The record-union., 1891-02-18
Afternoon session.

<AlteTIOOH= SESSION..
The House assembled at 2 O'Clock,
Speaker Coombs in the chair, and got di-
rectly to work on the second-reading file.
A. b. lS5, to create the county of Glenn,
to establish the boundaries thereof, and to
provide for its organization, after being
temporarily passed on file was read the
second time and amended on motion of
Mr.. Shanahan, by striking out all after
the enacting clause and substituting sec
tions offered by him.
a. Z. 2lS, relating to boards of health,
was ordered engrossed and to third read
ing.
a. B. 10, limiting the time in which an
| action to set aside, annul, or vacate the
charter OF any city, city and county, or
town can be maintained, to six months,
was read, ordered engrossed and to third
reading.
S. b. 7, to provide for the completion of
all unfinished county, city, city and
county, town, and township buildings,
was ordered engrossed and to third read
ing.
A. B. 233, to authorize the sale of the
site and buildings of the Home for Feeble
Minded Children, was ordered engrossed.
A. Il. ~, relating to the annual pay
ment of fees by miners; also, relating to
life membership and to the support of
State Hospital and Asylum for Miners,
was ordered engrossed.
-. pof, " gave pIcleIeHce 10 HCIlOf-
ably discharged Union soldiers upon all
public works and all public departments
of this State, was ordered engrosSed.
A. b. 440, relating to the liability of en-
ployes, was ordered engrossed.
A. B. 400, to provide for the employ
ment upon public works Of honorabiy
discharged eX-Union soldiers, sailors and
marines of the war, was ordered en-
crossed. The reading developed the fact
that Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Murphy had in
troduced nearly identical bills, which are
now both gone to third reading. This
bill was substituted ON file for A. B. 400.
which was withdrawn by Mr.. Weston.
a. B. 2S7, to amend Section 647 of the
Penal Code, relating to yagrants, was or
dered engrossed.
A. B, $50, relating to the assessment of
| property, and the collection OF such as
sessments. Ordered engrossed.
Mr.. Doty in the chair.
a. b. 5SS, relating to what was deemed
conclusive presumption, was, by consent,
substituted on the file for A. B. l07, re-
lating to the sale of cigarettes to minors,
and was ordered engrossed.
a. Is. 692, relating to system of street
improvement bonds. Read the first time.
A. b. 353, to create the county of San
Jacinto, was substituted for A. B. 375, and
ordered engrossed.
[Speaker Coombs in the chair.1
a. b. 81, for the protection of sea birds
and land birds on the Farallone Islands,
was ordered engrossed.
y. b. 524, to authorize the Fish Com
nllssioners to import game birds into the
State for propagation, was amended by
striking out the appropriating clause, and
ordered engrossed.
A. b. go, relative to the appointment
OF a State Sanitary Inspector, was ordered
engrossed.
A. B. 407, relating to public schools.
was ordered engroSsed
! A. B. SO, requiring corporations and
persons doing banking business in this
State to file with the Controller of State
certain statements, was ordered en-
crossed.
| \. B. 439, relating to the obligations of
cotermInous owners and maintenance of
division fences, was ordered engrossed.
A. b. $50, to establish State Board of
Insurance, was ordered engrossed.
THIRD READING.
A. B. 547, to abolish the grammar
school course in the public schools. was
read the third time and passed-ayes 40,
noes 4.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Gal
braith providing for an evening session of
the House at 7 each evening Of the re-
malnder of the term. 1t was amended
to enable recess to begin at 4:30 p NJ, and
adopted.
a. b. 432, to provide for assistants for
law officers Of cities of the fifth class. was
read the third time and passed-ayes 43,
noes ID