porter for office of secretary of state, three watchmen, two elevator attendants, one of whom shall serve only during the sessions of the legislature; also two special clerks in each legislative year, to serve from January first to April first. SEC. 5. Section four hundred and twenty of said code is hereby amended to read as follows: clerks and 420. The annual salary of the keeper of the archives Salaries of is two thousand dollars; of each recording clerk, sixteen employés. hundred dollars; of the statistician, two thousand dollars; of the janitor, two thousand dollars; of the janitor's clerk, sixteen hundred dollars; of one engineer, fifteen hundred dollars; of one fireman, ten hundred and eighty dollars; of one elevator attendant, nine hundred dollars; of each porter of the capitol building, ten hundred and eighty dollars; of the porter for the secretary of state's office, seven hundred and twenty dollars; of each watchman, ten hundred and eighty dollars. The monthly salary of the engineer serving during the sessions of the legislature is one hundred and twenty-five dollars; of the fireman serving during the sessions of the legislature, ninety dollars; of the elevator attendant serving during the sessions of the legislature, seventy-five dollars, and each special clerk serving from the first day of January to the first day of April during each legislative year, one hundred and twentyfive dollars. All such salaries are payable in the same manner and at the same time as other state officers. SEC. 6. Section four hundred and twenty-two of said code is hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER LVII. An act in relation to municipal bonds. [Approved February 28, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever the owner of any coupon bond, or of Registered any bond payable to bearer, already issued or hereafter issued municipal by any municipal corporation now or hereafter existing in this state, shall present any such bond to the treasurer or other officer of such corporation, who by law performs the duties of treasurer, with a request for the conversion of such bond into a registered bond, such treasurer, or such other officer, shall cut off and cancel the coupons of any such coupon bond so presented, and shall stamp, print, or write upon such coupon. bond, or such other bond payable to bearer, so presented, either upon the back or upon the face thereof, as may be convenient, a statement to the effect that the said bond is registered in the name of the owner, and that thereafter the interest and prin Form of registration. Municipal option as bouds. cipal of said bond are payable to the registered owner. Thereafter, and from time to time any such bond may be transferred by such registered owner in person, or by attorney duly authorized on presentation of such bond to such treasurer, or such other officer, and the bond be again registered as before, a similar statement being stamped, printed, or written thereon. Such statement stamped, printed, or written upon any such bond may be in substantially the following form: (Date, giving month, year, and day.) This bond is registered pursuant to the statute in such cases made and provided in the name of (here insert name of owner) and the interest and principal thereof are hereafter payable to such owner. Treasurer (or such other officer). After any bond shall have been registered as aforesaid, the principal and interest of such bond shall be payable to the registered owner. Such treasurer, or such other officer, shall keep in his office a book or books which shall at all times show what bonds are registered and in whose names respectively. SEC. 2. Whenever under any statute of this state or any to form of charter of any municipal corporation in this state, any bonds are issued, whether the proceedings for the issuance of such bonds have been had in whole or in part prior to the enactment of this statute, or whether the same have been had in whole or in part after the enactment of this statute, such bonds may be issued either in the form of coupon bonds, or in the form of registered bonds, or some in the form of coupon bonds, and some in the form of registered bonds, as has been or hereafter may be provided in the proceedings for the issuance of such bonds, and notwithstanding any language or provision to the contrary contained in any such statute or charter authorizing the issuance of the bonds, or in any other law of the state. The provisions of section one of this act shall apply to coupon bonds, so issued, as well as to other coupon bonds, or other bonds payable to bearer. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation for CHAPTER LVIII. An act to provide for the protection of the banks of Eel river against the ravages of high water, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved February 28, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money protection in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5000.00), for the survey and other work of banks of Eel river. preliminary to the construction of a riprap protection to, and for the construction of such riprap work, on the banks of Eel river, in the county of Humboldt, State of California, at certain points thereon hereafter to be determined, to prevent the washing away of the banks of said river by winter floods. commis SEC. 2. The survey and construction of said riprap work, Highway for which said money is appropriated, is to be conducted under sioner to the direction of, and in accordance with, plans and specifica- conduct tions to be prepared and furnished by the highway commissioner of the State of California. SEC. 3. The highway commissioner of the State of California is hereby authorized and instructed to locate the points on Eel river where such riprap work shall be constructed, to make necessary surveys and to furnish all plans and specifications for such work, and to supervise the construction thereof, and shall examine, audit, and allow all demands arising under this act. The state controller is hereby authorized and instructed to draw his warrant for all moneys so allowed by said highway commissioner, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the same. