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doned children), supported wholly or in part by any institution claiming State aid under this Act, shall be forwarded with such claim for aid; provided, always, that when such institution claiming State aid under this Act shall support and maintain minor orphans, half orphans, and abandoned children, and claim State aid for them under the Act approved twenty-fifth March, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An Act to appropriate money for the support of orphans, half orphans, and abandoned children," the same book of monthly accounts required by said named Act may contain the accounts required to be kept by this Act, and that one transcript, and payroll, and claim for aid, embracing the requirements of the Act above referred to as to orphans, half orphans, and minor children, and the requirements of this Act as to aged and indigent persons, may be made and furnished to the State Board of Examiners.

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Fifth-Said books shall be open at all times to the inspec- Books open tion of the State Board of Examiners, or by any person tion. authorized by them to examine the same, or by any committee of the Legislature, or Clerk thereof duly authorized so to do.

SEC. 4. The State Board of Examiners are authorized, on behalf of the State, at any time to inquire, either in person or by authorized agent, into the management of any such institution, and any such institution refusing, upon due demand, to permit such inquiry, shall not thereafter receive any aid under this Act. All expenses incurred in visiting such institutions shall be audited and allowed by the State Board of Examiners out of the appropriations for the support of aged persons in indigent circumstances, under this Act.

SEC. 5. Every claim for aid under this Act shall be Presentation pre- of claims. sented to and audited and allowed by the State Board of Examiners. Such claim shall contain:

First-The name and location of the institution making the claim;

Second-The name of the person having control thereof; Third-The number of aged persons in indigent circumstances therein;

Fourth-The date of admission, and age of each;

Fifth-The amount, if any, that the institution is receiving for the specific support of any such aged indigent person. Such claim, and the statements therein contained, shall be verified by the oath of the person or persons, or some of them in charge of such institution, and the Board of Examiners may, in their discretion, require the production of the books of such institution in support of such claim.

SEC. 6. If such claim be audited and allowed, in whole Warrants. or in part, it shall be the duty of the Controller to draw his warrant for the amount thereof in favor of such institution, if a corporation, or if not, of the person or persons in charge thereof, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to pay the same on presentation.

SEC. 7. In order that the provisions of this Act shall not be abused, it is hereby declared:

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First-That no institution which has less than ten aged indigent persons shall be deemed entitled to aid under this Act.

Second-That no person under the age of sixty years shall be deemed an aged person in indigent circumstances within the meaning of this Act.

Third-That no person for whose specific support the re is paid to any such institution the sum of fifteen dollars or more per month, shall be entitled to aid under this Act.

Fourth-No institution not under the exclusive control of the State shall receive any aid under the provisions of this Act, unless such institution shall own in its corporate name real property devoted to the support and maintenance of aged persons in indigent circumstances, either solely or in connection with orphans, half orphans, and abandoned children, of the value of not less than fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 8. That no money appropriated by the State under this Act shall be expended either in improvements or in the erection of new buildings by such institution.

APPROPRIATION VETO.

In the General Appropriation Act, page seventy-three, the item allowing nine thousand six hundred dollars for contingent expenses of the Controller's office, was vetoed by the following message sent in by the Governor:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
SACRAMENTO, March 9, 1883.

To the honorable the Assembly of the State of California:
MR. SPEAKER: I have duly considered Assembly Bill No. 77-"An Act making appropriations
for the support of the government of the State of California for the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth
fiscal years
"-and have approved the same, except the following item therein, viz.: "For contin-
gent expenses of the Controller's office, nine thousand six hundred dollars." The said item is
excessive, and provides for more money than is required for the contingent expenses of the Con-
troller's office. I suppose the item was inserted at the above figure through an error in engrossing
or enrolling the bill. The sum of two hundred dollars is all that is required or asked for by the
Controller. I therefore disapprove of the above item, and leave the matter with the Legislature
for such action as it may think proper to take.

GEORGE STONEMAN, Governor.

The veto was sustained by the Assembly, without a dissentient vote.

RESOLUTIONS.

CONCURRENT AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

CHAPTER I.

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4, relative to requesting Congress to make an appropriation for the improvement of the navigable portion of Napa River, from the head of navigation at Napa City to Mare Island.

[Adopted January 22, 1883.]

WHEREAS, A large and growing commerce now exists between Preamble. Napa City and adjacent country, including the principal mining, agricultural, and commercial interests of Lake County, and San Francisco, the commercial center of this State; and whereas, the said interests are dependent upon the navigation of Napa River to secure cheap, safe, and regular transportation of all kinds of mineral, vinicultural, and agricultural products of said sections, and of all kinds of merchandise between the said City of San Francisco and said country, and as a means of securing competition in the rates of freight with the great railroad system of California; and whereas, the navigation of said river, between the head of navigation thereof at Napa City, in Napa County, and Mare Island, in Solano County, is now dangerous, irregular, and uncertain, because of snags, bars of sediment, and other obstructions existing therein;

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Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Requesting Senators and Representatives of the State of California in appropriate the Congress of the United States be and they are hereby money for requested to use all honorable means to procure an appro- ment of priation from the Congress of the United States of the sum Napa River. of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars, to be expended in the proper dredging and removing of sediment, snags, and other obstructions from the said Napa River, and for straightening the channel of said river and making the same safe and susceptible of easy navigation from a point in said river opposite the Vernon Mills at Napa City, to Mare Island, opposite Vallejo, in Solano County.

Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor of California. be and he is hereby requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State.

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