Mr. SPEAKER: I am directed to inform the Assembly that the Senate, on Saturday last, adopted Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 28Directing the Committees on Education of the Senate and Assembly to visit the State University, State Normal School, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, and other institutions receiving State aid.

Also, on Saturday, passed Senate Bill No. 91-An Act ratifying and confirming action of Common Council of the City of Oakland for relief of John Scott.

Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 302-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to separate the office of County Recorder from the office of County Clerk in the County of Alameda, and to provide for the election of a County Recorder therein.

Also, passed Assembly Bill No 297-An Act to authorize the Treasurer of Tuolumne County to pay certain outstanding warrants against said county.

CURTIS,

Assistant Secretary.

SENATE CHAMBER,

February 8th, 1870.}

Mr SPEAKER: I am directed to inform the Assembly that the Senate, on this day, passed Assembly Bill No. 86-An Act to construct and maintain a wharf in San Luis Obispo County.

Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 34-An Act concerning public roads and highways in the County of Monterey.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 133-An Act to authorize Elizabeth W. P. Kenny, administratrix of the estate of George Kenny, deceased, to sell certain lands of said estate.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 168-An Act directing the Controller of State to draw a certain duplicate warrant.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 152-An Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 166-An Act to confer additional powers upon the Board of Supervisors and the Auditor and Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, amended and passed Assembly Bill No. 77-An Act to encourage the destruction of squirrels and gophers in certain counties of this State and to provide for a bounty for the same.

Also, passed Assembly Bill No 28-An Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to pay a certain claim of P. W. Van Winkle.

Also, amended and passed Assembly Bill No. 155-An Act to amend an Act to separate the office of County Recorder from that of County Clerk in the County of Alameda.

Also, amended and passed Assembly Bill No. 188-An Act granting leave of absence to Richard G. Watkins, District Attorney of Mono County.

Also, amended and passed Assembly Bill No. 190-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Trinity County to levy a special tax.

Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 38-An Act for a preliminary survey of the barbor of Santa Cruz and Salinas Slough, in Monterey Bay.

Also, passed Assemby Bill No 43-An Act to provide for the payment of the salary of the County Judge of Inyo County.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 151-An Act to authorize the guardians of James T. Boyd, Jr., and Willie Alexander Boyd, to sell certain real

estate.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 94-An Act to authorize the formation of special partnerships.

Also, passed Senate Bill No. 142— An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases.

Also, passed Assembly Bill No. 170-An Act to authorize the Governor of the State of California to appoint three additional Notaries Public for the County of Santa Clara.

And this day adopted the following Senate concurrent resolution:

Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the special committees on the location of the State Normal School be and they are hereby authorized to make a joint report.

CURTIS, Assistant Secretary.

Mr SPEAKER: I am directed to inform the Assembly that the Senate, on this day, adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 25-Relative to correcting error in enrolled copy of Senate substitute No. 229 for Assembly Bill No. 2 and Senate Bill No. 95.

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CURTIS, Assistant Secretary.

CONSIDERATION OF SENATE MESSAGES.

Assembly Bill No. 43, above reported, Senate amendments concurred Assembly Bill No. 155, above reported, Senate amendments concurred

Assembly Bill No. 188, above reported, Senate amendments concurred

Assembly Bill No. 190, above reported, Senate amendments concurred

Assembly Bill No 61, above reported, Senate amendments concurred

Senate Bill No. 133, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senate Bill No. 152, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senate Bill No. 151, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senate Bill No. 94, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senate Bill No. 142, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Assembly Bill No. 77, above reported, the House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to sections one and three of the bill.

Senate Bill No. 91, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Alameda delegation.

Senate concurrent resolution, above reported, concurred in.

Senate Bill No. 168, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims.

Senate Bill No. 166, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

Senate Bill No. 79, above reported, read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 25, above reported, concurred in.

NOTICES.

Notices of the introduction of bills were given as follows:

By Mr. McMillan-An Act to change the grade of Broadway street, from Powell to Franklin street, in the City and County of San Francisco.

Also, an Act to modify the grades on what is known as Telegraph. Hill, in the City and County of San Francisco.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

Bills were introduced as follows:

By Mr. Murphy of Del Norte-An Act to provide for the erection of a jail in the County of Del Norte.

Read first and second times and ordered on the general file.

By Mr. Munday-An Act to legalize the acts and proceedings of the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Sonoma.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

By Mr. Hihn-An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of SanMateo County to appropriate certain moneys for the relief of Charles H. Lincoln.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. Carothers-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.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Lewelling-An Act for the preservation of trout in the Counties of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Monterey, Alameda, Marin, Sonoma, Placer and Nevada.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

By Mr. Henley of Mendocino-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 sixty-eight.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. Brown of Amador-An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Amador County to audit and allow the claim of James Carroll. Read first and second times and ordered on the general file.

