Conservation commission.

§ 1. A commission consisting of three persons which shall be known and designated as the "Conservation Commission of the State of California," is hereby created and established for the purpose of investigating and gathering data and information concerning the subjects of forestry, water, the use of water, water power, electricity, electrical or other power, mines and mining, mineral and other lands, dredging, reclamation and irrigation, and for the purpose of revising, systematizing and reforming the laws of this state, upon, concerning, regarding or appertaining to these said subjects.

Appointment by governor.

§ 2. Said commission shall be appointed by the governor, and shall enter upon the performance of its duties immediately. The members of said commission shall hold office at the pleasure of the governor. In case of a vacancy in said commission, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor.

Duties.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of said commission to investigate and examine the laws of the United States, of foreign nations, of the states of the Union and of this state, and the reports and recommendations of persons, officials, commissions, societies and associations upon the subjeets of forestry, water, the use of water, water power, electricity, electrical and other power, mines and mining, mineral and other lands, dredging, reclamation and irrigation and to prepare and recommend to the legislature laws, statutes and constitutional amendments revising, systematizing and reforming the laws of this state upon forestry, water, the use of water, water power, electricity, electrical and other power, mines and mining, mineral and other lands, dredging, reclamation and irrigation. The said commission is hereby authorized and empowered to do and perform the acts and things required of it by this act, and to adopt all rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

Reports.

§ 4. The said commission is hereby empowered and authorized to have printed by the state printer its reports, records and proceedings in the manner provided by law.

State officers to assist.

§ 5. It is hereby made the duty of the attorney general, surveyor general, the state engineer and all other state officers to render such aid and assistance to said board as said board may require.

Expert, etc., assistance.

§ 6. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the said commission is authorized to employ such expert, technical, pro

fessional and clerical assistance and upon such terms as it may deem proper.

Commission given authority to enter all lands.

§ 7. In order to carry out the provisions of this act the members of said commission or any person authorized by it are authorized to enter and cross all lands within this state, and to make all proper and necessary surveys and measurements of land and water; provided, that in doing so no damage is done to private property; and it shall be a misdemeanor, for any person or persons to willfully and maliciously remove or destroy any permanent marks or monuments made or erected by said commission or any person or persons under its direction or authorization, or to prevent the members of the said commission or any person authorized by said commission to enter and cross any land within this state or to make surveys and measurements of land and water.

No salary.

§ 8. Said commissioners shall receive no salary for their services but shall be allowed their actual expenses while in the performance of their duties as in this act provided.

Appropriation.

§ 9. The sum of $100,000 is hereby appropriated out of the funds of the state not otherwise appropriated for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants upon such sum from time to time upon the requisition of said conservation commission approved by the board of examiners, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay such warrants.

§ 10. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 11. This act shall take effect immediately.

An act to provide for the dissemination of knowledge regarding the various propositions and constitutional amendments which are to be submitted to the people of the state of California and for the distribution of copies of said propositions and amendments to various institutions of learning throughout the state.

[Approved April 27, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 1162.]

Copies of constitutional amendments to be furnished schools. §1. For the purpose of encouraging the study and investigation of the various propositions and constitutional amendments which are hereafter submitted to the people and to stimulate interest therein, and study thereof by addresses, debates and general discussions throughout the various institutions of learning of the state of California, the secretary of state shall, within six months after the adjournment of each session of the legislature, have printed in the manner prescribed by section 1195 of the Political Code a sufficient number of all propositions and constitutional amendments which are to be submitted to a vote of the people at any election thereafter, to supply each institution of higher learning with twenty-five copies, and. each high school and grammar school with ten copies thereof and deliver the same to the superintendent of public instruction.

Superintendent of public instruction to make statement to heads of schools.

§ 2. The superintendent of public instruction shall immediately prepare such instructions to the heads of said institutions and schools, as he may deem sufficient to properly accomplish the object expressed in section 1 of this act, and shall forward said propositions and constitutional amendments to the heads of said institutions and schools together with such instructions.

ACT 707.

An act providing for the calling of a special election to be held on Tuesday, October 10, 1911, and for the submission thereat to the qualified electors of the state all amendments to the constitution of the state of California proposed by the legislature at its thirtyninth session, commencing on the second day of January, 1911, prescribing and providing for the publication of said proposed amendments, and providing for the manner of holding and conducting such election and for the canvassing and return of the votes east thereat.

[Approved March 27, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 518.]

Constitutional amendment election October 10, 1911.

