Appropria

For contingent expenses of Superintendent of Public tions author- Instruction, two hundred dollars.

ized.

For pay of Porter in office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, four hundred dollars.

For postage and expressage in office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, one thousand six hundred dollars.

For traveling expenses of Superintendent of Public Instruction, three thousand dollars.

For salary of Secretary State Board of Health, five thousand dollars.

For mileage and contingent expenses State Board of Health, two thousand dollars.

For salaries of members State Board of Examiners, seven thousand dollars.

For salary of Clerk of State Board of Examiners, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For salary of State Librarian, six thousand dollars.

For salaries of Deputies to State Librarian, seven thousand two hundred dollars.

For pay of Porter in State Library, eighteen hundred dollars.

For postage and expressage in State Library, four hundred dollars.

For salary of Adjutant-General, six thousand dollars. For salary of Assistant Adjutant-General, four thousand dollars.

For pay of Porter in Adjutant-General's office, six hundred dollars.

For postage and expressage in Adjutant-General's office, two hundred dollars.

For cleaning and transportation of arms, traveling and contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For payment of armory rents, and other expenses of National Guard, ninety thousand five hundred and twentyeight dollars.

For salaries of Justices of the Supreme Court, sixty thousand dollars.

For salary of Supreme Court Reporter, twelve thousand dollars.

For salary of Clerk of the Supreme Court, eight thousand dollars.

For salaries of Deputy Clerks of Supreme Court, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay of Porter to Clerk of Supreme Court, four hundred dollars.

For salary of Phonographic Reporter to Supreme Court, six thousand dollars.

For salary of Secretary to Justices of Supreme Court, six thousand dollars.

For salary of Bailiff and Porter to Supreme Court, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For postage and contingent expenses of Supreme Court, five hundred dollars.

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ized.

For expenses of the Supreme Court, as provided in section Appropriafifty-one of Code of Civil Procedure, thirty thousand dollars. is author For postage and contingent expenses of Clerk of Supreme Court, five hundred dollars.

For salaries of District Judges, two hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.

For salary of Insurance Commissioner, six thousand dollars.

For salary of District Judge of the Twenty-third Judicial District, from April fifteenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twelve hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid during the twenty-ninth fiscal year.

For salary of Clerk to Insurance Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars.

For rent, printing, and contingent expenses, in the office of Insurance Commissioner, five thousand dollars.

For salaries of Transportation Commissioners, eighteen thousand dollars.

For salary of Secretary to Transportation Commissioners, three thousand six hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of Transportation Commissioners, six hundred dollars.

For salary of Superintendent of State Printing Office, four thousand eight hundred dollars.

For support of State Printing Office, including pay of employés, one hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of employés of State Capitol building and grounds, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars.

For payment of rewards offered by the Governor, four thousand dollars.

For arresting criminals without the limits of the State, five thousand dollars.

For traveling expenses of Surveyor-General and AttorneyGeneral, when engaged in contests between the State and United States, in relation to public lands, one thousand dollars.

For services of State Board of Examination, one thousand six hundred dollars.

For traveling expenses of State Board of Education, five hundred dollars.

For support of State Normal School, sixty-six thousand six hundred dollars.

For education and care of the deaf, dumb, and blind, seventy-two thousand dollars.

For official advertising, five thousand dollars.

For the restoration and preservation of fish in the waters. of the State, ten thousand dollars.

For stationery, fuel, lights, etc., for the Legislature and State officers, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For payment of rewards for arrest of highway robbers, twelve thousand dollars.

For purchase of Supreme Court Reports, five thousand four hundred dollars.

For services of Registers and Receivers of United States Land Offices, three thousand dollars.

Appropriations authorized.

Secretary to

For support of State Prison, three hundred thousand dollars.

For transportation of prisoners to the State Prison, fiftyfive thousand dollars.

For support of California Asylum for Insane (at Stockton), three hundred and twenty thousand dollars; provided, that of this amount not more than one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars shall be allowed during the thirtieth fiscal

year.

For support of the Napa Branch Asylum for the Insane, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For transportation of the insane to the Asylums, fifty thousand dollars.

For purchase of ballot paper, and not to be used until the paper is wanted for use, ten thousand dollars; provided, that the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to sell the paper now on hand at current rates, and to sell all paper hereafter purchased by him at the cost price thereof.

For translating into Spanish the laws of the twenty-second session of the Legislature, fifteen hundred dollars; provided, that this appropriation may be expended without regard to fiscal years.

For the support of the inmates of the orphan asylums of the State, under whatever name or title, the sum of one hundred dollars per annum for each whole orphan, the sum of seventy-five dollars per annum for each half orphan, and the sum of seventy-five dollars per annum for each abandoned child; provided, that nothing in any law shall be so construed as to authorize the payment of any greater sum for the support of orphans, half orphans, or abandoned children, by the State, than is herein appropriated; provided, that no asylum with less than twenty inmates shall be entitled to any State aid.

