and county, shall be by him registered, in the order of its issuance, in a book to be kept by him for the purpose, and shall, from the date of such registration, bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum until paid. Both interest and principal shall be paid in United States gold coin, in the manner hereinafter provided for. SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors of said city and county Tax to be shall include, in the tax levy for the fiscal year commencing levied. on the first day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, a sum and rate sufficient to pay all such registered demands on the treasury, with said interest, and also for the future payment of the salaries of said "new police" from the time money comes into the treasury sufficient to pay off all of said registered demands; then and from such time said "new police" shall be paid in cash in the same manner as the old police are paid. missioners. Commis SEC. 7. The Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District of Board of the State of California, the Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Police ComDistrict of the State of California, and the Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of California, or so many of them as shall act, are hereby empowered and required to meet together within ten days after the passage of this Act, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, and as often as shall be necessary, and to choose three citizens of said city and county, householders of good repute, without respect to their politics, who, together with the Chief of Police, shall constitute the Board of Police Commissioners. for said city and county. Said four Commissioners shall be Powers of vested with all the powers, and subject to all the duties and sioners. liabilities of, and shall supersede the Board of Police Commissioners provided for in section seven of an Act entitled an Act to create a City Criminal Court in and for the City and County of San Francisco, and to define its powers and jurisdiction, approved April third, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, which section of said Act, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with or inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed. The Police Commissioners appointed President. under this Act shall choose, from their own number, a President of the Board, whose salary shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per month, and the other Commissioners so appointed shall receive one hundred dollars per month each, to be paid in like manner with other official salaries in said city and county. All vacancies shall be filled by the Vacancies; aforesaid Judges making the appointments; provided, that from and after the official term of the present Chief of Police said office shall cease to be elective, and shall be filled by the Commissioners, whose appointment is herein provided for, at a salary of four thousand dollars per annum. No member of said Board of Police Commissioners, appointed as herein provided for, shall be eligible to any other office during his incumbency of the office of Police Commissioner, nor for one year thereafter. No member of said Board of Require Police Commissioners shall, during his term of office, be a member of any party convention the purpose of which is to how filled. ments of officers. Misde meanor. Certain moneys; how invested. Money paid upon death etc. nominate candidates for office. Nor shall the officers, members, or employés of said police department take any part whatever in any partisan convention, held for the purpose of a political party, nor shall any member of the said Board of Police Commissioners, directly or indirectly, attempt to influence or control the action of any member of said police department, or any employé thereof, in any primary or general election. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, punished accordingly. SEC. 8. The entire police force of said city and county shall be and continue subject to all laws and regulations in force before the passage of this Act, and not inconsistent or in conflict herewith. SEC. 9. That the Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco shall constitute a Board, known as "The Police Life and Health Insurance Board." SEC. 10. The said Board shall, from time to time, as in their judgment may be best, invest the moneys of "The Police Life and Health Insurance Fund" in such of the following securities as shall seem the most safe and profitable, namely: The bonds of the City and County of San Francisco; the bonds. of the State of California; the bonds of the United States of America; and the securities shall be held by said Treasurer, subject to the order of said Board, and the said Treasurer shall have no power to deposit, pledge, or in any way part with the possession of said securities, or the evidence thereof, except on the order of said Board. SEC. 11. Upon the death of any member of the said police of members, force, after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, there shall be paid by the Treasurer out of said "Life and Health Insurance Fund," to the legal representative of said police officer, the sum of one thousand dollars. In case any police officer shall resign, from bad health, or bodily infirmity, there shall be paid to him from said fund the amount of the principal sum which he shall have contributed thereto. In case of dismissal of any police officer for mere incompetency, not coupled with any offense against the laws of the State, such officer shall be paid from said fund such amount as the Board may award, not exceeding one-half of the sum he may have contributed to said fund. Any officer dismissed for gross neglect or violation of duty, or upon conviction of any misdemeanor or felony, shall forfeit all claim upon said fund. Captain appointed. SEC. 12. In case such fund shall not be sufficient to pay the demand upon it, such demand shall be registered and paid in the order of its registry out of the funds as received. SEC. 13. The said Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer shall receive no compensation for their services as members of said Board, nor shall the said Treasurer receive any compensation as Treasurer and custodian of said funds. SEC. 14. In addition to the Captains of police now allowed by law, the Commissioners shall appoint one Captain, who shall be known as the Captain of the Harbor Police, and shall receive the same salary as other Captains of the police. SEC. 15. The Police Commissioners appointed under this Meetings; Act shall hold their meetings in the office of the Chief of where held. Police, or in such other convenient place as the Board of Supervisors shall designate, and the Clerk of the Chief of Police shall act as the Clerk of said Board of Commissioners. SEC. 16. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DLIX.