The San Francisco call., 1897-01-28
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Measures to Recetre the attention of the
LdsCm dkers.

M664NTeS 10 hecetre ire AtJent1On or the
Lawmakers.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 27.-Assem-
bly, bill 1876, as amended, provides that
every franchise for telegraph or telephone
companies, street railroads, gas, electricity
or water companies, ETC., shall be adVer-
tised for ten consecutive days in one or
more daily newspapers. All bids must be
for the payment OF a stated per cent of the
gross annual receipts of the corporation
or person receiving the franchise. No
percentage shall be paid for the first five
years succeeding the date of the franchise,
| but thereafter such percentage shall be
payable annually, and shall in no case be
less than per cent per annum upon such
gross receipts, the franchise to be for
feited by failure to make the payments
stated in the bids upon which the award
was made. After the expiration of the
time stated in the advertisement up to
which sealed bids or proposals will be re-
ceived the board or other governing or
legislative body herein mentioned must
meet in open session and read the tenders
or bids. The franchise or privileges must
then be awarded to the highest bidder;
provided, however, that nothing in this
section shall affect a special privilege
granted for shorter term than two years.
1t continues:
Section 2. Every person, company or COR
| poration to whom franchise to operate an
electric street railway, or to erect poles, wires
or conduits for the transmission of electric
power is granted, may, in addition to the re-
quirements enumerated in section 1, be re-
Quired to light the street or streets upon
| n hiOhr rbo troo la laid al hio oh
| the poles, wires or conduits are run, or such
| part of such street or streets as the Board of
| Supervisors, Common Council or other legis-
| lative or governing body granting the iran
chise may direct.
| Sec. 8. No franchise now existing or which
may hereafter be granted shall be renewed by
| the Board of supervisors, Board of Trustees,
Common Council or other governing or legis-
iative body above described, nor shall the ex-
tension or renewal of the same be advertised
or offered for sale by such governing or legis-
lative body until within one year from the
date of the expiration of the existing fran
chlse, unless the existing franchise is first
surrendered by the holders thereof.
| Sec. 4.-Any member of any Board of Super
visors, Common Council or other governing or
! legislative body of any county, city and
county, city, town or district of this State
who, by his vote, violates or attempts to vio-
late the provisions of this act, or any of them,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and of mall
| feasance in Office, and be deprived of his Office
by the decree OF court of competent jurisdic-
| ton after trial and conviction.
There are two bills with reference to
| property set apart in probate cases. No.
488, by North of Alameda, provides that:
When property is set apart to the use of the
| family, in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter if the decedent left q widow or
surviving husband aud no minor chila, such
property is the property of the widow or sur
| vlving husband. If the decedent left also a
minor child or children, the one-half of such
| property shall belong to the widow or sur
vivlng husband, and the remainder to the
child, or in equal shares to the children if
there be more than one; lin which eases the
property shall constitute homestead of five
| thousand dollars If the surviving husband or
| wife is the head of a family, as defined in the
| Civil Code; otherwise of one thousand dollars !
| If there be no widow or surviving husband,
the whole belongs to the minor child or chill
| dren lin equal shares.l 1t the property set
apart be homestead selected from the sepa-
rate property of the deceased, either in his
| lifetime or by the court after his death, the
| court can only set it apart for q limited period
| to be designated in the order, and the title
| vests in the heirs or deyisees subject to such
order.
The other is also by North of Alameda
and numbered 4S9. 1t is copy of the first
with the exception that the clauses in
brackets are omitted.
Emmons' Ill-4S6-creating a Board
of Warehouse Commissioners fills seven
teen pages. It provides that within
twenty days after the act takes effect the
Governor shall appoint three Warehouse
Commissioners, to hold Office for four
years, at salary of $500 per annum each.
They shall appoint secretary at salary
OF $4,000 per annum, and they shall be al
lowed for Office rent, furniture and sta
tionery $1,000 per annum and Sc each per
day travelling expenses while absent from
San Francisco on the business of the