Mr. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Contingent Expenses, having had the inclosed resolutions and accounts under consideration, report the same back and recommend the passage of each of them. WAND, Chairman. Mr. Farley moved to reconsider the vote by which Senate Bill No. 654 was passed. Mr. Mandeville moved to indefinitely postpone the motion to reconsider. Adopted. Mr. Beach had leave to introduce the following concurrent resolution : Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That leave of absence from the State be and is hereby granted to Matthew Woods, Sheriff of Yuba, for the space of four months, to be selected by himself, during the term for which he was elected; provided, that he shall first obtain the consent of the Board of Supervisors of said county and all the sureties on his official bond, and leave a competent deputy in the office. Mr. Green made the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT: Your committee, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 602-An Act providing for the payment of the balance of the judgment in favor of Tristam C. Gilman against the County of Contra Costa, State of California-have had the same under consideration, and report the same back and recommend that it be indefinitely postponed. GREEN, for Delegation. Mr. Tompkins, from the Committee on Counties and County Boundaries, made the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Counties and County Boundaries, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 507-An Act to create the County of Summit, etc.-have considered the same, and now report it back and recommend its indefinite postponement. TOMPKINS, Chairman. Mr. Banvard, from the Finance Committee, made the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Finance have had under consideration Assembly Bill No. 395-An Act concerning revenue; also, Assembly Bill No. 341-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide revenue for the support of the Government of this State, approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight-and recommend that they do not pass. BANVARD, Chairman. Mr. Banvard had leave to introduce the following resolution: Resolved, That the Controller of State is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer, and the Treasurer is authorized to pay the following sums out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate, viz To J. W. Mandeville, twelve hundred dollars; to E. W. Roberts, twelve hundred dollars, and to Elam Covington, two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, for services on the Investigation Committee for inspection of State offices, appointed by the Senate at the seventeenth session of the Legislature. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Tompkins, Assembly Bill No. 568 was taken out of Assembly messages, the same having been reported, Assembly refusing to concur in the amendments made by the Senate. The Senate refused to recede from their amendment to section two of said bill, and recede from their amendments to section thirty-two. On motion of Mr. Wand, the rules were suspended for consideration of the following resolutions, reported from the Committee on Contingent Expenses: Resolved, That Senators Maclay, Wilson and Chappell, each, are hereby entitled and allowed the sum of one hundred and ninety dollars, mileage while in discharge of committee duty in locating the State Normal School. Adopted. Resolved, That the sum of one hundred dollars be appropriated out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate, and allowed to William J. Lewis, for attendance at Sacramento City before the Committee on Corporations, as a witness and expert in the matter of Senate Bill No. 62. Referred to the Committee on Contingent Expenses. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Roberts, the further consideration of the resolutions was postponed until Monday next. Mr. Pendegast verbally reported Assembly Bill No. 611 and recommended its passage. The rules were suspended, bill read a third time and passed. Mr. McDougall verbally reported Assembly Bill No. 715, and recommended its passage. The rules were suspended, bill read a third time and passed. Mr. Fowler verbally reported Assembly Bill No. 436, and recommended its indefinite postponement. Mr. Hager, from the San Francisco delegation, made the following report: Mr. PRESIDENT: The San Francisco delegation have had under consideration Senate Bills Nos. 517 and 616, and beg leave to report them back to the Senate and respectfully recommend that the bills be withdrawn from the files. HAGER, for Delegation. Mr. Lawrence presented an affidavit of B. Brundage, relative to the county seat of Kern County. Laid on the table. Mr. Pacheco verbally reported amendments to the Constitution of the State, without recommendation. Laid on the table. 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. 469-An Act authorizing the publication of certain legal notices in a State paper, printed at the seat of government of the State of California. Also, Senate Bill No. 347-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the City Council of the City of Oakland to improve the streets, lanes, alleys, courts and places in the said city, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Also, Senate Bill No. 640-An Act concerning the construction of the State Capitol, in the City of Sacramento. Also, Senate Bill No. 522-An Act making an appropriation for deficiency in the appropriation made for twentieth and twenty-first fiscal years, ending July first, eighteen hundred and seventy. Also, Senate Bill No. 624-An Act to authorize the City of San José to sell certain bonds and use the proceeds thereof in purchasing sites for public school houses. Also, Senate Bill No. 289-An Act to better define the boundary line between Fresno and Mariposa Counties. Also Senate Bill No. 613-An Act granting leave of