The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-04

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CHAPTERS LOG AND 1O7.
These chapters provide for the pay
ment of advertising bill and "a claim of
$125 by F. B. Colver.
CHAPTER 1OS.
Chapter los appropriates $4,000 to
pay the expenses of collecting and
maintaining an exhibit in Paris in
/ 1900. 1t provides for the appointment
of three Commissioners to the Paris
Exposition, to have control of funds
and exhibits. They are to get 5000
each and all expenses, and each must
give a bond to the State, in the sum
Of $4,000.
CHAPTER 100.
Chapter 100 authorizes the State
Controller to appoint an expert for his
office at a salary of $1,000 per annum.
CHAPTER 10.
| Chapter 10 amends Section 592 of
the Penal Code, SO that it reads as fol-
lows: Every person who shall with
out authority of the owner or managing
agent, and with intent to defraud. take
water from any canal, ditch, fiume or
reservoir used for the purpose of hold
| ing or conveying water for manufac-
turing, agricultural, mining, irrigating
or generation of power, or domestic
uses, or who shall without like author
| ity, raise, lower or otherwise disturb
any gate or other apparatus thereof,
used for the control or measurement of
water, or who shall empty or place, or
cause to be emptied or placed. into any
such canal, ditch, f1ume or reservoir,
any rubbish, filth or obstruction to the
! free flow of the water, is guilty Of a
misdemeianor.
CHAPTER Ill.
Chapter III amends the Act of Feb
ruary rs, 1887, relative to the support
Of the Veterans Home at Yountville;
provides for the increase in the annual
appropriation, and changes the time of
payment. The bill appropriates $75 per
year for each aged and INDECENT Unit
ed States ex-soldier. sailor, or marine
residing at the home or proportionate
amount thereof for any less than one
year that such inmate may be an in
mate of such home; provided, that in no
one year shall sum exceeding S45, 0O0
be paid by virtue of such appropriation.
Section now reads: The support
hereby provided shall commence for
each United States ex-solder sailor or
marine upon the day following his ad-
mittance as bona fide resident in said
nome, and shall continue as long as he
shall continue to reside and be sup
ported therein"
CHAPTER 112.
Chapter LIP provides that all en-
campments CT the National Guard shall
be held at the State camp of instruc-
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Commander in Chief.
CHAPTER 113.
| Chapter 113 repeats the mining Act of
March p, 1887. That Act prescribed
the manner of locating mining claims
upon the public domain of the United
States, recording notices of location
thereof, amending defective locations,
and providing for the deposit Of district
records with County Recorders, and
prescribing the effect to be given to
recordation Of notices of location and
afidavits.
CHAPTER ia.
| Chapter ia limits the hours of daily
service of laborers and skilled mechan-
les in certain State work. The sec
tons are given in full, as follows:
| Section l. The time of service of
all laborers, workmen and mechanics
employed upon any public works of, or
work done for, the State of California,
or for any political subdivision there
| of, whether said work is done by con-
tract or otherwise, is hereby limited
and restricted to eight hours in any
one calendar day; and it shall be I'M
lawful for any officer of the State, or
of any political division thereof, or any
person acting for or on behalf thereof,
or any contractor or subcontractor, for
any part Of any public works of, or
work done for such State or political
subdivision thereof, or any person, cor
poration, or association whose duty it
shall be to employ or to direct and con-
! troll the services of such laborers,
workmen, or mechanics, or who has, in
/ fact, the direction or control of the
services of such laborers, workmen, or
mechanics, to require or permit them, or
any of them, to labor more than eight
hours in any one calendar day, except
| in cases of extraordinary emergency
caused by fire. flood, or danger to life
and property, or except to work upon
public, military or. naval works or de-
fenses in time of war.
| Section =. Each and every contract
to which the State of California, or any
political subdivision thereof, is a party,
and every contract made for or on be-
half of the said State or any political
subdivision thereof, which contract may
involve the employment of laborers,
workmen or mechanics, shall contain a
stipulation that. no laborer, workman or
mechanic in the employ of the contrac-
tor or any subcontractor, doing or con-
tracing to do any part of the work
contemplated by the contract, shall be
required or permitted to work more
than eight hours in any one calendar
day. except in cases of extraordinary
emergency caused by fire, food or dan
ger to life or property, or except to
work upon public, military or naval
works or defenses in time Of war, and
each and every such contract shall stip-
uiate a penalty for each violation of
| the stipulation directed by this Act of
| $40 for each laborer, workman or me-
chanic for each and every calendar day
| in which he shall labcC more than eight
hours; and the inspector or other Off
Ger or person whose duty it shall be to
see that the provisions of any such con-
| tract are complied with, shall report to
the proper officer of such State or po-
fHtical subdivision thereof, all violations
of the stipulati in this Act provided
for in each and every such contract,
and the amount of the penalties stipu-
lated in any such contract shall be
withheld by the officer or person whose
duty it shall be to pay the moneys due
under such contract, whether the VIOLA
lions for which said penalties were i'm
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