The San Francisco call., 1897-01-28
commission. The office shall be in sar

commission. The Office shall be in San
Francisco.
Section prescribes the duty Of every
owner or lessee, etc., of every public ware
house in the State to furnish the commits.
sion, under oath, a statement concerning e
the condition and management OF bis
business as such warehouseman.
One of the Commissioners at least, once
| in six months, shall visit each county in
the State in which there is warehouse
| and personally inquire into the manage
| ment of such warehouse business at an
expense of Sc per day for travelling ex-
renses. The Commissioners shall have
the power to cancel warehouse licenses
for cause.
The bill defines public warehouse as
''a warehouse in which grain is stored in
any form, or in which property of any
kind is stored for consideration"
Each warehouseman must take out a
license from the commission and give a
bond in the penal sum of $100 900. Each
warehouseman shall also Keep posted up
III The business Office of his warehouse in a
conspicuous place a statement of the
amount of each kind and grade> of
grain (when graded) in store IN his ware
house at the close of business op the pre-
vious Saturday. and shall also on each
Tuesday morning render a similar state
ment under oath to the commission. But
this is not all. Says the bill:
They shall also be required to furnish daily
to The same Commissioners correct state
ment of the amount of each kind and grade of
gra in (when gradedl received in store in such
warehouses on the previous day; also the
amount of each kind and grade of grain
twhen graded) delivered or shipped by such
warehouseman during the previous day, and
what warehouse receipts have been Cancelled
upon which the grain has been delivered on
such day, giving the Der OF each receipt
and amount, kind and grade of grain (when
graded received and shipped upon 1t; also
how much grain, if any, was 30 delivered or
shipped. and the kind and grade OF it fwhen
graded) for which warehouse receipts had not
been Issued, and wnen and how such unre.
cefpted grain was received by them, the aggre-
gate OF such reported cancellations and deliv-
cry of unreceipted grain corresponding in
amount, kind and grade (when graded) with
the amount so reported, delivered or shipped.
They shall also at the time report what re-
ceipts If any have been canceled and new ones
issued in their stead as herein provided for.
ment shall in addition furnish the said Com
missiouers any further information regarding
receipts issued or Cancelled that may be neces-
sary to enable them to keep full and correct
record OF all receipts issued and Cancelled and
all grain received and delivered.
The commissioners may appoint as
many inspectors of grain as the pubic
business may in their judgment require.
They shall also appoint public weigher
for each public warehouse in the State.
The inspectors and weighers shall have
power to fix the rate of charges for the in
spection and weighing of grain. which
revenue shall provide the compensation
of the weighers ana inspectors.
Section "a provides that each warehouse
man must during the first week in June
of each year publish in one or more of the
newspapers (daily prsferred) schedule of
rates for the storage OF grain or other
property in his warehouse during the en-
| suing year.
The Committee on Public Morals have
in hand Mr.. Ennis bill 498 amending the
act for the protection of children. 1t pro-
hibits any minor under the age of 18 years
from being permitted to remain in any
place where spirltuous or malt liquors are
sold or given away or in any dancehouses
and concert saloons. Section of the act
is amended as follows:
Sec g. Any child, apparently under the age
of 18 years, that comes within any OF the fol-
lowing descriptions named:
(d) That is found begging, or receiving, or
gathering aims whether actually bagging, or
under pretext of selling or offering for sale
anything), or being in the street, road or pub
lie place Tor the purpose of SO begging; gather
ing or receiving aims.
o. That is found wandering, and not having
any home or settled place of abode, or proper
guardianship, or visible means of subsistence.
(0 That is found des .itute, either being an
orphan or having vicious parent who is un-
dergoing penal servitude or imprisonment.
(d) Thst frequents the company of reputed
thieves, or prostitutes, or houses of prostitu-
tion, or assignation or dance houses, concert
saloons theaters and varieties, or places speci-
fed in the first section of this act shall be ar
rested and brought before q court or
magistrate.
When upon examination before court or
magistrate it shall appear that any such child
has been engaged in any OF the aforesaid acts
or comes within any of the aforesaid descrip-
tions such court or magistrate, when 1t shall
deem 1t expedient for the welfare of the child,
may commit such child to an orphan asylum,
society for the prevention of cruelty to chill
dren, charitable or other institution, or m AXE
| such other disposition thereof as is now or
may hereafter be provided by law in cases of
vagrant, truant, disorderly, pauper or desti.
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