The record-union., 1893-01-12
PROPOSED LEGISLATION.
WHAT SOME OF THE BILLS INTRO
DUCED MEAN.
The Girls Industrial School-Rates of
Interest - Supreme Court
commissioners.

commissioners.
Senator Bailey's bill for the establish
ment of an industrial school for girls
provides that the proposed institution
shall be located in Santa Clara County,
on the premises now occupied by the
Home of the Feeble Minded. The general
supervision is to be vested in a board of
three Trustees, to be named by the Gov
ernOr, tolhold Office for two, three and four
years, respectively, beginning March J.,
1898, successors to be appointed at the
expiration of each members term, the
successors to be elected tor four years
each. The board shall be body corporate
and polite for the purpose of -dlsbursing
money, holding and conveying property,
ETC., the Legislature reserving the right
to alter or revoke such powers at any
time. The Board of Trustees shall pre-
pare and adopt plans for the repairs and
proper equipment of the buildings now
upon the said premises, with the fur
niture and fixtures necessary and proper
for such an institution, not, in their
Judgment, to exceed in cost S25, 900, and
may make or let all necessary contracts,
with the approval Of the Governor, for
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ing according to said plans. The board
will also appoint a Superintendent-no
of their own number-at salary not to
exceed y, 500 a year. Upon the compile
ton of the buildings the Trustees will re-
ceive girls between the ages Of s and Is
years, and all girls who have been here
tofore committed to the Whittier Reform
School are to be transferred to the new
institution as soon as possible.
Any girl between the ages mentioned
convicted of crime, punishable by i'm
prisOnment in the County Jail or peni-
tentiary, shall be committed by the court
tONthe Industrial School, except where
the court deems imprisonment in the iails
more efficacious. They may be COM
mitted to the school also in the following
cases: On the complaint by the parent
or guardian of such infant, that by reason
of the incorrigible and vicious conduct
such infant has rendered her control be-
yond the power of such parent or guard
ian, and made it requisite that from re-
gard for the future welfare of such infant,
and for the protection of society, that she
be placed in such guardianship; when a
proper subject for the care and guardian
ship of such institution, in consequence
of vagrancy, or of incOrrigible or vicious
conduct, and that for moral depravity,
or otherwise; and when complaint in
writing has been filed. and due proof Of
the same has been made by the mother
or guardian, when the father is dead,
or has abandoned his family, or is an
habitual drunkard, or does not provide
for the support of such infant, that such
infant is destitute Of a suitable home, and
Of adequate means of obtaining an honest
living, or is in danger Of being brought
up to lead an idle and immoral life, and
where such mother or guardian is unable
to provide the proper support and care
for such girl.
10Th iy,rr Sy,f fl,o A.Es - - I, /
as debarring capital punishment where
the law calls for such punishment.
The girls are to be taught such branches
of useful knowledge and domestic avoca-
tions, and the trustees will have the
power to bind them out as apprentices or
give them away for adoption with the
consent of the child's parents, except
such parents as have abandoned the chill
dren.
THE STATE BUILDING.
The bill introduced by Senator Buggy
providing for the erection of a State
building in San Francisco has in view
the saving OF considerable money to the
State now going out in the rental Of offices
and apartments for various State officers
and bodies. The bill proposes that the
new building is 10 accommodate the Su-
preme ourt, Supreme Court Commits
sioners, Hastings Law College, Railroad
Commission, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
1CS6llllt6 dllby COMMISSION, state Min
eralOglst, Board of Horticulture, Fish
Commission, NincuItural Commission,
Bank Commission, Worlds Fair Com
mission, Board of Forestry, Board of I'M
migration, Pilot Commission, Bureau of
Mineralogy, Harbor Commission. Board
of Arbitration, Port Wardens, Insurance
Commission, Attorney General and other
institutions which may be hereafter es-
tablished with headquarters IN San Fran
cisco. The building and site is to cost
$500, 900.
HEALTH MEASURES.
Senator Broderick's bill authorizing
City Boards of Health to appoint plumb
ing and drainage inspectors simply pro-
poses to make State law of what has
been on the ordinance books OF Sacra-
mento and other progressive cities OF the
State for long time. The Senator has
another sanitary bill, however, which is
not a chestnut" 1t authorizes the
Health Boards to appoint market in
spector. But Sacramento is barred ont
OF this luxury, as the bill says only cities
having more than 100000 inhabitants are
in it.
Burke's bill for the establishment of a
State Board of Funeral Directors, to more
etfectually protect the public against con-
:, tagious disease liable to be contracted
from dead bodies, was referred to at
length in yesterdays RECORD UNION,
RATES OF INTEREST.
One of Senator CampbelPs bills pro-
vides that the rate of interest in this State.
unless there is an express contract in
writing fixing different rate, shall be 6
per cent. per annum, and no more, on all
moneys after the same become due; on
judgments and DEGREES for the payment
or money: on money received to the use
OF another detained from him; on money
due upon the settlement of matured ac-