3. For filing any application for a broker's certificate, five dollars. 4. For filing any application for an agent's certificate, one dollar.

5. For any examination, audit, or investigation, ten dollars per day or fraction thereof, if made by the commissioner, or the actual amount of the salary or other compensation, not exceeding ten dollars per day, paid to any deputy or other employee of the commissioner, if made by a deputy or other employee, for each day or fraction thereof that such commissioner, deputy, or other employee shall necessarily be absent from his office for the purpose of making such examination, audit, or investigation, plus the actual amount of traveling expenses reasonably incurred in the performance of such work.

6. For copies of papers and records not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated by the commissioner, ten cents for each folio.

7. For certified copies of official documents, orders, and other papers filed in his office; for making and mailing copies of process served upon him under the provisions of section eighteen of this act, and for transcripts on appeal, fifteen cents for each folio and one dollar for each certificate under seal affixed thereto.

8. For certificate of service and mailing of process served upon the commissioner under the provisions of section eighteen of this act, two dollars.

No fees shall be charged or collected for copies of papers, records, or official documents furnished to public officers for use in their official capacity or for the reports of the commissioner in the ordinary course of distribution; but the commissioner may fix a reasonable charge for publications issued under his authority.

"Corporation commission fund."

All fees charged and collected under this section shall be paid at least once each week, accompanied by a detailed statement thereof, into the treasury of the state to the credit of a fund to be known as the "corporation commission fund," which fund is hereby created.

Appropriated for use of commissioner.

SEC. 21. All moneys which shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the "corporation commission fund" are hereby appropriated to be used by the commissioner in carrying out the provisions of this act; and the controller shall draw his warrant on said fund from time to time in favor of the commissioner for the amounts expended under his direction, and the treasurer shall pay the same. The commissioner may, with the consent of the board of control, withdraw from said. fund a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be used as a revolving fund where cash advances are necessary. The commissioner must account for the sum withdrawn for said revolving fund at any time upon demand of the board of control.

Seal.

SEC. 22. The commissioner shall adopt a seal bearing the following inscription: "Commissioner of Corporations State of California." The seal shall be affixed to all writs, orders, permits, and certificates issued by him, and to such other instruments as he shall direct. All courts shall take judicial notice of said seal.

Copies of orders, etc.

SEC. 23. The commissioner may execute in duplicate any order, finding, or permit issued by him, and each of such parts shall be deemed to be an original. An original, of every such order, finding, or permit shall be retained and preserved by him in his office. Copies of all documents, orders, and permits made, executed, or issued by the commissioner, and of all papers filed in his office, when certified by the commissioner under his official seal, shall be received in evidence in all cases in like manner and with the same effect as the originals. Any order or permit issued by the commissioner, or a copy thereof certified by the commissioner under his official seal, to be a true copy of the original order or permit, may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which is located the principal place of business of the company affected thereby or in which is situated any property of such company, and such record shall impart notice of such order or permit, and of all its provisions, to all persons. A certificate under the seal of the commissioner that any such order or permit has not been amended, altered, revoked, or suspended may also be recorded in the same offices and with like effect.

Official reports prima facie evidence.

SEC. 24. Every official report made by the commissioner, and every report, duly verified, made to him by any deputy, clerk, or other person employed by him, of any

examination, audit, or investigation made by him or under his direction, and copies of such reports, certified by the commissioner, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated for all purposes in any action or proceeding wherein any company, broker, agent, or the commissioner is a party.

Subscription for shares prior to incorporation.

SEC. 25. Neither this act nor any provision hereof shall be deemed to prohibit subscriptions for shares of a corporation made prior to the incorporation thereof and set forth in its articles of incorporation; but such subscriptions shall be deemed to have been made and accepted upon the condition that such corporation, when incorporated, shall with reasonable diligence apply for and secure from the commissioner a permit authorizing the issue of the shares so subscribed for, in accordance with such subscriptions. The directors or trustees named in the articles of incorporation may, prior to the issue of any shares, organize by the election of a president, who must be one of their number, a secretary and a treasurer; and such directors. or a majority of them, or such president and secretary may, in the name of and in behalf of the incorporation, present an application to the commissioner as herein provided.

Acts continued.

SEC. 26. This act, in so far as it does not add to, take from, or alter an act entitled "An act to define investment companies, investment brokers, and agents; to provide for the regulation, supervision and licensing thereof; to provide penalties for the violation thereof; to create the office of commissioner of corporations, and making an appropriation therefor," approved May 28, 1913, as amended by an act entitled "An act to amend section three of an act entitled 'An act to define investment companies, investment brokers, and agents; to provide for the regulation, supervision and licensing thereof; to provide penalties for the violation thereof; to create the office of commissioner of corporations, and making an appropriation therefor,' approved May 28, 1913," approved June 3, 1915, shall be construed as a continuation thereof.

Decisions, etc., continued in force.

All decisions, orders, rules, findings, certificates, or permits heretofore made or issued, and acts done by the commissioner, shall continue in force and have the same effect as if they had been lawfully made, issued, or done under the provisions of this act.

