county shall have, since that date, incurred an indebtedness, evidenced by warrants thereof, which indebtedness shall not have exceeded in any year, the income and revenue provided for such county for such year, and which warrants shall not have been paid by reason solely of such application of the current revenue of such county to the payment of such former indebtedness, the Board of Supervisors of May be such county, by a vote of two thirds of all the members funded. thereof, are empowered, if they deem it for the public interest, to fund such last mentioned indebtedness, and to issue bonds of such county therefor, in the manner provided in subdivision fourteen of section twenty-five of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; and all the provisions of said subdivision of said section shall apply to the issuance, disposal, and payment of such bonds, and to the levy of taxes for the redemption of the same, except as herein otherwise provided. be exceeds the SEC. 2. No indebtedness of such county shall be funded Indebtedunder the provisions of this Act, which, in any year, ex-ness shall ceeded the income and revenue provided for such county funded that for such year, nor which shall exceed the amount of current revenue for revenue which shall have been so applied to the payment of any year, indebtedness outstanding at twelve o'clock meridian, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty. issued under SEC. 3. Such bonds shall, in addition to the matters Bond to state required to be stated therein by the provisions of the above that they are mentioned Act, contain a statement that they are issued this Act. under authority of this Act, referring to the same by its title and date of passage. exchanged only unpaid SEC. 4. Such bonds, when issued, may be exchanged by Bonds the County Treasurer, under the direction of the Board of may be Supervisors, only for warrants of such county legally issued for warrants since twelve o'clock meridian on the first day of January, on January eighteen hundred and eighty, which, together with war- 1, 1880. rants theretofore issued, did not, in any year, exceed the income and revenue provided for such county for such year, and which shall remain unpaid solely because the revenue otherwise applicable to the payment of the same shall have been so applied to the payment of such former indebtedness. If any portion of such bonds shall be sold for money, the proceeds thereof shall be applied exclusively to the payment of the warrants mentioned in this section. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. Preamble. eastern boundary line of California. Request that Congress locate the line. CHAPTER IX. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 9, relative to the location of the eastern boundary line of the State of California. [Adopted May 5, 1884.] WHEREAS, That portion of the eastern boundary line of the State of California, which lies south of the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude, and which runs in a straight line, in a southeasterly direction, to the Colorado River, at a point where it intersects the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude, is improperly located, and the monuments therefor are in some places more than a mile from the true boundary line; and whereas, said monuments do not indicate a straight line, but a broken one, such as is not responsive to the description of the true boundary; and whereas, the true boundary line is not marked by monuments, and great inconvenience arises to those settlers who live on the territory between the true line and the line marked by monuments, as aforesaid, on account of uncertainty as to what State they reside in, to what State their taxes are due, the true description of the land whereon they are settled, and various other matters; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to procure such action by the Congress of the United States, as will secure the services of a corps of able engineers of the United States to locate said true boundary line, and to fix suitable monuments thereon. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to forward to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress a copy of the foregoing resolution. CHAPTER X. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 12, relative to the removal of causes pending in the Courts of the State of California, to the Federal Courts of the United States. [Adopted May 2, 1884.] Preamble. WHEREAS, The character and class of cases which may be removed from a State Court to an inferior Federal Court, for trial therein, is prescribed by the Act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, now in force; and whereas, by the provision of said Act, it is now become competent for a citizen of this State, or a corporation organized under the laws of this State, when sued by the State for the recovery of taxes due, to remove such suit into the Circuit Court of the United States for trial; and whereas, such removal is productive of delay, and is derogatory to the authority of the State, and injurious to the public interests involved; therefore, be it suits from Act March 3, Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That our Excepting Senators be and they are hereby instructed, and our Repre- State tax sentatives requested, to use their best endeavors to procure the operaan amendment to said Act of March third, eighteen hundred ion of the and seventy-five, excepting from its operation all suits gress of brought in the Courts of any State, to enforce the collection 1875, removof the revenue of such State, or of any county thereof, and ing causes leaving all Federal questions involved, or claimed to be Courts. involved in any such suit, to be examined in the Supreme Court of the United States, and determined upon a writ of error, as was the settled practice for the first seventy years of our national existence. to Circuit CHAPTER XI. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 3, relative to a bill now pending in Congress providing a Territorial Government for Alaska. [Adopted May 6, 1884.] WHEREAS, There is now pending before Congress a bill to our Repreorganize the Territory of Alaska, which bill has passed the sentatives in Senate; now, therefore, Congress requested to urge the organization of Resolved, That our Representatives be requested to use all the Territo reasonable means to secure the early passage of said bill. ry of Alaska. CHAPTER XII. