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Senate Bill 265 (O'Connor – 1872)

Chapter 297, Statutes of 1872

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Senate Bill 265 was introduced on February 15, 1872 by Senator O'Connor.  (Exhibit #3, page 346)  The bill is identified as "An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act defining the time for commencing civil actions, passed April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty."  (Id., and Exhibit #1)

The measure was sent to the Senate Committee on Judiciary on February 15, 1872.  (See Exhibit #3, page 346)  The Committee seems to have reported the bill back without amendments on February 26, 1872.  (Id., page 394)  It passed the Senate on March 1, 1872.  (Id., pages 424 and 432)  On March 4, 1872 the bill was examined and found correctly engrossed by the Senate Committee on Engrossment.  (Id., page 444) 

While in the Assembly, the Assembly Committee on Judiciary received the bill on March 5th, approving it without amendments on March 7th, and it passed the Assembly on March 8, 1872.  (See Exhibit #4, page 582, 585-86, 607, 622 and 632)  On March 9, 1872, the Senate was informed of the passage in the Assembly and enrollment in the Senate of Senate Bill 265.  (See Exhibit #3, page 502, 503 and 548)

Governor Newton Booth approved Senate Bill 265 on March 16, 1872.  (See Exhibit #3, pages 565 and 577) 

This bill was noted in the recorded debates of the Legislature published in the Sacramento Union.  (See Exhibit #5)