By Mr. Mooney-An Act to improve Owens River for rafting logs, lumber and cordwood.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation.

By Mr. De Haven-An Act to provide for the manner of auditing claims against Humboldt County, and to provide for the reduction of taxation therein and expenses thereof.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. By Mr. Robinson-An Act to authorize the San Diego and Gila Southern Pacific Railroad Company and its assigns to construct, maintain and use a wharf or wharves in front of pueblo lots numbers eleven hundred and sixty-three and eleven hundred and sixty-four, at South San Diego, in the County of San Diego.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Railroads.

Also, an Act to grant further powers to the Board of Trustees of the City of San Diego, and establish the boundaries of said city.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Lewelling (by request)-An Act to provide for the building of a bridge and roadway across the Estuary of San Antonio, in the County of Alameda.

Read first and second times and referred to the Alameda delegation. By Mr. Naphtaly (by request)-An Act to ratify and confirm ordinances and resolutions of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and proceedings had thereunder.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. By Mr. Brown of Amador-An Act for the collection of taxes in the County of Amador.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

By Mr. Rogers-An Act authorizing the condemnation of private property within the limits of the public streets of the City and County of San Francisco, within the Laguna survey.

Read first and second times and, with petition accompanying the bill, referred to the San Francisco delegation.

GENERAL FILE.

Senate Bill No. 182-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to extend an Act entitled an Act to prevent stallions from running at large in the County of Sacramento.

Amended

Read a third time and passed; title approved.

Senate Bill No. 50-An Act to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner to visit the Eastern insane asylums and to define his powers and duties.

On motion of Mr. Thomas, made the special order for Monday, the fourteenth instant, at two o'clock P. M.

Senate Bill No. 207-An Act for the payment of the salary of the County Judge of Tuolumne County.

Read a third time and passed; title approved.

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 6-Relative to mineral lands.
Passed, temporarily, on the file.

Assembly Bill No. 41-An Act to create a Bank Commissioner, to prescribe his duties and powers.

The question being on the amendment to the bill offered by Mr. Naphtaly on yesterday.

Mr. Henley of Sonoma offered an amendment to the amendment.
Adopted, and amendment as amended adopted.

Mr. Duffy offered an amendment.

Lost.

In section seven,

Mr. Naphtaly offered the following amendment: line one, strike out all after the word "Commissioner," to and including the word "he," in second line.

On which the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Naphtaly, Fortune and Moynihan, and the amendment was rejected, by the following vote:

AYES-Messrs. Andrews, Berry, Biggs, Brown of Yuba, Carothers, De Haven, Duffy, Fortune, Gildea, M. Hayes, Hihn, Hubner, Johnson, Martin of Siskiyou, McClaskey, McMillan, McMurry of El Dorado, McMurry of Trinity, Miller of El Dorado, Miller of Marin, Moynihan, Naphtaly, Oates, O'Connell, Power, Ryan, Scarce, Shoemaker, Shores, Waldron, Williams and York-32.

NOES-Messrs. Appling. Blankenship, Coronel, Crigler, Doss, Escandon, Freeman, Fryer, Green, Griswold, Haile, Hawley, G. R. B. Hayes, Henley of Mendocino, Henley of Sonoma, Horan, Hudson, Inman, King, Koutz, Lambert, Martin of Butte, Merritt, Mooney, Munday, Murphy of Del Norte and Klamath, Newell, Odell, Pool, Sammons, Satterwhite, Stephens, Walden, Young and Mr. Speaker-35.

At half past twelve o'clock P. M. the House took a recess.

REASSEMBLED.

At half-past one o'clock P. M. the House reassembled.

Speaker in the chair.

Roll called.

Quorum present.

GENERAL FILE RESUMED.

Assembly Bill No. 41 continued.

Mr. Hihn offered a substitute for the bill, and moved that the substitute be printed, and the whole matter be made the special order for Friday, at two o'clock P. M.

Two o'clock P. M. being the hour to consider special order-Assembly Bill No. 68.

On motion of Mr. Lambert, the special order was postponed, to dispose of the bill now under consideration.

Mr. Satterwhite moved the previous question.

On which the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Naphtaly, Ryan and Koutz, and the main question ordered, by the following vote:

AYES-Messrs. Appling, Blankenship. Brown of Amador, Brown of Yuba, Coronel, Freeman, Fryer, Green, Griswold, Haile, Hawley. Henley of Mendocino, Henley of Sonoma, Hihn, Horan, Hubner, Hudson, Inman, Johnson, King, Lambert, McMurry of El Dorado, Merritt, Miller of El Dorado, Mooney, Munday, Murphy of Del Norte and Klamath, Newell, Odell, Pool, Rockwell, Romer, Satterwhite, Shoemaker, Shores, Stephens, Thurston, Walden, Williams, Young and Mr. Speaker-41.