which may have arisen, or which may arise by reason of the said national guard and naval militia having been so mustered in, and also any and all proper charges and expenses against the state on account of the companies, or any of them, which were so mustered in, and by reason of the use of armories for the care and custody of the property left therein, and any proper expenses which have been incurred, or which may be incurred, in the reorganization of said guard. SEC. 2. Any officer or officers so detailed shall have and Pay. receive the same pay and allowances as an officer of like rank in the United States army for the time actually employed, together with reasonable traveling expenses. SEC. 3. Any and all claims so adjusted by said appointed claims. officers shall be transmitted through regular military channels to the governor, who shall submit the same to the board of military auditors, and, if approved by it, the controller is directed to draw his warrant in favor of the respective parties, to whom or in whose favor the claims have been allowed, and also his warrant for the pay and expenses of such detailed officer or officers, and for the amounts thereof, and the treasurer is directed to pay the same. tion. SEC. 4. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for Appropria'armory rents and other expenses, N. G. C.," for the forty-ninth and fiftieth fiscal years, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER LXVI. An act providing for the establishment and maintenance of sewer districts adjacent to municipal corporations. The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: cent to corpora SECTION 1. It shall be the mandatory duty of the board of Sewer districts adjasupervisors of any county of the state of California, whenever a petition of one third of the resident electors of any district municipal describing the exterior boundaries of the said district shall be tions. presented to them, praying for the formation of a sewerage district thereof, to publish for ten days in some daily paper in the nearest municipal corporation, or if there is no daily paper, then to publish weekly for two successive weeks in a weekly paper published in the nearest municipality, a notice of such petition and a description of the exterior boundaries of the district so proposed. If within twenty days after the last such Protest. publication a protest containing the signatures of the owners of a majority of the assessed valuation of the property within. such district shall be filed with said board of supervisors, then said petition shall be denied, and no part of such district Tax levy. Powers of supervisors. Outlet connection. shall be included within any sewer district formed within six months thereafter. If no such protest be filed as herein provided, then at the expiration of the twenty days allowed for such protest it shall be the duty of the said board of supervisors to declare such district a sewer district. SEC. 2. At the time of making each tax levy subsequent to the formation of said district, said board of supervisors must levy such an amount of taxes upon the taxable property of said district as shall by said board be deemed necessary for carrying out the provisions of this act and of the formation of said sewerage district, and said taxes shall be collected in the same manner as state and county taxes are collected; and said board of supervisors must provide in said levy for assessing and collecting a sufficient amount of money thereby to pay to any municipality whose sewers shall be connected with, as hereinafter provided, the amount fixed by the legislative body of said municipality, as charges for said privilege of connecting with said sewerage system, and said amount must be fixed by said legislative body before the first day of March of each year, and notice thereof must be given said board of supervisors. SEC. 3. Said board of supervisors shall have power, after the formation of said sewerage district, to lay out and construct sewers therein, and to provide for making connections with said sewer by property holders and other persons resident within said district, and for the maintenance and extension of said sewerage district as may be in their judgment required, and must compel property holders to connect all buildings therewith. SEC. 4. Whenever a sewerage district shall be formed, as provided in this act, of territory adjacent to any municipality having a sewerage system, the sewerage system of said sewerage district must be connected with and have its outlet through the sewerage system of said municipality; provided, that no connection can be made or maintained with the sewerage system of any municipality without the consent first obtained from and expressed by the legislative body of said municipality; and when connection is made with the sewers of the Payment municipality, said board of supervisors, from the funds college. lected from the taxes above provided for, shall pay to said municipality annually the sum of money that shall be fixed as charges by the said board of supervisors and said legislative body of said municipality for the privilege of so connecting and maintaining connection with the sewer system thereof, and this amount may vary from year to year as the said board of supervisors and said legislative body of said municipality shall deem reasonable. for privi SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. [Became a law, under constitutional provision, without Governor's approval, March 8, 1899.] CHAPTER LXVII. An act to amend section twelve hundred and sixty-one of the [Approved March 9, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section twelve hundred and sixty-one is hereby amended to read as follows: of duty of. 1261. The board must, before it adjourns, inclose in a Election cover, and seal up and direct to the county clerk, the copy boards, the register upon which one of the judges marked the word "voted" as the ballots were received, all certificates of registration received by it, one of the lists of the persons challenged, one copy of the list of voters, and one of the tally-lists and list attached thereto. The board must also, before it adjourns, Post copy post conspicuously, on the outside of the polling place, a copy of the result of the votes cast at such polling place; such copy of the result must be signed by the members of the board, and attested by the clerks. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to remove or deface such copy of the result. of result. CHAPTER LXVIII. An act to amend the Penal Code by adding two new sections to title four thereof, relative to crimes against the elective franchise, said sections to be numbered sixty-three and sixty-three and one half, respectively. [Approved March 9, 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 Penal Code, to be numbered section sixty-three, as follows: ator, can must not 63. Every candidate for United States senator at an ap- United proaching session of the legislature, and every person acting for States senor on behalf of any such candidate for senator in the congress of didates for, the United States at an approaching session of the legislature, give or who shall advance or give or loan, or promise to advance promise or pecuniary give or loan, any money or property to any candidate for the aid to leglegislature, before or after his nomination, or before or after candi his election, under an express or implied promise that such dates. candidate for the legislature (whether nominated or not, or before or after his election) will support or vote for such candidate for senator in the congress of the United States at an approaching session of the legislature, shall be deemed islative Members ture of legisla not accept any valu able con guilty of a felony. The advancing, giving, or loaning of money or property, or the promise to advance, give, or loan money or property to any candidate for the legislature, by any candidate for senator as aforesaid, or by any person for him, or on his behalf, as aforesaid, shall be deemed prima facie proof of an express or implied agreement that such candidate for the legislature will, if elected to the legislature, vote for such candidate for senator in congress. SEC. 2. A new section is hereby added to the Penal Code, to be numbered section sixty-three and one half, as follows: 63. Every person being a member-elect of the legislature, and every person being a candidate for the legislature, and every person being a candidate for nomination for the legislature, who shall accept any money or property from any sideration. candidate for senator in the congress of the United States before the legislature at an approaching session thereof, or from any other person acting for or on behalf of any such candidate for senator in the congress of the United States at an approaching session of the legislature, under an express or implied promise that such member-elect of the legislature, or such candidate for the legislature, or candidate for nomination for the legislature, will, if elected as a member of the legislature, support or vote for any such candidate for senator in the congress of the United States for that office, shall be deemed guilty of a felony. The receipt of money or property by any member-elect of the legislature, and by any candidate for the legislature, and by any candidate for nomination for the legislature, from any candidate before the legislature for senator in congress at an approaching session of the legislature as aforesaid, or from any person acting for or on behalf of any such candidate for senator in congress as aforesaid, shall be prima facie proof of an express or implied agreement that such member-elect of the legislature will vote for such candidate for senator as aforesaid, and that such candidate, or candidate for nomination for the legislature, will, if elected, vote for such candidate for senator as aforesaid. CHAPTER LXIX. An act to repeal an act entitled "An act to provide for the redemption of the funded indebtedness of the city of Sacramento,' approved March 25, 1872; and to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend section six of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the redemption of the funded indebtedness of the city of Sacramento,' approved March 25, 1872," approved March 9, 1887; and to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend sections one, five, seven, eight, ten, and eleven of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the redemption of the funded indebtedness of the city of Sacramento,' approved March 25, 1872," approved March 19, 1889. [Approved March 9, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: debt of city repeal of SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act to provide for the Funded redemption of the funded indebtedness of the city of Sacra- of Sacramento," approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and mento, seventy-two, and an act entitled "An act to amend section six act. of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the redemption of the funded indebtedness of the city of Sacramento,' approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two," approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; and an act entitled "An act to amend sections one, five, seven, eight, ten, and eleven of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the redemption of the funded indebtedness of the city of Sacramento,' approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two," approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine-are each and all hereby repealed; and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto are each and all hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect January one, nineteen hundred. CHAPTER LXX. An act to amend section eleven hundred and forty-two of the [Approved March 9, 1899.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred and forty-two of the Political Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 1142. When an election is ordered, the board of super- Boards of visors, or other board having charge and control of elections election: in each of the counties, and cities and counties, of the state, duties of. |