Amounts to be paid to each com general ap satisfactory vouchers for all moneys expended and included in the claim shall be produced. SEC. 11. Section two thousand and ninety-four of said Code is amended to read as follows: 2094. There must be audited and allowed by the Board of Military Auditors, and paid out of the appropriations for pany from military purposes upon the warrant of the State Controller, propriation. to the commanding officer of each infantry or artillery company of the National Guard, the sum of one hundred dollars. per month; to the commanding officer of each artillery company and gatling gun battery having not less than four guns with which they regularly drill and parade, the sum of two hundred dollars per month; and to the commanding officer of each cavalry company, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, the sums so paid to be used for armory rent, care of arms, and proper incidental expenses of the company. There must also be audited, allowed, and paid out of the same appropriation, to the commanding officer of each regiment or battalion, the sum of five dollars per month for each company in his command, for clerical expenses; and if the regiment or battalion has more than four companies, and has attached to it an organized and uniformed band of not less than twelve pieces, the additional sum of twenty-five dollars per month for such band; to each Brigadier-General, five dollars per month for each company in his command; and to the Major-General, six hundred dollars per annum; and to each company a sum necessary for uniforms and to keep the same in repair, not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; and to the Adjutant-General three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be expended by him in promoting rifle practice. There shall also be paid from the military appropriations of the State, the sum of six hundred dollars for the purchase of light carriages for the four gatling guns now in possession of the Gatling Battery, A Company, Second Artillery Regiment, Second Brigade, National Guard California, which shall be suitable for hand service, and for the purpose of making said company a more efficient arm of the military service. SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. SEC. 13. All laws heretofore enacted that may be inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. CHAPTER CXXIII. An Act to enable John Hoagland, James Reid, Mrs. Rebecca C. [Approved March 12, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and ized to begin the State. SECTION 1. John Hoagland, James Reid, Mrs. Rebecca Hoagland et C. Hoagland, George Cooper, William B. Todhunter, Mrs. al. authorMary W. G. Van Arsdall, Henry Lienberger, and Christopher suit against Green and Charles Trainer, or their legal representatives, are each by this Act authorized to institute an action against the State of California in any Court of competent jurisdiction in said State, for damages which may be alleged to have been caused by the destruction of his or her property by reason of a canal which was cut by the order and direction of the Levee Commissioners, diverting the waters of the American River into the Sacramento River, under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon them by an Act of the Legislature of said State entitled "An Act concerning the construction and repair of levees in Sacramento County, and the mode of raising revenue therefor," approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. In the said actions the summons Summons to shall be served on the Attorney-General, and he shall appear be served and answer the complaint within ten days after the service Attorneyof said summons. In case said Attorney-General shall fail so to appear or answer, the default of the said State shall be entered, and the Court shall thereupon proceed to hear the cause to be offered by the plaintiff. upon the General. to ascertain SEC. 2. If it appears upon the trial of any said actions Court or jury that damage has been done to the plaintiff by any act for damages. which the State is legally liable, the jury, or, if a jury trial be waived, the Court shall ascertain from the evidence and find the amount of said damage, and if the amount of the aggregate damage found in all of said cases does not exceed thirty-five thousand dollars, judgment shall be entered for the amount of damage so found. But if the damage Judgment found in all of said cases exceeds thirty-five thousand dollars, $35,000. the Court shall enter judgment for the just proportion of each plaintiff to the said sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, so that all of said judgments shall not exceed thirty-five thousand dollars in the aggregate. not to exceed SEC. 3. No execution shall be issued in any of said cases No execution against the State, but the party in whose favor such judg- to issue. ment is rendered may file with the State Board of Examin- Copy of judgers a copy of such judgment, and it shall be the duty of said ment to be Board to allow and certify the amount of such judgment to Board of the State Controller, as other claims are allowed and certified against the State, and the Controller shall draw his filed with Examiners. warrant for the same, and deliver it to the party entitled thereto, and the Treasurer shall pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. The payment of such warrant shall be a full payment and satisfaction by the State for all damage that has been or that may hereafter be done to said party by reason of said canal. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Interpreter of Italian. Salary. CHAPTER CXXIV. An Act to authorize the appointment of an interpreter of the Italian language and dialects, in criminal proceedings, in cities and cities and counties of one hundred thousand inhabitants. [Approved March 12, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. In all cities and cities and counties of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, where an interpreter of the Italian language is necessary, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Police Judge of such city, or city and county, and of the Superior Judge of said city and county, or of the county in which said city is situated, or where there are more Judges than one, then it shall be the duty of the presiding Judge of said Superior Court, and the Mayor and Police Judge, to appoint an interpreter of the Italian language, who shall be an Italian, and who must also be able to interpret the Italian dialects into the English language, to be employed in criminal proceedings, when necessary, in said cities, or cities and counties. SEC. 2. The said interpreter shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which shall be paid out of the General Fund of such city, or city and county. SEC. 3. This Act shall not repeal any Act heretofore made and now in force for the appointment of interpreters, except so much of any Act which may conflict with this Act in the appointment of Italian interpreters. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CXXV. An Act to secure the wages of persons employed as laborers on threshing machines. [Approved March 12, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and threshing SECTION 1. Every person performing work or labor of any Lien for kind in, with, about, or upon any threshing machine, the or upon engine, horse-power, wagons, or appurtenances thereof, while machines. engaged in threshing, shall have a lien upon the same to the extent of the value of his services. SEC. 2. The lien herein given shall extend for ten days after the person has ceased such work or labor. uted pro SEC. 3. If judgment shall be recovered in any action to Proceeds of recover for said services for work or labor performed, and sale distrib said property shall be sold, the proceeds of such sale shall be rata. distributed pro rata to all judgment creditors who have, within ten days, begun suits to recover judgments for the amount due them for such work. SEC. 4. The lien shall expire unless a suit to recover the suit to be amount of the claim is brought within ten days after the begun party ceases work. within ten days. CHAPTER CXXVI. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Civil Code," approved March 21, 1872, by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section six hundred and three, relating to the formation of religious incorporations for holding and administering church property. [Approved March 12, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and may elect porate. 603. Whenever the regulations, rules, or discipline of Religions any church or religious society require, for the adminis- societies tration of the temporalities thereof, or for the management Directors of the property or estate thereof, any diocese, synod, or and incordistrict organization of such church or religious society may elect Directors and become an incorporation in the manner prescribed in this title, and with all the powers and duties, and for the uses and purposes in this title provided for benevolent or religious incorporations, and subject to all the conditions, limitations, and provisions in said title prescribed, except as otherwise provided in this section; pro- Convention, vided, that Directors of such incorporation may be elected, etc., to elect and that the by-laws for its government may be made and Directors. of incorpo filed. amended by the convention, synod, or other representative body of such church or religious society, in and for such district, in accordance with the constitution, by-laws, discipline, or regulation thereof, at any regular meeting, or special meetCertificates ing called for that purpose; and, provided, the certificate of ration to be incorporation and of the election of Directors to be filed shall be sufficiently signed and attested by the signature of the presiding officer and Secretary of the representative convention, synod, or other such body, in which such election is held; Property in and, provided, all property held by such incorporation shall trust for the be in trust for the use, benefit, and purpose of the church or religious society, by and for which such incorporation was formed, and in and of which such diocese, synod, or other Section 595 district is an organized or constituent part; and that the not to apply limitation in section five hundred and ninety-five shall not apply to corporations formed under this section, when the land is held or used for churches, hospitals, schools, colleges, asylums, parsonages, or cemetery purposes. society. to these cor porations. Unlawful practice of dentistry. Board of Appointed by the Governor. Term. President and Secretary. CHAPTER CXXVII. An Act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California. [Approved March 12, 1885.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person who is not at the time of the passage of this Act engaged in the practice of dentistry in this State to commence such practice, unless he or she shall have obtained a certificate as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. A Board of Examiners, to consist of seven practicing dentists, is hereby created, whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this Act. The members of said Board shall be appointed by the Governor from the dental profession of the State at large. The term for which the members of said Board shall hold their offices shall be four years, except that two of the members of the Board, first to be appointed under this Act, shall hold their office for the term of one year, two for the term of two years, two for the term of three years, and one for the term of four years, respectively, and until their successors shall be duly appointed and qualified. In case of a vacancy occurring in said Board, such vacancy shall be filled by the Governor in conformity with this section. SEC. 3. Said Board shall choose one of its members President, and one the Secretary thereof, and it shall meet at least once in each year, and as much oftener and at such times and places as it may deem necessary. A majority of said Board shall, at all times, constitute a quorum, and the pro |