Return of Senate bill. No. XXX.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 6, 1868.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Governor be and is hereby requested to return Senate Bill number three hundred and six-An Act to provide for the pardon of certain convicts in the State Prison. Aid for railroad. No. XXXI.- Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 2, 1868.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Senators in Congress are instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence to secure the passage of a law by Congress granting aid to the San Diego and Gila Southern Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, in the building and completion of its road from the Port of San Diego, in the County of San Diego, to the Gila River. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor of this State is requested to forward a copy of this resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Correction, No. XXXII.—Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 7, 1868.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate be and is hereby authorized to correct substitute for Senate Bill number three hundred and six-An Act to authorize the State Prison Directors to recommend the pardoning of convicts in the State Prison-so that section two shall read as follows: SECTION. 2. Whenever the Legislature shall by a majority of both houses recommend to the Governor that any or all of the prisoners named in the preceding section should be pardoned by him, he may pardon such convicts in accordance with such recommendation. Return of bill. No. XXXIII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 11, 1868.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Governor be and is hereby requested to return to the Senate, Senate Bill number one hundred and forty-seven, for correction. No. XXXIV.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 12, 1868.] of error. Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Correction Enrolling Clerk of the Senate be instructed to re-enroll the Senate Bill number one hundred and forty-seven, and that he be authorized to correct an error in the number of the section amended, which should be "one," instead of "twenty-one," as it occurs in section one, line first, in the bill. No. XXXV.-Joint Resolution, relative to railroad lands. [Approved March 13, 1868.] lands to emption. WHEREAS, Under and by virtue of the several Acts of Congress Opening granting lands within this State for railroad purposes, as con- settlement strued by a recent decision of the Secretary of the Interior, and preall the lands comprising both odd and even sections in a belt twenty-five miles in width on each side of the Central Pacific and Union or Southern Pacific Railroads, together with their branches, are withdrawn from settlement and pre-emption, more than one half of which lands are not granted to the railroad companies owning said roads; and whereas, said railroads run through the best agricultural portions of the State, including nearly all the unoccupied agricultural lands in the State, and thereby retarding its settlement and improvement; therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Senators in Congress are instructed, and our Representatives requested, to procure, if possible, a reversal of the decision of the Secretary of the Interior, so that our [one] half of the lands so withheld from settlement and pre-emption may become subject thereto; and if that cannot be effected, then to procure such an amendment to the said Acts of Congress as will without question accomplish the same result; provided, that this resolution shall not be construed as asking Congress to restore any of said lands that were "offered lands," and subject to private entry and sale, to the character they had before the reservation-the intention and meaning being that all of said reserved lands (even sections) be made subject only to pre-emption and homestead, and that none of such lands which before the reservation bore the character of "offered lands" shall again be subject to private entry until again offered for sale by proclamation of the President. 95 754 Adjournment. No. XXXVI.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 16, 1868.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That, out of respect to the memory of the Honorable Henry Hare Hartley, late deceased, the two houses adjourn on Tuesday March seventeenth, at twelve, noon, until half past seven o'clock P. M., for the purpose of attending his funeral. and pre emption. No. XXXVII.-Joint Resolution, relative to the Mendocino Indian Reservation. [Approved March 19, 1868.] Settlement WHEREAS, The Federal Government have ceased to use and occupy the Mendocino Indian Reservation for the purposes for for which the reservation was made; and whereas, said reservation includes an area of about thirty square miles of good agricultural lands, which in consequence of said reservation are not subject to settlement or pre-emption; therefore, Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to procure the necessary action by the proper authority to make the lands subject to settlement and pre-emption. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to each of our delegation in Congress. Leave of No. XXXVIII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 23, 1868.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That W. J. Costigan, County Clerk of Solano County, be and is hereby granted leave of absence from the State for the period of four months, at such time as he may select, during his term of office; provided, he shall leave a competent and responsible deputy in his office during his absence and obtain the consent of the Board of Supervisors of Solano County for such absence. No. XXXIX.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 24, 1868.] bill Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Return of Governor be respectfully requested to return Senate Bill number five hundred and sixty-nine-An Act to provide for the appointment of Sheriff of Trinity County. No. XL.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 25, 1868.] Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Leave of Board of Supervisors of Alameda County be and is hereby absence. authorized to grant A. L. Fuller, County Superintendent of Common Schools of said county, leave of absence from the State for a period of four months, at such time as he may select, during his present term of office; provided, that said Superintendent shall appoint a competent and responsible deputy to fill his place during his absence. No. XLI.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 25, 1868.] and Post Offices. Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Weekly mail Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence to procure the establishment of a weekly mail from Stockton, via French Camp, Tuolumne City, Hopeton, Welsh's Store (on Mariposa Creek), Appling's (on the Chowchilla), to Millerton; and also the establishment of Post Offices at Tuolumne City, Welsh's Store and Appling's. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. No. XLII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 30, 1868.] WHEREAS, The Colorado River, draining the Great Basin and communicating directly with the Pacific Ocean, penetrates a region justly noted for its rapidly developing resources and furnishes easy access to the Territories of Utah, Colorado and 756 Aid to Capt. T. E. Trueworthy. Arizona, as also to Southern Nevada, with their rapidly increasing and valuable trade, the most important part of which can only be diverted to the Colorado at a point at least one hundred miles above that now established as the head of navigation, on account of intervening desert wastes which prevent transportation by land; and whereas, our fellow citizen, Captain Thomas E. Trueworthy, of San Francisco, in response to the solicitations of the people of Arizona, and by his own means, has demonstrated, by actual navigation with steamboats and barges, that the Colorado River is and can be permanently continued navigable to Callville, Arizona, the highest point before indicated; therefore, Resolved by the Senate, the Assemby concurring, That, while we recognize the value of all efforts to secure to this State the trade of that vast territory, we especially commend the enterprise and energy of Captain Thomas E. Trueworthy as the pioneer in demonstrating the navigability of the Colorado River to a point best adapted to secure the largest permanent trade. Resolved, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence to secure to Captain True worthy such aid from the Federal Government in perfecting the navigation of the Colorado River to Callville as will insure success to the enterprise. |