corporate limits of the Town of Santa Rosa, in the County of Sonoma -would report the same back and recommend its passage.

BURNETT, for Delegation.

On motion of Mr. Lewis, Senate Bill No. 531 was taken from the file and made the special order for to-morrow, at two and a half o'clock P. M.

MESSAGES FROM THE ASSEMBLY.

The following messages were received from the Assembly:

ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,

March 17th, 1870.

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Mr. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on yesterday, passed Senate Bill No. 189-An Act for the relief of Robert M. Folger.

Also, Senate Bill No. 577-An Act to create a Redemption Fund and . to provide means for defraying the expenses of the County of El Dorado. Also, amended and passed Senate Bill No. 240-An Act granting the North Beach and Mission Railroad Company certain rights therein

named.

Also, passed substitute for Assembly Bill No. 367-An Act for the supply of pure water from Lake Bigler to the inhabitants of the City and County of San Francisco.

CRAWFORD,

Assistant Clerk

ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, 1870. }

March 17th, 1870.

Mr. PRESIDENT: 1 am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on the fourteenth day of March, passed Assembly Bill No. 232-An Act granting certain parties the right to construct a toll bridge across the Colorado River.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 208-An Act to authorize B. J. Orsborn and others, as he may wish to associate with him, to build a wharf in the County of Solano.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 437-An Act granting the right to construct and maintain a railroad in certain streets herein named, in the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 455-An Act to provide for the location and laying out of a public road from Russian River, in Sonoma County, to the Gualalla River, in Sonoma County.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 459—An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Sutter County to construct a bridge across the tule, at or near the point where the Stone road now crosses said tule, and collect tolls thereon.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 407-An Act to amend an Act supplementary to an Act to incorporate the City of Marysville, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and other Acts amendatory thereto. Also, Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 14-Asking donations of lands in Siskiyou County.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 483-An Act for the relief of Anna Virginia Wakeman.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 201-An Act authorizing the construction of a wharf in San Diego County.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 420-An Act to separate the office of County Recorder from the office of County Clerk of the County of Yuba.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 491-An Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act in relation to roads and highways in Sonoma County, to provide for the election of one County Commissioner of Roads and Highways and prescribe his duties, and repeal all other Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions thereof, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

Also, Senate Bill No. 132-An Act to authorize Edward G. Rhodes, his associates, successors and assigns, to build and maintain a wharf at the foot of Yolo avenue, in the City of Vallejo.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 414-An Act to provide for the translation of foreign records in the County of Sonoma, and to make such translation evidence of their contents.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 258-An Act authorizing Rodman Gibbons, his associates and assigns, to construct and operate a street railroad in the County of Alameda.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 294-An Act to authorize and empower Joshua A. Neal to sell and convey all the interest, property and estate of Maria and Josefa Neal, minor children of said Joshua and Bernal Neal, in certain lands in Alameda County.

Also, Assembly Bill No 387-An Act to authorize the Mayor of the City of San Francisco to deed a certain lot of land in said city and county to the Trustees of the Associated Veterans of the Mexican War. Also, Assembly Bill No. 339--An Act to create a Board of Levee and Street Trustees in and for the Town of Pacheco, Contra Costa County, and define their powers and duties.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 248-An Act to authorize the construction of a wharf at Vallejo, Solano County, at the foot of Maryland street. Also, Assembly Bill No 266-An Act to authorize Joseph P. Manassee and others to build and maintain a wharf in San Diego.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 356-An Act for the relief of W. R. Crawford. And, on yesterday, passed Assembly Bill No. 433-An Act to amend section nine of an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act amendatory of article four of an Act entitled an Act to repeal the sevoral charters of the City of San Francisco, to establish the boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco, and to consolidate the government thereof, approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftysix, repealing sections thirty-six to sixty-four, inclusive, and Acts and parts of Acts amendatory and supplementary thereof, and substituting this Act for section four of said Act, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight

Also, Assembly Bill No. 478-An Act to define and establish the line and width of East street, between Market street and Clay street wharf, in the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 462-An Act to provide for the changing of the grades of certain streets in the City and County of San Francisco. Also, Assembly Bill No. 558-An Act to provide for the construction of a street railroad in the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 536-An Act to establish a Municipal Court in the City and County of San Francisco, to be called the Municipal Criminal Court of the city and county.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 310-An Act to establish a morgue for the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 497-An Act conferring certain powers upon the Sonoma College Association.

