Also, Assembly Bill No. 131-An Act to authorize James H. Thompson and Wm. Stannas, and their associates, successors and assigns, to build and maintain a wharf at the City of Vallejo, County of Solano.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 120-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the several counties of this State to grant the right to construct wharves on the overflowed and submerged lands of this State, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 133-An Act to authorize Michael S. Dervin and his associates and assigns to construct, maintain and use a wharf at the City of Vallejo, County of Solano.

And, on the fourth instant, passed Assembly Bill No. 441-An Act to authorize the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento to allow a certain claim therein mentioned.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 543-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to organize and regulate townships in San Mateo County, etc.

And concurred in Senate amendments to Assembly Bill No 245.

And, on this day, passed Senate Bill No. 477-An Act to provide for redeeming and paying the warrants outstanding against Tuolumne County, and for paying the county expenses of Tuolumne County in cash, and defining and limiting the powers and duties of certain officers in relation thereto.

CRAWFORD,

Assistant Clerk.

CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE.

Assembly Bill No. 441, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Sacramento delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 499, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations.

Assembly Bill No. 543, above reported, read first and second times, rules suspended, bill read a third time and passed.

Assembly Bill No. 520, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the San Joaquin delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 133, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

Assembly Bill No. 120, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Swamp and Overflowed Lands.

Assembly Bill No. 136, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Alameda and San Mateo delegations.

Assembly Bill No. 131, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

Assembly Bill No. 360, above reported, read first and second times. and placed on file.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 19, above reported, read first and second times, rules suspended, resolution read a third time and adopted.

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 the first instant, passed Assembly Bill No. 375-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to establish the County of Fresno

And, on the third instant, passed Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 42-For the establishment of a mail route in Santa Clara County.

And, on the fourth instant, passed Assembly Bill No. 551-An Act in relation to the county officers of Sierra County.

And, on the fifth instant, passed Senate Bill No. 248-An Act to provide for the payment of certain salaries in the County of Calaveras. Also, Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 44-Relative to printing additional copies of the report of the State Agricultural Society.

And, on this day, concurred in Senate amendments to Assembly Bill No. 44 and to Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 10.

Anu passed Assembly Bill No. 349-An Act to provide for the building of a bridge and roadway across the Estuary of San Antonio, in the County of Alameda

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 63-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning divorces, passed March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

Also, Senate Bill No. 204-An Act to protect the rights of married women in certain cases.

Also, Senate Bill No. 394-An Act to fix the terms of the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of California.

Also, Senate Bill No. 229-An Act to provide for the settlement of statements on appeal and on motion to set aside reports of Commissioners in certain cases.

Also, Senate Bill No. 83-An Act to amend an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of justice in this State, approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

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

Also, Senate Bill No. 340-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the establishment, maintenance and protection of public and private roads.

Also, Senate Bill No. 285-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.

Also, Senate Bill No. 144-An Act to authorize W. Vanderhurst et al. to construct a railroad from the City of Monterey to the Town of Salinas.

Also, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 19-Relative to a mail route from San Diego to Salt Lake.

Also, Senate Bill No. 89-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act concerning assessments upon the stock of corporations, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Also, Senate Bill No. 159—An Act in relation to road indebtedness of Tuolumne County, incurred in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixty seven.

Also, amended and passed Senate Bill No. 323-An Act to provide for the liquidation of the floating indebtedness of the County of Santa Barbara, and to repeal sections eight and eleven of an Act entitled an Act to fix the compensation of officers, to provide for funding the county

debt of Santa Barbara County and prohibit the contracting of any new indebtedness against said county, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 314-An Act authorizing the Trustees of the San Francisco Lying-in Hospital and Foundling Asylum to take the charge of, bind out and give away children coming under their care. Also, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 24-Relative to tax on distilleries.

And indefinitely postponed Senate Bill No. 45-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act relating to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and more particularly defining their powers and duties, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

Also, amended and passed Senate Bill No. 393-An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of a wagon road in Lake County. Also, adopted Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 45-Relative to printing the fee and salary bill.

