Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-01
THE HYPNOY
Set to Another B
Bills.
Sundry Acts Of the Late Legis-
lature Become Laws.
HencefOrth Train-Wrecking is Pun
ishable by Death.
All Death Sentences Will Hereafter bt
Executed in the Penitentiary.
other New Laws.
Associated Press Dispatches.

other New Laws.
Associated Press Dispatches.
SACRAMENTO, March 81. = Governor
Markham today appended his signature
to the following bills left in his hands at
the close OF the legislative session:
Providing for the semi-annual pay
ment of taxes.
The county government bill.
Enabling heirs to holda estates intact
and to mortgage or lease them.
For the formation and governing OF
building and loan associations.
Amending the laws for the organlza-
ton, incorporation and government OF
municipal corporations.
Providing that husband cannot make
gift of community property or convey
the same without valuable consldera-
ton, until his wife in writing assents.
Providing for sanitary districts in any
part OF the state.
Providing for the execution OF all
judgments of death within the state pen
itentiary.
Providing for clerks OF police courts IN
cities of 26,O0O and under 80, 900 inhab-
itants.
Providing for the correction OF errors
or mistakes in assessments in swamp
land districts.
Providing that judge of the superior
court shall reside at the county seat OF
the county, or within three miles there
of. :,
Relating to the quieting of title to real
property.
Making it a misdemeanor to advertise
to obtain divorce or to aid therein.
Fixing bounty on coyote scalps.
Making the description OF the voter in
the entry OF the great register more COM
plete. >,
Fixing the punishment of death for
train-wrecking. ;.
Giving preference to honorably dis
charged ex-union soldiers, sailors and
marines for public positions.
Defining the boundaries OF Sutter
county.
Providing that the district attorney
must be practicing attorney and ad-
mitted to the superior court.
To enable cities of the fifth class to
issue bonds for the purpose of raising
money for educational purposes.
To prevent the placing, keeping or
leaving of married women in houses OF
prostitution.
For the relief of Colonel Jonathan d.
Stevenson by monthly payments.
Authorizing boards of supervisors to
appoint either one or two members OF
the examining commissioners, under
u..e horticultural board.
To provide for police courts in cities
of Is, 600 and under $4,000 inhabitants.
Providing for the publication and dis
tribution of state roster.
Authorizing the controller and treas
urer to transfer to the general fund all
moneys in the state drainage construc-
tion fund.
Changing the name of the state hos
pital for the insane in Southern Cali
fornia, to the Southern California State
Asylum for the Insane and lnebriates.
Relating to the collection OF assess
ments made in irrigating districts. .
Defining the powers and duties or
boards of trustees IN reclamation dis
tricts. =,
Providing for the payment OF all
moneys in the treasury to the credit OF
swamp land districts, to the treasures
OF the different counties.
Fixing the tax levy.
Amending the act to protect and pro-
mote the horticultural interests OF the
state.
Establishing naval battalion.
Fixing the annual salaries of supreme
judges.
Providing for the building and fur
nishing of house for soldiers widows
and orphans and army nurses.
Relating to the laws for the preserva-
ton of game birds and animals.
To amend the act creating police
pension fund in various counties.
Relating to the working, rights OF
way, easement of and drainage of mines.
Relating to the powers and duties OF
highway officers, and for the construc-
ton. maintenance and improvement of
o highways by contract, let to the highest
bidder.
Amending the law relative to justices
courts.
Amending the law in regard to the
use of school text books.
Defining the duties OF and licensing
land surveyors.
Providing for the payment OF wages OF
mechanics and labOrers employed by
corporations.
Amending the drainage act, and di-
rectlng the board of commissioners to
meet as board of equalization.
Amending the irrigation act in the
matter of the omission OF assessments
and public notices.
To determine that lands OF this state
are swamp and overf1owed when re-
turned as such by the United States sur
yeyor-general.
TO encourage the cultivation OF ramie.
Appropriating $4,000 for the Tia Juana
sufferers.
Providing fora portrait OF Ex-Governor
Waterman.
Appropriating $4,000 for the purpose
of sending an expert to Australia, New
Zealand and the adjacent countries, to
collect an import into this state para
sites and predaceous insects.
Paying the deficiency in the approprl-
ton for the support of the insane asylum
at Stockton.
A LIE NAILED.
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