ees. subject to ap Board. correspond countability tendent. obtaining right of applicants. that all such accounts and records are fully made up to the date of each half fiscal year, and that the principal facts and results, with an official report thereon, is laid before the Board at its semi-annual meetings, except it may be otherwise specially ordered. The exercise of all the powers of the Acts of SuSuperintendent shall be subject to the approval of the Trust-perintendent The Superintendent shall conduct the official corre- proval of spondence, and keep a record of the applications received and Superintendthe pupils admitted, and shall be accountable for the careful ent as official keeping and economical use of all furniture, stores, and other ent. articles provided for the Home, and prepare and present to General ac the Board, at its semi-annual meetings, a true and complete of Superininventory of all personal property belonging to the Home. SEC. 7. Whenever a parent, or guardian, or any person Mode of charged with the support of any child, shall desire the same admission. to be admitted into the "California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children," he may appear before and petition the Court, or a Judge thereof, in the county in which he resides, for an order for the admission of said child into said Home. The Court or Judge shall inquire into the Judicial incondition and status of said child, and if he find that the quiry as to same is imbecile, or feeble-minded, between the age of five entry of and twenty-one years, incapable of receiving instruction in the common schools, and has been a resident of the State for one year next preceding the date of the petition, he shall make an order that said child be received into, and maintained and educated in said Hóme; and upon the presentation of such order the Superintendent shall receive such child into said Home; provided, the Home be not already Proviso. full, or the fund available to said Home be not exhausted. The Court or Judge shall also inquire into the financial con- Where finandition of the parent, or guardian, or person charged with the cially able, support of such child, and if he find him able, in whole or guardian in part, to pay the expenses of such child at said Home, he liable for shall make a further order requiring such parent, guardian, or person charged with the support of said child, to pay to the said Home, at stated periods, such sums as in the opinion of the Court or Judge thereof he may deem proper, during such time as the child may remain in said Home. This order may be enforced by such order or orders as the Court or Judge thereof may deem necessary, and may be varied, altered, or revoked, in the discretion of the Court, or Judge thereof. But the Board may return to its parent or guardian Dismissal of any child who has been an inmate of said Home for the period of two months. parent or mainte nance. inmates. additional SEC. 8. If the capacity of the Home allows the reception Admission of of any additional pupils, the Trustees may admit younger or applicants. older persons of the same class upon the same terms before specified, and also non-residents of the State; but for all of Rate of comthis last class, the Trustees shall charge and receive for the pensation. Home a fair rate of compensation, to be fixed by the Trustees; and residence in the Home, on the part of a person admitted as a non-resident of the State, shall not be held to change that status. The Board of Trustees may admit into said Home any inmate for life upon such terms of donations, bequest, or terms. Life mem bership and Objects of "Home" and filling same. grants as they may deem best and just under the circumstances, or for the best interests of the Home. SEC. 9. The object aimed at in the institution shall be such Trustees' care, training, and educating of those received as to render duties in ful- them more comfortable, happy, and better fitted to care for Employment and support themselves. To this end the Trustees shall furof teachers. nish them such agricultural and mechanical education as they may be capable of receiving, and as the facilities offered by the State will allow, including farm work, shops, and the employment of trade teachers, who may at any time be discharged for Contracts for supplies, limited to one year. Conditions of bid. cause. SEC. 10. The Trustees are hereby authorized and required. to contract for provisions, clothing, medicines, fuel, and all other supplies necessary for the support of the Home, for any period not exceeding one year, and such contracts shall be limited to bona fide dealers in articles contracted for. Such contracts shall be given to the lowest bidder, at a public letting thereof, if the price bid is a fair and reasonable one, and not greater than the usual market rates. Each bid shall be accompanied by such security as the Board may require, conditioned upon the bidder entering into contract upon the terms of his bid, on notice of acceptance thereof, and presenting a penal bond, with securities satisfactory to the Board, in such sum as the Board may direct, that he will faithfully Publication perform his contract. Notice of the time, place, and conof notice for ditions of the letting of each contract shall be given thence weekly for two consecutive weeks, in one daily paper published in the City of San Francisco, and once weekly, for two successive weeks, in a paper published in the county where the Home shall be located. bids. Trustees report to Governor. Recapitula SEC. 11. The Trustees, on or before the fifteenth day of November, annually, shall make a report to the Governor of the condition and progress of the Home, together with an exhibit in detail of all receipts and expenditures for the preceding State fiscal year. SEC. 12. The Superintendent shall, annually, after the close tion by Sut of the fiscal year, and before the date at which the Trustees as to number are required to make their annual report, make to the Trust perintendent of inmates and their condition. Trustees to visit Home condition. ees a report, giving the names, age, sex, nativity, residence, and date of reception of each pupil in the institution within the preceding year, and, as far as can be ascertained, the causes of imbecility; also the number discharged, with the date and reason therefor