State Treasurer bonds. in the civil funded bonds of this State, or in the bonds of the United States, or in the bonds of the several counties of this State; the investments to be made in such manner and on such terms as the Board shall deem for the best interests of the State School Fund; provided, that no bonds of any county shall be purchased of which the debt, debts, or liabilities at the time exceed fifteen per cent of the assessed value of the taxable property of said county. 682. All bonds purchased by the Board under the procustodian of Visions of section six hundred and eighty must be delivered to the State Treasurer, who shall keep them as a special School Fund deposit, the interest upon such bonds to be placed by him to the credit of the State School Fund. SEC. 2. Section six hundred and eighty-one of the Political Code is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. University Regents to control. Diplomas. Halls. Dean. CHAPTER XX. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create Hastings College of the Law, in the University of the State of California, approved March 26, 1878. [Approved March 3, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and The Act entitled an Act to create Hastings College of the Law, in the University of the State of California, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. That S. C. Hastings be authorized to found and establish a law college, to be forever known and designated as "Hastings' College of the Law." That the officers of said College shall be a Dean and Registrar. The Regents of the University shall have the same control of the College as they possess over the academic department of the University of California, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The Board of Regents, on recommendation of the Dean and Faculty of the College, shall grant diplomas to the students of the College, and the President shall sign and issue the diplomas. SEC. 3. There shall be set apart for the use of the students of the College some room or suitable hall in the buildings of the University at Berkeley, and the Board of Supervisors of the City of San Francisco shall supply a suitable hall in the City of San Francisco for the use of the College. SEC. 4. The Dean of said College shall be ex officio of the Faculty of the University, and entitled to attend meetings of the Board of Regents at all times when he shall have business of the College to lay before them, and to be heard on all questions affecting the College. College. SEC. 5. The business of the College shall be to afford facil- Business of ities for the acquisition of legal learning in all branches of the law, and to this end it shall establish a curriculum of studies, and shall matriculate students who may reside at the University of the State, as well as students residing in other parts of the State; provided, there shall always be in said College a course of lectures upon the duties of municipal officers in the City and County of San Francisco. Conditions SEC. 6. Professorships may be established in the name of concerning any founder of such professorships who shall pay to the Deanship." Regents of the University the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars. The son of the founder, Robert P. Hastings, shall be Dean of the College during his lifetime, and after his death or resignation the Dean shall be elected by the members of the highest appellate Court of the State of California, which said Court shall appoint one of the male heirs of the founder, if deemed capable and competent. The Registrar, after the death or resignation of the present incumbent, shall be elected by the Board of Regents. repayment SEC. 7. The object of this Act being to grant a perpetual Conditions of annuity for the support and maintenance of said College, to Hastings. should the State or any government which shall succeed it fail to pay to the Regents of the University the sum of seven per cent per annum, as above stipulated, or should the College cease to exist, then the State or its successor shall pay to the said S. C. Hastings, his heirs, or legal representatives, the said sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars, and all unexpended accumulated interest; provided, that such failure be not caused by mistake, or accident, or omission of the Legislature to make the appropriation at any one session. be expended SEC. 8. No part of the annuity herein provided for shall Annuity to be expended by the Regents of the University for any other for instruc purpose than instruction; provided, however, that an amount, tion only. not to exceed six hundred dollars per annum, may be used from such annuity to pay for the services of the Registrar. SEC. 9. The Dean, Acting Professors, Lecturers, Readers, Faculty. and other instructors, shall constitute the Faculty and Examining Board of the College. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after sixty days after its passage. CHAPTER XXI. An Act to establish and support a Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Approved March 3, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: sioner to be SECTION 1. As soon as possible after the passage of this one is Act, and every four years thereafter, the Governor of the appointed. Commissioner's boud. Duties of Commissioner. Industries. Capital and persons em ployed. Sanitary conditions. Chinese. State Prison and jails. State shall appoint a suitable person to act as Commissioner of a Bureau of Labor Statistics. The headquarters of said Bureau shall be located in the City and County of San Francisco; said Commissioner to serve for four (4) years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. SEC. 2. The Commissioner of the Bureau, before entering upon the duties of his office, must execute an official bond in the sum of five thousand (5,000) dollars, and take to oath of office, all as prescribed by the Political Code for State officers in general. SEC. 3. The duties of the Commissioner shall be to collect, assort, systematize, and present, in biennial reports to the Legislature, statistical details, relating to all departments of labor in the State, such as the hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number of persons depending on daily labor for their support, the probable chances of all being employed, the operation of labor saving machinery in its relation to hand labor, etc. Said statistics may be classified as follows: First-In agriculture. Second-In mechanical and manufacturing industries. Fourth-In