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Also, adopted Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 21-Relative to printing the reports of the State Agricultural Society.

CRAWFORD,

Assistant Clerk.

CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE.

Assembly Bill No. 116, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Hospitals.

Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 58, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Counties and County Boundaries.

Preamble and Concurrent Resolution No. 17, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 18, above reported, read first and second times and placed on file.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 8, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 11, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.

Assembly Bill No. 43, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 12. above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.

Assembly Bill No. 11, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 21, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Printing.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

Bills were introduced as follows:

By Mr. Hager-An Act to provide for the payment of services heretofore rendered to the State of California, and to appropriate moneys for the same.

Read first and second times and referred to the Finance Committee.

Also, an Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act prescribing certain conditions for the transaction of insurance business in the State of California, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee, and ordered printed.

By Mr. Curtis-An Act making appropriations for payment of claims for furniture, carpets, etc., purchased by the Secretary of State, for furnishing the new State Capitol and for furnishing Supreme Court-room, Supreme Judges' rooms, etc.

Read first and second times and, with accompanying documents, referred to the Finance Committee.

By Mr. Mandeville-An Act to authorize the payment of the claims of Mrs. Eliza McClane, for supplies furnished the State Marine Hospital in eighteen hundred and fifty-three and eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Read first and second times and, with accompanying documents, referred to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. Pendegast-An Act to pay for the planking of streets in the City of Sacramento.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Public Expenditures.

By Mr. Tweed-An Act to protect the rights of married women in certain cases.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. By Mr. Wand-An Act granting to certain persons the right to construct, maintain and use a horse railroad within the City of San Fran

cisco.

Read first and second times and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

By Mr. Betge-An Act to create the office of Inspector of Beeves, Swine, and other animals intended to be slaughtered for food.

Read first and second times and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

By Mr. Mandeville-An Act for the payment of the salary of the County Judge of Tuolumne County.

Read first and second times and referred to the Finance Committee.

By Mr. Conn:

MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES.

WHEREAS, the territory lying between the City of San Diego, in the State of California, and the City of Salt Lake, in the Territory of Utah, embracing a distance of nearly one thousand (1,000) miles, along which the land is being rapidly settled by an intelligent and permanent population, with towns and trading posts established at convenient distances; and whereas, there are at present no postal facilities afforded, and no provision made by the Post-office Department of the General Government for the transmission of mails along said route, and between the said termini of Salt Lake and San Diego; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence to procure the establishment of a mail route from San Diego, via San Bernardino, to Salt Lake, Utah, with the establishment of Post-offices along said route at convenient intervals, said services to be performed weekly.

Resolved, that his Excellency the Governor be requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, at as early a day as possible.

Mr. Larkin gave notice that he would, at an early day, introduce a bill for an Act to prescribe the punishment for members of the Legislature and State officers receiving and using free passes upon the railroads and steamboats of this State.

GENERAL FILE.

The Senate took up bills on the general file as follows:

Senate Bill No. 91-Bill ratifying and confirming action of Common Council of the City of Oakland.

Laid on the table.

Assembly Bill No. 7-An Act to provide means for the government of the County of Santa Cruz and for the payment and funding of the debt of said county.

Amendment of committee adopted; read a third time and passed.

Senate Bill No. 181-An Act to expunge from the Journal the judg ment of the Senate entered against James H. Hardy, on the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Made the special order for Wednesday next, at one o'clock P. M. Senate Bill No. 132-An Act for engraving and printing Controller's

warrants.

Read a third time and passed.

[President pro tem., Mr. Lewis, in the chair.]

Senate Bill No. 109-An Act to settle and pay the unpaid expenses of the State Geological Survey.

Mr. Comte moved to take the bill from the file and refer it to the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Hager moved to amend by referring the bill before the Senate, together with Senate Bill No. 183, heretofore reported by the Finance Committee, to the Finance Committee.

Lost.

