On motion of Mr. Banvard, the rules were suspended and Senate took up Assembly Bill No 391, above reported by the Finance Committee. The bill was read a third time and passed, and transmitted to the Assembly. MESSAGE FROM THE ASSEMBLY. The following message was received from the Assembly: Mr. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on this day, passed Senate Bill No. 133-An Act to authorize Elizabeth W. P. Kenny to sell certain lands. Also, passed Senate Bill No. 341-An Act supplemental to an Act to regulate the maintenance of the indigent sick in Yuba County, approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty. Also, passed Senate Bill No. 267-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Yuba County to levy and collect tolls on the Marysville and Brown's Valley Turnpike. Also, amended and passed Senate Bill No. 333-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Plumas County to build certain wagon roads in said county. Also, passed Senate Bill No. 67-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Joaquin to issue certain bonds. And, on the nineteenth instant, passed Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 31-Relative to a mail route. And, on the eleventh instant, passed substitute for Assembly Bill No. 196-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to protect agriculture and to prevent the trespassing of animals upon private property. Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 292-An Act to authorize the Trustees of the City of Benicia to refund the debt of said city. Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 234-An Act to provide for the settlement of statements on appeal and on motion to set aside reports of Commissioners in certain cases And, on the fourteenth instant, passed Assembly Bill No. 338-An Act to provide for the erection of a jail in the County of Del Norte. Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 286-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning attorneys and counsellors at law, approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 311-An Act to amend an Act concerning Courts of justice in this State and judicial officers, approved April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. And, on the seventeenth instant, passed Assembly Bill No. 330-An Act to amend an Act restricting the herding of sheep in Sonoma and Marin Counties. Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 177-An Act to establish and define the powers and duties of the Board of Education of the City of Vallejo. CRAWFORD, CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE. Assistant Clerk. Assembly Bill No. 177, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the Committee on Education. Assembly Bill No. 330, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 196, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. Assembly Bill No. 292, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Solano delegation. Assembly Bill No. 234, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. Assembly Bill No. 286, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. Assembly Bill No. 311, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. Assembly Bill No. 338, above reported, read first and second times. and placed on file. Senate Bill No. 333, above reported, amendments of Assembly concurred in by the Senate. MESSAGE FROM THE ASSEMBLY. The following message was received from the Assembly: ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, 1870. } February 24th, 1870. Mr. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on the twenty-first instant, passed substitute for Assembly Bill No. 245-An Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of certain officers, and to repeal certain other Acts in relation thereto And, on the seventeenth instant, passed Assembly Bill No. 169-An Act to create the County of San Benito, to define its boundaries and provide for its organization. CRAWFORD, CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE. Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 245, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Select Committee on Fees and Salaries, and ordered printed. REPORT. Mr. Hunter had leave to make the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on State and County Revenue, to whom was referred Senate Bills Nos. 323 and 353, have had the same under consideration, and would report the same back and recommend their passage. LARKIN, Chairman. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. Bills were introduced as follows: By Mr. Conn-An Act appropriating money to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and to the Hospital for Indigent Non-resident Sick of Los Angeles. Read first and second times and referred to the Finance Committee. By Mr. Banvard-An Act authorizing the Controller of State to employ an additional Clerk. Read first and second times and referred to the Finance Committee. By Mr. Curtis-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Sacramento, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Read first and second times and referred to the Sacramento delegation. By Mr. Wilson-An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County to erect a Court-house, or in their discretion to purchase a building suitable therefor, and to construct a fire-proof vault therein, for the safety and preservation of the public records of the county. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Internal Improvements. Also, an Act to redistrict the County of Los Angeles into supervisor districts, and provide for the election of Supervisors therefor. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Internal Improvements. By Mr. Kincaid-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act concerning roads and highways in the County of San Mateo. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Roads and Highways. By Mr. Orr-An Act to empower the County of San Joaquin to aid in the construction of the Stockton and Visalia Railroad. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations. By Mr. Kincaid-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Town of Redwood City, approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations. By Mr. Hager-An Act to amend section fifty-eight of an Act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies and the management of the affairs thereof, and other matters relating thereto, approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations. By Mr. Kincaid-An Act granting certain parties therein named the right to construct a telegraph line from California to Japan. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Com merce and Navigation. By Mr. Murch-An Act relative to the publication of certain reports Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corpo rations. Also, an Act to define the time when certain reports shall be made. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Printing By Mr. Pendegast-An Act authorizing the transfer of the Swam Land Fund of Napa County to the General County Fund of that county Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Stai and County Revenue. By Mr. Hager-An Act to regulate appeals from Justices' Courts t the County Court of the City of San Francisco. Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committe By Mr. Minis-An Act to provide for the care of certain property. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By Mr. Lawrence-An Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning roads and highways in the Counties of Mariposa and Tulare, approved January seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Read first and second times, rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. By Mr. Kincaid-An Act to establish and maintain public pounds for the better securing estrays and other stock in the several townships of the County of San Mateo. Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. On motion of Mr. Pacheco, the rules were suspended and the Senate took up Senate Bill No. 323, reported by the Finance Committee. The rules were further suspended bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. GENERAL FILE. Senate Bill No. 185-An Act to provide for the reclamation of swamp, salt and overflowed lands. Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. Senate Bill No. 269-An Act to prevent the kidnapping and importation of Mongolian, Chinese and Japanese females for criminal and demoralizing purposes. Passed on file until Saturday next. Senate Bill No. 270-An Act to prevent the importation of Chinese criminals, and to prevent the establishment of coolie slavery. Passed on file until Saturday next. Senate Bill No. 101-An Act to establish a State Board of Health. Read a third time and passed. Senate Bill No. 393-An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of a wagon road in Lake County. Read a third time and passed. Senate Bill No. 301-An Act to divide the State into congressional districts, and to fix the time to elect Representatives to Congress. Upon the passage of the bill, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs Green, Tweed and Lewis, and the bill was passed, by the following vote. AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Betge, Burnett, Comte, Curtis, Fowler, Gwin, Hager, Hutchings, Irwin, Larkin, Lawrence, Lewis, Maclay, Mandeville, McDougall, Minis, Morrill, O'Connor, Saunders and Wand-21. NOES-Messrs. Chappell, Conly. Conn, Green, Murch, Orr, Pacheco, Perkins, Tompkins, Turner, Tweed, Wilson and Wing-13. Senate Bill No. 93-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in Courts of justice in this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Read a third time and passed. Senate Bill No. 201-An Act to protect the rights of married women in certain cases. Read a third time and passed. Senate. Bill No. 141-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to create a Board of Supervisors in the counties of this State and defin ing their duties. Read a third time and passed. [President pro tem. in the chair.] Assembly Bill No. 25-An Act to pay certain outstanding indebtedness of the County of Mono. Upon the passage of the bill, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Larkin, Betge and Morrill, and the bill was passed, by the following vote: AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Beach, Betge, Chappell, Conly, Conn, Fowler, Green, Gwin, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Lawrence, Lewis, Maclay, Mandeville, McDougall, Minis, Morrill, Murch, O'Connor, Orr, Pendegast, Tompkins. Turner. Tweed, Wand and Wing-28. NOES-Messrs. Burnett, Comte, Curtis, Hager, Larkin and Pacheco—6. Assembly Bill No. 21-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to protect sheep and goats against the ravages of dogs. The bill was amended by inserting in section one the Counties of Sonoma, Siskiyou, Nevada and Marin. Mr. Banvard moved to indefinitely postpone the bill. Upon which the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs Murch, Mandeville and Banvard, and the Senate so ordered, by the following vote: AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Beach, Chappell, Comte, Conly, Conn, Curtis, Fowler, Gwin, Hager, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Larkin, Lawrence, Lewis, Maclay, Minis, Morrill, O'Connor, Orr, Perkins, Tompkins, Turner, Tweed, Wand, Wilson and Wing-27 NOES-Messrs. Betge, Burnett, Green, Mandeville, McDougall, Murch, Pacheco and Pendegast-8. Assembly Bill No. 253-An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County to transfer certain money from the General Fund to the Road Fund. Read a third time and passed. Senate Bill No. 153-An Act to equalize taxation among the counties of this State. Upon the passage of the bill the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Conn, Fowler and Lewis, and the bill was passed, by the following vote : AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Beach, Betge, Burnett, Chappell, Conly, Curtis, Green, Gwin, Hager, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Lawrence, Lewis, Maclay, Morrill, Murch, O'Connor, Orr, Pendegast, Saunders, Tompkins, Tweed, Wand and Wing-26 NOES-Messrs. Comte, Conn, Fowler, Larkin, Mandeville, McDougall, Pacheco, Turner and Wilson-9. Senate Bill No. 331-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Managers of the San Francisco Orphan Asylum, or any other Orphan Asylum in this State, to bind out apprentices, clerks, servants, etc. Read a third time and passed. |