Also. Assembly Bill No. 626-An Act concerning the Courts of record in the County of Santa Clara.

Also, passed substitute for Senate Bill No. 82-An Act amendatory and supplemental to an Act legalizing ordinance number eight hundred, as passed by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco.

CRAWFORD,

Assistant Clerk.

ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,

March 17th, 1870.

Mr. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on yesterday, adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 51-Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to correct Senate Bill No. 83.

Mr. PRESIDENT: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly, on this day, passed Senate Bill No. 258-An Act to make, open and establish a public street in the City and County of San Francisco, to be called Montgomery Street South, and take private lands therefor.

MOFFITT,

Assistant Clerk.

ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,

March 15th, 1870.

Mr. PRESIDENT: I am directed to return to your honorable body, as per request, Assembly Bill No. 57-An Act to establish a quarantine for the bay and harbor of San Francisco, and sanitary regulations for the City and County of San Francisco.

[Mr. Mandeville in the chair.]

MOFFITT,

Assistant Clerk.

CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY MESSAGE.

Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 367, above reported, read first and sccond times and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 310, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 387, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 433, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 478, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 437, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

Senate Bill No. 240, above reported, amendments made by Assembly concurred in by the Senate.

Assembly Bill No. 536, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Assembly Bill No. 626, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Assembly Bill No. 294, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Assembly Bill No. 497, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Sonoma delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 414, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Sonoma delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 491, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Sonoma delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 356, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims.

Assembly Bill No. 483, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims.

Assembly Bill No. 266, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

Assembly Bill No. 248, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

Assembly Bill No. 201, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

Assembly Bill No. 339, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Marin delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 258, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Alameda delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 132, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Solano delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 208, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Solano delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 420, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Yuba delegation.

Assembly Bill No. 407, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Yuba delegation.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 14, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Assembly Bill No. 459, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Roads and Highways.

Assembly Bill No. 455, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Roads and Highways.

Senate Bill No. 149, above reported from the Assembly, corrected as per resolution.

Mr. Lewis moved that the Senate concur in the amendments made by the Assembly to Senate Bill No. 149, above reported.

The Chair decided the motion out of order, as the bill had been returned to the Assembly for the correction of a clerical error, and that the bill had been made the special order for the twenty-fourth of March, and no motion relative to the bill was in order until that time Mr. Lewis appealed from the decision of the Chair.

Upon the question, "Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the Senate?" the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs.

Betge, Wand and Roberts. and the Senate so ordered, by the following

vote:

AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Burnett, Chappell, Conly, Conn, Curtis, Green, Hager, Irwin, Lawrence, Minis, Murch, O'Connor, Orr, Pacheco, Perkins, Roberts, Tompkins, Turner, Wand, Wilson and Wing-22.

NOES-Messrs. Betge, Comte, Farley, Fowler, Gwin, Hunter, Hutchings, Kincaid, Larkin, Lewis, McDougall, Pendegast, Saunders and Tweed-14.

Assembly Bill No. 232, above reported, read first and second times. and referred to the San Diego delegation.

Senate Bill No. 258, above reported, amendments made in the Assembly concurred in by the Senate.

At eleven o'clock P. M., on motion of Mr. Turner, the Senate adjourned.

WILLIAM HOLDEN,

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

President of the Senate.

Quorum present.

Prayer by the Chaplain.

Journal of yesterday read and approved.

Messrs. Morrill and Tweed were granted leave of absence for one day and Mr. Pacheco for two days.

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. 604-An Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act in reference to library associations, approved April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Also Senate Bill No. 603-An Act to provide for the liquidation of all claims against the State not otherwise provided for by law.

Also, Senate Bill No. 416-An Act amendatory and supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to provide for the formation of corporations for certain purposes, approved April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.