trol had been specifically set forth and named therein. For the purposes of this chapter the terms "state board of examiners," and "board of examiners," respectively, shall be construed to mean and refer to the "state board of control," and wherever in this code or in any statute or law the term "member of the state board of examiners" or "member of the board of examiners" is used it shall be construed to mean and refer to a "member of the state board of control." [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 596.]

Reports of supplies purchased to be made to board.

§ 685. Every state office, board, commission or department to whom is given by law the authority to make purchases of material or supplies, must, upon the request of the board of control, designate some certain officer or employee in such office, board, commission or department whose duty it shall be to make such reports at such times and in such manner to the board of control as said board shall from time to time require. [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 596.]

Department of public accounting. Superintendent, etc.

§ 686. There is hereby established in connection with and under the supervision of the state board of control a department of public accounting. The board shall appoint a superintendent of accounts at an annual salary of three thousand dollars, and two assistants at an annual salary of twenty-seven hundred dollars each. Such appointees shall be skillful accountants and well versed in public accounting. They shall (each) execute a bond to the state in the sum of ten thousand dollars. They shall be civil executive officers and their salaries shall be paid in the same manner and at the same time as the salaries of state officers are paid. The board may also appoint such additional accountants as may be necessary to carry on the work of the department at salaries not to exceed for any one of such appointees the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars per annum. Such salaries, upon authority of the board, shall be paid out of money appropriated for the use of the department at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of state officers are paid. Such accountants shall be chosen from persons who have successfully taken an open competitive examination given along practical lines showing their fitness for the work required. They shall each execute to the state a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars. All of the appointees in this section are empowered to administer oaths in the furtherance of their official duties. [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 597.]

Uniform system of accounting for state officer.

§ 687. The board of control, through the department of public accounting shall devise, install and supervise a uniform system of accounting and reporting for any and all officers or persons in this state permitted or charged by law with the keeping of public accounts and records, and the custody, control and handling of publie money or its equivalent, to the end that there shall be obtained similar and compar

able data for every public office and every public account of the same class, and that there shall be a general, systematic and uniform check upon the receipt and disbursement of all public revenue. [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 597.]

Financial and statistical reports.

§ 688. With the sanction of the state board of control, the department of public accounting may require from all such officers or persons mentioned in the foregoing section financial and statistical reports, duly verified, covering the period of each fiscal year, which report shall be made out upon blank forms prescribed and adopted and furnished by the department of public accounting, and mailed to such officers or persons not less than sixty days before the time such reports are required to be filed with such department. When necessary, the department may require special reports from any such officers or persons, which must be filed with the department without delay. [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 597.]

Department may examine books, etc., of public offices.

§ 689. The department of public accounting is given full power to examine, through any of its officers or appointees, all accounts and all financial affairs of every officer or person mentioned in section 687 of this code, and shall have the right to enter into any public office or institution in this state and examine any books, papers or documents contained therein or belonging thereto for the purpose of making such examination, and shall have access, in the presence of the custodian thereof, or his deputy, to the cash drawers and cash in the custody of such officer or person and shall also have the right, during business hours to examine the public accounts in any depository which has public funds in its custody. [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 597.]

Neglect to file reports, etc.

§ 690. Any officer or person who shall fail or neglect to make, verify and file with the department of public accounting any such report as is required by this article, or who shall fail or neglect to follow the directions of the department of public accounting in keeping the accounts of his office, or who shall refuse to permit the examination or access to the books, accounts, papers, documents or cash drawer or cash of his office to a representative of said department, or who shall in any way interfere with such examination, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days, or both. [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 597.]

Biennial report.

§ 691. The board must biennially report to the legislature a history of its transactions and investigations. [New section approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 597.]

'Article XX, Chapter III, Title I, Part III.

New article added April 1, 1911, Statutes of 1911, page 571, and consisting of §§ 716-719, as follows:

Superintendent of capitol building and grounds. Duties.

§ 716. The governor shall appoint a person to be designated superintendent of capitol building and grounds to hold office at the pleasure of the governor. He shall be a civil executive officer and shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars to be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of other state officers. He shall execute a bond to the state in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

He shall have charge of the improvement and maintenance of the cap itol grounds and of the state's property thereon, and shall have the custody of the capitol building and of the state's property therein, and shall be responsible for the proper care, safety and repair of the same. Subject to the supervision of the state board of examiners, he shall have charge of the purchase and distribution of all supplies for the capitol building and grounds and the offices therein. [New section approved April 1, 1911: Stats. 1911, p. 572.]

Rules. Misdemeanor.

§ 717. He shall have power, with the sanction of the state board of examiners, to establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law for the government of the capitol building and grounds. He must preserve the peace thereon and arrest or cause the arrest of and appearance before the nearest magistrate for examination of all persons who attempt to break or who have broken such rules and regulations, or who attempt to commit or who have committed thereon, a public offense.

