FIRST PART BEGAN ON MONDAY, JANUARY FIFTH, AND ENDED FRIDAY, JANUARY TWENTY-THIRD SECOND PART BEGAN ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-SENATE. FORTY-NINTH SESSION. IN SENATE. SENATE CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, Monday, January 5, 1931. The hour of twelve o'clock m. having arrived, Hon. H. L. Carnahan, Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate, called the Senators and Senators-elect to order, and announced that the forty-ninth session of the Legislature of the State of California was about to convene, and informed the Senators that the following officers of the Senate during the forty-eighth session of the Legislature were in their respective places in the Senate Chamber, as required by section 237 of the Political Code: Joseph A. Beek, Secretary; Harold J. Powers, Minute Clerk, and Joseph F. Nolan, Sergeant-at-Arms. PRAYER. By invitation of the President, prayer was then offered by Rev. Sherman L. Divine. RESOLUTION. The following resolution was offered: By Senator Slater: Resolved, That the hold-over Senators take their seats, and that the Senators-elect proceed to the bar of the Senate and take their oath of office on the certificate furnished by the Secretary of State. Resolution read, and on motion of Senator Slater adopted. CERTIFICATE FROM SECRETARY OF STATE. By direction of the President the Secretary read the following certificate of duly elected Senators of the forty-ninth session of the Legislature of the State of California: STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DEPARTMENT OF STATE. I, Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State of the State of California, do hereby certify that the following is a complete list of the hold-over State Senators, together with those duly elected at the general election, held on the fourth day of November, A. D. 1930, to represent the people of the State of California at the forty-ninth session of the Legislature of the State of California, as appears from the statement of vote received from the county clerks of the several counties and the registrar of voters of the city and county of San Francisco, comprising the several senatorial |