Term of office.

Salary.

Office hours,

Secretary of board.

Duties of librarian.

Custodian of books, etc. Stamping and catalogue.

Preservation

and binding, etc.

Library to be kept open.

Who may take books.

Repealing clause.

4334. SEO. 7. The librarian appointed by the trustees shall hold his office for the term of four years, and before entering upon the duties of his office he shall make and execute his bond to the State of California in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office; said bond shall be approved by the governor, and shall be by him deposited in the office of the secretary of State. 4335. SEC. 8. The librarian shall receive for his salary the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. He may at any time be removed by consent of all the members of the board of trustees.

4336. SEC. 9. The librarian shall by himself, or deputy, be constant in his attendance upon the library during the hours it shall be directed to be kept open. He may appoint some person having the proper qualifications as his deputy.

4337. SEC. 10. The librarian shall be secretary of the board of trustees, and he shall keep a correct record of all their proceedings.

4338. SEC. 11. The librarian shall cause to be kept a register of all books issued and returned; and all books taken by the members of the legislature, or its officers, shall be returned at the close of the session. If any person injure, or fail to return, any book taken from the library, he shall forfeit and pay to the librarian, for the benefit of the library, three times the value thereof; and before the controller shall issue his warrant in favor of any member, or officer, of the legislature, or of this State, for his per diem allowance, or salary, he shall be satisfied that such member, or officer, has returned all books taken out of the library by him, and has settled all accounts for injuring such books, or otherwise.

4339. SEC. 12. The librarian shall be responsible for the safe keeping of all the property of the State library; he shall cause all the books, maps, and charts thereof, to be impressed with the proper stamp or seal; he shall cause all books when received to be numbered, and shall at all times keep in a convenient place in the library a catalogue of the books of the same for convenient reference.

4340. SEO. 13. All books, maps, and charts, now belonging to, or which may hereafter come into possession of the State by purchase, or otherwise, shall compose the State library, and shall be carefully preserved by the librarian; and the librarian shall cause to be bound in neat and substantial binding, all laws, journals, reports, pamphlets, and other documents, which may be received in a condition requiring such binding.

4341. SEC. 14. The library shall be kept open every day in the year, Sundays excepted, during such hours in each day as the trustees may direct; provided, that during the session of the legislature, it shall be kept open at least eight hours each day.

4342. SEC. 15. Books may be taken from the library by the members of the legisla ture and its officers during the session of the same, and at any time by the governor and the officers of the executive department of this State, who are required to keep their offices at the seat of government; the justices of the supreme court; the attorney general, and the trustees of the library.

SEO. 16. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed so far as they conflict with this act.

SEC. 17. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

LICENSES-See REVENUE.

[As the license laws now in force are chiefly contained in the revenue acts, which have to a great extent repealed or superseded the old statutes specially relating to licenses, it is proposed here merely to refer to the repealed acts and to such others now in force, which have been arranged under other titles. They are few, and therefore given in order of time of passage.] [An Act concerning licenses, passed April 22, 1850, 404, amended April 26, 1851, 408, though not expressly repealed, was superseded by various acts subsequently passed.]

An Act regulating marriages, passed April 22, 1850, 424, amended April 26, 1862, 450, and April 9, 1863, 244 (providing for marriage licenses, among other regulations).

See MARRIAGES, post, 4460.

An Act to license gaming, passed March 14, 1851, 165, and subsequent acts.

See GAMING, ante, 3322.

An Act to license hawkers, and peddlers in this State, passed April 25, 1851, 298, and subsequent acts.

See PEDDLERS, post, 4833.

[An Act concerning licenses, approved May 4, 1852, 90, was repealed by act of May 18, 1853, 233, and again by act of May 15, 1854, 103.]

An Act to regulate and license places of public amusements, approved April 13, 1863, 252.
See AMUSEMENTS, ante, 314.

An Act supplementary to the act entitled an act concerning crimes and punishments, approved April 1, 1864; 1863-4, 298 (providing for addition of costs in criminal cases, where crime occasioned by liquor, to amount of licenses of liquor saloons, etc.)

See CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS, ante, 1571.

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