Legislature, vacancies in either house, 129.
what constitutes quorum, 128.
yea and nay votes, 128.

Levee District, act not providing for notice, 97.
in Sutter county, 81, 95.

Liability beyond income, how may be incurred,
334.

Libel and slander, 59.

can be but one action for one article, 74.
jurisdiction in, 59, 72.

out of the same facts a series of charges shall
not be preferred, 75.

theatrical presentation, 60.

who may be charged, 60.

Libels, criminal prosecutions for, 59, 60.

number of prosecutions under single article, 74.
place of trial of, 59.

Liberty of speech or of the press, 59.

right to enjoy, 42.
Liens, of mechanics, etc., 413.

Lieutenant-governor, certain disqualifications, 188.
compensation of, 189.

election and duties, 188.

Life, cannot be deprived of except by due process
of law, 69.

right to enjoy, 42.

License for saloon where females are employed, 42.
itinerant vendors, 111.

in incorporated cities, 160.

on foreign insurance company, 323.

under county ordinance cannot be used for city
purposes, 332.

unreasonable conditions for prohibited, 42.
upon railroads, 322.

License ordinance cannot relate to single act, 315,
316.

decisions upon, 305-319.

for itinerant vendors, 319.

of Eureka, 310.

License tax collector, appointment by supervisors,

264.

appointment of, 324.

License tax collector, authority to appoint, 319.
License taxes, decisions upon, 319-327.

Political Code provisions, 309.

to what treasury must be paid, 264.
Liquor licenses, 42, 44.

civil action to recover, 326.

for both county and city, 313.
Liquors, selling to Indians, 44, 46.
Lucrative office, what deemed, 135.
Lobbying declared a felony, 181.
Local laws, certain prohibited, 149.
intention of constitution, 151.

Local statute, affecting eminent domain, 151.
tax sale under, 151.

Los Angeles City, charter of, 130, 295.
charter of 1889, 331.

charter is a statute, 284.

courts of, 277.

contract to be signed by mayor, 284.
deposit of city moneys, 328.

public library of, 279.

street law affects, 280.
street work in, 43.
widening streets in, 326.

Los Angeles county, 262.

fee bill of 1878, 426.

number of superior judges therein, 222.
Los Angeles river, protection of banks, 318.
Lottery tickets, ordinance against, 44.
power to authorize search for, 107.
prohibiting possession of, 44.

Lotteries, legislature shall have no
authorize, 168.

no power to authorize, 168.
prohibition of is mandatory, 170.
Madera, act creating county of, 223.
Magistrates, who may sit as, 60.

power to

Majority vote, to adopt freeholder charter, 288.
Making of profit, out of county or city money
prohibited, 333.

Mandamus, may be issued by Supreme Court, 198.
Superior Courts may issue, 207.

Mandatory, as to classification, 112.
as to special laws, 112.
provisions, 41, 111.

provisions as to corporations, 346.
Margin, selling stocks on, 168.

Marriage, need not conform to requirements of
religious sect, 409.

Married women, in houses of prostitution, 87.
May, word construed, 112.

McClure charter, 65, 266, 272.

McCoppin police bill, 265.

Mechanics lien law, not repealed by constitution,
426.

Mechanics liens, 413.

constitution is self executing, 413.
on threshing machine, 86.
"reputed" owner in, 87.

street improvement, 100.
to be provided for, 413.

Medical examiners, act concerning, 281.
Medicine, practice of, 162.

Mendocino county, license tax, 309, 322.
Merced county, license ordinance, 316.
Message, of governor, 187.

Mileage, allowed members of legislature, 140.
Military, organization to carry only national flag,
242.

subordinate to ciyil authority, 69.

Militia, 242.

duty on election day, 116.

fine imprisonment for prohibited, 100.
governor commander-in-chief of, 184.

Mining bureau, appropriation for, 139, 172.

Mining claim, meaning in mechanics lien law, 415.
Mining corporations, to post statements, 68, 356.
Minors, commitment of, 63, 329.

special laws affecting estates of, prohibited, 150.
suspending judgment against, 63.
"Misappropriation" of funds, meaning of, 349.
Miscellaneous subjects, 406.

Misdemeanor, as infamous crime, 57.
conspiracy jurisdiction in, 213.

Misdemeanor, in office, 205.
in office, no jury in, 53.

not otherwise provided for, 213.
practicing medicine as, 55.
violation of ordinance as, 313.
waiver of jury, 54.

Mission street, widening of, 89, 345.
Modesto, laundry ordinance of, 109.

Modoc county, 262.

Money can only be drawn from state treasury by
appropriation, 136.

derived from public lands devoted to schools,
244, 251.

how drawn from treasury, 136.

is property, 365.

objects for which may be appropriated, 136.
of county or city, profit out of prohibited, 333.
recovery when unlawfully paid from treasury,

140.

Mongolians, restrictions upon, 403, 405.

Mono county, sheep ordinance, 109, 311.
Montgomery avenue, grade of, 329.

Mortgage, action to foreclose not entitled to jury,
52.

assessment of, 371.

contract to pay tax, void, 375.

foreclosure, where to be brought, 211.
see assessment of land.

Municipal act of 1883, permissive not mandatory.
296.

Municipal charter of Stockton, 164.
Municipal corporations, act classifying, 281.

act providing for disincorporating, 167.
act of 1883, 274.

counties are not, 277.

created only by general laws, 270.

exclusion of territory from, 271.

how created, 270.

of fifteen thousand, 285.

others than cities and towns, 278.

shall not be released from state taxes, 304.

taxes when collected where deposited, 331.

Municipal debts, private property cannot be taken
for, 331.

Municipal functions, legislature cannot interfere
with, 327.

Municipal funds, legislature cannot direct pay-
ment of, 154

Municipal government has right to regulate
charges for public utilities, 342.
legislative power as to, 45.

purpose of, 45.

Municipal indebtedness, act relating to funding
of, 153.

of each year to be paid from revenue of same
year, 334.

provision to be made for payment, 334.

Municipal officer, compensation of shall not be in-
creased, 300.

legislature to provide for, 261.

Municipal ordinances, jury trial under, 54.
penalty different from state law, 72.
Municipal organization, act of, 1883, 274.
Municipal taxation, power for, 319.
Municipal taxes, depository for, 331, 332.
Municipalities, act of 1883, 281.

emancipated from state control, 312.
general law of 1880, 281.

others than cities and towns, 305.
subject to state taxes, 304.

Names, changing by special laws prohibited, 149.
Naturalization, Superior Court has power of, 206.
Navigation, right of public to free, 395.
Nevada school district, 146.
New counties, boundaries of, 161.
designating class of, 267.

general laws for creating, 257.

Newspapers, see libel and slander.
"Next election," meaning of, 186.
Nintey days, court decisions within, 240.

Normal schools, 246.

Notice, necessity of to judgment debtor under sec-

tions 1206, 1207, C. C. P., 86.

Nuisance, see sidewalks.