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after its passage. survey. CHAPTER LIX. An act to confirm, validate and legalize certificates of tax sales and tax deeds executed to the State of California for property sold and deeded thereto for non-payment of taxes. [Approved February 28, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tax sales SECTION 1. That all certificates of tax sales and tax deeds Legalizing made to this state by the county tax collector, which certifi- and tax cates and deeds are based upon the sale of property for non- deeds. payment of taxes, and which certificates and deeds fail to recite the correct date, or any date, when the right of redemption will expire, or had expired, or which certificates recite an incorrect date when the state would be entitled to a deed, be and they are hereby confirmed, validated, and legalized, and the same shall be construed and operate at all times and upon all occasions in law in the same manner as if such matters and things required by law had been recited therein and performed in the first instance; provided, that in all cases five years shall have elapsed between the date of sale of the property to the state for non-payment of taxes and the date of the execution of such deed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Tax levy for support of high schools. Duty of CHAPTER LX. An act creating a fund for the benefit and support of high schools and providing for its distribution. [Approved March 2, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby levied annually for the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth fiscal years, ending respectively June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, an ad valorem tax of one and one half cents upon every hundred dollars of the value of the taxable property of the state, which tax shall be collected by the several officers charged with the collection of state taxes, in the same manner and at the same time as other state taxes are collected, upon all and any class of property, which tax is for the support of regularly established high schools of the state. And it is further enacted that, beginning with the fifty-seventh fiscal year, to wit: July first, nineteen hundred and six, it shall be the duty of the state controller, annually, between the tenth day of August and the first day of September, at the time that he is required to estimate the amount necessary for other school taxes, to estimate the amount necessary to be levied for the support of high schools. This amount he shall estimate by Tax, how determining the amount required at fifteen dollars per pupil in average daily attendance in all the duly established high schools of the state for the last preceding school year, as certified to him by the state superintendent of public instruction. This amount the state controller, between the dates above given, must certify to the state board of equalization. state controller. estimated. Rate of tax. Creation of "state high school fund." Appropria tion with ence to fiscal years. SEC. 2. The state board of equalization at the time when it annually determines and fixes the rate of state taxes to be collected, must declare the levy and the rate of tax for the support of state high schools in conformity with the provisions of section one of this act. SEC. 3. The money collected as provided in sections one and two hereof, after deducting the proportionate share of expenses of collecting the same to which other taxes are subject, must be paid into the state treasury, to be by the state treasurer converted into a separate fund, hereby created, to be called the "state high school fund." SEC. 4. The money paid into the state high school fund is out refer- hereby appropriated without reference to fiscal years for the use and support of regularly established state high schools. and is exempt from the provisions of part three, title one, article eighteen, of an act entitled "An act to establish a Political Code," approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, relating to the state board of examiners. ment of to share in SEC. 5. The money in said state high school fund shall be Apportionapportioned to the high schools of the state by the state super- funds. intendent of public instruction in the following manner: He shall apportion one third of the annual amount among the county, district, city, union, or joint union high schools of the state, irrespective of the number of pupils enrolled or in average daily attendance therein, except as hereinafter provided; the remaining two thirds of the annual amount he shall apportion among such schools pro rata upon the basis of average daily attendance as shown by the official reports of the county or city and county school superintendents for the last preceding school year; provided, that such high schools have been organized under the law of the state, or have been recognized as existing under the high school laws of the state and have maintained the grade of instruction required by law of the high schools; and provided, that no school shall be schools eligible to a share of said state high school fund that has not eligible during the last preceding school year employed at least two apportionregularly certificated high school teachers for a period of not less. than one hundred and eighty days with not less than twenty pupils in average daily attendance for such length of time, except in newly established high schools wherein the minimum. average daily attendance for the first year of one hundred and eighty days may be but twelve pupils and but one teacher; and provided, that before receiving state aid, each school shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the superintendent of public instruction of the possession of a reasonably good equipment of building, laboratory, and library, and of having maintained, the preceding school year, proper high school instruction for a term of at least one hundred and eighty days; provided further, that the foregoing provisions relating to the average daily attendance and the number of teachers employed shall not operate to disqualify any legally established high school existing at the date of the passage of this act from receiving a share of said state high school fund until July 1, 1904. ment. of high annual SEC. 6. The principal of every high school entitled to state Principal aid in accord with the foregoing provisions shall annually at school the close of the term and prior to receiving his last month's must make salary and as a prerequisite for such salary make out under report. oath and deliver to the county superintendent of the county or city and county wherein such high school is situated a full and complete report of said high school for the entire term or school year; such report to show the number of pupils enrolled, the average daily attendance, number of teachers regularly employed, the courses of instruction pursued, and such other information as may be required by the superintendent of public instruction and the county superintendent of schools, the said report to be made upon blanks furnished by said superintendent of public instruction as other school report blanks are furnished; provided, that in the case of joint union high school districts the principals thereof shall report as above required to county superintendents of each of the counties having terri |