Appeals not affected.

This act shall not affect any appeal pending from any decision of the commissioner, or any proceeding to which he, in his official capacity, is a party; but the same may be prosecuted or defended with the same effect as if this act had not been passed. Any examination, audit, or investigation undertaken, commenced, or prosecuted prior to the taking effect of this act may be conducted to a final determination in the same manner and with the same effect as if it had been undertaken, commenced, or prosecuted under the provisions of this act, and in the manner herein provided. No action or proceeding, either civil or criminal, or cause of action arising under any law of this state shall abate by reason of the passage of this act, but actions or proceedings may be commenced and prosecuted upon such causes in the same manner and with the same effect as if this act had not been passed.

Foreign and interstate commerce.

SEC. 27. Neither this act nor any provision hereof shall apply to or be construed as a regulation of commerce with foreign nations or among the several states, except in so far as the same may be permitted under the provisions of the constitution and the acts of the congress of the United States.

Constitutionality.

SEC. 28. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

SEC. 29. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

WATER COMMISSION ACT.

CHAPTER 586.

An act to regulate the use of water which is subject to such control by the state of California, and in that behalf creating a state water commission; specifying and providing for the appointment of the members of said commission; fixing the terms of office and compensation of the members of said commission; fixing the powers, duties and authority of said commission and its members; providing for the filling of vacancies in the membership of said commission; providing for the removal from office of the appointed members of said commission; providing for the cooperation of courts with said commission; providing that certain courts shall take judicial notice of certain acts of the state water commission; specifying the duties of all persons summoned as witnesses before said commission or any of its members; appropriating money for carrying out the provisions of this act; providing for the payment of the indebtedness and expenses of said commission, its members and employees; declaring what water is unappropriated; providing for the utilization of water and the works necessary to such utilization to the full capacity of streams or of such portion or portions of such capacity as the public good may require; declaring what water may be appropriated; declaring that the nonapplication for ten consecutive years of any portion of the waters of any stream to lands riparian to such stream shall be conclusive presumption that the use of such nonapplied water is not needed on said riparian lands for a useful or beneficial purpose; declaring that such nonapplied water shall be deemed to be in the use of the state and subject to appropriation; declaring the duties of those who desire to appropriate water; declaring the periods for which water may be appropriated and the conditions under which water may be appropriated; provid. ing for the payment of fees and charges by the applicants for permission to appropriate water and by the appropriators of water; providing for the ascertainment and adjudication of water rights; providing for the bringing of actions by certain persons, or, upon the direction of the state water commission, by the attorney general, for the quieting of title to water rights; specifying certain duties of the claimants, possessors or users of water or water rights; declaring water rights forfeited under certain conditions; regulating the appropriation of water; excepting cities, cities and counties, municipal water districts, Irrigation districts and lighting distrcts from certain provisions of this act; defining certain words and terms used in this act; repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act; declaring how this act shall be known; making legislative declaration concerning those parts of this act which may not be declared unconstitutional.

[Approved June 16, 1913. Amended 1915.

Amended 1917.)

The people of the state of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act a state water commission consisting of five persons is hereby created and established. Two members of said commission shall be, ex officio, the governor of the state and the state engineer, respectively. Three members of said commission shall be appointed by the governor for the term of four years; provided, however, that of the members first appointed one shall be appointed to hold office until the first day in January, nineteen hundred and fourteen, one until the first day in January, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and one until the first day in January, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Such appointive commissioners shall be men of practical knowledge or experience in the application and use of waters for irrigation, mining and municipal purposes, and shall be so appointed that at least one thereof shall have had practical knowledge and experience in the use of water for agricultural purposes, and one thereof shall have had practical knowledge and experience in the use of water for mining purposes, and one thereof shall have had practical knowledge and experience in the use of water for municipal purposes. The commissioners shall elect one of their number president of the commission. The appointed members of said commission shall each receive as compensation for his services the sum of five thousand dollars per annum. No commissioner who is directly or indirectly interested in any matter before the commission shall sit with the commission during the hearing of such matter; nor shall he be detailed by the commission to investigate or report on any such matter; nor shall he take part in any determination of any such matter. But the governor shall have the power and authority, upon request of the commission, to appoint pro tempore some disinterested person to sit and act in the place and stead of such interested commissioner. Such pro tempore commissioner shall have compensation for the time of service equal to the compensation of a commissioner

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during such service and shall have the power and authority of the same, only in the matter for the investigation and determination of which he shall have been appointed and his connection with the commission shall cease and determine upon the completion of the investigation and determination for which he was appointed. But the commissioner in whose place and stead he sits shall have power, compensation and authority in all other cases.

SEC. 2. Whenever a vacancy in the state water commission shall occur, the governor shall forthwith appoint a qualified person to fill the same for the unexpired term. The legislature, by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to each house, or the governor, may remove any one or more of the appointed commissioners from office. The commission shall have a seal bearing the following inscription: State water commission of California. The seal shall be affixed to all authentications of copies of records and to such other instruments as the commission may direct. All courts shall take judicial notice of said seal.

