Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-25

ClNl PROCEDURE, relating TO witnesses, With amend
m4nts recommending that it do pass amended.
minority report of the Judiciary COMMITTEES
| recommended the passage Of A. B. 225 with amend
ments.
The Committee on Swamp aud Overlowed Land
reported A. B. ia and A. B. 209, recommending
that they do pass
The following bills were introduced and referred
BY Mr.. BURSs-To amend Section sol Of the CIvi
Code concerning street railroad corporations. Cor
porations.
By Mr.. McCLURE-To amend Section S25 OF the
Code of Civil Procedure, relative to the time o.
commencing actions for the recovery of real prop
erty. Judiciary
By Mr LASE-To amend Section 243 of the Pena
Code, relative to the punishment of battery. Ju
dietary.
By Mr.. LEAKE-To provide for the government O
municipal corporations OF the eighth class Munici
pal Corporations
BY Mr.. MAsoS-To amend Section 577 of the Civi
Code relative to funds Of savings and oaI
corporations. Corporations.
By Mr.. HowARD-To regulate the practice of med
icine and surgery Hospitals.
By Mr.. GILMoRE-To amend Section 1142 of Chap
ter V. of the Political Code concerning Boards o.
Election and to repeal Section i62 of the same,
and to amend Section ID OF Act TO regulate the
registration of voters and to the purity OF
elections in the city ard county of San Francisco
The design of shis bill is to change the present
election laws, so as to have the ballots counted
every hour Elections
By Mr. KELLoGa-To amend an Act authorzine
the Board OF Supervisors of the counties in which
water is sold for purposes of irrigation to fix tt.
rates at which water shall be sold. Irrigation.
b. Mr.. 0'CoSNoR-To add five new sections to the
Penal Code, Chapter H., Title Q, Part l, to prevent
opium smoking. Public Morals.
BY Mr. BAKER OF Sacramento-To discourage thi
monopoly of land in this State by taxation. Home
stead and Land Monopoly.
By Mr. PAULK-To amend Section 1860 of the Civi
Code relating to and specifying property which mus
be resorted 10 for the payment of legacies. Judi
ciary.
Also, TO amend Section 1892 of the Political Code
relating to the licenses of merchants and livery
stable keepers. Ways and Means.
Also, to amend Section 1872 of the Political Code
relative to the manner OF expenditure OF the school
library fund. Education.
Also, to amend Section l713 of the Political Code
relative to the subject. Ways and Means.
Bills on the third reading file next consid-
cred
A B. ia, to amend Section 1922 OF the Penal Code
of this State, to determine when husband and wife
may testify agaiost each other in criminal cases,
was passed unanimously
A. B. l61, to compel persons companies, assoca
tons or corporations whose business it is TO supply
water gas for public or domestic use, to furnish
meters at their own expense, was referred to COM
mittee with special instructions.
A. B. 73, to amend Section OF an Act numbered
1876, approved April 3, 1876 relating to an Act
concerning lodging honses and sleeping apartments
within the limits of incorporated cities, was passed
ayes 55, noes 2.
A. B. 70, to prohibit the naturalization of Chinese
Mongolians in the State of California, briefly
debated by Messrs. MCCLURE, MEDALLION, JACKSON,
HALE, LoSG PLATT and SARGENT the opponents of
the bill claiming that it was unconstitutional and
imperative, and passed-ayes 49, noes II.
A B. 2S to compel banks savings and loan soci-
eties aud all and every kind of person or persons,
or corporations receiving moneys or other valuable
property on deposit, for safe keeping, to publish
a sworn statement in certain cases, was read and
passed as amended by the Committee on Corpora
tions- ayes Sc, noes 4.
A. B. 80, to amend Section 413 of the Political
Code, also passed, by vote OF 81 ayes to noes.
Title amended and adopted
A 3 As, to provide for the classification Of muni-
cpal corporations, W as read.
Mr. EDWARDS, Chairman of Municipal Corpora
tio1s, said: Inasmuch there are number OF
matters before the Committee Municipal Corpo-
ratons and as this viii refer to them and affects the
constitutonalitv. of those bills, should ask that
they be passed forthe present until We are enabled
to hear from the Judiciary Committee on the sub
jsct.
Objection being made to the suggestion, Mr.. ED
WARDS continued The classification OF that bill as
it stands provides, believe, that the sixth
class shall be composed Of cities and towns OF 800
inhabitants and up to coo. Now there three
towns in this State that range between 2, 200 and
$500 Two of those three towns want to come up
| into the sixth class, and the other does not And
rs this country is in which the majority should
rule believe it would be than right to make
the sixth class from 1000 to 5,00o move you that
this bill be referred back to the Committee NUM-
eipal Corporations with instructions to insert 20G0
5000.
Mr BAKER of Yolo spoke adversely to any such
reference, and in favor OF Its immediate action.
The motion lost.
Mr. FELTON, moved that the bill be passed on the
file until next Friday. Carried.
A. B. l23, to encourage the destruction OF coy
otes in the different counties of the State and
thorzlng the Board of Supervisors of each of said
counties to fix and determine the bounty for the
destruction of the same, was read and passed-ayes
Sc, noes l.
A. B. 75 to authorize the several counties, cities
and counties cities and towns of this State and the
officers and Boards of officers thereof, to receive
property b. gift beqbest and leyiEe, and to hold,
manage ard dispose of such property, and the in
come and increase thereof, was passed-aYes 81,
noes 4.
A b. ST. TO amend Section AIS of the Civil Code,
IN relation the purchase and sale of real estate by
insurance corporations, pas ed without debate-ayes
81, noes 3.
A. b. 1856. amending an Act entitled an Act pro-
vfdng for appeals from orders forming reclamation
or swamp land districts, setting If ards from such
districts or consolidating districts approved April
16, 1880, referred to spe ial committee, with
instructions to amend.
The Assembly then passed to bills on the second
reading file.
A. 1877, to compel individuals companies or
corporations owning or controlling water for pur-
poses of irrigation distribute the water pro rata
among purchasers in times OF scarcity, was tem-
porariiy passed on the file.
A. b. is9, to amend the third subdivision of Sec.
ton 4S7 OF the Penal CODE, relating 10 tne definition
of grand larceny, was ordered engrossed and to
third reading.
Mr.. KELLOGG introduced the following Assembly
concurrent resolution
Whereas, the Supreme Court Of the United States
has rendered Judgment TO the effect that the
grant of the lands of the sXte nth and thirtysixth
sections made to the State OF California by an Act
Of Congress cf the date of March 3, 1873, did not
include any mineral lands; and, where's, the State
has offered such lands for sale aud has issued cert
Gates of purchase for he same and citizens in many
instances have placed valuable improvements and
expended large sums OF money thereon, therefore
Resolved BY he Assembly, the Senate concurring,
That the Sen tors and Representatives in Con
gress from the State Of California be and they
are hereby requested to use their efforts
to secure the passage of law that will as far as pos
sible protect the rights of those persons having Ger
ticates OF purchase thereof from the State OF Cali
fornia. and to indemnify them against loss, and also
to allow the State of California TO make other selec
tions of land in lieu OF such mineral lands, in such
manner "a is set forth in II. r. bill 1885 OF the Forty
sixth Congress, second session. Federal Relations.
Also, a resolution relative to the compilation and
publication of the weekly his oty Of Assembly bills
so as to make it correspond with the weekly history
of Senate bills.
motion for its adoption made and lost.
At 4:3o P N. the Assembly adjourned