MR. SPEAKER :-Your Committee on Commerce and Navigation, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 283, an act authorizing F. F. Marx, B. Nordheimer, and others, to construct a wharf at Trinidad, in Klamath county, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report the same back, with amendments, and recommend its passage, as amended. GROOM, Chairman.

Mr. Edwards made the following report:

MR. SPEAKER:-The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 112, an act to provide for the sale of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of lands donated to this state for school purposes, have had the same under consideration, and report it back, with an amendment, and recommend its passage, as amended.

URIAH EDWARDS, Chairman.

Mr. Stakes, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made the following reports:

MR. SPEAKER :-The_Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petitions of R. Aug. Thompson and F. Forman, for relief for services rendered as commissioners on the part of the state to the President of the United States, have had the same under advisement, and have given the subject matter that consideration which its importance deserves.

The committee will not attempt here to recite all of the circumstances which appear to form the basis.

The circumstances are, in the main, a matter of history, and it is devoutly to be hoped that they may soon be lost sight of in the dark ocean of oblivion; that a returning sense of public duty, and a purer and more exalted spirit of patriotism, will render a recurrence of past events in this state a thing impossible for all time to come; and that the same community of interests, mutual friendships, and paternal ties, that were torn asunder by the lawless hand of violence, may soon be re-cemented in the bonds of one common brotherhood.

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