The record-union., 1897-04-16

The legislature amended the ACT
providing for the letting of contracts
for lighting streets, and as amended
the law is worth a perusaf of all in
terested The full text follows:
STREET LIGHTING.
Section /. Section 1 of said Act is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Section /. Before any city or town
in the State OF California shall enter
into any contract for the lighting OF
it's streets. or public buildings, or other
public places the City Council or Trus-
tees, or other governing body OF such
city or town, shall advertise Tor DldS
for such lighting, and cause q notlce
to be posted in three public places IN
the city or town, inviting sealed pro
posals for doing such lighting, refer
ring to the specifications posted or on
file. The advertisements for bids snail
be published for ten days, in the news
paper designated by such city or town
as its official paper, in which other ie-
gal notices. orders. and ordinances are
required to be published, if there be
any such official paper; but if there be
no such official paper, then such ad-
vertisements for bids shall be publlsh-
tu III dily IfCN opehPNA ~
lation designated by such City Coun-
Gil Trustees or other governing body;
provided. that any city or town OF less
than 10000 inhabitants may contract
for street lighting at price of SlO
per month or less for each light of
1000 candle-power without complying
with the terms of this Act.
Section . This Act shall take erect
from and after its passage.
POWERS OF JUSTICES.
The amendment to Section 103 of the
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the
powers of Justices of the Peace 10
call in order Justices to act IN theh
place and stead, is of universal inter
est. 1t is as fallows:
1O5. A Justice of the Peace OF any
township, or city, or city and county
may hold the court of any other Jus
tice of the Peace of any township, CITY
and county, or city within the
same county, at his written request
and while so acting shall be vested with
all the powers of the Justice for Whom
he so holds court. In which case the
proper entry of the proceedings peIore
the attending Justice subscribed py
him shall be made in the docket OF the
Justice for whom he so holds the court
and the same shall be prima facie eVl-
dence of such proceedings, ana FORM
and become a part Of the record OF
any, or any part Of any and all actlons,
causes. or proceedings had before such
attending Justice while SO holding the
court.
CHANGE OF PLACE OF TRIAL.
Another amendment to the law, re-
lating to a change of place of trial, is
of much Importance and is printed
herewith
Section I. Section 39S of the Code of
Civil Procedure is amended so as to
read as follows:
39S. If any action or proceeding is
commenced or pending in a court, and
the Judge or Justice thereof is dis
qualified from acting as such, or, if,
from any cause, the court orders the
place of trial changed, it must be trans
ferred for trial to a court the parties
may agree upon, by stipulation in
writing, or made in open court and en-
tered in the minutes; or, if they do not
SO agree, then to the nearest or most
accessible court, where the like objec-
ton or cause for making the order does
not exist, as follows:
l. If in a Superior Court, to another
Superior Court.
. If in a Justices Court, to another
Justices Court in the same county.
Section >. This Act shall go into ef-
feet upon its passage.
RELATIVE TO APPEALS.
The section of the code announcing
when appeals may be taken to the Su-
prerne Court from a Superior Court was
amended by the last Legislature, and
as approved by the Governor the law
is now as follows:
Section l. Section 963 Of the Code Of