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days of each month, and when either of these days falls upon a day on which the State Controller is not required to keep his office open for the transaction of business, then upon the day immediately preceding the days herein mentioned, with a report of all warrants drawn by him upon the Treasurer since the date of his last report. Such report shall show the number, date, and amount of each warrant, to whom issued, and the Fund out of which it is payable. From the report so furnished by the Controller, the State Treasurer shall make a Register of Warrants, and shall pay all warrants in the order in which they are drawn by the Controller.

SEC. 2. Upon the last day of each month, except when such last day falls upon a day on which the State Treasurer is not required by law to keep his office open for the transaction of business, then upon the day immediately preceding such last day, the State Treasurer shall furnish the State Controller with a list of all warrants paid by him since the date on which his last list was furnished. Such list shall contain the number, date, and amount of each warrant, and the Fund out of which the same was paid.

SEC. 3. Immediately after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of the State Controller and State Treasurer, under the supervision of the Governor, to ascertain the numbers, dates, and amounts of the several warrants drawn by the Controller and then unpaid by the Treasurer, and to adjust the balances in the several Funds of the State Treasurer upon the books of the Controller and Treasurer, in accordance with the sums found to the credit of each on the books of the Controller, and the warrants found to be outstanding and not paid by the Treasurer.

SEC. 4. When the balances in the several Funds of the State Treasury shall be adjusted as provided for in the next preceding section, the State Board of Examiners shall count the money in the State Treasury and compare the amount with the amount found to be in all the Funds of the State Treasury by the books of the State Controller, and upon the first business day of each month thereafter the State Controller shall furnish the State Board of Examiners with a statement of the amount of money in each Fund of the State Treasury, and the total amount as the same appears upon the books of his office, together with a list of warrants issued by him but not paid by the State Treasurer, and for the payment of which there is money in the State Treasury. Upon the receipt of such state

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ment from the Controller, the State Board of Examiners shall proceed to count the money in the State Treasury, and compare the amount with the amount named in the statement of the Controller.

SEC. 5. Whenever any warrant issued by the State Controller shall remain in his office uncalled for by the owner thereof for the period of one year after such warrant has become payable, it shall be the duty of the Controller and Treasurer, in the presence of the State Board of Examiners, to cancel the same; and whenever any warrant, delivered to the owner thereof by the Controller, but not presented to the State Treasurer for payment for a period of one year after such warrant has become payable, said warrant shall be deemed to be canceled, and the Treasurer shall, in the presence of the Controller and State Board of Examiners, write the word "canceled" opposite the entry of such warrant in his registry of wariants provided for in the first section of this Act. The word "canceled " shall also be written by the State Controller opposite the entry in the warrant register in his office, of all warrants required to be canceled by this Act. The amounts of all warrants canceled under the provisions of this Act shall revert to the Fund in the State Treasury against which said warrants were drawn, and shall be entered upon the books of the Controller to the credit of such Fund, in the same manner as other moneys paid into the State Treasury.

SEC. 6. The Controller and Treasurer shall each keep a register of warrants canceled under this Act, in which shall be entered the number, date, and amount of the warrants, the name of the person in whose favor it was drawn, the fund out of which it was payable, and the date of cancellation. Whenever the owner of any warrant canceled under the provisions of this Act demands such warrant from the Controller, it shall be the duty of the Controller to issue a new warrant for the same amount, in the name of the same person, and payable out of the same fund as the warrant canceled; and in case where a warrant issued by the Controller, but not paid by the Treasurer, has been canceled, and the owner or holder thereof presents the same for payment, it shall be the duty of the State Controller to draw a new warrant therefor, in the name of the same person, for the same amount, and payable out of the same fund as the original warrant, and such original warrant shall thereupon be canceled by him and retained in his office as his voucher for issuing such new warrant. In all cases where a warrant shall be

issued in lieu of one canceled, the word "duplicate" shall be plainly written or printed across the face thereof, in red ink, by the Controller, and the issue thereof noted on the registry of canceled warrants kept in his office, and when any such duplicate warrant is paid by the State Treasurer he shall note the payment thereof on the registry of canceled warrants kept in his office.

