The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-22
Evening Session

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At the evening session the special
urgency file was taken up and Leavitt's
bill %, to create q harbOr of Oakland,
define it's boundaries and create a State
Board of Harbor Commissioners for
such harbor, etc, was read the second
time, amendments by author adopted
and the bill ordered to third reading.
s. B. 252, Maggard-To repeal an Act
authorizing the Controller to appoint
an additional clerk in his office, in adj
dition to the number now allowed by
law, to be known as the revenue clerk,
and making an appropriation for the
payment of his salary, to create the
office of expert to the Controller and
prescribing his compensation; read the
second and third time and passed-23
to Z. Title approved.
FOR RELIEF OF MINORS.
S. B. 90, by Morehouse, to amend
Section 1927 of the Civia Code. relating
to prior purchasers, ETC., called for a
long explanation by the author. Briefly
the bill was intended to allow a minor
child to set aside an act of a parent,
in which the latter, prior to death:
made over his property to older chill
dren in exclusion to the minor child.
Morehouse spoke at length for his bill,
and was closely questioned by Gillette,
Curtin and Wolfe. In full, the section,
as amended by the bill, reads as fol-
lows:
Section 1927. Every instrument,
other thar will, affecting an estate
in real property, including every charge
upon real property, or upon its rents
and profits, made with intent to de-
fraud prior or subsequent purchasers
thereof, or incumbrancers thereon, or
those upon whom such real property
would descend under the laws of sue
cession, is void as against every pur-
chaser or incumbrancer, for value, Of
the same property, or the rents or
profits thereof, and is void against the
heirs of the grantor'
In the end, further consideration Of
the bill was continued until this even
ing.
S. B. 473, Nutt-To provide for re-
deeming property sold to the State for
delinquent taxes for years prior to
1893, and for the payment of delinquent
taxes for such years, and providing for
deeds to be issued upon all property
sold to the State for such years, which
has not been redeemed, and authorizing
suit to be brought for enforcing the
lien for delinquent taxes for such years,
and requiring individual purchasers to
procure tax deeds or relinquish their
right to property purchased at tax sales
and providing that the Act shall apply
to cities; read second and third time.
Dickinson, Curtin, Bulla and Gillette
opposed the bill; Morehouse defended
it, and it was lost-14 to 10.
S. B. 229, Prisk-To provide for the
disposal of money raised by cities or
towns for public improvement after the
same has been completed and paid for;
read third time and passed-27 to O..
Title approved,
Committee substitute for S. B. 40,
relating to negotiable instruments, was
called up, and after considerable dis
cussion, was continued until to-day.
S. B. 300, La Rue-An Act to provide
of machinery, the constructions of a
dam and other improvements by the
mana gers of the Napa State Hospital,
at Napa, and appropriating $50, 900
therefor. was again taken up. Earlier
in the day an amendment reducing the
appropriation to $4,000 had been
adopted. Dickinson offered an amend
ment providing that all plans and spe-
cifications for work should be approved
by the Board of Examiners after being
passed on by the Board of Managers of
the Hospital. Adopted, and bill order
ed to print.
LIENS ON HORSES.
Shortridge's bill, 1927, providing for
liens upon horses and other animals
for the cost of shoeing same, was called
up, and Dickinson, after abiding to the
manner of attaching liens to the horse,
and to the proposed duties of Sheriffs
in selling the horse, stripping it of all
liens except the one for horseshoeing
and then selling it. He ended by NOV
ing to strike out Section 6, which pro-
vided for the foreclosing Of the liens.
Shortridge replied at length and for a
time greatly amused his auditors with
the shots taken at Dickinson, Bulla and
others, and then turning to the serious
side Of the question made a strong talk
in favor of protecting smiths against
race track and other itinerant horse
men.
Shortridge attacked the Judiciary
Committee, and said it's adverse report
on the bill had been on general prin-
ciples, and not because it had been
poorly drawn or because it was uncon-
stitutional. He said if the Judiciary
Committee would bring in a report to
the effect that "a bill was correct in
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