64 LEGISLATIVE MANUAL AND FORM BOOK. charge during the two fiscal years next ensuing. The officers, boards and commissions receiving such blank forms shall return them, properly filled out and accompanied by such brief explanatory statements as they may deem proper, to the Controller not less than fifteen days before the opening of the regular session of the Legislature. (Political Code, sec. 241.) SEC. 147. SAME-CONTROLLER TO SEND OUT BLANKS TO SENATORS AND MEMBERS-ELECT OF LEGISLATURE. The Controller of State shall, in similar manner, send a blank form to each senator and each member-elect of the Legislature, and such senator or member-elect shall in like manner return to the Controller these blanks with entries showing the appropriations which such senator or member-elect intends to propose to the Legislature. (Political Code, sec. 242.) SEC. 148. SAME-CLAIMS AGAINST STATE TO BE FILED WITH CONTROLLER. Any person having a claim against the State, which requires action by the Legislature, shall file with the Controller a statement of the amount of such claim, together with a brief statement of the facts upon which it is based, not less than twenty days before the opening of the regular session of the Legislature. (Political Code, sec. 243.) SEC. 149. SAME-CONTROLLER TO FURNISH TABULATED STATEMENT. Within ten days after the opening of each regular session the Controller shall furnish to the Governor and to each member of the Legislature a tabulated account of the various amounts requested in the statements returned to him in accordance with sections two hundred forty-one and two hundred forty-two, and a list of the private claims filed under section two hundred forty-three. Such account shall show the several amounts asked for, the total for each department of [each] institution, the grand total, and a brief description of the purpose for each proposed appropriation. (Political Code, sec. 244.) TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR THE USE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN THE CONTROL OF PUBLIC UTILITIES WITHIN INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES. The people of the Siate of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated to be used by the railroad commission of the State of California in the control of public utilities within incorporated municipalities. EXPLANATORY NOTE. 1Or Assembly. 2Or Mr. PART III. DRAFTING OF CODE SECTIONS AND GENERAL SEC. 151. LAWS. CODE SECTIONS, HOW AMENDED. When a bill amending a code section is introduced, the author of the bill shall cause the new matter, if any, to be underscored, and the place in the bill where portions of the law are proposed to be omitted, if any, to be indicated by closed brackets; provided, however, that where the subject consists of an entirely new section the words thereof need not be underscored, and when any bill introduced repeals an existing law in whole the matter repealed need not be indicated. (Senate rule No. 28, subdivision 3.) SEC. 152. FORM FOR BILL ADDING NEW CODE SECTION. SENATE BILL No.--- REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CIVIL CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SECTION TO BE NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED FORTY-TWO a, RELATING TO The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Civil Code to be numbered section six hundred forty-two a and to read as follows: 642a. *** EXPLANATORY NOTE. 'Or Assembly. 2Or Mr. SEC. 153. FORM FOR BILL AMENDING AN EXISTING CODE SECTION. SENATE BILL No.--- INTRODUCED BY SENATOR2. 19 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THE CIVIL CODE, RELATING TO__ The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one thousand four hundred one of the Civil Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read when amended as follows: 1401. *** EXPLANATORY NOTE. 'Or Assembly. 2Or Mr. 5-16821 TO REPEAL SECTION THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR OF THE POLITICAL CODE RELATING TO-- The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three thousand six hundred sixty-four of the Political Code is hereby repealed. TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE, Two, THREE, FOUR AND FIVE OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS UPON STREETS, LANES, ALLEYS, COURTS, PLACES, AND SIDEWALKS, AND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEWERS WITHIN MUNICIPALITIES, SUCH ACT TO BE KNOWN AS "THE LOCAL IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1901'," APPROVED FEBRUARY 26, 1901. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of an act entitled "An act to provide for local improvements upon streets, lanes, alleys, courts, places, and sidewalks, and for the construction of sewers within municipalities, such act to be known as "The local improvement act of 1901'," approved February 26, 1901, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. SEC. 2. Sec. 2. Section two of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: TO MAKE LAWFUL CERTAIN AGREEMENTS BETWEEN EMPLOYEES AND LABORERS, AND TO LIMIT THE ISSUING OF INJUNCTIONS IN CERTAIN CASES. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall not be unlawful for persons employed or seeking employment to enter into any arrangements, agreements, or combinations with the view of lessening the hours of labor or of increasing their wages or bettering their condition; and no restraining order or injunction shall be granted by any court of the commonwealth or by any judge thereof in any case between an employer and employees, or between employers and employees, or between persons employed and persons seeking employment, involving or growing out of a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment, or because of any act or acts done in pursuance thereof, unless such order or injunction be necessary to prevent irreparable injury to property or to a property right of the party making the application, for which there is no adequate remedy at law; and such property or property right shall be particularly described in the application, which shall be sworn to by the applicant or by his agent or attorney. SEC. 2. In construing this act, the right to enter into the relation of employer and employee, to change that relation, and to assume and create a new relation for employer and employee, and to perform and carry on business in such relation with any person in any place, or to do work