And, on yesterday, passed Assembly Bill No. 518-An Act to authorize the guardian of Walter Price, a minor, to sell the real estate of said

estate.

Also, that the Speaker has appointed, as committee on the part of the Assembly, under Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 40, Messrs. Brown of Amador, Finney and Andrews.

CRAWFORD,

Assistant Clerk.

CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE.

Assembly Bill No. 518, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Assembly Bill No. 445, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Roads and Highways.

Substitute for Assembly Bills Nos. 29 and 39, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the San Francisco delegation. Assembly Bill No. 57, above reported, read first and second times and ordered on top of file for Monday next.

Assembly Bill No. 378, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Los Angeles delegation.

MESSAGE FROM THE ASSEMBLY.

The following message was received from the Assembly:

ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,

1870. }

March 10th, 1870.

Mr. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on yesterday, passed Assembly Bill No. 512-An Act establishing a commission for the revision of the laws.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 303-An Act to equalize the rates of fare of the City Railroad Company with certain other street railroad companies in the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 476-An Act to prevent the destruction of fish and game in, upon and around the waters of Lake Merritt or Peralta, in the County of Alameda.

Also, passed Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35-Relative to granting leave of absence to Sidney Waite, of San Bernardino County.

And amended and passed Senate Bill No. 149 -An Act concerning the Insane Asylum of the State of California.

Also, concurred in Senate amendments to Assembly Bills Nos. 454 and 330.

And, on this day, refused to recede from substitute for Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 6-Relative to mineral lands-and have appointed, as a Committee of Conference on the part of the Assembly, Messrs. Andrews, McMurry of Trinity and Brown of Amador.

I am also directed to return Senate Bill No. 527-An Act to authorize the County of Sacramento to issue bonds to raise money for Court-house and jail purposes-for the correction of clerical errors in the bill.

FERRAL.

Clerk.

CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE.

Assembly Bill No. 512, above reported, ordered on top of file for Wednesday next.

Senate Bill No. 149, above reported, with amendments, made special order for March twenty-fourth.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

Bills were introduced as follows:

By Mr. Conn-An Act to empower the County of San Diego to aid in the construction of a railroad in said county.

Read first and second times and placed on file.

By Mr. Wilson-An Act to fund the debt of the City of Los Angeles, and to provide for the payment of the same.

Read first and second times and referred to the Finance Committee. By Mr. Banvard-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the transfer of certain funds in the County of Placer, approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Read first and second times and referred to the Finance Committee. By Mr. Beach-An Act to quiet title to certain lands in the City and County of San Francisco.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Swamp and Tide Lands.

By Mr. Pendegast-An Act to empower the Counties of Yolo, Colusa and Tehama to aid in the construction of a railroad in said counties.

Read first and second times and referred to the delegations named in the bill.

By Mr. Wand-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning trade marks and names, approved April third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

By Mr. Kincaid An Act to grant to Charles J. Janson a patent for certain lands for ship building purposes.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

By Mr. Green-An Act to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain overflowed and tide and submerged lands, in Marin County, to the Pioneer Ship Building Company.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

By Mr. Betge-An Act to authorize Thomas B. Lewis, J. W. Bucklin, H. B. Congdon and Philip Falk, and their associates, to construct and maintain a railroad in the City and County of San Francisco.

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

By Mr. Lewis-An Act for the encouragement of agriculture.

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

By Mr. Kincaid-An Act for the relief of Thomas S. Miller.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. Hager-An Act to provide for the formation of corporations for certain purposes.

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

By Mr. Orr-An Act to reincorporate the City of Stockton.

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

MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.

Senate Bill No. 238 was ordered second on the file for to-morrow.
By Mr. Pendegast:

Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Senate and Assembly meet in joint convention, in the Assembly Chamber, this, Thursday evening, March tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, at seven and a half o'clock P. M., for the purpose of selecting a site for the State Normal School.

Adopted.

By Mr. Orr:

Resolved, That the Committee on Agriculture are hereby directed to immediately report back to the Senate 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, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Adopted.

By Mr. Irwin:

Resolved, That the Clerk of the Committee on Agriculture be and he is hereby discharged.

Adopted.

By Mr. Perkins:

Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence to procure, if possible, the abolition of the income tax.

Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor of this State be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

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

By Mr. Murch:

Proposed amendment to the standing rules of the Senate. Amend rule eight so that it will read as follows:

Rule 8. All questions relating to the priority of business and al motions to suspend the rules shall be decided without debate.