The motion to refer the bill to the Judiciary Committee prevailed, and bill was so referred.

SPECIAL ORDER.

The hour of one o'clock having arrived, Senate took up consideration of special order-Governor's message transmitting Fifteenth Amendment; also, resolutions introduced by Senator Gwin; also, resolutions introduced by Senator Hager.

Mr. Gwin moved that the resolutions introduced by him on yesterday be adopted as a substitute for the resolutions heretofore introduced by him upon the same subject.

Carried.

The substitute was read a third time.

Mr. Betge moved that the further consideration of the special order be suspended, and that the same be made the special order for Wednesday next, at one o'clock P. M.

Mr. Wand moved to amend by inserting Saturday next, at one o'clock

P. M.

Mr. Lawrence offered as a substitute, that the consideration of the Governor's message, and the resolutions now under consideration, be made the special order for Friday next, at one o'clock P. M.

Adopted.

On motion of Mr. Betge, at one o'clock and twenty minutes P. M., the Senate adjourned.

WILLIAM HOLDEN,
President of the Senate

Attest: JOSEP ROBERTS, Jr., Secretary of Senate.

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A petition was presented by Mr. Perkins, relative to granting Emily Bartholemew power to sell property of wards.

Referred to the Judiciary Committee.

REPORTS.

Mr. O'Connor, from the Committee on Engrossment, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Engrossment have examined and find correctly engrossed Senate Bill No. 87-An Act to authorize the Council of the City of Oakland to lay out, open or improve streets in said city.

O'CONNOR, Chairman.

Mr. Lawrence, from the Committee on Printing, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: Your committee, to whom was referred Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 21-Relative to the printing of reports and transactions of the State Agricultural Society-report the same back and respectfully recommend its passage.

LAWRENCE, Chairman.

Mr. Hager, from the Judiciary Committee, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Judiciary, having had under consideration Assembly Bill No. 158-An Act relative to the assessment of property in Tuolumne County for the year eighteen hundred and sixtynine-report the same back with an amendment, and recommend the passage of the bill as amended.

Also, Senate Bill No 10-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of justice of this State, passed April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three-and report the same back and recommend that it do not pass.

HAGER, Chairman.

Mr. Betge, from the Committee on Commerce and Navigation, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Commerce and Navigation report back resolutions of the Trustees of the City of Vallejo, in reference to granting William Aspenall and others the right to lay down water pipes, and recommend its reference to the Committee on Corporations.

BETGE, Chairman.

Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Enrolment, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Enrolment respectfully report that they have examined and find correctly enrolled Senate Bill No. 49– An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act to revise and amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Town of Grass Valleyapproved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Also, Concurrent Resolution No. 3-Relative to declaring the public highways, from Santa Rosa to Sonoma, "mail routes."

And this day, at eleven o'clock and five minutes A. M., presented the same to the Governor for his approval.

MORRILL, Chairman.

Mr. Conn, from the San Bernardino delegation, verbally reported back Senate Bill No. 186, and recommended the reference of the same to the Judiciary Committee.

MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR.

The following messages were received from the Governor :

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Sacramento, January 19th, 1870.

To the Senate of the State of California:

I herewith transmit to your honorable body the biennial report of the State Board of Agriculture for the years eighteen hundred and sixtyeight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the transactions of the State Agricultural Society for the same period.

These reports contain useful information relative to various branches of agriculture. As there is but one copy of the documents, I respectfully ask that the Assembly be informed of their receipt.

H. H. HAIGHT, Governor.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Sacramento, January 19th, 1870.

To the Senate of the State of California:

I have to inform your honorable body that I have approved Senate Bill No. 77-An Act to provide for the relief and maintenance of the indigent sick of Klamath County.

Also, Senate Bill No. 78-An Act to provide for the payment of warrants against the Hospital Fund of Klamath County.

Also, Senate Bill No. 13-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Mariposa County to levy an additional tax for county expendi

tures.

H. H. HAIGHT, Governor.

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