absence to Thomas H. Holt, Auditor of the City and County of San Francisco. Also, Senate Bill No. 626-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to raise a fund for the improvement of Napa City, approved January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy. Also, Senate Bill No. 500-An Act relative to the care and management of the State burial ground and making an annual appropriation therefor. Also, Senate Bill No. 618-An Act to grant leave of absence to the Surveyor-General and Register of the State Land Office. Also, substitute for Senate Bill No. 447-An Act to make, open and establish a public street in the City and County of San Francisco, to be called Montgomery avenue, and to take private lands therefor. Also, substitute for Senate Bill No. 584-An Act concerning street railroads. Also, Senate Bill No. 648-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the liquidation and payment of the indebtedness of the City of Marysville, in the County of Yuba, and for other purposes, approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight. Also, Senate Bill No. 448-An Act to authorize the Treasurer of Tuolumne County to apportion certain money to the Current Expense Fund of said county and to pay certain warrants. Also, substitute for Senate Bill No. 113-An Act for the relief of Charles Welsh. H. H. HAIGHT, 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. 595-An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Sierra County to build a certain wagon road in said county and to issue bonds therefor. Also, Senate Bill No. 221-An Act providing for the adoption of minors and the legitimizing of children born out of wedlock. Also, Senate Bill No. 514-An Act for the relief of J. Scott Ashman, formerly Sheriff of Fresno County. Also, Senate Bill No. 59-An Act to provide for the appointment of a Reporter of the Supreme Court, and to define his duties and compensa tion. Also, Senate Bill No. 298-An Act concerning the City of Vallejo, and to ratify and confirm a certain ordinance of the Trustees thereof. Also, Senate Bill No. 453-An Act to empower the County of San Joaquin to aid in the construction of the Stockton and Visalia Railroad. Also, Senate Bill No. 455-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. Also, Senate Bill No. 48-An Act for the relief and support of the California Labor and Employment Exchange. 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, substitute for Senate Bill No. 130-An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to survey and dispose of certain salt marsh and tide lands belonging to the State of California, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. H. H. HAIGHT, Governor. } STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,) To the Senate of the State of California: I have to inform your honorable body, that I have appointed Amos Noyes, Thos. W. Badger and D. McNeal, Commissioners, under the provisions of an Act entitled an Act to establish pilots and pilot regulations for the ports of San Francisco, Mare Island, Vallejo and Benicia, approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-and respectfully ask your honorable body to confirm the same. H. H. HAIGHT, Governor. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, To the Senate of the State of California: } I deem it my duty to communicate to your honorable body the reasons why messages returning two bills, whose titles are hereinafter given, failed of being delivered yesterday to the Senate. The bills referred to, are: Substitute for Senate Bill No. 293-An Act authorizing the parties therein named, their associates and assigns, to construct and maintain a ship canal from the City of Stockton to deep water on the San Joaquin River; and 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 to take private lands therefor. Messages stating the reasons for withholding approval of these bills were prepared and signed before the adjournment of the Senate, and were transmitted through the usual channel to the Senate Chamber before the customary hour of adjournment. The Senate having, by an adjournment until the next day, prevented the delivery of the messages and the return of the bills, they have failed to become laws, and will not, therefore, be deposited in the Secretary of State's office, to be certified as required in the case of bills which become laws by lapse of time without return to the house in which they originated. I have thought it proper to communicate the facts in the case to your honorable body, and to ask respectfully that this message be spread upon the Journals of the Senate. H. H. HAIGHT, Governor. On motion of Mr. Roberts, the special message of the Governor was made the special order for Monday next, at two o'clock P. M. On motion of Mr. Mandeville, the Senate went into executive session for the consideration of Governor's message nominating Pilot Commissioners. Upon the question, "Will the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of Amos Noyes as Pilot Commissioner?" the roll was called, with the following result: AYES-Messrs. Beach, Betge, Comte, Conly, Conn, Curtis, Farley, Fowler, Gwin, Hager, Hunter, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Larkin, Lewis, Maclay, Mandeville, McDougall, Minis, O'Connor, Pacheco, Perkins, Roberts, Tompkins, Tweed and Wand-27. NOES-None. Upon the question, "Will the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of Thomas W. Badger as Pilot Commissioner?" the roll was called, with the following result: AYES-Messrs. Banvard, Beach, Betge, Comte, Conn, Curtis, Farley, Fowler, Green, Gwin, Hager, Hunter, Hutchings, Irwin, Kincaid, Larkin, Maclay, Mandeville, McDougall, Morrill, O'Connor, Pendegast, Perkins, Tompkins, Tweed and Wand-26. NOES-None. Upon the question, "Will the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of D. McNeal as Pilot Commissioner?" the roll was called, with the following result: |