The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-08
Evening Session.

| AT the evening session two bills in
troduced by the late Senator Boggs
were taken up, read the second time,
amended, and ordered printed and on
the third reading file. The titles of the
| bills follow:
| S. B. 20, Boggs-To appropriate SILL
/ 500 for the furnishing of the admins
tration building and two male wards of
the Mendocino State Hospital; for the
purchase of an electric plant for light
ing the hospital buildings and grounds,
and the necessary machinery and APP
planes therefor, and to construct a
/ building to contain the same; to pur-
chase an ice plant and cold storage sys-
tenn; to make the necessary changes in
attics to protect the hospital buildings
against fire; to appropriate money
therefor, and provide for the expendi-
ture of the same; read second time,
amended and to printer.
| S. B. Sc, Boggs-To appropriate $40
900 for the erection of a building for
the Mendocino State Hospital for the
purpose of connecting the administra-
! ton building with the ward buildings of
the said Mendocino State Hospital;
said buildings to contain an assembly
hall and connecting corridor for the
use of the patients of the said Mendo-
elmo State Hospital; to appropriate
money therefor. and provide for the
expenditure of the same; read second
time, amended and to printer.
AN URGENCY NATTER.
| An urgency resolution by Smith to
take up and pass S. B. 722, appropri-
|
penses of the late State Treasurer,
Levi Rackliffe was adopted. and the
bill was read the second and third time
and passed by a vote of % to o.
CONTINGENT EXPENSES.
| A message was received from the
| Governor announcing that he had APP
proved S. B. 723 appropriating $4,000,
or so much thereof as might be neces-
sary. for the contingent expenses of the
Senate.
| ANOTHER BILL VETOED.
| The Governor also returned without
his approval S. B. 10, giving his reasons
! therefor as follows:
/ To the Senate of the State of California:
| 1 herewith return to your honorable body
without my approval, Senate Bill No.
| 10, with my objections thereto.
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| to section 4 of the present law, full power
| is given to the Board of Trustees of the
district. consisting. of three members, to
| acquire by donation or purchase ''any
real property, whether situated within or
without the district where required for
levee sites or for the protection works
maintained by the district" They are
also given authority ito erect and main
| tain all works of protection within the
district, or in whole or in part without
quired for the protection of the lands
within the district
This grant of so much power to the
Board of Trustees. without any check or
/ limit upon their discretion, is dangerous
| to the land owners of the districts.
| Another ill-directed change proposed by
| the present bill is the removal from the
existing law of the very. proper. restric-
Trustees, which, as the law now stands,
requires the Board of Trustees to submit
1 to the Board of Supervisors all plans and
| specifications and estimates of the cost
| of construction of necessary work for the
approval. modification or rejection of the
| Supervisors
Were the amendment proposed by this
bill to become the law, then the District
to charge the land owners of the district
| for the construction of works to the
1 extent of their sole discretion, and with
out any specified limit as to cost To vest
such authority in an interested body,
safeguard, is against the principles of
municipal and district government.
| Again. by the proposed amendment to
| section of the Act, respecting the fixing
of the basis of assessments and the filing
of the report by the Commissioners of
assessment it is provided in this bill
that no such report heretofore made or
/ that shall hereafter be made in any dis
trict heretofore Or hereafter organized