[President pro tem. in the chair.]

CRAWFORD,

Assistant Clerk.

CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE.

Assembly Bill No. 349, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Alameda delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 375, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Counties and County Boundaries.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 42, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Santa Clara delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 551, above reported, read first and second times, rules suspended, bill read a third time and passed.

Senate Bill No. 323, above reported, amendments of Assembly concurred in by the Senate.

Senate Bill No. 393, above reported, amendments of Assembly concurred in by the Senate.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

Bills were introduced as follows:

By Mr. Lewis-An Act to authorize the Counties of Tehama and Colusa to aid in the construction of the railroad proposed to be built by the Benicia and Red Bluff Railroad Company.

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

By Mr. Mandeville-An Act to authorize an appropriation of eight hundred dollars to pay J. M. Sharkey, M. D., for medical attendance and medicines supplied the Hon. Thomas Campbell, deceased, during his last illness.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. Farley-An Act to provide for the redemption of the outstanding warrants of Amador County, and to prevent a further increase of the indebtedness of said county.

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

By Mr. Kincaid—An Act to provide for the construction of a wagon

road from Redwood City to the Town of Pescadero, in the County of San Mateo, and other matters relating thereto.

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

By Mr. Pendegast-An Act concerning the State Normal School. Read first and second times, rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

By Mr. Tweed-An Act relating to the care and custody of minor children in certain cases.

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

Mr. Larkin moved to suspend the rules, and take up and consider Senate Bill No. 62-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act 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.

On motion of Mr. Kincaid, the bill was ordered on top of file for Thursday next.

On motion of Mr. Minis, the rules were suspended and Senate took up Senate Bill No. 320-An Act for the relief of Mary Likens.

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

Mr. Betge moved to suspend the rules and take up Senate Bills Nos. 195, 114, 115 and 194.

Lost.

PETITIONS.

By Mr. Tweed-Petition for woman suffrage.

Read and referred to the Special Committee on Woman Suffrage.

By Mr. Wilson-From citizens of Los Angeles, against the passage of a bill for the creation of the County of Anaheim.

Referred to the Committee on Counties and County Boundaries.

At four o'clock and thirty minutes P. M., on motion of Mr. Maclay, the Senate adjourned.

WILLIAM HOLDEN,

President of the Senate.

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

PETITIONS.

By Mr. Perkins-From citizens of Oroville, against the passage of a bill granting a special franchise to certain parties.

Referred to the Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Orr-From citizens of San Joaquin County, for the passage of a pound law for said county.

Read and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

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. 527-An Act to authorize the County of Sacramento to issue bonds to raise money for Court-house and jail purposes.

Also, Senate Bill No. 400-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act granting bounties to the volunteers of this State enlisted in the service of the United States, for issuing bonds to provide funds for the payment of the same, and to levy a tax to pay such bonds, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Also, Senate Bill No. 320—An Act for the relief of Mary Likins and others.

Also, Senate Bill No. 399-An Act to amend an Act to provide for paying certain equitable claims against the State of California, and to contract a funded debt for that purpose, approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

O'CONNOR, Chairman.

Mr. Tompkins, for the Alameda delegation, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: The Alameda delegation, to whom was referred Assembly Bill No. 349-An Act to provide for the building of a bridge and roadway across the Estuary of San Antonio, in the County of Alameda-have had the same under consideration, and now respectfully report, that said Act was prepared under the direction of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County, to enable them to rebuild the bridge over the San Antonio Creek, on the main road between Oakland and San Leandro; that said bridge is several hundred feet in length and is now in a dangerous condition; that it is necessary that the Supervisors should have the power asked for with the least possible delay, and the undersigned, therefore, recommend the passage of the bill.

TOMPKINS, for Delegation.

On motion of Mr. Tompkins, the rules were suspended for the consideration of Assembly Bill No. 349, above reported.

The rules were further suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Claims, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Claims have had under consideration Senate Bill No. 486-An Act to pay for work done in the State