

M.Il-'oKNIA 



Fixing the ininimura rate of i*y for laborers em- 

 ved on public work at $2 a day. 



.i:ng that unovupie*l t 

 mei - shall U- O|M n ti> iinti. -ml claims. 



the translation and 

 pub i.iws into Spanteh. 



iubiling mining conjuration from Ailing. 

 leasing. .-r rn.-rt gaging any part of the mining 



ground owmd by u. or of puohaaing new fronnd, 

 it the consent of two thirds of 



inning the recording of notices of minim; 

 claim- wiih.'tu aoknowledgm. :iii.-ato of 



acknowledgment. 



Repealing the act Dilating the sale of 



mineral lam I* belonging t< 



liibititig divorced p-r-.-ns from man 

 within A \i-nr aft. r tin- granting <>f tin- dr. 



oofMant at sixteen \ar-. 



Requiring that when goods are pun ha-ed f,, r the 



MB Of the Slate or any citv or county in the Slate. 



retire shall lie given to those produced or manu- 



betored u. th.- s 



ndmg thf application of the law on trade- 

 mark* to those which an- copied or imitated, as well 

 as to those which are unterfeited. 



Establish) n u' a five market mi the water fnuit of 



mncisco under the care of the harbor com- 



Amcnding the act providing for the organization 

 of municipal corporations, so that cit i-s mentioned 

 may own and operate plants for water supply and 

 street licit tin.::. 



Requiring every corporation doing business in 

 ate to pay it's employees at least once a month 

 all wages earned by such employees. 



Providing for a public-school teachers' annuity 

 and retirement fund, and amending the law of 1895 

 relating to the same. 



.mating t he office of the Public Works Com- 

 missioner. who is to have control of the expenditure 

 of the $300,000 for the improvement of Sacramento 

 river. 



Km it ling railroad passengers to carry bicycles as 

 1 .]__.._ . 



iT-ovidine for a commi-<ioncr to the Central 



American Kxpo^ition at Guatemala city and an 



exhibit there, and appropriating $10.000; also for 



an exhibit at the Hamburg Horticultural Exposi- 







; -.jnt resolutions were passed: 



Calling for a constitutional convention. 



Memorializing Congress to reject the railroad 

 funding hill. 



tion in the new tariff for California 

 fruit interests. 



AsK ss for an appropriation of $300.000 



to be used for restraining barriers for mining dArtc. 

 and one of $300,000 for dredging the water ways of 



Const it ut ional amendments were passed relating 

 appointment of the Lieutenant liovi-rnor: to 

 oonaolidat< i county governments, the ob- 



ject being to exempt San Francisco from the county- 

 government act, and allow the city a large measure 

 me rule upon the adoption of a new charter; 

 to sessions of the Legislator*; and to grammar 



The tax-levy bill fixed the rate at 43 i 

 sides a 2-oent tax for the university, which will in- 

 crease it* revenue $224,000 a year." This will 

 more than $10.000,000 for the'general fund for tin- 

 two years. The general appropriation bill called 

 for *' "he ^-hool* for $4.629.926. orphan-* 



and half orphans for $6?~i.OOO. and the sinking fund 

 and interest $282,870, which constitutes a total of 



re was a large increase in the appropriation 

 f<r I 1 '- :il (iuai.l. Pro\i-i..n was made for 



5 new companies at $3,380 cadi for equipment, and 

 1 company of Naval Reserves at $1.' 

 Tli- >truck out many items from the 



'.d appropriation bill, amounting in all to 



appropriation of s an exhibit at 



the TcnnesMH- Centennial Kxposition \\a- \etoed. 

 and the appropriat ioti for the Stale librarian and 

 hi- twodej.iitie>; al-.. ap: - 



viticulture experiments a for forestrj 



lion-, on the ground that tin- State I'niv. 1-1: 

 support them hereafter from it- increase.! revenues, 

 The $5.000 all- tti leparlmeni of a-ricul- 



turr was also stricken ,,;. tli,. follow ini;: 



$25.000 fir dredpn- Alvi-o >lo U -h. x i 

 improvements to the asylum al for u 



water supply at Ifonticello Asylum, ; the 



< lara State School for Girls (not 

 li-hed). $!M),00>for the Vountville Home, 

 establi-h a p..l\technic institute in San Lui- < bi-po 

 County, $?.").<(>( f,, r a heating and vi-ntilating plant 

 at the Cl4>itoL appropriations for di-lrict agricul- 

 tural fair-, and a l>ill providing for the sale o! 

 bonds to raise a fund for the use of the harbor 

 mi ioncrs in building a sea wall. 



A resolution to cede t I . \ t" t he 



United States was defeated. 



The total cost of the Senate was $75,000.40. in- 

 cluding more than $4.000 f<>: 

 cases; that of the As-embly wa- 120.177.40. 



Decisions on Mate l.a-. Tin Supreme Court 

 decided iii May that the section of the count \ 

 eminent bill of iHlJo which pro\idc- f.,r lev\r 

 inheritance tax is unconstitutional, ina-muc! 

 is an attempt to levy an ext raordinary tax. ami al-o 

 that it provides tha't the fee so collected -hall be 

 paid into the county treasury and u--d for county 

 purposes, whereas the Le^i-lature i- forbidden to 

 impose taxes for county purposes. 



6n application of the Comptroller a- to tin- IT t 

 of the veto of the item in the general appropriation 



bill for the support of the State printing office the 



'ney-<iejieral decided that the Slate printing 

 can not 'be legally done at any other place, and that 

 no deficiency can be created for support <.f the of- 

 fice. This, if it shall be sustained, will do away 

 with all State printing till tie -ion of the 



legislature. 



By a decision of the United State- Supreme 

 C"iirt, May 24, in the litigation over the .M.-nitt- 

 Garcelon estate, Oakland will receive for a general 

 hospital about $600." 



According to a decjvj,,n in the l"nited - 

 cuit court in .June, the authority of the (i. .\eni- 

 ment over the navigable waters of the > 

 aijsolute that the Federal power may legally inter- 

 vene to prevent tin- ^.i<Tanienlo 

 and San .Toaquin river- and their tributai 

 the light, flocculent matter which invariably e 



h.-I.e-t impounding dam- and ma 

 d"\vn-t ream pre-umally to the sea." If this is sus- 

 tained, the imponnding dams to be built by the 

 .as provided ly the Legislature, n.av be re- 

 guarded as tre-pa--int; "n the property of th- ' 

 eminent, should it IM- found that injury to na 1 

 tion results from the use of the dams by hydraulic 

 miners. 



In a ca-*e involving the owner-hip of San Pedro 

 inner harbor, which was claimed by virtue of an old 

 grant, the decision in May in the I'nited S 

 Supreme Court was against the title. The court 

 hold- that where a patentee of land accepts a pat- 

 ent and survey he has not recourse, in ca-e of de-ire 

 to contest, if the boundaries do not accord with the 

 original lines. 