in each case, together with the names of each paying pupil, and the amounts charged for them, and the amounts paid or unpaid; and also such other information and suggestions as to him may seem proper, which report shall be kept on file in the office of the Secretary of the Board, but shall not be printed. SEC. 13. There shall be visitations and thorough examinmonthly and ations of all the departments of the institution monthly by report on its one or more of said Trustees, and quarterly by a majority of them; and at each visitation there shall be made a detailed statement of the condition of the Home, signed by the Trustee or Trustees making the statement, and placed on file, which statement shall at all times be open to the inspection of leg islative committees charged with the duties of examining public institutions. The Trustees, during their monthly vis- Certifying to itation, shall examine the books and accounts, and no account accounts. or claim shall be paid until it has been examined and certified as correct by at least two of the Trustees. SEC. 14. No bill shall be paid except upon accounts, cer- Payment of tificates, or vouchers, duly certified by the Superintendent claims. and approved by the Board of Trustees. SEC. 15. An Act entitled "An Act to establish the 'Cali- Repealed. fornia Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-Minded Children,' and provide for the maintenance of the same,' approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, is hereby repealed. SEC. 16. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LVIII. An Act to provide for the deficiency in the appropriation for the salary of Deputy Supreme Court Reporter, during the thirtyeighth fiscal year. [Approved March 9, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and salary Dep SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand four hundred dol- Approprialars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General tion to pay Fund of the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to uty Supreme pay the deficiency in the appropriation for the salary of Dep- porter, 38th uty Supreme Court Reporter, for the thirty-eighth fiscal year. fiscal year. Court Re CHAPTER LIX. An Act to provide for deficiency in the appropriation for the salary of Deputy Supreme Court Reporter, during the thirtyseventh fiscal year. [Approved March 9, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and salary Dep SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-four hundred dollars is Appropriahereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General Fund tion to pay of the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the uty Supreme deficiency in the appropriation for the salary of Deputy porter, 37th Supreme Court Reporter, for the thirty-seventh fiscal year. Court Re fiscal year. Governor appoint. Duties of CHAPTER LX. An Act to provide for the removal of the mineral cabinet from the State Library. [Approved March 9, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this Act the Governor shall appoint a Board of Trustees, consisting of three persons, which shall be known as the Trustees of the Mineral Cabinet. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Board of Trustees, within thirty days after their appointment, to select a place in the Crocker Art Gallery building, where the said cabinet shall be located, and to remove the same there. The location shall be made with a view to the safety of said cabinet from destruction, and to keeping the same open for inspection by the public; but no expense to the State shall be incurred either for room rent or care of the same. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER LXI. Appropria tion. Claims of Langhorne & An Act to provide for the deficiency in the appropriation for the costs and expenses of suits wherein the State is a party in interest, of the thirty-seventh fiscal year. [Approved March 9, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand three hundred and twenty-nine and five one hundredths dollars is hereby approMiller, Way- priated out of any money in the State Treasury not othermire & Bag-wise appropriated, to pay the deficiency in the appropriation Clarken & for the costs and expenses of suits wherein the State is a party in interest, for the thirty-seventh fiscal year, to pay the claims of Langhorne & Miller, Waymire & Baggett, and Clarken & Devlin. gett, and Devlin. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXII. An Act to amend section six of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the redemption of the funded indebtedness of the City of Sacramento," approved March 25, 1872. [Approved March 9, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section six of the above entitled Act is so amended as to read as follows: bids; where Letting of Section 6. The advertisement shall sufficiently designate Advertisethe time, place, and mode of putting in bids, and when the ment for time for bidding shall have expired, the bids shall be opened opened. by the Commissioners of the Funded Debt Sinking Fund, in d the presence of the Trustees of the city, and the said Commissioners shall, in the presence of the Board of Trustees, proceed to examine the bids made, and ascertain those which are, in their opinion, the most favorable to the interests of the city, and accept the same, or, if any or all the bids. should be at too high a price, the Commissioners may reject all or any portion of such bids; provided, that no bids for the Proviso. Sacramento City bonds shall be accepted at a higher price than par. CHAPTER LXIII. An Act to provide for the payment of the rent of the chambers occupied by the Supreme Court Commissioners. [Approved March 9, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and tion. Su SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand one hundred and Appropriatwenty-five dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money preme Court in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the rents. rent of the chambers occupied by the Supreme Court Commissioners, said sum to cover the rent from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the State Controller is hereby ordered and directed to draw his warrant or warrants for the same in favor of the proper parties. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. |