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receive the same pro rata appropriations as may be granted to such institutions under church or other control. An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of public moneys shall be attached to and published with the laws at every regular session of the legislature; provided, however, that for the purpose of raising five million dollars ($5,000,000), to be used in establishing, maintaining, and supporting in the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, an exposition in commemoration of the completion of the Panama canal, to be known as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the state board of equalization shall, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1911, and for each fiscal year thereafter, to and including the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1914, fix, establish, and levy such an ad valorem rate of taxation, as when levied upon all the taxable property in the state, after making due allowance for delinquency, shall produce for each of such fiscal years a sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($1,250,000). The said taxes shall be levied, assessed, and collected upon every kind and character of property in the state of California not exempt from taxation under the law, and subject to taxation on the first day of July, 1910, and in the same manner, and by the same method, as other state taxes were levied, assessed, and collected under the law, as the same existed on the first day of July, 1910. The state board of equalization shall each year, at the time it determines the amount of revenue required for other state purposes, determine, fix, and include the rate of tax necessary to raise the revenue herein provided for.

There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fund, and all moneys collected pursuant to this provision, after deducting the proportionate share of the expense for the collection of the same, shall be paid into the state treasury, and credited to such fund. All moneys so paid into such fund are hereby appropriated, without reference to fiscal years, for the use, establishment, maintenance, and support of said Panama-Pacific International Exposition. No tax,

license fee, or charge of any kind or character shall ever be levied or assessed or charged against any property of said Panama-Pacific International Exposition, or against any property used as exhibit therein, while being used or exhibited in connection therewith.

There is hereby created a commission to be known as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Commission of the state of California, which shall consist of the governor of said state and four other members to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate of said state. The governor shall have the power to fill all vacancies occurring at any time in said commission. The members of said commission shall receive no compensation and shall hold office until such exposition shall have been closed and its affairs settled. Said four members of said commission shall be selected from different sections of the state, and the appointment thereof shall be made by the governor of the state during the month of February, 1911. The commission hereby created shall have the exclusive charge and control of all moneys paid into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fund; and provided, further, that the legislature shall pass all laws necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, including the times and the manner in which and the terms and conditions upon which moneys shall be drawn from the state treasury by said commission; where contracts and vouchers shall be filed; to whom and how often reports shall be made; what disposition shall be made of any sum left unexpended or received from the sale of any property of buildings purchased or constructed by said commission for the use of said exposition, or of any disposition of any building or improvement constructed by said commission out of said fund, and to provide for the transfer to the general fund of the state of California of any portion of said Panama-Pacific International Exposition fund unused.

The commission herein created is authorized and directed to make such proper contracts with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of California on the 22d day of

March, 1910, as will entitle the state of California to share proportionately with the contributors to the said PanamaPacific International Exposition in the returns from the holding of said exposition at the city and county of San Francisco. [Amendment adopted November 8, 1910.]

Sec. 23. The members of the legislature shall receive for their services the sum of one thousand dollars each for each regular session, to be paid at such times during the session as may be provided by law, and the sum of ten dollars each. for each day while in attendance at a special or extraordinary session, for a number of days not exceeding thirty; and mileage to be fixed by law, all paid out of the state treasury; such mileage shall not exceed ten cents per mile; and each member shall be allowed contingent expenses not exceeding twenty-five dollars per member for each regular biennial session. The legislature may also provide for additional help; but in no case shall the total expense for officers, employees and attaches exceed the sum of five hundred dollars per day for either house, at any regular or biennial session, nor the sum of two hundred dollars per day for either house at any special or extraordinary session, nor shall the pay of any officer, employee or attaché be increased after he is elected or appointed. [Amendment adopted November 3, 1908.]

Sec. 23a. The legislature may also provide for the employment of help; but in no case shall the total expense for officers, employees and attaches exceed the sum of five hundred dollars per day for either house, at any regular or biennial session, nor the sum of two hundred dollars per day for either house at any special or extraordinary session, nor shall the pay of any officer, employee or attaché be increased after he is elected or appointed. [New section adopted November 3, 1908.]

Sec. 24. Every act shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in its title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act which shall not be expressed in its title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in its title. No law shall be re

vised or amended by reference to its title; but in such case the act revised or section amended shall be re-enacted and published at length as revised or amended; and all laws of the state of California, and all official writings, and the executive, legislative, and judicial proceedings, shall be conducted, preserved, and published in no other than the English language.

Sec. 25. The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to

say:

First-Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police judges, and of constables.

Second-For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors. Third-Regulating the practice of courts of justice. Fourth-Providing for changing the venue in civil or criminal actions.

Fifth-Granting divorces.

Sixth-Changing the names of persons or places.

Seventh-Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, or vacating roads, highways, streets, alleys, town plots, parks, cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not owned by the state.

Eighth Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries, and providing for their compensation.

Ninth Regulating county and township business, or the election of county and township officers.

Tenth-For the assessment or collection of taxes.

Eleventh-Providing for conducting elections or designating the places of voting, except on the organization of new counties.

Twelfth-Affecting estates of deceased persons, minors, or other persons under legal disabilities.

Thirteenth-Extending the time for the collection of

taxes.

Fourteenth-Giving effect to invalid deeds, wills, or other

instruments.

Fifteenth Refunding money paid into the state treasury. Sixteenth-Releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability, or obligation of any cor

poration or person to this state, or to any municipal corporation therein.

Seventeenth-Declaring any person of age, or authoriz ing any minor to sell, lease or encumber his or her property. Eighteenth-Legalizing, except as against the state, the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer.

Nineteenth-Granting to any corporation, association, or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege or immunity.

Twentieth-Exempting property from taxation.
Twenty-first-Changing county seats.

Twenty-second-Restoring to citizenship persons con

victed of infamous crimes.

Twenty-third-Regulating the rate of interest on money. Twenty-fourth-Authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of liens.

Twenty-fifth-Chartering or licensing ferries, bridges, or

roads.

Twenty-sixth-Remitting fines, penalties, or forfeitures. Twenty-seventh-Providing for the management of com

mon schools.

Twenty-eighth-Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, cities and counties, township, election or school districts.

Twenty-ninth-Affecting the fees or salary of any officer. Thirtieth-Changing the law of descent or succession. Thirty-first-Authorizing the adoption or legitimation of

children.

Thirty-second-For limitation of civil or criminal actions. Thirty-third In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable.

Sec. 252. The legislature may provide for the division of the state into fish and game districts, and may enact such laws for the protection of fish and game therein as it may deem appropriate to the respective districts. [New section

adopted November 4, 1902.]

Sec. 26. The legislature shall have no power to authorize lotteries or gift enterprises for any purpose and shall

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