The Journal of the Assembly, During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California

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Page 9 - He shall preserve order and decorum ; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose ; and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the house by any two members, on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the house.
Page 137 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith ; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 350 - In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house, and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other house shall also appoint a committee to confer, such...
Page 15 - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 319 - An act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts, and to provide for the acquisition or construction thereby of works for the irrigation of lands embraced within such districts, and, also, to provide for the distribution of water for irrigation purposes," approved March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, may be dissolved in the manner hereinafter provided.
Page 332 - ... irrigation districts, and to provide for the acquisition of water and other property, and for the distribution of water thereby for irrigation purposes...
Page 152 - County which are not in actual use or enjoyment, or which the grantees thereof have not in good faith commenced to exercise, are hereby declared forfeited and of no validity...
Page 351 - After a bill shall have passed both Houses it shall be duly enrolled on parchment, by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, or the Secretary of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other House, before it shall be presented to the President of the United States.

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