ing in this section shall be construed to prevent any person, publisher, or publisher's agent from lending one sample copy of any school textbook to any member of a high school board or school official for examination of such books or books before the adoption of books, as provided for in this act, and nothing shall be construed to prevent such a member of a high school board or school official from receiving such sample copies; provided, that all copies of text-books so received shall be returned within thirty days after the adoption of text-books in the subject or subjects by the high school board.

§ 11. Penalty. Any publisher of school text-books, or agent of such publisher, or any member of any high school board or public school official in the state of California, who violates any of the provisions of this act, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as for a misdemeanor; and any member of a high school board or public school official shall, in addition, be removed from his official position.

АСТ 35861.

An act to provide for the organization and supervision of courses in physical education in the elementary, secondary and normal schools of the state, and appropriating ten thousand dollars therefor. [Approved May 26, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 1176. In effect July 27, 1917.]

§ 1. Courses of physical education. The board of education of each county, city and county, and city, whose duty it is to prescribe the course of study for the elementary schools of such county, city and county or city, shall prescribe suitable courses of physical education in accordance with the provisions of this act for all pupils enrolled in the day elementary schools, except pupils who may be excused from such training on account of physical disability; and the high school board of each high school district shall prescribe suitable courses of physical education in accordance with the provisions of this act for all pupils enrolled in the day high schools of such district, except pupils regularly enrolled in high school cadet companies and pupils who may be excused from such courses on account of physical disability.

§ 2. Purposes of courses. The aims and purposes of the courses of physical education established under the provisions of this act shall be as follows: (1) To develop organic vigor, provide neuromuscular training, promote bodily and mental poise, correct postural defects, secure the more advanced forms of co-ordination, strength and endurance, and to promote such desirable moral and social qualities as appreciation of the value of co-operation, self-subordination and obedience to authority, and higher ideals, courage and wholesome interest in truly recreational activities; (2) to promote a hygienic school and home life, secure scientific supervision of the sanitation of school buildings, playgrounds and athletic fields, and the equipment thereof.

§ 3. Enforcement of courses. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of schools of every county, city and county, or city, and of every

board of education, board of school trustees, or high school board, to enforce the courses of physical education prescribed by the proper authority, and to require that such physical education be given in the schools under their jurisdiction or control. All pupils enrolled in the elementary schools, except pupils excused therefrom in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be required to attend upon such courses of physical education during periods which shall average twenty minutes in each school day, and all pupils enrolled in the secondary schools, except pupils excused therefrom in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be required to attend upon such courses of physical education for at least two hours each week that school is in session.

§ 4. Supervisor and special teachers. When the number of pupils in any city or city and county or school district is sufficient, such city or city and county or school district shall employ a competent supervisor and such special teachers of physical education as may be necessary. The trustees of two or more contiguous elementary school districts, or the trustees of one or more elementary school districts and the high school board of the high school district in which such elementary school district or districts are situated, may by written agreement join in the employment of a competent teacher of physical education for such districts, and the salary of such teacher and the expenses incurred on account of such instruction shall be apportioned as the school board concerned may agree.

§ 5. Courses in normal schools. The state board of education, in standardizing the courses of instruction offered in the several normal schools of the state, shall prescribe a course in physical education and shall make the completion of such course a requirement for graduation.

§ 6. Duty of state board of education. It shall be the duty of the state board of education: (1) to adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary and proper to secure the establishment of courses in physical education in the elementary and secondary schools in accordance with the provisions of this act; (2) to appoint a state supervisor of physical education whose duties are hereinafter defined; (3) to compile or cause to be compiled and printed, a manual in physical education for distribution to teachers in the public schools of the state.

§ 7. State supervisor of physical education. Salary. Expenses. The supervisor of physical education appointed under the provisions of this act, shall be experienced in the supervision of physical education in public schools. He shall not be subject to the provisions of any civil service law of the state. He shall exercise general supervision over the courses of physical education in elementary and secondary schools of the state; shall exercise general control over all athletic activities of the public schools; shall advise school officials, school boards and teachers in matters of physical education; shall visit and investigate the work in physi cal education in the public schools and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the state board of education. He shall receive a salary not exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, as fixed by the state board of education, payable at the same

time and in the same manner as the salaries of other state officers are payable. He shall also receive his actual and necessary traveling expenses while on official business. The state board of education may within the limits of the appropriation hereinafter provided, employ such expert and clerical assistance as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

§ 8. Appropriation. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys belonging to the state not otherwise appropriated to defray the expenses of the state board of education in carrying out the provisions of this act, during the sixty-ninth and seventieth fiscal years.

ACT 3586j.

An act relating to the employment of janitors and employees of certain school districts.

[Approved May 17, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 645. In effect July 27, 1917.]

