The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-08

Legislature was one in which the fruit
interests all over the State was con-
cerned The statute relating to the
mortgaging of personal property had
been extended by Acts of preceding
Legislatures to cover among other
things, growing crops, and those inter-
ested in raisins and other varieties of
dried fruit had reason to complain be-
cause they could realize nothing in the
shape OF mortgage loans upon the
fruits OF their industry. The ACT
passed for the relief of the class of cit
liens was as follows:
Section 1855 of the Civil Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Mortgages may be made upon the
following personal property:
"Nineteenth-Raisins and dried fruits,
cured or in process of being cured.
Also, all boxes, fruit-graders, drying
trays, and fruit-ladders.
The law providing for the govern
ment and operation of a rock-crushing
plant at Folsom, is in most instances,
similar to the law passed in 1898. The
prominent exceptions are as follows:
In 1895 the plant was placed under
the control of the State Board of Prison
Directors and the Commissioners of
the State Bureau of Highways, the
latter acting practically as an advisory
board. The resent statute provides
that the State Board of Prison Direc-
tors shall regulate, govern and have
full control of the plant, and authorizes
and empowers the said board to sell
and otherwise dispose of the product of
the plant, providing that preference
al, he 70 Oy~1nr from
the Bureau of Highways.
The statute of 1895 fixed no mimi
mum rate at which road metal
should be sold. The provision was that
it should be sold at cost of production,
with ten per cent. added to go into the
revolving fund of the plant. The pres
ent statute contains similar provision,
to which is appended the following:
Provided; that no rock shall be sold
for highway or other purposes for %
less price than thirty cents per ton"
The highest price charged for rock at
any time since the erection of the plant
was twenty-five cents per ton, and it
was figured by some who had made
the matter study, that the metal
might have been put on the market at
a still lower figure.
ORGANIZATION OF MILITIA.
The Act of paramount interest TO Ma
tional Qua rdsmen, is as follows:
Section l. Section 2003 of the Polit-
ical Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
2003. Tie National Guard of the
State of California is hereby organized
into three brigades, each commanded
by a Brigadier- General, the limits of
each brigade to be fixed by the COM
mander -in-chief Brigader- Generals
and their staff officers, Colonies and
their staff officers, and all regimental
and company officers deprived of their
office by reason of the reorganization
herein provided for, or by reason Of the
provisions of an Act of the Legislature,
approved March % 1895, entitled
An Act to amend sections 1912, 1919,
1928 1929, 1892, 1912, 1862, 1870,
1880 1898, 1854, 1885, 1890, 2003,
200i 2007, 2O22, 2024, 2027, 2040,
204S, 2076, 20S3, 1904 of the Political
Code of the State of California, and to
add one new section thereto, to be
known and numbered as section 1891,
and to repeal sections 1887, 1888 1899,
and 2005. all relating to the National
Guard of California and all officers
mustered cut of the service by reason
Of such organization under general ord
ers from the Adjutant-G Generals office
of the State of California numbers s,
10, II, - II, secries of 1895, and gen.
eral orders numbers and 3, series of
1876, respectively; provided, such offic-
ers shall have served as commissioned
officers st least five years in the Ma
tioanl Guard of California, be and the
same hereby are placed upon the retired
list with their rank; provided, that
such officers shall make application to
be placed on the retired list in accord
ance with subdivision , of section 1873
of the Political Code, and that all en-
listed men mustered out of the service
under the provisions of the reorganiza-
ton of the National Guard of Califor-
mia, mentioned in section of this Act,
shall be, and the same hereby are en-
titled to all of the privileges and ex-
emptions mentioned in section 1896 of
the Political Code, upon making a prop
er application therefor; provided, such
enlisted men shall have served at least
five years in the National Guard of
California.
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect
and be enforced from and after its pas
sage
The Act commonly known as the
Clarke read law. is Of general interest
in that it takes away all the road mas
ter patronage from Boards Of Super
visors. 1t first provides that an cleo
ton for road trustees shall be held in
each road district on the last Saturday
in May o. each year. There shall be
three trustees for each district. Two of
them shall receive SO per annum and
the other who acts as Secretary, $50
per annum.
The members Of the first Board of
Trustees will be elected for one. two
and three years respectively and after
wards one shall be elected each year
The powers and duties of the road trus-
tees are to be very broad
The trustees have the following au-
thority:
l. To prescribe and enforce rules not
inconsistent with the Constitution and
laws of this State for their own govern
ment and the government of their dis
trict
> To manage and control the prop
erty belonging to or in use in their
district, ard to pay all moneys collect
ed by them into the county treasury, to
be placed to the credit of the road fund
of their district.