AUTHORITY FOR PUBLICATION OF ROSTER. CHAPTER CLXXXIII. An Act to provide for the publication of the State Blue Book, or Roster. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to compile, publish, and distribute five thousand copies of a State Blue Book, or Roster. The volume shall be ready to distribute at the beginning of the next fiscal year, and at the same time biennially thereafter. Sec. 2. The volumes shall be distributed as follows: To the Governor of the State, twenty-five copies. To each elective State officer, Senator, and Assemblyman, ten copies. To the Clerk, Sheriff, and District Attorney of every county of the State, one copy each. To every Judge of the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Commissioners, and Superior Judges, a copy. To the Mayor of every city, or Chairman of its Trustees, in this State, a copy. To the State Library, five copies. And every public and every law library, a copy. To the Governor and Secretary of State of every State in the Union, a copy. To the Congressional Library at Washington, D. C, five copies. The remainder of the volumes shall be distributed at discretion by the Secretary of State. Sec. 3. The Act of March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, on the same subject, is hereby repealed. COST AND DIMENSIONS OF STATE CAPITOL COST. Cost of building - $2,600,000 DIMENSIONS. Height from junction of Tenth and M Streets to ball -240 feet. Height from junction of Tenth and M Streets to top of dome ^5 leet. Height from first floor to top of rotunda - -|j» Height from junction of Tenth and M Streets to top of dome ^23 feet. Height from first floor to top of rotunda - -}fo leet. Height from top of rotunda to ball.. TM get. TToirrVif nf hooompnt *> leet. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. UNANIMOUSLY PASSED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JULY 4, 1776. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Sowers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of iature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which imrjel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these endSj it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laving its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to tnem shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their rightit is their duty—to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter the former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. Toprove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world: He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the Legislature—a right inestimable to* them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into a compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses, repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States—for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of land. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in time of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our Legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of; and superior to, the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws—giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States. For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us withour our consent. For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses. |