in agriculture and horticulture by the best methods as developed by the University of California and the department of agriculture of the United States. Instruction in other forms of labor may be established in the discretion of the board of prison directors; provided, that the prisoners shall be distributed among the various trades and employments so that no excessive number be directed to any trade or employment.

Disposition of products.

SEC. 13. Products of said reformatory shall so far as possible be supplied for state, county, municipal, school or other public use, and the reformatory shall collect or be credited with the fair market price therefor. No manufactured product shall be supplied, sold, exchanged or given away for private use or profit.

Employment for paroled prisoners.

SEC. 14. The probation officers of the state shall co-operate with the state board of prison directors and the state parole officer, in procuring employment for and supervising paroled prisoners and the probation officers of each county shall act as parole officer for all prisoners on parole living within the limits of their county, under such general rules as may be established by the state board of prison directors and under the supervision of the state parole officer.

Earnings of prisoners.

SEC. 15. The board of prison directors may allow to prisoners such proportion of their earnings above the cost of their maintenance as the board may deem proper.

Location of reformatory.

SEC. 16. A commission consisting of the governor of the State of California, the lieutenant governor of the state and three other persons, to be selected by the governor of the state, is hereby constituted a commission for the location and construction of said reformatory as hereinafter more particularly provided. Said commission as soon after the passage of this act as possible, shall select a suitable site for said reformatory of not less than six hundred acres. The said commission is directed to secure land susceptible of irrigation if necessary and suitable for the agricultural and horticultural work to be carried on by the prisoners. When a suitable site is selected by said commission they are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase the land so selected, together with water and water rights appertaining thereto, and if necessary shall purchase additional water rights or make provision for the development of water for use on said land. The purchase price of said land may be made payable in installments out of the appropriations hereinafter provided, as may be agreed between said commission and the owner or owners of said land. Title to the land shall be taken in the name of the State of California and first payment therefor shall be made at the time of the delivery of deed or deeds by the owner or owners to the governor of the State of California for and on behalf of the state. The said commission shall

adopt plans for the buildings to be erected upon said land for said reformatory to accommodate not less than one thousand prisoners, and may employ architects or engineers or both in the preparation of said plans, and in the construction of said buildings. The said commission is authorized to employ and fix the compensation of such free labor and skilled assistants as may be needed in the erection of such buildings and shall so far as possible utilize the labor of prisoners in said construction as hereinafter provided.

Prisoners to aid in construction.

SEC. 17. The state board of prison directors shall on the request of the said commission furnish a list of not less than one hundred (100) or more than three hundred (300) prisoners in San Quentin and Folsom state prisons, who would be available for use in the construction of said reformatory. In the selection of such men for said list the board of prison directors shall name those men who are skilled in building and who have shown themselves active and energetic, and so far as possible shall name those who under the rules of the said board of prison directors would be entitled to parole on or before the completion of the buildings of said reformatory, as estimated, and who would be suitable for transfer to said reformatory upon its completion. From this list so submitted as aforesaid, the state board of prison directors shall designate those to be employed in constructing the buildings of said reformatory and upon such designation said board of prison directors shall cause to be transported to the location selected for said reformatory said prisoners in such numbers and at such times as may be required by said commission. Temporary buildings may be erected for housing said prisoners while engaged in said work of construction. The state board of prison directors is authorized and directed to employ a superintendent and necessary guards while engaged in said construction and particularly to have charge of them during the hours they are not actually engaged upon the buildings of the said reformatory. During the hours that said prisoners are actually engaged in work of construction of said building they shall be under the supervision and direction of those officers and foremen employed by said commission to erect said buildings. At any time during the progress of said work, prisoners engaged therein who have shown themselves unfit to work under the conditions herein provided, shall be returned to the state penitentiary on order of the board of prison directors, and any prisoner who makes his escape from such employment shall be returned to the state prison from which he was originally transferred. The state board of prison directors shall have the same jurisdiction to parole prisoners engaged in this work as any other prisoners in any other state prison, and shall make such rules concerning their custody and discipline while engaged in said work as may be necessary. The state board of prison directors may fix the compensation to be paid to said prisoners for their work while constructing said buildings, not to exceed twenty-five cents per day, such money to be paid to said prisoners upon their parole or final discharge, from the money hereinafter appropriated, unless the board declares said amount forfeited by bad conduct. The state board

of prison directors shall provide the necessary food, clothing and transportation for said prisoners while engaged in said work, to be paid upon their order by the state board of examiners from the moneys herein appropriated for the construction of said reformatory buildings. There is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this law the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; five thousand dollars to be available July 1, 1911, and one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars to be available July 1, 1912.

Governor's proclamation.

SEC. 18. Whenever the buildings are so far completed as in the judgment of said commission to be available to receive prisoners committed by the court, a proclamation to that effect shall be published by the governor and thereafter the courts may commit prisoners to the said reformatory in the manner hereinafter provided, and during the progress of said work shall be treated in the same manner as the prisoners transferred by the state prisons as herein provided; provided further, that on January 1, 1915, the commission hereinbefore provided shall terminate. Thereupon the state board of prison directors shall take charge of said reformatory and be vested with the powers hereinbefore conferred upon the said commission, and thereafter all further construction and expenditure shall be under their direction and control.

SEC. 19. This act shall take effect immediately.