The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-12

| Section {. Inc taker-up OF an eStray
/, animal or animals shall use reasonable
care to preserve the same from injury,
| but if any estray animal or animals
| die or escape from the possession of
the taker-up at any time before the
| expiration of the time specified in Sec
| ton 3 of this Act, the taker-uD shall
not be held liable in any manner on
account of such animal.
| Section s. Nothing in this Act shall
affect the laws or regulations in force
or which may be in force regarding es-
| trays, the Poundkeeper or other pound
officer within the limits of any city or
town where laws regarding estrays are
in force.
ection 8. All other Acts and parts of
Acts relating to estrays, now in force,
are hereby repealed.
Section 10. This Act shall take effect
from and after its passage.
| SACRAMENTO AND FOLSOM ROAD.
For over year the people of Sacra-
/ fento City and County have advocated
! the building of a macadamized road
between the city and the town Of Fol-
Z som, and SO great was the zeal shown
| that subscription was raised among
!
road one-half of the distance. The
Legislature passed a law providing
| that the State should furnish, without
cost, enough road metal for building
| purposes, and as the enactment ap-
| plies directly to the city and county
| it is given in full
Section l. A public highway or wagon
| road shall be built from a point on the
trH1e~ = IA 1f
mento to Folsom, in Sacramento Coun-
| ty, as near as practicable along the
/ route of the present most direct line
! Of county roads between those two
| points; provided, that before any work
| is done, or money expended on account
| of the construction thereof, the neces-
sary legal right of way or title to the
/ lands upon which such road is to be
built shall first have been conveyed to
! the State of California.
| Section =. Such road shall be built
under the direction of three commits
sicners, who shall be known as the
Folsom Highway Commissioners, and
| who shall be appointed by the Gov
ernor, and who shall be residents of
Sacramento County, who shall hold
Office from the date of their appoint
ment until the 1st day of January
1899, and who shall serve without
compensation.
Section g. The highway or wagon
road herein provided for shall be
macadamized, be built according to the
most approved methods of modern
highway construction, be built along
the most direct route available and
upon the easiest grades, with proper
drains, culverts and bridges, and shall
be Of such width, not to exceed twenty
feet, as such Commissioners shall deem
expedient and within the means at
their command.
Section 4. Immediately after the APP
prevail of this Act the Governor shall
appoint the three Folsom Highway
Commissioners herein provided for, and
such Commissioners shall proceed i'm
mediate1y to the survey and location
of the road herein provided to be built.
and to an estimate of its cost, and
shall cause all work done upon said
highway to be done either by contract
or days labor or both as they should
deem best
Section :. The road herein provided
for shall be built, SO far as practicable,
from broken or crushed stone or rock
from the rock-crusher at the Folsom
State Prison, and the State Prison Di-
rectors are hereby directed and all
thorized to supply such crushed or
broken rock, together with the neces-
sary granite or stone blocks for drains,
culverts or bridges, free of cost or
charge. other than transportation, to
the Folsom Highway Commissioners
for the construction OF such highway.
Section 6. The Folsom Highway
Commissioners shall keep strict and
accurate accounts of every item of ex-
pense paid. incurred, or contracted, on
account of the construction of the
road herein provided to be built. in
GLIDING the value Of material, work,
or labor contributed Or bestowed free
of charge, and report to the Legislature
of California at its thirtythird session
the exact cost of the road and sep
arately the cost of it's grading, rolling,
the value of the rock and top-dressing
used. the cost of spreading the same,
and the cost of re-rolling, and of each
stage of its construction. This road
shall be completed before such thirty
third session Of the Legislature, and
the same shall be exhibited to the
members of such Legislature as
sample Of modern and improved high
way construction, and together with
the detailed report of the Commission
ers, Serve as a model and guide to the
Legislature. in the consideration of
necessary highway legislation.
Section T. This Act shall take effect
Immediately.
MUST PAY EACH MONTH.
Complaints having been brought before
the Legislature that a number of cor
porations in the State Systematically
withheld several months pay of their
employees. a law was enacted to remedy
the alleged evil. In order that both cor
porations and employees may under
stand its provisions the full text of the
law is given IS follows:
Section l. Every corporation doing
business in this State shall pay at least
once q month. each and every employe
employed by such corporation, in trans
acting or carrying on its business. or in
the performance of labor for it, the
wages earned by such employee during
the preceding month provided, however
that If at the time of payment any en-
ploye shall be absent. or not engaged in
his usual employment, ne shall be en-
titled TO said payment at any time
thereafter upon demand
Section > A violation of any of the
provisions of Section l of this Act shall
entitle each of the said employees to
lien on all the property of said corpora
ton for the amount of their wages
which lien shall take preference over ali