Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-29
CITY TRUSTEES.
Bids for Street Lighting Chinese Inter
ments-AIounted Police.

Bids Tor Street Lighting-Chinese Inter
ments-Mounted Police.
The Board of City Trustees met at 10
A. NJ. yesterday, all the members present
except Mayor Brown, who still is too i'll to
be able to leave his room.
The report of the Chief Engineer of the
Water Works shows that the pumps were
shut down thirteen hours during the past
week.
STREET LIGHTING.
The following propositions for the light
/ ing of streets for the ensuing year were
opened, read and action upon the same
postponed until 10 A. NJ. Thursday.
Sacramento Electric Light Company
Electric arc lights. of 5000 candle power
each, at the rate of SD 81 per lamp per
month. To place the same on masts $50
feet above ground, four lamps to each mast,
or place the same on poles 60 feet high.
viii light the entire city with twelve masts
at 81 100 per mast.
Pacific Thomson-Houston Electric Light
/ and Power Company-Electric arc lamps
OF 2,O00-candle power, on masts of 100 feet,
four lamps on each mast, 81 600 per mast
per year, or $50 SO per month. On 60 foot
masts, one lamp on each mast for 1852 per
mast per year, or sd per month. Lamps
suspended over the intersection of streets,
for S252 per year, or 81 per month. All
masts or suspended lamps to be located as
directed by the Board of Trustees, and to
burn every night except on bright moon
light nights.
Capital Gas Company-Will furnish gas
of same illuminating power and quality as
heretofore and will light 1S5 or more
lamps, if desired, on the same terms and
conditions as for the past year, viz: So 90
per lamp per month, provided the location
of the lamps are all west of the east line of
Twelfth street, and the number of same be
| not decreased. Or the company will fur
| nish gas and light not less than 300 city
lamps within that part of the CITY limits
where the gas company have or NAV here
after have their gas mains laid, for the sum
of So 90 per lamp per month; conditions
| and quality of gas as before.
A resolution of intention of the Board
was passed to have 0 street improved
| from Twenty-sixth to Thirtieth streets. by
grading to the official grades and construct
ing drainage culverts.
The question of mounted police was
brought up, and after a slight discussion
was postponed until Thursday as 10 A. NJ.
when II is understood provision will be
made for two mounted police for the east
ern suburbs of the city
The Superintendent of the CITY Gene
| teries was authorized TO repair and rebuild
the fences around the Helvetia Cemeteries.
a proposition was received from f. w
Steinmeyer offering so a year for three
for lots and 6, 2 and Q, Fourth and Fifth
streets. Taken under consideration.
IN FAVOR OF ELEcTRIC-LIGHr MAsTs.
A petition as follows, signed by four
hundred citizens, was read and placed on
file: We, the undersigned property
holders and residents of the city OF Sacra-
mento, residing east of Twelfth street, re.
specially represent that about one wear
ago your honorable Board made contract
with the Sacramento Electric Light Com
pany to light that portion of the city by
electricity for one year with four masts
and four lamps to each mast. That while
that number of lamps are insufficient to
light that whole area, they do good service
for 100 to 100 blocks, and we earnestly in
dorse that system for that portion Of the
city. Our back yards and alleys are
lighted as well as the streets. We hereby
petition your honorable body to continue
the same mast system and to increase the
number of masts as your finances NAV
Justify
J. H. McKune asked. by letter, whether
further litigation on the part of the city is
desired in the case of Meyer VS.. Porter
The matter was taken under advisement.
Sum Chong Kee, Chinese gambler,
asked for a rebate on an cid gambling Ii
cense. Referred to the City Attorney.
CHINESE NUISANCE.
The Chinese not only appear to be a
nuisance during their lifetime, but are a
source of annoyance after death. Last
week the Sam Yup Company disinterred
eighteen bodies at the Helvetia Cemetery
for the purpose of sending their bones
back to the Flowery Kingdom Several
parties who witnessed the operation of
taking them out of their graves appeared
before the Board and described it in sick
ening details. 1t appears from their state
ments that the bodies in nearly every case
were only IN an advanced state of decompo-
sltIon, and that the-opening of the coffins
polluted the air with nOXious poisons and
disease-breeding gases. From what they
| saw, they were of the opinion that the
bodies had not been buried two years, as
the law requires before a disinterment can
be made The Superintendent of the Citv
Cemeteries and his assistants were present
| and produced their books to show that no
Chlnaman OF the Sam Yup Company had
been buried there within the past two
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disinterred had been underground the full
time prescribed by law. 1t was also stated
that some bodies are many years in decay
ing. trustee Jones suggested that as long
as an ordinance could not be passed which
would be in conflict with the existing
statute, II would be well to pass an ordi-
nance that would read something like this ::
All bodies which are buried with the in
tentlon of afterwards removing them TO a
foreign country, must be inferred in
| metallic caskets. which, when disinterred,
! must not be opened"
The State law above referred to was ap-
proved April l, 1873. Section six reads ::
Nothing in this Act shall be taken to ap-
ply to the removal of the remains of de-
| ceased persons from one place of interment
to another cemetery or place of interment
within the same county, provided that no
permit shall be issued for the disinterment
| or removal of any body unless such BODY
has been buried for two years"
This Act was brought up for examination
in the United States Circuit Court for the
District of California in In re. Wong Yang
Qug, Saw, page 442. The decision up
held the validity of the law. In a care
fully prepared opinion the Court sum
married. the law on the police power of the
State in regard to the disposal of the re-
mains of deceased persons in the follow
ing plain words The matter of the burial
and exhumation of the dead, with view
to sanitary objects, has in all times and
among all civilized nations been regarded
as proper subject of local regulation. 1t
is founded upon the law of self protec-
ton
After allowing a large number of bills
and the monthly pay roll, the Board ad-
journed.
SUIT FOR DAMAGEs.-Sarah and John NJ.
Hotz, through their attorneys, Freeman,
Bates & Rankin, commenced suit in the