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

Afternoon Session.
At the afternoon session the special
file of Assembly bills was taken up
and the following action taken:
A. B. 800, Rickard-To amend Sec
ton 1142 of the Political Code. relating
to elections; read third time and passed,
% to g.
A B. 925, Henry-Providing what
imprint shall be placed on bills, pla-
cards, posters. pamphlets, and other
printed matter having reference to an
election or to any candidate, and pro-
viding a punishment for a violation
thereof; read second time and to third
reading
A. B. 602, Melick-To amend Section
2643 of the Political Code, relating to
the road tax and its apportionment
among road districts; read second time.
A. B. Gil, Johnson-To repeal the sew
eral Acts to provide for the redemp-
ton of the funded indebtedness of the
City of Sacramento; passed, u to Q.
A. B. $50, Melick-To amend Section
$3.50 of the Political Code, relating to
highway taxes to be expended in dis
tricts; read second time.
| A. B. 1855, Committee on Ways and
Means and directing the
State Board of Health to conduct exam
nations. relative to the purity of foods,
drinks and drugs, to enforce laws re-
lating thereto. and making an appro-
priation to pay the expenses of such
examinations; read second time,
amended, and ordered printed.
| p cS0 Goprou-To nov al a;
of E. N Strout for services rendered
from June 1, 1873, to April l, 1874,
State Board of Examiners, and ap-
propriating money to pay the same;
read second time, amended, and to
print.
A. B. SIC. Belshaw-To amend Sec
| ton 16 Of an Act to provide for the
| formation, government operation, and
dissolution of sanitary districts; read
second time.
| A. B. S97, Cosper-To amend sections
of an Act authorizing the mourning of
Indebtedness by cities, towns, and mu-
nicipal corporations for the conStruc
ton of water works, sewers. and all
necessary public improvements, or for
any purpose whatever; and to repeal
the Act to authorize municipal corpor-
ations of the fifth class to obtain water
works; read second time.
| A. B. 691-To prevent the sale of raw
materials. and the manufacture in
penal institutions in the State of Cali
| fornia of any article of commerce other
than jute bags and broken stones and
materials for State and county roads
only, and articles consumed in, the State
institutions; read second time, amend
| ed, and to print:
| A. B. 726, Caminetti-To declare the
Silver Lake wagon road, commencing at
Pine Grove, in Amador County. and
running thence across the summit of
the Sierra Nevada Mountains, via Sill
yer Lake to Lake Tahoe, a State high
way; read second time.
A. B. 645, Committee on Roads and
Highways-To amend Section 55S of
the Penal Code, relating to malicious
injuries to highways; read second time,
amended. and to print
A. B. 800, Rickard-To amend Section
1861 of the Political Code, relating to
precinct election boards; read third
time and passed, 25 10 o.
A. B. 349, Dibble-To amend the
Penal Code by adding two new sections
to Title " thereof. relative to crimes
against the elective franchise, said sec
lions to be numbered 63 and 6315. re-
spectively; read third time and passed.
% to O.
A. B. 159, Notwithstanding an ap-
preparation of S1,951.01 to pay the
claim of the State Board of Horticult-
! frV~ i
the State; read third time and passed.
81 to 0.
A. B. 274, Miller-Making an appro-
priation of S7,709.50 to pay the claim
of I. II. Polk against the State for serv-
ices as expert in the case of the Rail
road Commissioners VS.. the Southern
Pacific Company; passed, 80 to O.
A. B. 347, McDonald-To appropriate
S611 Is to pay the directors of the Deaf
Dumb and Blind Asylum for the grad
ing and curbing of Waring street, in
front of the lands of the Institute for
the Deaf, Dumb and Blind of Berkeley;
read third time and passed, "A to 0.
CANDIDATES MAY TREAT
A. B. 439, Caminetti-To amend Sec
tons 3. IL and 10 of an Act to pro-
mote the purity of elections by regu-
latlng the conduct thereof, and to sup
port the privilege of free suffrage by
prohibiting certain acts and practices
in relation thereto; said amendment re-
lating to the treating, buying or giving
of any cigar or intoxicating bevera ge
to any person by a candidate for public
office, was rebelled against, and in the
end buried deep under shower of dis
approving votes.
Shortridge attacked the bill and
said he would not respect the law if
it passed. He claimed that it was
placing premium on liars. He claimed
the right to spend the money he made
as he pleased-to buy a drink, new
tie or a new hat He said it would be