Upon the passage of the bill, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Tweed, Beach and Chappell, and the bill was passed, by the following vote:

AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Betge, Comte, Conn, Curtis, Fowler, Hager, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Larkin, Lewis, Minis, Marrill, O'Connor, Pendegast, Wand and Wilson-18.

NOES-Messrs. Beach, Chappell, Conly, Green, Lawrence, Murch, Perkins, Tompkins, Turner, Tweed and Wing-11.

Assembly Bill No. 43-An Act to grant the right to construct and maintain a bridge and ferry across Russian River.

Laid on the table and ordered printed.

Assembly Bill No. 65-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Aet respecting the Trustees of San Diego.

Amendment of committee adopted.

Bill read a third time and passed.

[Mr. Pendegast in the chair.]

Assembly Bill No. 67-An Act confirming certain resolutions and ordinances passed by the President and Trustees of San Diego. Read a third time and passed.

Senate Bill No. 68-An Aot to provide revenue for the support of the Government of this State;

Referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senate Bill No. 146-An Act to divide the City of Oakland into wards, and to provide for the holding of elections therein.

Ordered at the top of the file for Thursday next.

Senate Bill No. 228-An Act to authorize and require the County of Santa Cruz to pay over certain school moneys to certain school districts in San Mateo County.

Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

Senate Bill No. 135-An Act to authorize Morris Wolff, Louis Jacobs and Jobn Ruffin, and their assignees, owners of an artesian well in the Town of San Bernardino, to lay down water pipes in the public streets. of said town.

Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

Senate resolution relative to appointing Assistant Enrolling Clerks. Adopted.

Mr. Beach was granted leave of absence for one day, and Mr. Betge for three days.

Mr Larkin had leave to introduce the following bill-An Act to prevent members of the Legislature and the attachés thereof from receiving free passes over the railroads and steamboats within the State of California.

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

REPORT.

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.

219-An Act making an appropriation for deficiencies for the twentyfirst fiscal year, ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Also, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 21-Relative to granting leave of absence to Sheriff of Los Angeles.

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

MORRILL, Chairman.

Mr. Banvard had leave to introduce the following resolution :

Resolved, That when the Senate adjourn, it adjourn to meet on Monday next, the thirty-first instant, at half-past two o'clock P. M.

Adopted.

At one o'clock and ten minutes P. M., on motion of .Mr. Green, the Senate adjourned.

WILLIAM HOLDEN,

President of the Senate.

Attest JOSEPH ROBERTS, Jr., Secretary of Senate.

IN SENATE.

SENATE CHAMBER,

Monday, January 31st, 1870.

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Senate met pursuant to adjournment.

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

Roll called.

Quorum present.

Prayer by the Chaplain.

Indefinite leave of absence was granted to Mr. Maclay, Mr. Gwin and Mr. Saunders, and to Mr. Minis for one day.

Journal of Saturday read and approved.

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. 207-An Act for the payment of the salary of the County Judge of Tuolumne County.

Also, Senate Bill No. 238-An Act making appropriations for defi ciencies in the appropriations for the twenty-first fiscal year.

O'CONNOR, Chairman.

Mr. O'Connor, for the Committee on Education, presented the follow. ing report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Education, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 215-An Act to establish and define the powers and duties of the Board of Education and of the City Superintendent of Common Schools of the City of Los Angeles-have had the same under consideration and recommend its passage.

MACLAY, Chairman.

MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.

The following message was received from the Governor:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Sacramento, January 31st, 1870.

To the Senate of the State of California:

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I have to inform your honorable body that I have approved Senate Bill No. 65-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning agricultural societies, approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and fiftynine.

Also, Senate Bill No. 219-An Act making an appropriation for deficiencies for the twenty-first fiscal year, ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Also, 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.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

H. H. HAIGHT,

Governor.

Bills were introduced as follows:

By Mr. Farley-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of Amador to levy an additional tax for county expenditures in said county.

Read first and second times, rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

By Mr. Irwin-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning roads and highways in the County of Santa Clara, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Roads and Highways.

By Mr. Lewis-An Act to provide for the construction of a canal for irrigating, milling, manufacturing and supplying the Town of Red Bluff with water.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. By Mr. Tompkins-An Act to provide funds for the school department of the City of Oakland:

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

By Mr. Curtis-An Act to authorize the incorporation of water companies and canal companies.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations.

RESOLUTION.

By Mr. Green.

Resolved, That Hiram Clock be appointed Assistant Fireman of the Senate, to date from the seventeenth of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, at the same per diem as the Porters of the Senate, payable out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate.

Adopted, under a suspension of the rules.

GENERAL FILE.

Senate Bill No. 180-An Act for the relief of S. D. Smith.
Read a third time and passed.

Assembly Bill No. 32-An Act to extend the provisions of an Act entitled an Act concerning hogs running at large in certain counties in this State, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture.

Assembly Bill No. 77-An Act to encourage the destruction of squir rels and gophers in certain counties in this State, and to provide for a bounty for the same.

Amendment of committee adopted and passed on file.

Assembly Bill No. 113-An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to modify the grades of certain streets, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Read a third time and passed.

Senate Bill No. 134-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act for the encouragement of agriculture and manufactures in California.

Substitute reported by Committee on Agriculture adopted and bill ordered engrossed.

Senate Bill No. 79-An Act for the regulation of sailor boarding houses and of shipping houses in the City and County of San Francisco.

Amendment of committee adopted and bill ordered engrossed.

Senate Bill No. 213-An Act authorizing Bridget Stannah, administratrix of the estate of William Stannah, deceased, to sell the real estate belonging to said estate in the City and County of San Francisco, at public or private sale.

Substitute reported by the Judiciary Committee adopted.

Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

Senate Bill No. 249-An Act for the relief of Gordon E. Sloss.

Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

Senate Bill No. 7-An Act to provide and pay for services rendered to the City and County of San Francisco.

Amendment of committee adopted.

Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

Mr. Larkin, from the Committee on State and County Revenue, verbally reported back Senate Bill No. 278, with the recommendation that the same do pass.

On motion, the rules were suspended and Senate took up consideration of Senate Bill No. 278, above reported by the Committee on State and County Revenue.

The rules were further suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

On motion of Mr. Conn, at four o'clock and five minutes P. M., the . Senate adjourned.

WILLIAM HOLDEN,

President of the Senate.

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

By Mr. Lawrence-From citizens of Mariposa and Fresno Counties, urging the passage of a bill changing a part of the boundary line between Mariposa and Fresno Counties.

Read and referred to the Committee on Counties and County Boundaries.

By Mr. Orr-From citizens of the City of Stockton, requesting the passage of a bill for the enlargement of Webber Engine Company of said city.

Read and referred to the Committee on Corporations.

Also, from citizens of the City of Stockton, protesting against the passage of a bill for the enlargement of Webber Engine Company of said city.

Read and referred to the Committee on Corporations.

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. 7-An Act to provide and pay for services rendered for the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, Senate Bill No. 48-An Act for the relief and support of the California Labor and Employment Exchange.

Also, Senate Bill No. 135-An Act to authorize Morris Wolff, Lewis Jacobs and John Ruffin, and their assigns, owners of an artesian well in the Town of San Bernardino, to lay down water pipes in the public streets of said town.