Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-27
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FROM THE SPECIAL REPORTER OF
THE DAILY HERALD
Legislative Procee..inss.

AcSisitssNS E-rOceeuiBSss
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 23d.-There was
no session of the Senate to-day, that
body having yesterday adjourned over
until Monday to give the Committee
an opportunity of passing upon the
great number of bills upon their files.
The Assembly met at II Am.
On motion the House took up for
consideration out of order Assembly
man McCarthy's apprentice law, and
after the reading the rules were sus-
pened and the bill passed.
Lambourn, from the Committee on
Agriculture, reported in favor of o
trespass law for San Diego county.
Murphy, of Del Norte, in accordance
with notice given, moved to reconsid-
er the vote by which the House indef
initely postponed the transportation
Commissioner bill. The motion pre-
and made the special order for March
third
New bills were introduced:
BY Lambourn, by request, an act
to create the county of Santa
Ana, to establish the boundaries
thereof and to provide for its
organization, was read and referred
to the Committee on Counties and
County Boundaries. By Knott, re-
pealing Section 3,40S OF the Political
Code, concerning the issuance Of GER
tilicates of purchase the State lands.
By Carson, amending the Code of
Civil Procedure, concerning the office
of Court Commissioner, providing
that said officer shall be regarded as q
judicial officer under the code, in the
exercise of his powers. Also, prOvid-
ing further, that wherever in the code
it is provided that an act may be don
by the court or Judge, eX parte, except
orders or writs of injunction, the
same act may be performed by a
Court Com mission!
By Gelwicks: A n act TO prevent the
destruction of timber on lands belong
ing to the State, providing that any
person committing waste or destroy
ing timber upon the sixteenth or
thirty-siXth sections of school lands,
or lands in lieu thereof, at a time
when full payment for the land has
not been made, whether the person
offending is the claimant or not under
the State title, he shall be punished
By Birney: An act TO appropriate
$500 to build a monument over the
| graves of State officers in the State
burying ground.
BY Archer: By request, an act max
ing all religious, social, benevolent
and learned associations corporations
in cases where they have heretofore
been acting under the form and man.
ner OF corporations, and covering all
defects existing prior to this act.
! a resolution was adopted correcting
an error in the motion of yesterday
which made the Archer bill the spe-
cial order for March Goth. The inten-
| tion of the mover was to Set the bill
for February Goth. The House made
the necessary correction, and the
Archer bill will come up for final pas
sage on next Tuesday.
The House then passed the Senate
bill legalizing certain purchases of
public lands.
The Senate bill reducing the COM
| pensation of both houses of the Legis-
! lature was made the special order for
| March Cd.
AT 4:30 the House adjourned until
Monday morning.
There is little probability Of the bill
dividing Los Angeles county and cre-
ating the county of Santa Ana becom-
ing law. as the entire delegation
from Los Angeles, both in the Senate
and the Assembly, are strongly op.
posed to the measure and will discoun-
tenance it by every means in their
power. Judge Evey, of Anaheim, is
here and represents the divisionists.
He will appear before the committee
OF the Assembly on counties and
| county boundaries during the ensuing
week in support of the bill. X.