§ 1. A special election is hereby called for, and shall be held throughout the state of California, on Tuesday, the tenth day of October, 1911, and at such special election there shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said state, for adoption or rejection, in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of article XVIII of the constitution of said state, all amendments to said constitution proposed by the legislature of said state at its thirty-ninth regular session commencing on the second day of January, 1911.

Brief to be prepared by author and member voting against amendment. Printing copies. Numbering amendments. Copies to county clerk. What may be mailed to voters. Copies at polling places.

§ 2. The author of any amendment to the constitution of this state, proposed by the legislature at said session thereof, which amendment shall have been passed in the manner required by section 1 of article XVIII of the constitution, and one member of the same house who voted with the majority on the submission of such amendment, and one member of the same house as the author who voted with the minority against the submission of such amendment, both of whom shall be selected by the presiding officer of such house, before the adjournment of said session of the legislature, shall, within ninety days after the adjournment thereof, prepare a brief statement showing the purpose of said amendment, and a comparative statement of the operation of the present section or article of the constitution, and as proposed to be amended, or in the case of a new section or article, a statement of the operation thereof, and the reasons advanced by the majority for its adoption, and the reasons advanced by the minority against its adoption, and any other reason why such amendment should be adopted, or not be adopted, and forward such statement to the secretary of state; provided, that in all cases where the amendment to be submitted shall have been proposed by resolutions introduced in both houses of the legislature and shall have been adopted substantially as proposed in each house, the statement herein provided for, setting forth the reasons why such amendment should be adopted, shall be prepared by the respective authors of said resolutions. The secretary of state shall cause to be printed at the state printing office, in convenient form, one and one-half times as many copies of such statement as there are registered voters in this state, and the secretary of state shall, not less than twenty-five days before said special election, certify all such amendments to the county clerk of each county of the state, and shall cause to be printed at the state printing office one and one-half times as many copies of said amendments as there are registered voters in the state, which amendments shall be numbered by the secretary of state consecutively in the following order: first, the senate constitutional amendments in the order of their introduction, and next, the assembly constitutional amendments in the order of their introduction. The first assembly amendment shall follow numerically the last senate amendment. At least thirty days before said special election at which such amendments are to voted on, the secretary of state shall furnish each county clerk in the state with one and one-half times as many such copies of the statements and of the amendments as there are registered voters in his county. The clerk of each county shall thereafter cause to be mailed to each voter a copy of each of said constitutional amendments and of said statements, at the same time and in the same manner and in the same envelope provided for in section 1194 of the Political

Code, and no other publication of said amendments or of either of them shall be necessary or authorized. No leaflet, pamphlet, card, or other printed matter shall be inclosed or mailed in said envelope other than that expressly herein or otherwise provided by law, or prepared by the County clerk for the purpose of informing the voter regarding the number of his precinct, the location of his polling place, his voting number, or similar information regarding said election.

The sheet or pamphlets containing the said proposed constitutional amendments shall also contain the corresponding constitutional provisions, if any, then in force, and the parts of the existing provisions shall therein be distinguished in print, so as to facilitate comparison. Three copies of the constitution, in the form of pamphlets to be supplied by the secretary of state, shall be kept at every polling place for said special election while the same is in progress, so that they may be freely consulted by the electors.

§ 3. Said special election shall be proclaimed, held and conducted and the ballots shall be prepared, marked, voted, counted, canvassed and the results shall be ascertained and the returns thereof made in all respects in accordance with the law governing general elections, in so far as the provisions thereof are applicable to the election provided for by this act, except as otherwise herein especially provided. Each county clerk, as soon as the statement of the vote of his county is made out and entered upon the records of the board of supervisors thereof, must make out and certify an abstract of such vote and must seal up such abstract, and indorse it "election returns," and, without delay, transmit it by mail to the secretary of state. If the people shall approve and ratify any such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon at said election, such amendment or amendments shall become a part of the constitution of this state.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

ACT 757.

TITLE 113.
CORPORATIONS.

An act relating to revenue and taxation, providing for a license tax upon corporations, and making an appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this act.

[Approved March 20, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 493.]

Amended 1906, p. 22; 1907, pp. 664, 745; 1909, pp. 454, 458; 1911, p. 1094. The amendment of 1911 is as follows:

Rehabilitation of corporations which failed to pay license tax. When business may not be carried on under old name.

§ 6. Any corporation which failed to pay the license tax and penalty required by the act, or any amendment thereof, and of which this is