-An Act granting leave of absence from the State The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and granted. SECTION 1. Leave of absence from the State of California Leave of is hereby granted to G. W. Hughes, County Assessor of the absence County of Sierra, from and after the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, until the thirtyfirst day of December in the same year. CHAP. DLX.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. DLXI.-An Act to define coöperative business corporations, and to provide for the organization and government thereof. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: corporation SECTION 1. A coöperative business corporation is a cor- Cooperative poration formed for the purpose of conducting any lawful business business and of dividing a portion of its profits among persons defined. other than its stockholders. Coöperative business corporations shall be formed under and governed by Division One, Part Four, Title One, of the Civil Code of this State, and when so formed, may, in their by-laws, in addition to the matters enumerated in section three hundred and three of said Code, provide: First-For the number of votes to which each stockholder Provisions. shall be entitled; and, Second-The amount of profits which shall be divided. among persons other than the stockholders, and the manner in which and the persons among whom such division shall be made. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. DLXII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] Completion of Branch CHAP. DLXIII.-An Act to provide for the completion of the [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Board of State Prison Directors are hereby State Prison, authorized and directed, on or before the first day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to commence the completion of the building of the Branch State Prison, at the site conveyed to the State by the Natoma Water and Mining Company, situated near the Town of Folsom, in Sacramento County, and, without unreasonable delay, continue such work until the appropriations made for that purpose shall be exhausted. Appoint ment of architect. built. SEC. 2. The said Board of State Prison Directors are hereby authorized to appoint an architect, who shall be ex officio Superintendent of said Prison, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of said Board, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, whose duty it shall be to superintend and manage the construction and erection of said Prison structure, under such rules and regulations as said Board may prescribe, who shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per month. Cells to be SEC. 3. The said Prison Directors shall first cause to be erected and completed within said Prison cell building, fifty cells, for the accommodation of at least one hundred prisoners, for the time they are employed in the erection of said Prison building, wall, or Prison structure; also, within the main building, such temporary quarters as may be necessary for the use of officers and guards during the process of construction. Said cells may be increased in number, from time to time, as the Directors may deem necessary. Removal of certain prisoners. SEC. 4. As soon as temporary quarters are erected, as provided in section three of this Act, said Board of State Prison Directors shall select a number of prisoners, not less in number than one hundred, to work on said Prison building and structure, and cause them to be removed from the State Prison at San Quentin to said Prison near Folsom, and there to be confined and worked in the erection of said Prison structure, and such other work and labor as said Directors shall deem advantageous during the term or terms of their sentence to the State Prison, which number shall be increased, from time to time, as provision shall be made for them at said Branch Prison, and said Board shall deem best. SEC. 5. The walls of the whole Prison structure shall be structure erected with stone taken from the granite quarries situated of Prison. on the land mentioned in section one of this Act, and convict labor shall be used in and about the premises, whenever it can be done to more advantage to the State than with other labor; and the said Prison structure shall be erected, finished, and completed as speedily as practicable after it is commenced, and its construction shall be in harmony with the general plans adopted for the construction of the Branch State Prison at Folsom; provided, that dimension stone may be used for the erection of the cells for the prisoners, and all cornice and embellishing work shall be omitted. SEC. 6. All laws now in force, or that may be hereafter Laws made enacted in relation to the management, control, and support applicable. of the State Prison at San Quentin, except so far as they conflict with this Act, are hereby made applicable to the Branch State Prison at Folsom. where. SEC. 7. All salaries paid to officers, guards, or skilled Salaries, etc.; laborers, and all moneys expended for materials, tools, or id from supplies used in the construction of said Branch State Prison buildings and wall, and for the support and maintenance of said Prison, shall be drawn from the State treasury, in the same manner as moneys are now drawn therefrom for the support and maintenance of the State Prison at San Quentin, and the Board of Directors shall cause to be kept a correct account, in detail, by items, of all moneys received and disbursed by them in the building, support, and management of said Branch State Prison, and shall, on or before the first day of November of each year, make a full report to the Governor, showing, in detail, all transactions connected with the construction, management, support, and maintenance of said Prison, and of the working and conducting of the convicts therein confined. Warden. SEC. 8. The Warden shall collect, or cause to be collected, Duty of and receive all moneys due for work and labor furnished any parties at or for said State Prison, or from the lease of the labor of convicts therein confined, or for materials sold, the result of convict labor, and pay the same into the State treasury, and take the Treasurer's receipt therefor; and it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to place the same in a fund to be known as the "Folsom Branch State Prison Fund," which moneys, together with all moneys appropriated or obtained by assessment and levy of taxes upon the value of property for the building, support, and maintenance of said Prison, shall be subject to order of said Board of Directors, and be disbursed in the support of said Branch State Prison. SEC. 9. The sum of one hundred and twenty thousand Appropriadollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the tins authorState treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the fur ized. |