powers and duties of the courts in providing for the creation and appointment and term of office of boards, to be known as "Probation Committees," providing for the creation and appointment of probation officers, prescribing their terms of office, duties, and powers, and fixing their salaries. Also: Senate Bill No. 67-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872, by amending Section 1203 thereof, relating to the inquiry into the aggravation or mitigation of punishment, the imposition or execution of sentence, and the suspending thereof by probation on plea or verdict of guilty. Also: Senate Bill No. 353-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate and govern the State Prisons of California," approved March 19, 1889, by adding a new section thereto, to be numbered 7%, relating to the release of prisoners confined in State prisons and the restoration of them to citizenship, either at the time of, or after release. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that they do pass. Also: Senate Bill No. 79-An Act to amend Section 16 of an Act to establish a State reform school for juvenile offenders, and to make an appropriation therefor. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it do pass and be referred to the Finance Committee. COGGINS, Chairman. Senate Bills Nos. 72, 67, and 353 ordered on file for second reading. Senate Bill No. 79 referred to Committee on Finance. ON MINES AND MINING. SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 25, 1905. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Mines and Mining has had referred to itSenate Bill No. 60-An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act for the further protection of stockholders in mining companies," approved April 23, 1880, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March 9, 1897, relating to the protection of stockholders in mining companies. Also: Senate Bill No. 46-An Act to add a new section, to be known as Section 1927 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the admission in evidence of certain statements of facts contained in patents for mineral lands issued or granted by the United States of America. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that they do pass. Also: Senate Bill No. 5-An Act to amend Section 1183 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to liens of mechanics and others upon real property. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that the author be permitted to withdraw the same. RALSTON, Chairman. Senate Bills Nos. 60, 46, and 5 ordered on file for second reading. ON CORPORATIONS. SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 26, 1905. ME. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Corporations has had referred itSenate Bill No. 16-An Act to add a new section to an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civil Code." relating to proxies. Also: Senate Bill No. 341-An Act to amend Section 1240 of the Code of Civil Procedure of California, relating to rights of way for public uses. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that the same do pass. Also: Senate Bill No. 61-An Act to amend Section 611 of the Civil Code, relating to the issuance of bonds by cemetery corporations. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that the same do pass as amended. PENDLETON, Chairman. Senate Bills Nos. 16 and 341 ordered on file for second reading. ON CODE REVISION. SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 26, 1905. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Code Revision has had referred to itSenate Bill No. 154-An Act to amend Section 171 of the Penal Code, and to add to said Code three new sections, to be numbered 171a, 1716, and 171c, and to repeal Section 180a thereof, all relating to Acts tending to create breaches of discipline in State prisons, jails, and reformatories, by persons not inmates thereof. Also: Senate Bill No. 153-An Act to amend Section 172 of the Penal Code, relating to selling, giving away, or exposing for sale any vinous or alcoholic liquors in public institutions or buildings, or upon the ground upon which the same are situated, or lands adjacent thereto. Also: Senate Bill No. 163-An Act to amend Sections 270 and 272 of the Penal Code, and to add new sections thereto, to be numbered 271a, 273, 273a, 273b. 273c, 273d, and 273e, and to repeal Section 1389 thereof, all relating to crimes against children. Also: Senate Bill No. 451-An Act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be numbered 597g, relating to offenses against public decency. Also: Senate Bill No 452-An Act to add four new sections to the Penal Code, to be known as Sections 601a, 601b, 601c, and 601d, all relating to the dangerous use, or keeping of explosives. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that same do pass. Also: Senate Bill No. 359-An Act to add two new sections to the Penal Code, to be numbered 653c and 653d, both relating to crimes against employés. Also: Senate Bill No. 377-An Act to amend Sections 767, 771, 772, 773, and 774 of the Political Code, all relating to the reporting of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the District Courts of Appeal. We had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that same do pass as amended. Also: Senate Bill No. 91-An Act to amend Section 1238 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the exercise of the power of eminent domain. Also: Senate Bill No. 238-An Act to amend Sections 270 and 271 of the Penal Code of the State of California, relating to the abandonment and neglect of children. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back and recommend that same do pass as amended, and that the same be then re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. HAHN, Chairman. Senate Bills Nos. 154, 153, 163, 451, 452, 359, 377, 91, and 238 ordered on file for second reading. ON PUBLIC HEALTH AND QUARANTINE. SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 26, 1905. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Public Health and Quarantine has had referred to it Senate Bill No. 105-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the formation, government, operation, and dissolution of sanitary districts in any part of the State, for the construction of sewers and other sanitary purposes; the acquisition of property thereby; the calling and conducting of elections in such districts; the assessment, levy, collection, custody, and disbursement of taxes therein; the issuance and disposal of the bonds thereof, and the determination of their validity, and making provision for the payment of such bonds, and the disposal of their proceeds," approved March 31, 1901. Also: Senate Bill No. 179-An Act to prevent vaccination being made a condition precedent to admission to the public schools of the State of California. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that they do pass. HASKINS, Chairman. Senate Bills Nos. 105 and 179 ordered on file for second reading. ON JUDICIARY. SENATE HAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 25, 1905. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary has had referred to it-Senate Bill No. 308-An Act to amend Section 703 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, relating to the redemption of property sold on execution. Also: Senate Bill No. 399-An Act to amend Section 3817 of the Political Code in reference to redemption of property sold to the State for delinquent taxes. Also: Senate Bill No. 235-An Act to amend Section 424 of the Penal Code of the State of California, relative to embezzlement and falsification of accounts by public officers. Also: Senate Bill No. 68-An Act to amend Section 10 of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Political Code," approved March 12, 1872, relating to holidays. Also: enate Bill No. 519-An Act to provide one additional Judge of the Superior Court of the County of San Joaquin, State of California, for the manner of his appointment, and for his compensation. Also: Senate Bill No. 248-An Act adding a new section to the Political Code, to be known as Section 37691⁄2, providing for giving notice of tax sales in certain cases. Also: Senate Bill No. 306-An Act amending Section 3088 of the Civil Code of the State of California, relating to negotiable instruments. Also: Senate Bill No. 406-An Act to amend Section 312 of the Civil Code of the State of California, relating to elections by stockholders in corporations. Also: Senate Bill No. 405-An Act to amend Section 3650 of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to how the assessor must prepare an assessment book and list therein all property within the county. Also: Senate Bill No 344-An Act making it a misdemeanor to sell or exchange property under the representation, advertisement, notice, or inducement that an unidentifed, unknown, unselected, or chance prize, premium, or premium-gift, or that a stamp, trading-stamp, coupon, or other like device entitling the holder to receive such a prize, premium, or premium-gift, or that the redemption of such a stamp, trading-stamp, Coupon, or other like device so given is to be part of the transaction, or to sell or exchange any trading-stamp, stamp, coupon, or other like device to aid such sale or exchange, as aforesaid, and providing a penalty therefor. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that they do pass as amended. Also: Senate Bill No. 71-An Act to amend Section 339 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the time within which certain actions must be commenced We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that it do not pass. Also: Senate Bill No. 182-An Act to amend Section 259 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the duties and powers of court commissioners of superior courts. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, without recommendation. Also: Senate Bill No. 63-An Act to amend Section 336 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the time within which certain actions must be commenced. Also: Senate Bill No. 75-An Act to amend Section 338 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the time within which certain actions must be commenced. Also: Senate Bill No. 78-An Act to amend Section 337 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the time within which certain actions must be commenced. Also: Senate Bill No. 304-An Act to amend Section 49 of the Civil Code of the State of California, relating to the rights of personal relation between husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant, the seduction of a wife, daughter, orphan, sister, or servant, and injuries to a servant. We have had the same under consideration, and respect fully report the same back, and recommend that the authors be permitted to withdraw them. Also: Senate Bill No. 327-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civil Code." approved March 21, 1872, relating to personal property mortgages. Also: Senate Bill No 125-An Act to amend Section 2955 of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civil Code," approved March 21, 1872, relating to mortgages of personal property. We have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report the same back, and recommend that the author be permitted to withdraw Senate Bill No. 327, and that Senate Bill No. 125 do pass as amended. LUKENS, Chairman. Senate Bills Nos. 308, 309, 235, 68, 519, 248, 306, 406, 405, 344, 71, 182, 63, 75, 78, 304, 327, and 125 ordered on file for second reading. WITHDRAWAL OF BILL. Senator Lukens asked for and was granted unanimous consent to withdraw Senate Bill No. 327. Senate Bill No. 327 withdrawn, and ordered stricken from the file. ON ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT. SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, January 26, 1905. MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Engrossment and Enrollment beg leave to report that they have examined and found the following bills correctly engrossed: Senate Bill No. 12-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civil Code. 