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4, relative to instructing our Senators in the Senate of the United States to support the Mexican Veterans' Pension Bill. [Adopted May 9, 1884.] veterans of Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That whereas In favor of a bill has passed the House of Representatives pensioning pensioning the veterans of the Mexican war, most of whom are now, Mexican from old age and infirmity, in a condition to command the war. sympathy of all good citizens; and whereas, said bill is now pending in the United States Senate; therefore, be it Resolved, That our Senators are hereby instructed to vote for said bill and to use all honorable efforts to facilitate its progress in becoming a law. Proposed amendment to the Constitution. Against raising mort tracts, or tions by which a debt is secured, money, or its, above face value. CHAPTER XIII. An Act amending section nine, article thirteen, of the Constitution. [Approved May 20, 1884.] The Legislature of the State of California, at its twenty-fifth (extra) session, commencing on the twenty-fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thirds of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of said Legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes that section nine, of article thirteen, of the Constitution of the State of California, be amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 9. A State Board of Equalization, consisting of gages, deeds one member from each Congressional District in this State, of trust, con- as the same existed in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, other obliga- shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective districts, at the general election to be held in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and at each gubersolvent cred- natorial election thereafter, whose term of office shall be for four years; whose duty it shall be to equalize the valuation of the taxable property in the several counties of the State for the purposes of taxation. The Controller of State shall be ex officio a member of the Board. The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties of the State shall constitute Boards of Equalization for their respective counties, whose duty it shall be to equalize the valuation of the taxable property in the county for the purpose of taxation; provided, such State and County Boards of Equalization are hereby authorized and empowered, under such rules of notice as the County Boards may prescribe, as to the county assessments, and under such rules of notice as the State Board may prescribe as to the action of the State Board, to increase or lower the entire assessment roll, or any assessment contained therein, so as to equalize the assessment of the property contained in said assessment roll, and make the assessment conform to the true value in money of the property contained in said roll; provided, that no Board of Equalization shall raise any mortgage, deed of trust, contract, or other obligation by which a debt is secured, money, or solvent credits, above its face value. The present State Board of Equalization shall continue in office until their successors, as herein provided for, shall be elected and shall qualify. The Legislature shall have power to redistrict the State into four districts as nearly equal in population as practical, and to provide for the elections of members of said Board of Equalization. CHAPTER XIV. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 18, relative to declaring the twenty-ninth day of August, A. D. eighteen hundred and eightyfour, a public holiday, as a mark of respect to the memory of Junipero Serra. [Adopted May 9, 1884.] WHEREAS, The twenty-ninth (29th) day of August, A. D. Preamble. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, will mark the lapse of one hundred years since the burial of Junipero Serra, at the Mission of San Carlos, in the County of Monterey; and whereas, the citizens of California, irrespective of differences in religious faith, have always entertained, and often in public assemblage have expressed, their appreciation of the high personal character of the founder of the Missions, which were the first settlements of civilized man in California, and their grateful recognition of the distinguished part he bore in the earlier civilization of the State; and whereas, it is becoming that a suitable official memorial of their sentiments in that behalf should appear in the recorded proceedings of the Legislative and Executive Departments of the State. Therefore, as a tribute of respect to the memory of Junipero Serra, issue procla Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, at its Requesting twenty-fifth (extra) session, the Senate concurring, That his Ex-Governor to cellency the Governor be and he is hereby respectfully nation derequested to issue his proclamation appointing and declar- 29th of Auing the twenty-ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and gust, 1884, to eighty-four, to be observed as a public holiday. be observed as a public holiday. CHAPTER XV. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 20, relative to the acquisition of large landed estates in the United States by non-resident foreigners. [Adopted May 13, 1884.] WHEREAS, The people of this country have witnessed with Preamble. alarm the acquisition of large landed estates in the United States by men belonging to a class of aristocrats whose conduct in the management of estates owned by them in their respective countries, and the evils resulting therefrom, does not commend itself for adoption or countenance to the thoughtful consideration of American citizens; whereas, such accumulation of lands in the hands of the few, whether held by the nobility of foreign lands, or by land monopolists of our own, is contrary to our system of government, detrimental to the welfare of the masses, and fraught with grave dangers for the future; whereas, there is now pending in the Congress of the United States a law |