On motion of Mr. Pendegast, section one was amended by adding thereto the Superintendent of Common Schools of Sonoma County. On motion of Mr. McDougall, Assembly Bill No. 548 was ordered on top of special file for this evening. On motion of Mr. Fowler, the rules were suspended for the consideration of Senate Bill No. 594-An Act to perfect title to lands granted by the United States to the State of California. The bill was considered in Committee of the Whole and amended. IN SENATE. Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate. Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. 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 Senate Bill No. 489-An Act to authorize Frederick B. Lewis, his heirs or assigns, to institute proceedings to recover certain real estate of James M. Lewis, deceased, escheated to the State of California. Also, Senate Bill No. 486-An Act to pay for work done in the State Land Office. Also, Senate Bill No. 318-An Act supplementary to an Act to provide for the appointment of Notaries Public and defining their duties, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Also, Senate Bill No. 650-An Act for the protection of game imported into this State by the Ornithological and Piscatorial Acclimatizing Society of California. Also, Senate Bill No. 651-An Act to provide the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind with a geological and mineral cabinet. Also, Senate Bill No. 546-An Act concerning the salaries of certain officers therein named. Also, Senate Bill No. 418-An Act to amend an Act entitled 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. Also, substitute for Senate Bill No. 629-An Act to empower the County of Plumas to aid in the construction of the Marysville and Ogden Railroad Company. Also, Senate Bill No. 505-An Act to regulate the rights of the owners of mines. GENERAL FILE. O'CONNOR, Chairman. Assembly Bill No. 572-An Act to encourage tin mining in this State. Referred to the Finance Committee. Assembly Bill No. 85-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an det to provide for the registration of the citizens of this State and for the enrolment in the several election districts of all the legal voters thereof, and for the prevention and punishment of frauds affecting the elective franchise, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and to repeal an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the registration of the citizens of this State and for the enrolment of all the legal voters thereof, and for the prevention and punishment of frauds affecting the elective franchise, and approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Made the special order for to-morrow, at two and a half o'clock P. M. Assembly Bill No. 160-An Act to protect the people of the State of California from the evils of Asiatic emigration. Mr. Roberts moved to indefinitely postpone the bill. Upon which the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. O'Connor, Minis and Hunter, and the Senate refused, by the following vote: AYES-Messrs. Beach, Chappell, Conly, Curtis, Green, Maclay, Murch, Pacheco, Perkins, Roberts, Tompkins, Turner, Tweed and Wing-14. NOES-Messrs. Banvard, Betge, Comte, Farley, Fowler, Gwin, Hager, Hanter, Larkin, Lawrence, Lewis, Mandeville, McDougall, Minis, O'Connor and Pendegast-16. The bill was read a third time. Upon its passage the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs Roberts, Larkin and Tweed, and the bill was passed, by the following vote: AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Betge, Comte, Farley, Fowler, Gwin, Hager, Hunter, Kincaid, Larkin, Lawrence, Lewis, Mandeville, McDougall, Minis, O'Connor, Pendegast, Saunders and Wilson-19. NOES-Messrs. Beach, Chappell, Conly, Curtis, Green, Maclay, Murch, Pacheco, Perkins, Roberts, Tompkins, Turner, Tweed and Wing-14. 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. Indefinitely postponed. [Mr. Pendegast in the chair.] Assembly Bill No. 257-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning crimes and punishments, approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty. Read a third time and 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. Considered in Committe of the Whole and amended. IN SENATE. Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate. Bill read a third time and passed. Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 303-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in Courts of justice of this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and Acts amendatory thereof. Indefinitely postponed. Assembly Bill No. 311-An Act to amend an Act concerning Courts of justice of this State and judicial officers, approved April twentieth. eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Considered in Committee of the Whole and amended. IN SENATE. Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate. Bill read a third time and passed. Assembly Bill No. 398-An Act to amend section five hundred and thirty-eight of an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of justice of this State, approved April twentyninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Bill considered in Committee of the Whole and amended. IN SENATE. Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate. Bill read a third time and passed; title amended and amendment adopted. Assembly Bill No. 452-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of justice of this State. approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Considered in Committee of the Whole and amended. IN SENATE. Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate. Bill read a third time. Upon the passage of the bill, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Farley, Banvard and Hunter, and the Senate refused, by the fol lowing vote: AYES-Messrs. Comte, Conn, Curtis, Hager, Hutchings, O'Connor. Pendegast, Perkins, Roberts, Saunders, Tompkins, Tweed and Wing-13. NOES-Messrs. Banvard, Chappell, Conly, Farley, Fowler, Hunter. Kincaid, Larkin, Lawrence, Lewis, Mandeville, Minis and Murch-13. Assembly Bill No. 52-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate the settlement of the estates of deceased persons, passed May first, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Considered in Committee of the Whole and amended. IN SENATE. Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate. Bill read a third time and passed. [President pro tem. in the chair.] Senate Bills Nos. 24 and 43-Proposed amendments to the Constitu tion-made the special order for to-morrow, at two o'clock P. M. Senate Bill No. 209-An Act to create a State Hospital and Almshouse. Considered in Committee of the Whole and amended. IN SENATE. Amendments made in Committee of the Whole concurred in by the Senate, and bill indefinitely postponed. Senate Bill No. 383-An Act to provide for the destruction of wolves and coyotes. Rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. Senate Bill No. 312-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate the interest of money. Mr. Hager, from the Judiciary Committee, had leave to make the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT: The Judiciary Committee, upon reconsideration of Senate Bill No. 312-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate the interest of money-recommend the passage of the same. HAGER, LEWIS, TOMPKINS, PENDEGAST, COMTE. CURTIS. SAUNDERS, [Mr. Pendegast in the chair.] TWEED, KINCAID. The rules were suspended, and Senate Bill No. 312 considered ongrossed and read a third time. Upon the passage of the bill, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Larkin, Roberts and Betge, and the bill was passed, by the following vote: AYES-Messrs. Beach, Betge, Chappell, Comte, Conly, Curtis, Farley, Fowler, Green, Gwin, Hager, Hutchings, Irwin, Lawrence, Lewis, Maclay, Mandeville, McDougall, Minis, O'Connor, Orr, Pacheco, Pendegast, Perkins, Roberts, Saunders, Tompkins, Turner, Tweed, Wilson and Wing-31. NOES-Messrs. Banvard, Hunter, Larkin and Murch-4. Mr. Lewis had leave to introduce the following bill-An Act to provide for the collection of taxes in the County of Tehama. Read first and second times, rules suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. REPORT. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Federal Relations, made the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Federal Relations have instructed me to report Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 22-Relative to granting subsidies to establish mail routes between San Francisco and Melbourne --and recommend its passage. FARLEY, Chairman. On motion of Mr. Farley, the rules were suspended for the consideration of Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 22, above reported. The rules were further suspended, resolution above reported considered engrossed, read a third time and adopted. On motion of Mr. Curtis, the rules were suspended for the consideration of Senate Bill No. 451-An Act authorizing the Controller of State to employ an additional clerk. The rules were further suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR. The following messages were received from the Governor : STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, To the Senate of the State of California: I have to inform your honorable body that I have approved Senate Bill No 332-An Act to provide for paying certain claims against the City of Oakland, and to contract a funded debt for that purpose. Also, Senate Bill No. 287-An Act to provide funds for the School Department of the City of Oakland. Also, substitute for Senate Bill No. 82-An Act to expedite the settlement of land titles in the City and County of San Francisco, and to ratify and confirm the acts and proceedings of certain of the authorities thereof. Also, substitute for Senate Bill No. 183-An Act to continue the geological survey of the State of California. 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. Also, Senate Bill No. 456-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. Also, Senate Bill No. 604-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. 605-An Act extending the authority of E. L. Craig, late District Attorney of the County of Placer, in the prosecution aud defence of certain actions and proceedings, and other matters relating thereto. Also, Senate Bill No. 550-An Act to provide for the submission to the people of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State, as proposed by the Legislature at its sixteenth session and adopted by the Legislature at its seventeenth session, to the votes of the qualified electors at the next general election. Also, Senate Bill No. 585-An Act concerning the office of County Clerk of Napa County. Also, Senate Bill No. 353-An Act amendatory of and supplementary |