Any person who breaks the rules and regulations established for the government of the capitol building and grounds is guilty of a misdemeanor. [New section added April 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 572.]

Gardener and policemen. Clerk. Porter. Engineer and other officers. Salaries, how paid.

§ 718. The superintendent of capitol building and grounds may appoint one head gardener at an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. He may appoint six special policemen for the grounds and building at annual salaries of thirteen hundred and twenty dollars each, who shall have the powers of peace officers and the same power of arrest as is herein given to the superintendent.

He may appoint one clerk for his office at an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, who shall be a civil executive officer; one head porter for the building at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars. He may appoint one engineer at an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; one fireman at an annual salary of twelve hundred and sixty dollars; one electrician at an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; two elevator attendants at an annual salary of ten hundred and eighty dollars each; two telephone exchange operators at an annual salary of seven hundred

and twenty dollars each. He may appoint, to serve from January first to May first in each legislative year, one engineer at a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty dollars; one fireman at a monthly salary of one hundred and five dollars; one electrician at a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty dollars; two elevator attendants at a monthly salary of ninety dollars each, and two telephone exchange operators at a monthly salary of sixty dollars each. He may also appoint one telephone exchange operator at a monthly salary of sixty dollars to serve two months each year while the legislature is not in session. The salaries of all such appointees shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of other state officers. [New section added April 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 573.]

Assistant gardeners and laborers.

§ 719. The superintendent may employ such competent assistant gardeners at a salary of one hundred dollars per month and such laborers, porters and other help for the proper conduct of the capitol and grounds at three dollars per diem, as may be deemed necessary by the superintendent and the board of examiners, which wages shall be paid only from money appropriated for such purpose. Such appointees shall have the powers of peace officers. [New section added April 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 573.]

Salaries of superior judges.

§ 737. The annual salaries of the judges of the superior court of the eity and county of San Francisco, of the county of Los Angeles and of the county of Alameda are six thousand dollars, of the counties of Riverside, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Marin, Santa Clara, San Diego, Fresno and San Bernardino, five thousand dollars, of the counties of Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Yuba, Sutter, Butte, Nevada, Sonoma, Colusa, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Shasta, Siskiyou, Santa Barbara, Mendocino, Tehama, Kern, Placer, Humboldt, Tulare, Solano, Yolo, Mariposa, Ventura, Mono, Kings, Amador, Calaveras, Stanislaus, El Dorado, Merced, Madera, Tuolumne, Orange, Glenn, Napa and San Benito, four thousand dollars, and of the county of Alpine, two thousand dollars; one-half of which shall be paid by the state and the other half thereof by the county of which the judge is elected or appointed. [Amendment approved February 17, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 63.]

Salaries of officers of supreme court.

§ 739. The annual salaries of the officers connected with the supreme court are as follows: The reporter of the decisions of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal, twenty-five hundred dollars; the assistant reporters of the decisions of the supreme court and of the distriet courts of appeal, not exceeding three in number, one at twentyfour hundred dollars and two at twelve hundred dollars each; one phonographic reporter, three thousand dollars, and one phonographic reporter, twenty-four hundred dollars; two secretaries of the court, each, twenty

four hundred dollars; each bailiff eighteen hundred dollars; the librarian, fifteen hundred dollars. [Amendment approved March 9, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 321.]

Officers of district courts of appeal.

§ 758. Each of the three courts of appeal may employ and appoint the following officers of their respective courts, whose salaries shall be as follows: One clerk at twenty-seven hundred dollars per annum; one deputy clerk at two thousand dollars per annum; one phonographic reporter, as provided in section 759, and one bailiff, at sixteen hundred dollars per annum. [Amendment approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 587.]

Citations. Cal. 157/424.

§ 769.

Citations. Cal. 157/423.

Governor may commission notaries public.

§ 791. The governor may appoint and commission such number of notaries public for the several counties and cities and counties of this state as he shall deem necessary for the public convenience, except that in cities and counties of the second class the number shall not exceed one hundred. [Amendment approved April 18, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 941.] Citations. App. 13/461.

§ 792.

Citations. App. 13/462.

§ 794.

Citations. App. 8/15; 9/130; (subd. 7) 13/462.

§ 801.

Citations. App. 9/128, 129.

§ 811.

Citations. Cal. 158/402.

§ 865.

Citations. App. 9/547.

§ 879.

Citations. App. 9/161.

Oath of office, when taken.

§ 907. Whenever a different time is not prescribed by law, the oath of office must be taken, subscribed, and filed within thirty days after the officer has notice of his election or appointment, or before the expiration of fifteen days from the commencement of his term of office,