The record-union., 1897-02-12
Afternoon Session.

! Afternoon Session.
Upon reassembling the special file of
Assembly bills was taken up and A. B..
316, by Treacy, being an Act to pro-
vide for increasing the efficiency of fire
departments within municipalities of
the first-class, was read the third time.
The vote was close and indecisive, and
Mahoney moved a call of the Senate,
which was lost by a vote of 20 to IL.
Bert change his vote and gave notice
that he would to-day move to recon-
slider the vote whereby the bill was
lost. The bill was defeated by a vote
of 10 TO A.
DREDGER BILL.
A message was received from the AS
sembly relating that the bill providing
for dredging the Sacramento River had
been passed.
A. B. y, Iby Bridgeford to amend
Section 81 of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure relating to the time of COM
mencing actions was read the third
time and lost by a vote of % to 3.
A. B. 4o3, by the Committee on
Mines and Mining Interests, to amend
the Act for the better protection of the
stockholders in corporations, was
amended and ordered printed to re-
tain its place on the file.
A. B. u, by Kenyon, TO amend an
Act to provide for the disincorporation
Of municipal corporations of the sixth
class, was read the third time, passed
by a vote of 27 to 2-title approved.
A. B. 134. by Gutter, amending an
Act to create a Commissioner of Pub
lie Works, was amended and ordered
printed
DEBRIS COMMISSIONER
AN Assembly message was received
relating that A. B. 142, to appoint a
| Debris Commissioner and to provide a
salary for the same, had been passed
by that body
A. b. 40, by Foreman, to amend Sec
ton 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
relating to the powers of Justices of the
Peace to can in other Justices to act in
their place and stead, was read the
third time and passed by a vote of 81 to
O-title approved.
| A. B. 4l6, by the Committee on Re-
vision of Codes and Statutes, amending
| Section 3S9 of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to summons, was read
| the third uifae and passed by a vote of
20 to 0-tite approved.
SECOND READING.
A. B. 452, by Committee on Fish and
Game, to repeal several sections of the
Penal Code, relating to game was read
the second time, amended and ordered
engrossed.
A. b. T. by Dibble, to compel all de-
positories of money and commercial
banks to publish a sworn statement of
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second time and ordered engrossed.
A. b. 415, by the Committee on Revi-
sion of Codes and Statutes, to amend
Section 3S3 of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, was read the second time and
ordered engrossed.
A. 3. 139. by Dennery, relative to fire
departments of San Francisco, and fix
ing the salaries of officers thereof, was
read and ordered engrossed.
A. B. 2S3, by Cutter, to change and
permanently locate the boundary line
between the counties of Butte and Yu-
ba, was read the second time and or
dered engrossed.
A. b. 1S2, by Cross, to authorize any
city or city and county of the State to
take its census, was read the second
time and ordered engrossed for the
| third reading.
| THIRD READING FILE.
| S. 3. 15S, by Wilmington, to amend an
! Act to regulate and control the sale,
rental, and distribution of appropriated
water, ether than in cities, and to Sc
cure the rights Of way for the convey
ance of such water to place of use, was
read the third time and passed by a
vote of % to 0-title approved.
S. 3. 1913, by Langford, to amend Sec
ton 456 of the Civil Code relating to
the right Of railroads to issue bonds,
| etc, was read the third time and passed
by vote of % to 0.-title approved
S B. $40, by Aram, to amend Section
3493 of the Political Code by adding a
provisoion relative to adverse occupa-
| tions, was read the third time, amend
ed and ordered printed.
S. B. 93 by Langford, to keep open
natural channels. not navigable, which
run through agricultural land, etc, was
read the third time. a substitute by the
author adopted. and ordered engrossed
for the third reading.
MORE BILLS
| Bills were introduced as follows:
BY Stratton-To create and regulate
public warehouses.-Agricult
! BY MorehouSe-To assist the Wo-
mans Relief Corps.-Hospitals.
| BY Morehouse-To regulate the sale
of proprietary medicines pitfalls.
NIGHT SESSIONS.
/ Dickinson gave notice that he would
to-day move that the Senate hold night
sessions on and after Monday next, and
| at $50 O'Clock on motion of Doty, the
Senate adjourned.