and labor as an employee, shall be held and construed to be a personal and not a property right. In all cases involving the violation of the contract of employment, either by the employee or employer where no irreparable damage is about to be committed upon the property or property right of either, no injunction shall be granted, but the parties shall be left to their remedy at law. SEC. 3. No persons who are employed or seeking employment or other labor shall be indicted, prosecuted, or tried in any court for entering into any arrangement. agreement, or combination between themselves as such employees or laborers, made with a view of lessening the number of hours of labor or increasing their wages or bettering their condition, or for any act done in pursuance thereof, unless such act is in itself unlawful. AUTHORIZING THE STATE BOARD OF PRISON DIRECTORS TO FIX THE PRICE, TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE AT WHICH JUTE BAGS SHOULD BE SOLD FOR THE STATE, PROVIDING FOR THE PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT FOR OFFENSES UNDER THE SAME, AND REPEALING AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT FIXING THE PRICE, TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE AT WHICH JUTE GOODS SHALL BE SOLD BY THE STATE, AND PROVIDING FOR PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT FOR OFFENSES UNDER THE SAME," APPROVED JUNE 16, 1913, AND ALL ACTS OR PARTS OF ACTS IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The state board of prison directors are authorized and empowered to adopt rules and regulations of the sale of jute goods, but such rules and regulations, before they become effective, shall be approved by a majority of the state board of control. The state board of prison directors shall annually, in the month of January of each year fix the price, for the sale of jute bags, and give public notice of the same, for at least ten days in at least four newspapers of general circulation printed and published as follows, to wit: one in the city and county of San Francisco, one in the San Joaquin valley, one in the Salinas valley, and one in the Sacramento valley. Until the first day of April of each year, jute bags shall be sold only to consumers thereof, but after said date, if a surplus of said jute bags remain unsold. they may be sold to anyone in such quantities and at such prices as the board of prison directors in their discretion may deem proper. SEC. 2. All orders for jute bags filed with the board of prison directors prior to the first day of April of each year, shall be accompanied by an affidavit setting forth the name, residence, post office address and occupation of the applicant; that the amount of goods contained in the order are for the applicant's individual and personal use, and that he has not contracted for, nor agreed to contract for the sale of any portion thereof to any person or persons whatsoever. Said affidavit shall be subscribed and sworn to before a notary public, justice of the peace, or other officer authorized to administer oaths. SEC. 3. Any person who shall falsely or fraudulently make such affidavit, or who shall falsely or fraudulently procure jute bags under the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars. SEC. 4. The board of prison directors shall keep at the San Quentin prison a book for public inspection, in which shall be entered the number of jute bags, the amount of jute goods manufactured each year, and also the name of each purchaser, 68 LEGISLATIVE MANUAL AND FORM BOOK. his post office address, his occupation, number of jute bags or jute goods purchased by him, and the price paid by him therefor and the date of sale and the place to which shipment is made. SEC. 5. An Act entitled "An act fixing the price, terms and conditions of sale at which jute goods shall be sold by the state, and providing for prosecution and punishment for offense under the same:" approved June 16, 1913, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This act is hereby declared to be an urgency measure within the meaning of section one of article four of the constitution of the State of California and shall take effect immediately. The following is a statement of facts constituting such urgency: Since the fixing of the present price of jute goods manufactured in the state prison, the market price has fallen on account of financial conditions incident to the European war, and the state has been, now is, and, until the taking effect of this act, will be able so to change the price of said goods as to be able to sell or dispose of any portion thereof. The state now has in stock over two hundred fifty thousand dollars worth of such jute goods, which it is the purpose and effect of this act to enable the state, acting through its board of prison directors, to sell, in erder that the moneys now invested in said goods may be rendered available for the use and support of the state prison. EXPLANATORY NOTE. 'Or Assembly. 2Or Mr. PART IV. DRAFTING OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND JOINT AND CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS. N. B. For constitutional provisions regarding the adoption of constitutional amendments, see sec. 106. ante. For provisions regarding preparation of arguments for and against amendments adopted by the Legislature, see sec. 4423, post. SEC. 158. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, AND JOINT AND CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS, HOW DISTINGUISHED FROM BILLS. Joint resolutions shall be treated in all respects as bills; except that all joint resolutions shall be read but one time in each house. Joint and concurrent resolutions and constitutional amendments shall not be deemed bills within the meaning of section 2 of article IV of the Constitution and shall not be referred to the committee on introduction of bills, and shall not require a vote to authorize their introduction. (Joint Rule No. 7.) SEC. 159. JOINT AND CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS DISTINGUISHED. Joint resolutions are those which relate to matters connected with the federal government. All other resolutions relating to matters to be treated by both houses of the Legislature are concurrent resolutions. (Joint Rule No. 6.) SENATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No. RESOLUTION TO PROPOSE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AN AMEND- |