SEC. 3. A majority of the appointed commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any power of the commission. No vacancy in the commission shall impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the commission. The act of a majority of the commissioners present, when in session as a board, shall be deemed to be the act of the commission; but any investigations, inquiry or hearing which the commission has power to undertake or hold may be undertaken or held by or before any commissioners or commissioner designated for the purpose by the commission; and every finding, order, ascertainment or decision made by the commissioners or the commissioner so designated pursuant to such investigation, inquiry or hearing, when approved by the commission and ordered filed in its office, shall be and be deemed to be the finding, order, ascertainment or decision of the commission.

SEC. 4. (a) Each commissioner shall have power to administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, maps, accounts, documents and testimony in any inquiry, investigation, hearing, ascertainment or proceeding ordered or undertaken by the commission in any part of the state. Each witness who shall appear by order of the commission or any commissioners or a commissioner shall receive for his attendance the same fees and mileage allowed by law to witnesses in civil cases, which amount shall be paid by the party at whose request such witness is subpoenaed. When any witness who has not been required to attend at the request of any party shall be subpoenaed by the commission his fees and mileage shall be paid from the funds appropriated for the use of the commission in the same manner as other expenses of the commission are paid. Any witness subpoenaed, except one whose fees and mileage may be paid from the funds of the commission, may, at the time of service, demand the fee to which he is entitled for travel to and from the place at which he is required to appear and one day's attendance. If such witness demands such fees at the time of service, and they are not at that time paid or tendered, he shall not be required to attend before the commission or commissioners as directed in the subpoena. All fees and mileage to which any witness is entitled under the provisions of this section may be collected by action therefor instituted by the person to whom such fees are payable. But no witness shall be compelled to attend as a witness before the water commission or any water commissioner or water commissioners out of the county in which he resides, unless the distance be less than thirty miles from his place of residence to the place of hearing.

(b) The superior court of the county or city and county in which any inquiry, investigation, hearing or proceedings may be held by the commission or any commissioner or commissioners shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, maps, books, accounts, documents and testimony as required by any subpoena issued by the commission or any commissioner or commissioners. The commission, commissioners or commissioner before whom

the testimony is to be given or produced may, in case of the refusal of any witness to attend or testify or produce any papers, maps, books, accounts or documents required by such subpoena, report to the superior court in and for the county or city and county in which the proceeding is pending by petition, setting forth that due notice has been given of the time and place of attendance of said witness, or for the production of said papers, maps, books, accounts or documents and that the witness has been summoned in the manner prescribed in this act, and that the witness has failed and refused to attend or produce the papers, maps, books, accounts or documents required by the subpoena before the commission, commissioners, or commissioner in the cause or proceeding named in the notice and subpœna, or has refused to answer questions propounded to him in the course of such cause or proceeding, and ask an order of said court, compelling the witness to attend, testify, and produce said papers, maps, books, accounts or documents before the commission, or commissioners, or commissioner. The court, upon the petition of the commission or commissioners or commissioner, shall enter an order directing the witness to appear before the court at a time and place to be fixed by the court in such order, the time to be not more than ten days from the date of the order, and then and there show cause, if any he have, why he refused to obey said subpoena, or refused to answer questions propounded to him by said commission, or any commissioners or any commissioner, or neglected, failed or refused to produce before the said commission, or any commissioners of any commissioner the books, papers, maps, accounts or documents called for in said subpoena. A copy of said order and the petition therefor shall be served upon said witness. If it shall appear to the court that said subpoena was regularly issued by the commission or any commissioners or a commissioner, the court shall thereupon enter an order that said witness appear before the commission or commissioners or commissioner at the time and place fixed in said order, and testify or produce the required papers, maps, books, accounts or documents, or both testify and produce; and upon failure to obey said order said witness shall be dealt with as for contempt of court.

(c) The state water commission or any commissioners or commissioner, or any party to a proceeding before the commission or any commissioners or any commissioner, may in any investigation or hearing before the commission or any commissioners or any commissioner cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for depositions in civil actions in the superior courts of this state.

(d) No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, map, document, paper or account in any investigation or inquiry by or hearing before the commission or any commissioners or commissioner upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, book, map, document, paper or account required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction, matter or thing material to the matter under investigation by said commission, or any commissioners, or any commissioner concerning which he shall have been compelled to testify or to produce documentary evidence; provided, that no person so testifying or producing shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony.

SEC. 5. A full and accurate record of business of acts performed or of testimony taken by the commission or any member or members thereof in pursuance of the provisions of this act shall be kept and be placed on file in the office of said water commission.

SEC. 6. The state water commission shall take, charge and collect the following fees for copies and records not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated by the commission, ten cents for each folio; for certified copies of official documents and orders filed in its office, fifteen cents for each folio, and one dollar for every certificate under seal affixed thereto; for certified copies of evidence and proceedings before the commission, fifteen cents for each folio. The commission may fix reasonable charges for publications issued under its authority. All