For water for irrigating and purchase of hose and implements, to be used on the State Capitol grounds, three thousand dollars.

For repairs to State Capitol building and furniture, one thousand dollars.

For water used in the State Capitol, twelve hundred dollars.

For furnishing and equipment of the Mining Arts' College of the State University, ten thousand dollars.

For furnishing and equipment of the Agricultural College Department of the State University, ten thousand dollars." For payment of interest on one hundred thousand dollars, provided to be paid to the Directors of Hasting's College of the Law, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars.

For the permanent improvement of the State Capitol grounds, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended upon that portion of said grounds lying to the east of the State Capitol building; the money to be expended under the direction of the Board of State Capitol Commissioners.

SEC. 2. All stationery, blank books (except such as have furnish sta- been made to order), light, and fuel required by the Supreme tionery, etc. Court, State officers, and Legislature, shall be furnished by

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the Secretary of State upon the requisition of the Judges,
State officers, or members of the Legislature, requiring the
same; and the Secretary of State shall include, in his bien-
nial report to the Governor, a statement, under oath, show-
ing the cost of the articles so furnished the Judges, State
officers, and members of the Legislature. The stationery,
blank books, light, and fuel shall be procured by the Secre-
tary of State in the manner required by law.

SEC. 3. The sums that are herein appropriated for con-
tingent expenses of the Senate and Assembly shall be dis-
bursed under the direction of the bodies to which they
respectively belong, and shall not be subject to any of the
provisions of section six hundred and seventy-two of the
Political Code.

ment.

SEC. 4. The various State officers, except the Governor, officers to to whom appropriations, other than salaries, are made under submit statethe provisions of this Act, shall, with their biennial reports, submit a detailed statement, under oath, of the manner in which all appropriations for their respective departments have been expended; and the State Board of Examiners are hereby expressly prohibited from allowing any demands payable out of such appropriations until the same are presented in an itemized form, stating specifically the service rendered, time employed, distance traveled, and necessary expense thereof; if for articles purchased, the name of each article, together with the price paid for each, and of whom purchased, with the date of such purchase; provided, that no officer shall use or appropriate any money for any purpose whatsoever, appropriated by this Act, unless authorized by law.

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SEC. 5. The following sums of money are hereby appro- Appropriapriated to the objects and purposes herein expressed: Mag- ized. dalen Asylum, at San Francisco, five thousand dollars; San Francisco Female Hospital, six thousand dollars; Protestant Episcopal Church Home, San Francisco, one thousand dollars; Old Woman's Home, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, fifteen hundred dollars; Little Sisters' Infant Shelter, San Francisco, one thousand dollars; Sisters of Mercy Hospital, Los Angeles, two thousand dollars; Howard Benevolent Association, Sacramento, two thousand five hundred dollars; Stockton Benevolent Association, one thousand dollars; Marysville Benevolent Association, one thousand dollars; Ladies' Benevolent Society of Placerville, one thousand dollars; St. Luke Hospital, San Francisco, one thousand five hundred dollars; Scandinavian Ladies' House, San Francisco, five hundred dollars; Ladies' Relief Society, Sacramento, one thousand dollars; Vallejo Ladies' Benevolent Society, one thousand dollars; San José Ladies' Benevolent Society, two thousand dollars; San Diego Benevolent Society, one thousand dollars; Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children, San Francisco, one thousand dollars; Grass Valley Ladies' Relief Society, one thousand dollars; Nevada Benevolent Society, one thousand dollars; Ladies' Aid Society, Petaluma, one thousand dollars; twenty-five hundred dol

tions authorized.

Appropria- lars to the Board of Directors of the State Prison, to be used by them in furnishing transportation to discharged prisoners from the Penitentiary to their homes, to be used in the discretion of the said Board of Directors; provided, that not more than fifteen dollars shall be furnished to any one prisoner; to the Ladies' Benevolent Society of Los Angeles, one thousand dollars; to the Youths' Directory, San Francisco, two thousand dollars; to the Los Angeles Free Dispensary, three hundred dollars.

SEC. 6. Not more than one-half of the respective appropriations made under this Act shall be expended during the thirtieth fiscal year, unless the same has been expressly authorized as hereinbefore provided.

Districts consolidated.

Duty of Cen

CHAP. DCLIV.-An Act to attach a portion of King's River
Switch School District, in Tulare County, to Kingsburg School
District, in Fresno County.

[Approved April 1, 1878.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All that portion of King's River Switch School District, in the County of Tulare, lying north and west of King's River, is hereby attached to and consolidated with and made a part of Kingsburg School District, of Fresno County, for school purposes only, to hold school property, and enjoy all other rights and privileges in common as one school district.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Census Marshal of sus Marshal. Kingsburg School District to report, to the County Superintendent of Tulare County, all school children entitled to draw school money living in that portion of Kingsburg School District within Tulare County, and the said Superintendent must apportion to Kingsburg School District a pro rata amount of all county school funds, and place the same to the credit of said Kingsburg School District, subject to the orders of the Trustees thereof.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.