receive, hold, use, and convey or disburse moneys or other property, real and personal, in the name of said corporation, but in trust and for the use and by the authority of the state of California, and to control, manage, and direct, the several trusts committed to them respectively, including the organization, government, and discipline of all officers, employees, and other inmates of said institution, with power to make contracts, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to have and to use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure, and to exercise all the powers usually belonging to said corporations and necessary for the successful discharge of the obligations devolved by law upon said members of trust; provided, that they shall not have power to bind the state by any contract or obligation beyond the amount of appropriations which may at the time have been, made for the purposes expressed in the contract or obligation, nor to sell or convey any part of the real estate belonging to such institution without the consent of the legislature, except that they may release any mortgage, or convey any real estate which may be held by them as security for any money or upon any trust, the terms of which authorize such conveyance; and provided further, that the legislature shall have power at any time to amend, alter, revoke, or annul the grant of corporate powers herein contained.

Sec. 4. The said board of trustees are hereby empowered with full power and authority to select a site for the permanent location of said school in the county of Los Angeles. Said trustees shall, within thirty days after their appointment and qualification, examine the different sites offered by the people of the county of Los Angeles for the location of the said school, and select therefrom a suitable location for said buildings; and the site selected by them shall be and remain the permanent site for said school; said site to contain not less than forty nor more than one hundred and sixty acres, giving preference, other things being equal, to a location central and easy

of access from all parts of the county or state; provided, that no buildings shall be commenced or erected in said county of Los Angeles until a deed in fee simple of the land selected by the said board of trustees shall be made to the state, and recorded in the records of the county recorder of said Los Angeles County, and said deed deposited in the office of the secretary of state. [Amendment, approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 328. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 5. The said board of trustees shall prepare and adopt plans for the grounds, buildings, and fixtures necessary and proper for such an institution, not in their judgment to exceed in cost the amount of money hereinafter appropriated, but if practicable, of such description that other buildings can be added to or enlarged without injury to their symmetry or usefulness; and may let or make all necessary contracts, with the approval of the governor, for the construction of such buildings and fixtures, and the improvement of the grounds, according to such plans. Said board of trustees shall use all practicable diligence in the commencement and completion of said buildings and fixtures, and the improvement of the grounds, according to such plans.

Sec. 6. No trustee or employee of such institution shall be personally, directly, or indirectly interested in any contract, purchase, or sale made, or any business carried on, in behalf of or for said institution. All contracts, purchases, or sales made in violation of this section shall be held and declared null and void, and all moneys paid to such trustee, employee, or any other person for his benefit, in whole or in part, in consideration of such purchases, contracts, or sales made, may be recovered back by civil suit, to be instituted in the name of the state of California, against such trustee, employee, or person acting in his behalf; and in addition it is hereby made the duty of the governor and the board of trustees, as the case may be, upon proof satisfactory of the fact of such interest,

to immediately remove the trustee or employee delinquent as aforesaid, and to report the facts to the attorney-general, who shall take such legal steps in the premises as he shall deem expedient.

Sec. 7. The board shall make all needful rules and regulations concerning their meetings and the modes of transacting their business; shall take charge of said institution to see that its affairs are properly conducted, that strict discipline is maintained, and the suitable employment and education are provided for its inmates. They are authorized to make contracts for the purchase of furniture, apparatus, tools, stock, provisions, and everything necessary to equip the institution for the purposes herein specified, and to maintain and operate the same; provided, said board shall incur no expense nor contract any debt beyond appropriations made or donations given for the said school; and then only in such manner as may be prescribed by the act of appropriation or the instrument of donation. [Amendment, approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 329. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 8. The board shall annually elect from their own number a president and a vice-president, whose term of office shall be for one year, and until their successors shall be duly appointed and qualified. They shall also elect a treasurer, not one of their own number, whose term of office shall be for two years and until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified; who shall be at all times subject to removal by the board for good cause. [Amendment, approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 329. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 9. The board shall appoint a superintendent of said school, not of their own number, whose salary shall be fixed by said board, not to exceed three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, and shall also appoint such other officers and such assistants as the wants of the institution may from time to time require, and shall prescribe their duties and fix their salaries, as may be reaPen. Code-29

sonable. [Amendment, approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 329. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 10. Said board of trustees shall, on or before the first day of December, every two years, make to the governor a full and detailed report of their doings as such trustees, and of the expense of said institution, with such other information relating thereto as they may think interesting or useful to the state; which report shall be communicated by the governor to the next succeeding session of the state legislature. Said trustees shall receive no salary for their services as such from the state, but shall be allowed all necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.

Sec. 11. The board of trustees shall have a regular meeting once every three months, at such time and place as they may direct; special meetings may be called by the president of said board in all cases where it becomes necessary for such a meeting.

Sec. 12. The superintendent, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the same, and execute a bond, with sureties to be approved by the board, in a sum to be fixed by the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of all his duties as such superintendent. He shall be a resident at the institution, and shall be ex officio the secretary of the board, taking charge of all books and papers. He shall have charge of the land, buildings, furniture, apparatus, tools, stock, provisions, and every other species of property belonging to the institution, subject to the direction and control of said board, and shall account to the board in such manner as they may require for all property intrusted to him, and all moneys received by him, from whatever source, shall be deposited with the treasurer. His books shall at all times be open to the inspection of the board, who shall at least once in every three months carefully examine the same, and all accounts, vouchers, documents connected therewith, and make a report of the

result of such examination in a book provided for the pur. pose. He shall have charge of the inmates of said institution; he shall discipline, govern, instruct, employ, and use his best efforts to reform the children and youth under his care, and shall at all times be subject to removal by the board for incapacity, cruelty, negligence, immorality, or any other good cause.

Sec. 13. The treasurer, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the same, and shall execute a bond to the people of California, with sureties, to be approved by said board, in at least double the sum of money for which he may be responsible as treasurer, conditioned for the faithful performance of all his duties as such treasurer; he shall take charge of all the funds of the institution, receiving the same and disbursing them on the written order of the superintendent, and shall account to the board, in such a manner as they may require, for all funds intrusted to him, from whatever source. His books shall at all times be open to the inspection of the board and superintendent, who shall at least once in every six months carefully examine the same, and all the accounts, vouchers, and documents connected therewith, and make a report of the result of such examinations. Such treasurer must be a citizen of Los Angeles County, and shall receive for his services a salary of six hundred dollars per annum.

Sec. 14. Said board of trustees shall arrange the building or buildings to be used for said school, and the grounds about the same, so that a portion thereof may be used for the proper confinement, care, and education of the male inmates, and the remaining portion for the proper confinement, care, and education of the female inmates, and to the absolute exclusion of all communication of any kind or character between the sexes. [Amendment, approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 329. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 15. Whenever said institution shall have been so far completed as to properly admit of the reception