Upon the adoption of the amendment, the ayes and noes were de manded by Messrs. Murch, Green and McDougall, and the Senate refused by the following vote:

AYES-Messrs. Beach, Betge, Green, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Murch Orr, Perkins, Roberts, Tompkins and Wing-12.

NOES-Messrs. Burnett, Conn, Farley, Fowler, Gwin, Hager, Hunter, Larkin, Lawrence, Lewis, Mandeville, McDougall, Minis, O'Connor, Wand and Wilson-16.

REPORT.

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

Mr. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Engrossment have examined and find correctly engrossed substitute for Senate Bill No. 328-An Act to empower the City of Stockton to aid in the construction of the Stockton and Visalia Railroad.

O'CONNOR, Chairman.

The Senate took up resolution introduced by Mr. Green on yesterday, relative to changing the hour of meeting.

Mr. Farley moved to amend by inserting "on and after Monday next." Upon the adoption of the resolution, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Green, Banvard and Wand, and the Senate refused, by the following vote:

AYES-Messrs. Burnett, Conn, Curtis, Farley, Fowler, Hager, Hunter, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Larkin, Lawrence, Lewis, Mandeville, McDougall, Murch, Tompkins and Wilson-18.

NOES-Messrs. Beach, Betge, Chappell, Green, Minis, O'Connor, Orr, Perkins, Roberts, Turner, Wand and Wing-12.

Pursuant to notice, Mr. Orr moved to reconsider the vote by which Senate refused to order Senate Bill No. 125 engrossed.

Upon which the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Betge, Perkins and Green, and the Senate so ordered, by the following vote:

AYES-Messrs. Beach, Betge, Burnett, Chappell, Conn, Fowler, Green, Hutchings, Kincaid, Lawrence, Lewis, Maclay, McDougall, Minis, Orr, Pendegast, Perkins, Roberts, Tompkins, Turner, Wand, Wilson and Wing -23.

NOES-Messrs. Banvard, Curtis, Farley, Hager, Hunter, Irwin, Larkin, Mandeville, Murch, O'Connor and Tweed-11.

Considered in Committee of the Whole and amended.

IN SENATE.

Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the

Senate.

Mr. Farley moved to refer the bill to the Committee on Commerce and avigation.

Lost.

Upon ordering the bill engrossed, the ayes and noes were demanded Messrs. O'Connor, Irwin and Betge, and the Senate so ordered, by the llowing vote:

AYES-Messrs. Beach, Betge, Burnett, Conn, Fowler, Hutchings, Lawence, Lewis, Maclay. McDougall, Minis, Orr, Pacheco, Pendegast, Perns, Roberts, Tompkins, Turner, Wand, Wilson and Wing-21.

NOES-Messrs. Banvard, Curtis, Farley, Gwin, Hunter, Irwin, Larkin. Murch, O'Connor and Tweed-10.

On motion, the rules were suspended for the consideration of Senate Bill No. 514-An Act for the relief of J. Scott Ashman, formerly Sheriff of Fresno County.

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

UNFINISHED BUSINESS.

Report of Committee on Corporations on Senate Bill No. 62, relative to freights and fares on railroads, was taken up, reading dispensed with and ordered printed.

GENERAL FILE.

Assembly Bill No. 441-An Act to authorize the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento to allow a certain claim therein mentioned. Passed on file.

Assembly Bill No. 360-An Act to authorize James K. Johnson, I. Wells and their associates and assigns to construct and maintain a wharf in the bay of Crescent City, in Del Norte County.

Indefinitely postponed.

Senate Bill No. 6-An Act concerning foreign corporations.
Considered in Committee of the Whole and amended.

IN SENATE.

Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate and bill ordered engrossed.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 35-Relative to printing speeches on Fifteenth Amendment.

Ordered on the table.

Senate Bill No. 422-An Act concerning roads and highways in the County of Butte.

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

Senate Bill No. 209-A bill to create a State Hospital and Almshouse. Recommitted to the Committee on Hospitals.

Senate Bill No. 353-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Town of San Luis Obispo, approved April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

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

Senate Bill No. 195-An Act to establish pilots and pilot regulations for the ports of San Francisco, Mare Island and Benicia.

Indefinitely postponed.

Senate Bill No. 114-An Act to establish pilots and pilot regulations for the ports of San Francisco, Mare Island, Vallejo and Benicia. Indefinitely postponed.

Senate Bill No. 115-An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act to establish pilots and pilot regulations for the ports of San Francisco, Mare Island and Benicia, approved April fourteenth, eighteen bundred and sixty-four.

Indefinitely postponed.