transportation on land and water. Fifth-In clerical and all other skilled and unskilled labor not above enumerated. Sixth-The amount of cash capital invested in lands, buildings, machinery, material, and means of production and distribution generally. Seventh-The number, age, sex, and condition of persons employed; the nature of their employment; the extent to which the apprenticeship system prevails in the various skilled industries; the number of hours of labor per day; the average length of time employed per annum, and the net wages received in each of the industries and employments enumerated. Eighth-The number and condition of the unemployed, their age, sex, and nationality, together with the causes of their idleness. Ninth-The sanitary condition of lands, workshops, dwellings, the number and size of rooms occupied by the poor, etc.; the cost of rent, fuel, food, clothing, and water in each locality of the State; also the extent to which labor saving processes are employed to the displacement of hand labor. Tenth-The number and condition of the Chinese in the State; their social and sanitary habits; number of married, and of single; the number employed, and the nature of their employment; the average wages per day at each employment, and the gross amount yearly; the amounts expended by them in rent, food, and clothing, and in what proportion such amounts are expended for foreign and home productions, respectively; to what extent their employment comes in competition with the white industrial classes of the State. Eleventh-The number, condition, and nature of the employment of the inmates of the State Prison, county jails, and reformatory institutions, and to what extent their information. employment comes in competition with the labor of mechan- ment officers SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of all officers of State depart- State departments, and the Assessors of the various counties of the State, to assist. to furnish, upon the written request of the Commissioner, all the information in their power necessary to assist in carrying out the objects of this Act; and all printing required by the Bureau in the discharge of its duty shall be performed by the State Printing Department, and at least three thousand (3,000) copies of the printed report shall be furnished the Commissioner for free distribution to the public. obstructing. SEC. 5. Any person who willfully impedes or prevents Penalty for the Commissioner or his deputy in the full and free performance of his or their duty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of the same shall be fined not less than ten (10) nor more than fifty (50) dollars, or imprisoned not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30) days in the county jail, or both. SEC. 6. The office of the Bureau shall be open for business Office hours. from nine (9) o'clock A. M. until five (5) o'clock P. M. every day except non-judicial days, and the officers thereof shall give to all persons requesting it all needed information which they may possess. Commis SEC. 7. The Commissioner shall have power to send for Power of persons and papers, whenever in his opinion it is necessary, sioner. and he may examine witnesses under oath, being hereby qualified to administer the same in the performance of his duty, and the testimony so taken must be filed and preserved in the office of said Commissioner; he shall have free access to all places and works of labor. er's deputy. SEC. 8. The Commissioner shall appoint a deputy, who Commissionshall serve the same time and have the same powers as the said Commissioner, as set forth in the preceding sections; he shall procure rooms necessary for offices at a rent not to exceed fifty (50) dollars per month, and may provide the necessary furniture at an expense not to exceed five hundred (500) dollars. SEC. 9. The salary of the Commissioner shall be twenty- Salaries four hundred (2,400) dollars per annum, and the salary of the Deputy Commissioner shall be fifteen hundred (1,500) dollars per annum, to be audited by the Controller and paid by the State Treasurer in the same manner as other State officers are paid; there shall also be allowed a sum not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars per annum for stationery and other contingent expenses of the Bureau. tion. SEC. 10. The sum of ten thousand five hundred ($10,500) Appropria dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the expenses of the Bureau for the first two years after its organization. SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Amendment. Section three. Section four. Section nine. Section eleven. CHAPTER XXII. An Act to amend sections three, four, nine, and eleven, of an Act entitled "An Act to form agricultural districts, to provide for the organization of agricultural associations therein, and for the management and control of the same by the State," approved April 15, 1880, so as to create two additional districts. [Approved March 6, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of the Act of which this is amendatory, entitled an Act to form agricultural districts, to provide for the organization of agricultural associations therein, and for the management and control of the same by the State, approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, is amended to read as follows: Section 3. The Counties of Butte, Colusa, and Tehama, shall constitute Agricultural District Number Three. SEC. 2. Section four of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section 4. The Counties of Sonoma, Marin, Solano, and Napa, shall constitute Agricultural District Number Four. SEC. 3. Section nine of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section 9. The Counties of Humboldt and Del Norte shall constitute Agricultural District Number Nine. SEC. 4. Section eleven of said Act is amended so as to read as follows: Section 11. The Counties of Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, and Sierra, shall constitute Agricultural District Number Eleven. The Counties of Mendocino and Lake shall constitute Agricultural District Number Twelve; and the Counties of Sacramento, Yolo, Yuba, and Sutter, shall constitute Agricultural District Number Thirteen. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER XXIII. An Act to amend section three hundred and fifty-nine of the Civil Code, relating to increasing and diminishing the capital stock of corporations. [Approved March 6, 1883.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three hundred and fifty-nine of the |