Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-26
THE HYPNOTIC FIST.
WHAT 1T HAS DONE IN THE WAY
OF SIGNING BILLS.
A List of the Measures That Have Been
Approved by Governor Markham-New
Laws, Good, Bad and Indifferent.

pAIhAMENIO, MdICA LcC-
retary Higgins has furnished the Asso-
ciated Press with the following sum-
mary OF the important bills thus far
signed by the governor:
Assembly bill amending the code in
relation to the power of the courts in
the matter of furnishing contempt cases.
Senate bill relating to the appoint
ment of married women as administra-
trixes.
Assembly bill permitting electric
roads to be laid through the streets and
public highways of any incorporated
city, county or town, and ratifying and
making valid the ordinances heretofore
passed for that purpose.
Assembly bill appropriating the sum
OF $500, 900 for the Worlds Columbian
exhibition.
Assembly bill relating to the declin-
alton OF testamentary trustees, and the
appointment of their successors.
Assembly bill creating the county of
Glenn.
Assembly bill requiring county asses
sors to furnish to city assessors list of
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saving an extra assessment.
-Asseunbly pill to provide Tor the or
ganization and government of levee dis
tricts for the protection OF land from the
overflow of unnavigable streams of run
ming water.
Senate bill to submit to the people
of the state the question of the election
of United States senators by the people.
Senate bill granting to regular police
officers yearly vacation.
Senate bill amending the right of emf
nent domain, go as to include oil pipe
lines, etc.
Senate bill to provide for state board
of arbitration.
Assembly bill requiring a years resi-
dence in the state, and ninety days
residence in the county, before action
for divorce can be brought.
Assembly bill to permit the redemp-
tion Of property heretofore sold to irri-
CATION districts for delinquent assess
ments.
Assembly bill to permit any incor-
porated city to acquire by gift, purchase
or condemnation proceedings, water and
water rights, etc.
Assembly bill compelling change OF
venue where a county or city is the
party, and citizen or corporation a res
ident OF another county, is sued, COM
monty called the debris case.
Senate bill authorizing the establish
ment of county high schools.
Senate bill making the office of state
printer elective.
Senate bill prohibiting the sale or
furnishing of tobacco to persons under
16 years of age.
Senate bill apportioning the state into
congressional districts.
Assembly bill amending the road laws
in relation to the opening up OF new
roads.
Assembly bill placing the printing of
public records in the discretion of the
board of examiners, and requiring all
orders from state officers and commis-
sioners to be first approved by the same
board.
Legislative apportionment bill.
Senate bill creating a board of phar-
macy, and for the regulation of pha1ma
cists.
Assembly bill to place life, health, ac-
cident and insurance companies on the
assessment plan, under the control of
the insurance department..
Senate bill to authorize the creation
OF a debt of 100000 by the harbor COM
missioners, for general ferry and pass
enger depot for the city and county OF
San Francisco.
Senate bill amending the vagrant act,
by striking out the section in regard to
ten days without labor.
Senate bill creating the Australian
ballot election system.
Assembly bill submitting to the peo-
pie the question of the educational quail
ification Of voters.
Senate bill permitting religious and
benevolent corporations to mortgage or
bond their property.
Senate bill making acknowledgements
by court or commission, of equal
legality with other officers.
Senate bill providing for the refund
ing of the bonded debt of the state.
Senate bill prescribing for the compe-
tency and for The protection of wit
nesses testifying as to crimes against the
elective franchise.
Senate bill to prohibit the coming of
Chinese into the state, and placing the
entire matter in the hands of the labor
bureau.
Senate bill amending the penal code
so as to remove the limit of time for
prosecution for the embezzlement of
public money and the Justification of
public records.
Assembly bill permitting the owners
of property on any street to bond the
same for ten years for street improve
ments.