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ARTICLE X.

REGISTER OF THE STATE LAND OFFICE.

SECTION 497. Register and Deputy.

498. Duties of Register.

499. Salary.

500. Salary of Clerks.

501. Fees of Register.

502. Official bond.

and

497. The Surveyor General is ex officio Register, Register and the Deputy Surveyor General is ex officio Deputy Deputy. Register, of the State Land Office.

498. The duties of [the] Register are prescribed Duties of in Title VIII of Part III of this Code.

NOTE.-See Arts. I to VIII, inclusive, commencing with Sec. 3395, post.

Register.

499. The annual salary of the Register is two Salary. thousand dollars.

Clerks.

500. The annual salary of each Clerk in the Reg- Salary of ister's office is eighteen hundred dollars.

Register.

501. The Register must charge and collect fees as Fees of follows: For each certificate of purchase, duplicate, or patent, three dollars; for certifying a contested case to District Court, three dollars; for copies of papers in his office, ten cents per folio, and fifty cents for the certificate with the seal attached; and such other fees as may be allowed by law. All fees received by the Register must be disposed of as provided in Title VIII of Part III of this Code.

NOTE.-See Sec. 3574, post.

502. The Register must execute an official bond Official in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

NOTE.-See Secs. 947 to 957, post, inclusive, as to

the bond.

bond.

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ARTICLE XI.

Duties

Salary.

Salary of
Deputy.

Salary of
Clerk.

Traveling expenses.

Official bond.

OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

SECTION 512. Duties.

513. Salary.

514. Salary of Deputy.

515. Salary of Clerk.

516. Traveling expenses.

517. Official bond.

512. The duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction are prescribed in Title III of Part III of this Code.

NOTE.-General duties, Sec. 1532, post. See Act of 1872, pp. 744-755.

513. The annual salary of the Superintendent is three thousand dollars.

NOTE.-See Sec. 516, post-traveling expenses.

514. The annual salary of the Deputy for the Superintendent is eighteen hundred dollars.

515. The annual salary of the Clerk for the Superintendent is fifteen hundred dollars.

516. The actual traveling expenses of the Superintendent, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars annually, must be audited by the Board of Examiners and paid out of the General Fund in the State Treasury.

517. The Superintendent must execute an official bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

NOTE.-See Secs. 947 to 958, post, inclusive.

ARTICLE XII.

STATE PRINTER.

SECTION 526. General duties.

527. Number of documents to be printed.

528. Laws and Journals to be printed. Where work must

be done.

529. Manner of printing.

SECTION 530. Compensation.

531. Certain printing to be done without charge.

532. Same.

533. Same.

534. Folding and stitching.

535. To present copy of work with accounts.

536. Compensation, how ascertained and paid.
537. Official bond.

526. It is the duty of the State Printer:

duties.

1. To print the laws, the Journals of the Legisla- General ture, reports of State officers, public documents ordered to be printed by the Legislature, blanks for the Supreme Court, the offices of Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General, Surveyor General, and Register of the Land Office, the bills, resolutions, and other job printing which may be ordered by either of the two Houses of the Legislature, and other public printing for the State, unless otherwise expressly ordered by law;

2. To publish, prefixed to each volume of the laws, the names and place of residence of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators, and Representatives in the Legislature, the presiding officers of the Senate and Assembly, and of Commissioners of the State of California residing out of the State and in office at the time of such publication;

3. To furnish to each citizen who may apply therefor, a copy of the laws of each session of the Legislature, at a price not exceeding three dollars for bound and two dollars for unbound copies;

4. To perform the duties required by the provisions of Article XII, Chapter II, Title I, Part III of this Code, and such other duties as are imposed upon him by law.

NOTE.-See Sec. 332, et seq., ante, for printing reports. The State Printer is an executive officer, but his office is not provided for in the Constitution. Journals are required to be published (Const., Art. IV., Sec. 11); amendments to Constitution to be pub

Number of documents to be

printed.

Laws and
Journals to

lished (Art. X, Sec. 1); laws to be published (Art. XI, Sec. 21). An office provided for by the Constitution, being a constitutional office, cannot be taken from an incumbent except in the constitutional method.-People vs. Wells, 2 Cal., p. 198. So where term is fixed by the Constitution.-People vs. Mizner, 7 Cal., p. 519. But this is not the case with a purely legislative office.People vs. Banvard, 27 Cal., p. 470. May be altered or abridged as to its term.-People vs. Haskell, 5 Cal., p. 357. People ex rel. Casserly vs. Fitch, 1 Cal., p. 519, being a contest for the office of State Printer.

527. Whenever any message or document, in book form, is ordered printed by either House, four hundred and eighty copies thereof, in addition to the number ordered, must be struck off and retained in sheets, and bound with the Journals of the House ordering the same, as an appendix. Of bills ordered printed, when the number is not fixed in the order, there must be printed two hundred and forty copies.

528. There must be printed of the laws, resolube printed. tions, and memorials of each session of the Legislature, one thousand six hundred and eighty copies in English; and of such laws, resolutions, and memorials as may be designated by the Legislature, two hundred and forty copies in Spanish. Of the Journals of the Senate and Assembly, there must be printed four hundred and eighty copies, in one volume or two, as may be required by the size thereof. The appendices to the Journals of both Houses must be printed in one volume; the same matter must not be twice printed. All printing must be done within this State.

Where work must be done.

Manner of printing.

529. Printing must be done as follows:

The laws, Journals, messages, and other documents in book form must be printed solid, with long primer type, on good white paper; each page, except of the laws, must be thirty-three ems wide and fifty-eight ems long, including title, blank line under it, and foot line; of the laws, the same length, and twenty-nine

ems wide, exclusive of marginal notes, which notes Same. must be printed in nonpareil type, seven ems wide. Figure work, and rule and figure work, in messages, reports, and other documents in book form, must be on pages corresponding in size with the Journals, if it can be brought in by using type not smaller than minion; if not, it must be executed in a form to fold and bind with the volume. Bills and other work of a similar character must be printed with long primer type, on white plain cap paper, commencing the heading one fourth of the length of the sheet from its top, and be forty-six ems wide and seventy-three ems long, including running head, blank line under it, and foot line, and between each printed line there must be a white line corresponding with the body of the type, and each line must be numbered. Blanks must be printed in such form and on such paper and with such sized type as the officers ordering them may direct. The laws must be printed without chapter headings, and without blank lines, with the exception of one head line, one foot line, two lines between the last section of an Act and the title of the next Act. When there is not space enough between the last section of an Act to print the title and enacting clause, and one line of the following Act upon the same page, such title may be printed upon the following page. The Journals must be printed without blank lines, with the exception of one head line, one foot line, and two lines between the Journal of one day and that of the following day. In printing the ayes and noes, the word "ayes" and the word "noes" must be run in with the names.

sation.

530. For all work executed and material furnished Compen by the State Printer he must be allowed as follows, which allowance includes all the charges he must make for the work, well executed and delivered in

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