the Board of Directors prescribed. of the Insane Asylum are as follows: Directors 1. To make bylaws not inconsistent with the laws of the State for their own government, and the government of the asylum. 2. To hold stated meetings at the asylum for the transaction of business on the first Monday of each month. 3. To keep a record of their proceedings, open at all times to the inspection of any citizen. 4. To elect a Medical Superintendent, two Assistant Physicians, and a Treasurer. 5. To provide on the asylum grounds suitable apartments, furniture, provisions, and lights for the Medical Superintendent and his family, and to allow a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per month to each of the Assistant Physicians for the subsistence of themselves and their families. 6. To make diligent inquiry into the departments of labor and expense, the condition of the asylum, and its property. 7. To report to the Governor a statement of the receipts and expenditures, the condition of the asylum, the number of patients under treatment, and of such other matters touching the duties of the Board as is advisable. Appropriation. CHAPTER LXII. An Act to provide for the erection of a building for the insane at the State Asylum at Stockton, and for the improvement of the drainage and water supply thereof. [Approved March 13, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars ($163,000) is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund in the State treasury for the erection of a building for the insane at the State Asylum at Stockton, and for the improvement of the drainage and water supply thereof. draw warrants. SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby directed to draw Controller to warrants on the State treasury, from time to time, as the work progresses, in favor of the Board of Directors of said asylum, upon their requisition for the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER LXIII. An Act to create and establish a State Board of Horticulture, and appropriate money for the expenses thereof. [Approved March 13, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Horticul ture. SECTION 1. There shall be a State Board of Horticulture, Board of consisting of nine members, who shall be appointed by the Governor: two from the State at large, and one from each of the seven horticultural districts, which are hereby constituted as follows: First-The Sonoma District, which shall include the Coun- Districts, ties of Sonoma, Marin, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, and Siskiyou. Second-The Napa District, which shall include the Counties of Napa, Solano, and Contra Costa. Third-The San Francisco District, which shall include the City and County of San Francisco, and the Counties of San Mateo, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey. Fourth-The Los Angeles District, which shall include the Counties of Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Bernardino, and San Diego. Fifth-The Sacramento District, which shall include the Counties of Sacramento, Yolo, Sutter, Colusa, Butte, Tehama, and Shasta. Sixth-The San Joaquin District, which shall include the Counties of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern. Seventh-The El Dorado District, which shall include the Counties of El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Placer, Nevada, Yuba, Sierra, Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, Alpine, Mono, and Inyo. SEC. 2. The members appointed from each district shall Members. be residents of the district from which they are appointed, and shall be specially qualified by practical experience and study in connection with the industries dependent upon horticulture. They shall each hold office for the term of four years, except that of the nine first appointed, four, to be Secretary and Treasurer. Powers and duties. Disinfection determined by lot, shall retire at the end of two years, when their successors shall be appointed by the Governor. SEC. 3. The Board shall appoint and prescribe the duties of a Secretary, who shall not be one of their number, and elect of their own number a Treasurer, both to hold office during the pleasure of the said Board. The Treasurer shall give a bond to the State, with sureties approved by the said Board, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties. SEC. 4. The Board may receive, manage, use, and hold donations and bequests for promoting the objects of its formation. It shall meet semi-annually, and as much oftener, and at such places, as it may deem expedient, to consult and adopt such measures as may best promote the horticultural industries of the State. It may, but without expense to the State, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture in each of the horticultural districts named in section one of this Act, for the purpose of illustrating practical horticultural topics, and imparting instruction in the methods of culture, pruning, fertilizing, and also in the best methods of treating the diseases of fruit and fruit trees, cleansing orchards, and exterminating insect pests. The office of the Board shall be kept open to the public, subject to the rules of the Board, every day, excepting legal holidays, and shall be in charge of the Secretary during the absence of the Board. SEC. 5. For the purpose of preventing the spread of conof packages. tagious disease among fruit and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation of fruit pests and the diseases of fruit and fruit trees, and for the disinfection of grafts, scions, orchard debris, empty fruit boxes and packages, and other suspected material or transportable articles, dangerous to orchards, fruit, and fruit trees, said Board shall make regulations for the inspection and disinfection thereof, which said regulations shall be circulated in printed form by the Board among the fruit growers and fruit dealers of the State, shall be published at least twenty days in two daily newspapers of general circulation in the State not of the same city or county, and shall be posted in three conspicuous places in each county in the State, one of which shall be at the county Court House thereof. Such regulations when so posted shall be held to impart notice of their contents to all persons within this State, and shall be binding upon all persons. Inspector of SEC. 6. The said Board shall elect of their own number, or appoint from without their number, a competent person especially qualified by practical experience in horticulture for the duties of his office, who shall be known as Inspector of Fruit Pests (to hold office at the pleasure of the Board), whose duties it shall be to visit the horticultural districts of the State, to see that all regulations of said Board and provisions of law to prevent the spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees and plants injurious to the horticultural interests of the State, and all regulations of said Board in the nature of quarantining infected or infested districts, and also all rules |