Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-12
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
CITY TRUSTEES.
Ordinances Regulating Chinese Burials


CITY TRUSTEES.
Ordinances Regulating Chinese Burials
and the Removal of Chinatown.
The City Trustees met in regular session
at 10 A N. yesterday, all the members pres
emit
Several petitions from citizens relative 10
the distribution of the electric lights were
read, and referred to the Street Commits
sioner. 1t would appear from the tenor of
the petitions that the residents of every
portion of the city are DESTROYS of having
an electric light. The distribution of the
So electric lamps has become veritable
" old man Of the sea to the Street Com
missioner, who say S if he had 333 electric
lamps there would not be enough to go
around, and some taxpayer would come
forward and cry more light"
Grove L. 10 nson submitted the follow
ing letter and ordinance, both of which
were read, placed on file. and Tuesday,
February 10Th, set as the time for placing
the ordinance upon its passage:
SACRAMENTO, January II, 1856.
To The Honorable the Board n Trustees Of HeCity
% Sacramento: The undersigned, committee
appointed by the Anti-Chinese Association of
sacramento for that purpose, have prepared and
herewith present for your consideration ordi-
city OF Sacramento Of the Chinese, and respect
fully request its adoption by you.
GROVE l.. JOHNSON, Chairman
FRANK ID. RYAN, Secretary,
W. r. CLUNEsS,
G. G. TYRREIL
X. NJ. CLARREN,
L. s. TAYLOR.
WHEREAS The presence of Chinese within
the limits OF the city of Sacramento is danger
GUS to the morals and prosperity of the city of
Sacramento; and whereas the presence of Chi
nese within the city brings with it and casts
upon the taxpayers of Sacramento all the bur
dens and evils nee 9ssdrily attendant upon the
presence in u community of Migrants paupers
mendicanis, criminals and invalids afflicted
with contagious and infectious diseases: and
whereas, the youth of both sexes in the city of
SACRAMENTO are, by reason of the presence of
Chinese in the city, exposed to daily and hourly
contamination from them, and many have
already been ruined in body, mind and soul by
participation. at the ceaseless urging of the
Chinese, in the horrible, Indecent, wicked and
bestial practices of the Chinese and by their
corrupt teachings; and Whereas the Chinese in
SacraIne1to have, in violation and defiance of
the law, planted and maintained opium
" joints. or dens, IN our city. and the terrible
results of the sin of opium SmO6ng, practiced
therein, are now seen in the pallid wasted faces
and forms, the demoralized and degraded minds
and the hopeless wrecks of what were once
bright and promising young men and women of
our own race, as well as in the Chi
-nese themselves, and the fearful habit of
opiuni-smokiug is on the increase to such
an extent as 10 be alarming in the highest
degree; and whereas, it VIII be for the well
being anC peace of all the people to have the
Chinese T. dn0Ved without the limits of the city
of Sacramento and such removal viii be bene-
fetal to the morality and material prosperity of
the city; and whereas, the removal of the Chi
nese will cleanse Sacramento of plague spot
and a misunderstanding locality, wnere the
laws of decency, health and good government
are alike dsregarded and violated ana from
which visitors, travellers and immigrants seek
ing homes derive bad impressions of Sacra-
mento and whereas. the Chinese are aliens in
eligible to become citizens Of the United States
fhnfr in j. rtrTnl
OF the wishes and views of the whole people of
California, as expressed in our State ConStitu-
ton; and whereas, the Constitution of the State
of California, Article NIX, gives us the power
to order their removal from the city, and is
mandatory in its directions to the Legislature
and ourselves: and whereas, the Act of the
Legislature of the State of California Chapter
MIN of the Statutes of 1880 gives us in eX-
press terms, the power. and in like express
terms makes II our duty, TO pass and enforce all
Acts ordinances and resolutions necessary to
cause the removal without the limits of the
city of Sacramento of any Chinese now within,
or hereafter 10 come within such limits; now,
therefore,
The Board OF Trustees of the city of sacra
mento ordains as follows:
Section /. 1t is hereby made the duty of each
and every Chinese within the limits of the city
of Sacramento, and they are hereby, each and
every one, directed to remove without the linn
its OF the city of Sacramento on or before the
LIST day of March, 1886.
Section ?. From and after the LIST day of
March, 1856, IL shall be unlawful for any Chi
nese to reside or remain within the limits of the
city of Sacramento
Section g. A violation of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by fine of not less than $50 nor more
than $500, or by imprisonment in the County
Jail for not less than fifty days or more than six
months or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
Section a. This ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
The ordinance introduced by Trustee
Jones relative to the burial of the Chinese
. l...c il
full in the advertising columns of this
issue.
A petition 70 open and order graded Q
street, from Eighteenth to Thirty-tirst
streets was granted and resolution of in
teniion was passed
James N Porter, City Treasurer. an
nounced that he would Withdraw his APP
peal from the Mcfarland decision in the
bond cases.
After allowing a large number of bills
and ordering them paid, the Board adj
journed.
POLICE CouRT.-In the Police Court yes
terday Jose Valenzuelia, previously con-
yicted of malicious mischief, was fined S.
or five days.. Charles Bartovooch pleaded
guilty of misdemeanor in discharging fire.
arms within the city limits, and was fined
S5.The case of John Royal, for disturb
ing the peace, was continued until this
morning James Collins, who stole ten
chickens from the premises of 4. p. Cat
lin. who had previously befriended him by
giving him food and money, expressed a
Willingness TO plead guilty of petty larceny,
but was not allowed to- the charge being
burglary. The Court held him TO answer
i'm 81 600 bs.il......Wm. Coop, who took a
rparty of friends into the Mississippi
kitchen Sunday evening, inviting them to
supper subsequently refusing to pay the
bill. pleaded guilty of disturbing the peace,
and was sent up for ten days.
OFFICERS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Stone
man has appointed and commissioned the
following staff and other officers of the \.
&C: Frederick Tillman, yr-, First Lieu
tenant and Commissary on the staff of the
Colonel commanding the Second Artillery
Regiment, Second Brigade; Charles Z.
Mooser, Second LIEUTENANT of the Cadet
Company, Second Artillery Regiment Sec
ond Brigade j. G. G;esting, First Lieuten-
ant and Paymaster on the staff of the
Colonel commanding the Second Artillery
Regiment, Second Brigade; William H.
Onitzow. First Lieutenant of the Cadet
Company. Second Artillery Regiment, Sec
ond Brigade.
) A GRAND square Chickering piano, almost
new. bargain for cash. Hammers music
store, $40 street.