CONCURRENT AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND CHAPTER I. Senate Joint Resolution No. 1, relative to House Resolution 14,898, entitled "An act relating to jurisdiction on appeals in the court of appeals in the District of Columbia, and transcripts on appeal in said court, and to quiet title to public lands." [Adopted January 23, 1903.] court of Columbia. WHEREAS, A bill, introduced in the first session of the fifty- Appeals in seventh congress, known as House Resolution 14,898, enti- appeals, tled "An act relating to jurisdiction on appeals in the court of District of appeals of the District of Columbia, and transcripts on appeal in said court, and to quiet title to public lands," did, on the seventeenth day of June, nineteen hundred and two, pass the house of representatives, and was referred to the judiciary committee of the senate of the United States; and WHEREAS, Such bill, in our judgment, if enacted into law, would become a menace to the mineral industry of our state, particularly to the petroleum mining industry; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the senate and the assembly of the State of California, jointly, That our congressmen be requested and our senators instructed to use all honorable means to prevent the passage of said bill. Resolved, That the secretary of the senate be and he is hereby instructed to transmit a copy of this resolution, by telegraph, to our senators and representatives in congress. CHAPTER II. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1, relative to inaugural ceremonies. [Adopted January 23, 1903.] on inau Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That a com- Committee mittee of three members of the senate be appointed to confer gural cere with a committee of four from the assembly, to make arrange- monies. ments for the inaugural ceremonies. Said committee to be appointed by the president of the senate and speaker of the assembly, respectively, and to have full power to act in the premises. Any expenses to be paid equally by the senate and the assembly, out of their several contingent funds, and not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of twelve hundred and fifty ($1250) dollars. Relative to death of Seawell. CHAPTER III. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 2, relative to death of the [Adopted January 23, 1903.] Resolved by the senate of the State of California, the assemHon. J. H. bly concurring, That a committee of six, consisting of three senators and three assemblymen, be appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, respectively, to prepare and present to senate and assembly for adoption a resolution of respect to the memory of the late Honorable John Henry Seawell, of Mendocino county, ex-member of either house. Relative to death of Dwyer. CHAPTER IV. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 3, relative to the death of [Adopted January 23, 1903.] Resolved by the senate of the State of California, the assembly Hon. L. J. concurring, That a committee of six, consisting of three senators and three assemblymen, be appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, respectively, to prepare and present to the senate and assembly for adoption a resolution of respect to the memory of the late Honorable Lawrence J. Dwyer of San Francisco, ex-member of either house. Nacimi CHAPTER V. Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, relative to an appropriation by congress for the purchase of Nacimiento ranch for a military instruction camp. [Adopted January 29, 1903.] WHEREAS, The Nacimiento ranch in San Luis Obispo and ento ranch. Monterey counties has been selected by the War Department for a military instruction camp; and, WHEREAS, But one such camp has been ordered to be established on the Pacific coast; therefore, be it Resolved by the senate and the assembly of the State of California, jointly, That we respectfully instruct our senators and request our representatives in the congress of the United States, to use all honorable means to secure such appropriation at this session of congress. Resolved, That the secretary of the senate be directed to forward a copy of this resolution, by telegraph, to our senators and representatives in congress. CHAPTER VI. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4, approving thirteen certain amendments to the charter of the City of Los Angeles, in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified electors of the said City of Los Angeles at the general municipal election held therein for that purpose on the first day of December, 1902. [Adopted January 30, 1903.] ments to Los An WHEREAS, The City of Los Angeles, in the County of Los AmendAngeles, State of California, contains a population of over one charter of hundred thousand inhabitants, and has been ever since the the City of year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and is now, organized geles. and acting under a freeholders' charter, adopted under and by virtue of section eight, of article eleven, of the Constitution of the State of California, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the qualified electors of said city at a special election held for that purpose on the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and approved by the Legislature of the State of California, on the thirty-first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine (Statutes of 1889, page 455), which charter has never been amended; and WHEREAS, The city council of said City of Los Angeles did, by ordinance No. 7540 (new series), adopted by said council on the twenty-ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and two, and approved by the mayor of said city on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and two, and pursuant to section eight of article eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, duly propose to the qualified electors of said City of Los Angeles, certain amendments to the charter of said city to be submitted to said qualified electors at a general municipal election to be held in said city on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and two, which said amendments were and are in words and figures as follows, to wit: That section one of the charter be amended to read as follows: Section 1. The municipal corporation now existing and Name. known as "The City of Los Angeles," shall continue to be a municipal corporation under the same name and with the same boundaries that it now has, to wit: Beginning at a cement monument in the County of Los BoundAngeles, State of California, said monument being set on the aries. |