'approved March 21, 1872, relating to personal relations. Senate Bill No. 251-An Act to regulate the work and hours of employés engaged in selling, at retail, drugs and medicines, and compounding physicians' prescriptions, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. Senate Bill No. 82-An Act regulating the employment and hours of labor of children, prohibiting the employment of minors under certain ages, prohibiting the employment of certain illiterate minors, providing for the enforcement hereof by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and providing penalties for the violation hereof. Senate Bill No. 111-An Act to amend Section 1552 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, relating to the administration of the estates of deceased persons. Senate Bill No. 109-An Act to amend Section 1373 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, relating to the application for letters of administration on estates of deceased persons. Senate Bill No. 108-An Act to amend Section 1699 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, relating to the accounts of trustees. Senate Bill No. 106-An Act to amend Section 1633 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, relating to the time of settling the accounts of executors and administrators. Senate Bill No. 110-An Act to amend Section 1668 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, relating to the decree of distribution of the estates of deceased persons. Senate Bill No. 220-An Act to amend Sections 684 and 635 of the Political Code, relating to the State Board of Examiners, the appointment of an assistant to the secretary of said board, and for the appointment of four clerks of said board, and fixing their compensation. Senate Bill No. 261-An Act transferring the sum of $80,000 from the General Fund to the Estate of Deceased Persons Fund. Senate Bill No. 18-An Act to amend Section 813 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations," approved March 13, 1883, relating to the fire departments of cities of the fifth class. Above bills ordered on file for third reading. WITHDRAWAL OF BILL. KEANE, Chairman. Senator Wolfe asked for and was granted unanimous consent to withdraw Senate Bill No. 532→An Act to amend Section 1096 of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to affidavits of registration. Senate Bill No. 532 withdrawn, and ordered stricken from the file. BILLS RE-REFERRED TO COMMITTEE. On motion of Senator Belshaw, Senate Bill No. 5-An Act to amend Section 1183 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to liens of mechanics and others on real property-was re-referred to Committee on Mines and Mining. On motion of Senator Coggins, Senate Bill No. 214-An Act to amend Section 731, Code of Civil Procedure of California, relating to abatement of private and public nuisances-was re-referred to Committee on Public Health and Quarantine. INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING OF BILLS, ETC. The following bills, etc., were introduced: By Senator Hahn: Senate Bill No. 547-An Act relating to revenue and taxation, providing for a license tax upon corporations. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation. By Committee on Code Revision: Senate Bill No. 548-An Act to amend Section 600 of the Penal Code, relating to and defining the offense of burning structures and other property, not the subject of arson. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Code Revision. By Senator Leavitt: Senate Bill No. 549-An Act to amend Sections 1359 and 1367 of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to primary elections. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Elections and Election Laws. Also: Senate Bill No. 550-An Act to amend Section 1197 of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to election tickets and ballots. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Elections and Election Laws. By Senator Sanford: Senate Bill No. 551-An Act to provide for the better protection of wild deer and to provide for game preserves for that purpose. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Fish and Game. By Senator Rush: Senate Bill No. 552-An Act to amend Section 172 of the Penal Code of the State of California. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Prisons and Reformatories. Also: Senate Bill No. 553-An Act to amend Section 215 of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1, 1897. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on County Government. By Senator Woodward: Senate Bill No. 554-An Act to provide for the incorporation of associations for lending money on personal property, and regulating the same, and to forbid certain loans of money, property, or credit. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Banking. By Senator Savage: Senate Bill No. 555-An Act to amend Section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for changing the boundaries of cities and municipal corporations, and to exclude territory therefrom," approved March 20, 1889. (Stats. 1889, p. 433.) Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Municipal Corporations. By Senator Nelson: Senate Bill No. 556--An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Judiciary. Also: Senate Bill No. 557--An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Judiciary. Also: Senate Bill No. 558-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Judiciary. By Senator Nelson: Senate Bill No. 559-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Judiciary. Also: Senate Bill No. 560-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Judiciary. By Senator Irish: Senate Bill No. 561-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1, 1897, amended March 23, 1901, and March 19, 1903, by amending Section 185 thereof, relating to salaries and fees of county and township officers in counties of the twentyeighth class. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on County Govern ment. Also: Senate Bill No. 562-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the marking, branding, or labeling the boxes, barrels, or packages containing fruits, fresh or dried, and fixing a penalty for the violation thereof, and for the appointment of inspectors under its proapprove March 20, 1903, by amending Sections 1 and 2 thereof. Bill read first time, and referred to Committee on Fruit and Vine Interests. |