SEC. 7. Whenever the interest coupons attached to any registered bond of this State issued under either of the following named Acts, to wit: an Act to provide for paying certain equitable claims against the State of California, and to contract a funded debt for that purpo-e, approved April 28th, 1857; an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for paying certain equitable claims against the State of California, and to contract a funded debt for that purpose, approved April 28th, 1857, approved April 27th, 1860; an Act for the relief of the enlisted men of the California Volunteers in the service of the United States, approved April 27th, 1863; an Act granting bounties to the volunteers of this State, enlisted in the service of the United States, for issuing bonds to provide funds for the payment of the same, and to levy a tax to pay such bonds, approved April 4th, 1864; and an Act authorizing the issuance of State bonds to the amount of $250,000, to be known as State Capitol bonds, approved April 4th, 1870, shall not be presented to the State Treasurer for payment for a period of one year after such coupon has become due and payable. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to furnish the State Controller and State Board of Examiners each with a list of such coupons not presented for payment, with the amount thereof, whereupon the State Controller shall order the Treasurer to place the money held by him for the payment of such coupons into the General Fund of the State Treasury, and the amount so ordered into the General Fund shall be placed to the credit of said fund on the books of the Controller and Treasurer in the same manner as other moneys paid into the State Treasury.

SEC. 8. Whenever any of the interest coupons mentioned in the seventh section of this Act are presented for payment, after the money to pay the same has been transferred to the General Fund, such coupons shall be presented to the State Board of Examiners, which Board shall audit and allow them out of the General Fund of the State Treasury, and shall transmit a voucher to the State Controller upon which to draw his

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warrant upon the State Treasurer. Upon the presentation of such warrant and the surrender to him of the coupons for the payment of which the said warrant is drawn, the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of the General Fund.

SEC. 9. Immediately after the passage of this Act the State Board of Examiners shall examine the books in the State Treasurer's office in which are pasted the coupons of the registered bonds of the State paid by him, and shall require the State Treasurer to make out a list of all coupons not found therein, as provided for in Sec. 7 of this Act, and the money held by him for the payment thereof shall be placed in the General Fund as provided in this Act.

SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Vaccine Agent.

ARTICLE XIX.

POWERS AND DUTIES OF OTHER EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.

SECTION 695. Vaccine Agent.

696. Commissioner of Immigration.

697. State Capitol Commissioners.

698. Tide Land Commissioners.

699. Port Wardens.

700. Harbor Commissioners.

701. Pilots.

702. San Francisco Marine Board.

703. Pilot Commissioners.

704. Boards of Health.

705. Board of Agriculture.

706. Board of Equalization.

707. Regents of University.

708. State Board of Education.

709. Trustees of Normal School.

710. Officers of Libraries.

711. Directors of State Prison.

712. Officers of Insane Asylum.

713. Trustees of Asylum for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind.

714. Trustees of State Burying Grounds.

715. Yosemite and Big Tree Commissioners.

695. The powers and duties of the Vaccine Agent are prescribed in Title VII of Part III of this Code.

NOTE.-See Secs. 2993, 2994, post.

696. Those of the Commissioner of Immigration Commisare prescribed in Title VII, Part III of this Code.

NOTE.-See Secs. 2949-2968, post, inclusive.

sioner of Immigration.

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sioners.

697. Those of the State Capitol Commissioners State are prescribed by "An Act to provide for the con- Commis struction of the State Capitol in the City of Sacramento," approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty, and the Acts amendatory thereof, which are hereby continued in force.

NOTE.-Many of the provisions of the Act referred to are functus, and the duties imposed have been in a great measure performed. For these reasons it was unnecessary to incumber the Code with many provisions of the Act referred to. Other Acts relating to the State Capitol will be found in Stats. of 1872, pp. 655 and 694; and on page 887 will be found the Act providing for the acquisition of more grounds for the use of the State Capitol, which, for reasons above assigned, is omitted.

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698. Those of the Tide Land Commissioners are prescribed by "An Act to survey and dispose of cer- sioners. tain salt marsh and tide lands belonging to the State of California," approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the Acts amendatory thereof, approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy, which are hereby continued in force.

NOTE.-The Acts in question are omitted for substantially the same reasons given for the omission of the Acts referred to in the preceding section.

699. Those of Port Wardens are prescribed in Port Title VI of Part III of this Code.

Wardens.

NOTE.-See Secs. 2501-2511, post, inclusive.

700. Those of Harbor Commissioners are prescribed Harbor in Title VI of Part III of this Code.

NOTE.-See Sec. 2520, et seq., post, and Stats. 1872, pp. 728, 797, for San Francisco Harbor; see, also, Sec. 2567, et seq., post, for Eureka, on Humboldt Bay.

Commissioners.

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