from granting or allowing any deficiency to the state dairy bureau for the purposes of this act; and provided further, that in no event shall there be more agents or assistant agents employed, or expenses incurred under this act than the appropriations herein made will pay for the respective periods for which they are made. SEC. 15. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropria claim of M. G. Bar CHAPTER CXXXVII. An act to appropriate the sum of $21.50 to pay the claim of M. G. Barrett for money due and owing the said M. G. Barrett from the state of California. [Approved March 22, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money tion to pay in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, to pay the claim of M. G. Barrett, the said sum of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents being now due and owing from the state of California to the said M. G. Barrett. rett. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of the said M. G. Barrett for the said sum of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Appropriation to tain improve ments at CHAPTER CXXXVIII. An act to provide for certain improvements and repairs at the state normal school at Los Angeles, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 22, 1899] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby make cer- appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the trustees of the state normal school at Los Angeles as follows: For the moving of the gymnasium and the constructing of two stories for school malschool. purposes under it; for relighting the lower floor of the main building; for furnishing the new rooms constructed in the gymnasium building. Los Angeles nor SEC. 2. The controller of the state is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant for the said amount as the work shall progress, in favor of the board of trustees of said state normal school at Los Angeles, upon their requisition for the same, and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay such warrants; provided, that none of the sum hereby appropriated shall become available or be paid until January first, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CXXXIX. An act appropriating $45,000 to complete one wing of, and equip the building now being constructed for the use of the state normal school of San Diego, California. [Approved March 22, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: complete SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money Appropriain the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one forty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the board of wing and trustees of the state normal school of San Diego, California, Diego nor in completing one wing of, and equipping the building now being constructed for the use of said state normal school. SEC. 2. The state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrants for the sum in this act appropriated, in favor of the trustees of the said state normal school of San Diego, upon their requisition for the same, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay said warrants. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect the first day of January, nineteen hundred. equip San mal school. CHAPTER CXL. An act to provide for certain improvements at the Southern California state hospital, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 22, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: dollars is Appropria Southern SECTION 1. The sum of forty-five thousand hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury tion for not otherwise appropriated, to be paid on the order of the ments in board of managers of the Southern California state hospital, as California follows, to wit: For the erection of a wing to the main building state hos(or cottages) for ward purposes, and for furnishing the same, pital. Advertisement for bids. Approval of bills. Sanction of state lunacy commission. How money may be drawn. forty thousand dollars; and for the erection of a residence for the medical superintendent and for furnishing the same, five thousand dollars. SEC. 2. No contract for lumber, iron, machinery, materials, or labor to be used for the purposes mentioned in section one of this act, shall be entered into by the board of managers until publication shall be made in two daily papers of general circulation in the city and county of San Francisco, one in the city of Sacramento, and two in the city of Los Angeles, for at least thirty days prior thereto, inviting bids for the supplying of such materials or labor. Such bids, made in the form of sealed proposals, shall be opened at a public meeting of the board of managers, and the contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder for the supplying of such materials and labor. SEC. 3. All bills for material and machinery shall be audited by the board of managers, and approved by the state board of examiners before being paid. SEC. 4. All plans, descriptions, bills of materials, specifications, and estimates requisite, necessary, proper or convenient, for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall receive the sanction of a majority of the state commission in lunacy, who shall cause an entry to be made in their minutes that such plans, descriptions, bills of materials, specifications, and estimates have been approved, and it shall not be necessary to obtain the approval or sanction of any other board of officers or person of said plans, descriptions, bills of materials, specifications or estimates. SEC. 5. The state board of examiners shall examine, audit, and allow all demands arising under this act, and the said acts herein mentioned; and the state controller shall, thereupon, draw his warrant therefor, payable out of the general fund, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the same. SEC. 6. The amounts herein appropriated for the purchase of furniture and furnishing the buildings erected by the board of managers of said hospital may be drawn in one sum, or in such sums as the board of managers of said hospital may desire. SEC. 7. In no case shall the board of managers of said hospital use any moneys herein specifically appropriated for any purpose other than the one for which such appropriation is made. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force January first, nineteen hundred. CHAPTER CXLI. An act to establish a state normal school in the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, and making an appropriation of $20,000. [Approved March 22, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: lish uor SECTION 1. There shall be a state normal school established To estabin the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, mal school to be called the San Francisco state normal school, for the in San training and educating of teachers and others in the art of instructing and governing the public schools of this state. Francisco. trustees. SEC. 2. The governor shall, within thirty days after the Board of passage of this act, appoint five persons, who, with the governor and state superintendent of public instruction, shall constitute the board of trustees of said normal school. trustees. SEC. 3. The said trustees shall, within sixty days after their Duties of appointment, establish and cause to be opened and carried on in said city and county of San Francisco the said normal school, and shall provide suitable accommodations for the same, and may accept from the said city and county of San Francisco, or from the board of education thereof, a building or buildings for the use of said school. SEC. 4. The said state normal school shall be governed by Terms of the laws governing the present state normal schools of this trustees. state, and the terms of office of said trustees shall be the same as the terms of trustees of the said other state normal schools. SEC. 5. The sum of twenty thousand dollars, not more than Approprione half of which shall be available in the fifty-first fiscal year, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for establishing and maintaining said state normal school of San Francisco, and providing suitable accommodations therefor. SEC. 6. The controller of state shall draw his warrant or warrants for said amount as required in favor of said trustees. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. ation. Railroad corporations may erty and to other railroads. CHAPTER CXLII. An act amending the Civil Code of the state of California by adding thereto a new section, to be numbered four hundred and ninety-four, authorizing the sale by any railroad company owning any railroad in this state of its property and franchises, or any part thereof, to any other railroad company, whether organized under the laws of this state or of any other state or territory, or under any act of congress, and prescribing the conditions and penalties under which such property and franchises so sold may thereafter be operated and used. [Approved March 22, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Civil Code of the state of California, numbered section four hundred and ninety-four, to read as follows: 494. Any railroad corporation owning any railroad in this state may sell, convey and transfer its property and sell prop- franchises, or any part thereof, to any other railroad corfranchises poration, whether organized under the laws of this state or of any other state or territory, or under any act of congress; and any other such railroad corporation receiving such conveyance may hold and operate such railroad franchises and property within this state, build and operate extensions and branches thereof, and thereunto exercise the right of eminent domain, and do any other business in connection therewith, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if such corporation were organized under the laws of this state; provided, that such Provisos. sale, conveyance and transfer shall be made within three years from the date this act shall take effect; and provided further, that before such sale, conveyance or transfer shall become operative, an agreement in writing must be executed by the parties thereto, containing the terms and conditions of the purchase and sale, and its execution must be authorized by the board of directors and ratified by three fourths of the stockholders of each of the railroad companies that are parties to such conveyance and transfer, and said agreement or conveyance shall be recorded in each county through which said road or roads pass in this state; and provided further, that no sale, conveyance or transfer under this act shall relieve the franchise or property sold, conveyed or transferred from the liability of the grantor contracted or incurred in the operation, use or enjoyment of such franchise or any of its privileges; provided, that this section shall not authorize any corporation to purchase any railroad property operated in competition with it; and provided, however, corporations operating any railroad or part of a railroad under lease shall be entitled to purchase such leased property (whether competitive or otherwise) under |