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

under this Act, shall be deemed or adj
judged in any wise or in any part In.
valid by reason either of the amounts of
purpose of the levy by said Commits
sioners. or because of any error or i'm
perfection. in the description thereof, and
such equalization, where heretofore MADE,
in any district, or where hereafter made,
shall be conclusive of the regularity of all
the proceedings leading up to the same,
report so equalized complies in all re-
spects with the. provisions of this Act.
This most dangerous innovation, at
and making the determination of the
Board of Trustees conclusive of the regu-
larity of all proceedings in the matter
| Of assessment, is not cOnSonant with the
principles of good government
No such law should ever be permitted
to mar our statute books, whose policy
petitions of aggrieved land owners.
This proposed injurious amendment
| finds its echo in section 5 of this bill,
| the existing law by adding the following
Where an assessment heretofore or
hereafter made is or shall be irregular or
invalid, or is or shall be paid by part only
of the lands or land owners liable there
| for, 1t shall be competent for the Board Of
| trustees to levy a new assessment in the
amount of the former assessment or ex-
ceeding the same, and to direct that all
payments. If any there be- on such for
mer assessment, shall be credited as pay
|
sessment; and, thereupon where such
payments have been made, they shall be
credited by the Treasurer and Tax Col
| lector as payments upon such new as
| sessment, and such new assessment shall
| be collected and shall be a lien only for
the BALANCE unpaid; but such new assess
m me th sha I'll, pc collected and shall be lien
! upon all lands upon which such former
assessment. has not been paid in whole
or in part
BY this addition it is proposed to vest
| in the Board of Trustees the extraordi-
nary power to tax the land owners in
all districts for all previous and irregular
| and Invalid assessments. The mere state
ment OF such proposition should carry
! its own refutation There is neither a
Legal nor equitable basis for such legisla-
ton. To thus arm the Board of Trustees
| with such power would be to leave open
| to confiscation the lands of the poor men
| OF small holdings in the districts, as well
as violating the rights of the large own
ers.
Section of the Act, as amended by
this bill. omits the words of the present
| law winch gives the right to the land
owners of paying the assessment on or
before the first Monday of January next
ensuing, and providing for the collection
for the collection of State and county
| taxes.
These omissions so change the existing
| law that instead of providing for one an
nual assessment, as heretofore, there
might be as many assessments in each
year as the Board of Trustees should de-
termine, limited only by the requirement
of giving at least thirty days notice of
| the day of delinquency
! l cannot assume that such extensive
powers, so menacing to the rights of the
land owners, will be exercised without
abuse, and | am, therefore, for the fore
going, as well as other reasons, firmly
| opposed to the present bill.
| HENRY T. GAGE, Governor
DUNNIGAN'S CLAIM
Assembly messages were taken up
and the Assembly's action on S. B. us
to pay the claim of Lawrence Dunni-
gan, was read. The Assembly receded
from its action in indefinitely postpon-
ing consideration of the, BILL and ap-
tpointed as free conference committee
on the bill Assemblymen Wade, White
and Blood. AS a free conference to
meet that Of the Assembly, the Presi-
dent pro tenn. appointed Senators Bulla
lDWyer and Simpson.
SENATE CONCURS.
The Senate concurred in the As
sembly amendments to S. B. 800, to
lprovide for improvements at the Napa
State Hospital; also S. B. 6, to pro-
wide for certain Improvements and re-
pairS at the Los Angeles Normal
School; also S. B. 277, to pay armory
rents, ETC., arising out of the mastering
in of the National Guard into the SER
vice of the United States; also s. B
80, relating to revenue and taxation.
THREE BILLS PASSED.
Cutter offered an urgency resolution
which was adopted, providing that A
BIS LOCI, 1902 and 1,003 be read the
second and third time and placed upon
their final passage. The titles of the
bills follow:
A B. 1,C01, to add new section t.
the Penal Code, making it a misde-
meanor to deface, obliterate, cover up
or otherwise remove, destroy or con-
ceal duly filed trademark or name Of
another, which is upon any cask, key
ETC., read second and third time an6
passed, % to 2.
A. B. 1,002, Rickard-To amend Sec
ton 1924 of the Penal Code, relating tC
the issuing of a search warrant; reat
second and third time and passed, 2:
to /.
A B. 1908. to amend an Act to ere
ate and establish State Board of Hor-
ticulture read second and third time
and passed, % to 0.
DON'T WANT VISITORS.