§ 1. Employment of janitors and employees. In any school district situated wholly within the boundaries of a city of the first class the janitors and other employees of such school district shall be employed in the same manner and under the same conditions as teachers are employed by such district and when so employed shall be removed only for cause and after charges have been filed and heard by the board of education. All such employees who have been in the service of any such school district continuously for a period of one year prior to the effective date of this act shall be deemed to have been so employed. The board of education shall have full power to make and enforce all necessary rules and regulations to carry out these provisions.

ACT 3586k.

An act empowering the state board of education to order the closing from time to time of educational institutions during the continuance of a state of war.

[Approved May 5, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 282. In effect immediately.]

§ 1. State board of education may close educational institutions. Salary of teacher. During the continuance of a state of war between the United States of America and any foreign power, the state board of education, with the approval of the governor, shall have power, whenever in the opinion of a majority of its members such step is necessary for the planting or harvesting of crops or for other agricultural or horticultural purposes and is for the welfare of the state, to make an order closing, for such time as may be specified therein, any or all educational institutions supported wholly or in part by the state, or any grade or class thereof, and may, in like manner, by similar order, postpone the opening of any or all such educational institutions, or any grade or class thereof, during the continuance of a state of war; provided, however, that the annual school term shall not be reduced to less than six school months under the provisions of this act; and provided, further,

that whenever any such educational institution is closed, or the opening thereof is delayed, under the provisions of this act, the salary of any teacher regularly employed shall be paid according to any written contract between the governing board of such educational institution and such teacher, or in case there is no written contract, according to any salary schedule adopted by such board. In case there is neither such contract nor salary schedule, the total salary paid for any school year in which such order is made shall not be less than the salary paid by the governing board of such institution for similar service during the preceding school year. It is further provided that nothing herein contained shall in any manner affect the amount of money apportioned to any school district during any school year.

§ 2. Application of order. Such an order issued under the provisions of section one hereof may be made applicable to such district, city, eity and county, county or group of any thereof as the state board of education may determine and specify therein, and may be altered, amended or rescinded from time to time.

§ 3. Urgency measure. Inasmuch as the United States is now involved in war, this act is hereby determined and declared to be an urgency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace and safety, within the meaning of section one of article four of the constitution and shall take effect immediately.

АСТ 3586 1.

An act to accept the provisions and benefits of an act passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled and approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred seventeen, to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to create a vocational education fund and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved May 31, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 1387.]

§ 1. Provisions of federal vocational education act accepted. Acceptance of benefits of federal vocational education act. The people of the state of California do hereby accept the provisions of, and each and all of the funds provided by, an act passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, entitied, "An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for co-operation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for co-operation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," and approved by the president February twenty-third, nineteen hundred seventeen. In accepting the benefits of said act the people of the state of California agree to comply with all of its provisions and to observe all of its requirements.

§ 2. Powers of state board of education. The state board of education is hereby designated as the state board to carry out the purposes and the provisions of said act, and is hereby given all necessary power

and authority to co-operate with the federal board for vocational education in the administration of the provisions of the federal act and of this act.

§ 3. Duty of state treasurer.

Vocational education fund. The state treasurer, as required by said federal act, is hereby made custodian of all federal funds received by the state of California under the provisions of that act. He is also hereby made custodian of all state funds appropriated in this act for the purpose of co-operating with the federal government in the promotion of vocational education. He is hereby. authorized to receive and provide for the proper custody of all moneys provided under the provisions of this act and the above-mentioned federal act. It shall be the duty of the state treasurer, upon receiving any apportionment of funds from the federal government on account of the vocational education fund, to report the same immediately, with the amount thereof, to the state controller and the state board of education and deposit the same to the credit of the "vocational education fund," which fund is hereby created. Thereupon the state controller and the state treasurer shall transfer from the general fund of the state to the vocational education fund an amount which shall equal the amount apportioned to the state of California under the provisions of the federal act mentioned in this act. The moneys so transferred into the vocational education fund are hereby appropriated without reference to fiscal years for the purpose of co-operating with the federal government in promoting vocational education in this state and are exempt from the provisions of part three, title one, chapter three, article eighteen, of the Political Code, relating to the state board of control. The moneys constituting the vocational education fund shall be paid out by the state treasurer on warrants drawn by the controller as requisitioned by the state board of education in earrying out the provisions of this act, the federal act and the rules and regulations of said state board established as required by said acts.

ACT 3608.

TITLE 500.
SHASTA COUNTY.

An act fixing the compensation of grand and trial jurors in counties of the twenty-eighth class.

[Approved May 28, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 1025. In effect July 27, 1917.]

§ 1. Fees of jurors, counties of twenty-eighth class. Grand jurors or trial jurors in criminal cases in the superior court shall receive, as compensation for each day's attendance, per day three dollars, and for each mile actually traveled in attending court as a grand juror or juror at a criminal case, in the superior court in going only, per mile fifteen cents. The county clerk shall certify to the auditor the number of days' attendance and the number of miles traveled by each juror, and the auditor shall draw his warrant for the amount to which each juror is entitled, and the treasurer shall pay the same.