The record-union., 1899-04-05
Synopsis Of
N ew Laws
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The following SYNOPSIS of the laws
and amendments Of 1899 includes the
substance OF Acts that became laws ny
the Governors signature, or las pio-
vided by law without his approval
The chaptering hereunder is IN con-
formity with the chaptering that VIII
appear in the volume of laws OF ioo9'
CHAPTER 127.
Chapter 127 lis in regard to California
volunteers who entered the United
States service in the Spanish-American
war 1t relates to their privileges eA-
emptions. retirements, etc., ana pro-
vides for the return to the National
Guard of such organizations, etc.
Section l provides that officers ana
members of regiments and companies.
of the National Guard who were mus
tered into the United States service IN
the late war, and who have been dls-
charged are granted leaves OF absence
from the time of their mastering INTO
the United States volunteer service IN
til being mustered out, and within loo
days from their being mustered GU;
they may report for duty to the Briga-
der General of the brigade from which
they went, if a regiment; or to the
GOHlIIldIuluS OlliCel VI tilC iSSAAii~AAS -
battalion from which they went, If
company or division; and they shall at
once be recognized ais belonging to the
National Guard and returned to duty
as the company, division, battalion or
regiment which they were at the time
they entered the volunteer service and
any company or division not having the
minimum number required by law shall
recruit up to the requisite number with
in the time specified.
All officers of such companies, divi-
sions, battalions and regiments as en-
tered the volunteer service, and shalt
return to the National Guard, shall con-
tinue to serve under the commissions
held at the time they entered the vol
unteer service for the uneXpired por-
fion of their respective commissions, the
same as if they had not entered such
volunteer service, and had remained
continuously in the National Guard.
Those officers of the National Guard
who entered the volunteer service, but
whose term of office would have ex-
pired had they remained in the Ma
tional Guard are hereby granted all
the privileges, exemptions and retire
ments up to the date of their being
mustered out of said volunteer service.
the same as if they had remained in
the National Guard, and, should they
return to duty within the time provid-
ed, and be reelected to any commits
stoned office, their time shall be con-
tinuous for all purposes, as if Their
terms had not expired.
Officers and members of the regi-
ments, battalions, companies and divi-
sions of the National Guard, who en-
respective commands, if they report for
duty with such commands, provided
they resume their places in the Ma
fional Guard, are granted continuous
service as in the National Guard for
all purposes up to such time as they
so report; those who do not so report
are granted honorable discharge from
the National Guard, as of date of the
mastering into the volunteer service of
their respective organizations.
Officers and members who are granted
leaves of absence are not paid during
their leaves. The Act went into imme-
diate effect and was passed on Febru-
airy 2Sth.
CHAPTER 12S.
Chapter 12S amends Sections g. ), 6
and s of Article II. of the Lunacy Com
mission Act of March 81. 1897 The
amendment provides that no person
shall be eligible as a manager of an in
sane hospital if he is either an elective
or appointive State officer, or a mem
Der of the Legislature. and if any such
manager shall become a member Of the
Legislature or an elective or appointiva
State officer, his Office of manager shall
be vacant. If any manager fails for
three months to attend the regular
meetings of the board of which he is
member, unless he be i'll or absent from
the State, his office shall be vacant
and the board, by resolution, shall so
declare, and a certified copy of every
such resolution shall be transmitted to
the Governor.
The law formerly required that first
assistant physicians at insane hospitals
must have had not less than two years
experience in treating the insane; but
under the amendment the first assistant
is required to be experienced in the
treatment of mental diseases and he
must have been engaged in the actual
practice of his profession for five years
Immediately preceding the date of his
appointment" The second assistant
must have had four years experience
in the practice of medicine. 1t is pro-
vided that medical superintendent at
the home for the State hospital shall
NOT receive 70 exceed So 800 per an