Reports of Joint Committee in Regard to an Alleged Fraudulent Interpolation in Senate Bill No. 73 : "An act to provide for the sale of the marsh and tide lands of this state, approved May 14, 1861."
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Reports of Joint Committee in Regard to an Alleged Fraudulent Interpolation in Senate Bill No. 73 : "An act to provide for the sale of the marsh and tide lands of this state, approved May 14, 1861."
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[Sacramento, California] : Benj. P. Avery, State Printer, [1861]
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1 online resource (72 pages)
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Summary
1861 report of the Joint Committee on alleged fraud interpolation on Senate bill No. 73, which was an act for the sale of the marsh and tide lands of the state. It was approved on May 14, 1861. The investigation included much testimony, a review of the records, and other statements. It ultimately recommended no further action, although the committee noted that the legislature should not falsify its own records.
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"We cannot, therefore, in the face of so much positive testimony--presumptive, documentary, and judicial--assume to say that the disputed amendment was not attached to the bill at the time of its passage, and was not before the House. Nor is there any force in the objection that this amendment was not regularly proposed and reported upon by a committee. Granted that such was the case; yet the validity of a law does not depend upon the forms of parliamentary procedure, and we suppose it would be competent for either House to take a proposed bill from the hands of any member, and pass it at once to a final vote. It has been objected that there was no indorsement on the disputed amendment, and nothing to connect it to the original bill. The same objection lies to the other Assembly amendment, which is not disputed; there is no indorsement on it. In short, there is nothing which may be urged against this amendment which is described as interpolated, which might not be urged with equal plausibility against a very large portion of the laws enacted by the Legislature."--Page 11.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed October 3, 2022).
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Act to provide for the sale of the marsh and tide lands of this state, approved May 14, 1861