eight hundred and fifty-seven and three thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight of the Political Code. Read third time, and passed. Title approved. Assembly Bill No. 806-An Act to amend the Penal Code, with respect to the punishment of persons guilty of cheating under pretense of playing at games of chance. Amendment adopted, rules suspended, considered engrossed, read third time, and passed, and bill ordered transmitted to the Senate forthwith. Title approved. RESOLUTION. By Mr. Griffith (by permission): Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Mail Carrier of the Assembly be allowed fifty cents per day, in addition to his per diem, from the commencement of the session to its termination, in order to make his per diem three dollars per day for the entire session; and the Controller of State is directed to draw his warrant for the said difference on the Contingent Fund of the Assembly, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same. Laid over one day. On motion of Mr. Tobin, the House took up the following bills: Assembly Bill No. 708-An Act to appropriate money to pay for fifty copies of a work entitled Grapes and Grape-vines of California, published under the auspices of the California State Vinicultural Association. Considered in Committee of the Whole. [Speaker pro tem. in the chair.] The committee arose, and reported the bill back, recommending its indefinite postponement. IN ASSEMBLY. [Speaker pro tem. in the chair.] The report of the committee was adopted, and the bill indefinitely postponed. By Mr. Tuttle: REPORT. MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee of Free Conference, to whom was referred the matter of the disagreement between the Senate and Assembly, in relation to Assembly Bill No. 764, would respectfully report that we have agreed upon an amendment to said bill, which we herewith present, and recommend its adoption by the Assembly. TUTTLE, BLAKE, The question being upon the adoption of the report, pending discussion, the previous question being moved by the requisite number, it was so ordered by the House. Upon the adoption of the report, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Sargent, Kercheval, and Mace. The roll was called, and the report adopted by the following vote: AYES-Messrs. Allen, Ames, Anderson, Asmussen, Backus, Blackwell, Blake, Breen, Broderick, Brooks, Byington, Coffey, Connolly, Conroy, Cooley, Dare, DeWitt, Dinniene, Dixon, Dunlap, Ellis, Ewing, Farnum, Forsyth, Garver, Giffen, Gildea, Gough, Griffith, Haile, Hart, Hicks, Hinshaw, Holloway, Hugg, Johnson, Long, Mace, Mayfield, McClure, McComas, Miller, Moffat, Montague, Murphy of Del Norte, Murphy of San Francisco, Nealley, Ostrom, Pace, Routier, Sherman, Swift, Thompson, Tobin, Tuttle, Waters, Welch, Whitlock, and Young-59. NOES-Messrs. Abbott, Clark, Dorsey, Hanna, Kercheval, May, Nott, Pauly, Russ, Sargent, Smyth, Warden, and Wilson-13. On motion of Mr. Tuttle, the House took up Assembly Bill No. 855-An Act to amend section three thousand seven hundred and thirteen of the Political Code. Rules suspended, considered engrossed, read third time, and passed. Title approved. The House took up Assembly Bill No. 698-An Act to amend section two thousand one hundred and forty of the Political Code, in relation to the compensation of Directors of the State Insane Asylum. at Stockton. Rules suspended, considered engrossed, read third time, and passed. Title approved. Mr. Anderson moved that Senate Bills Nos. 641, 495, and 282, and Senate Joint Resolution No. 55, be taken up for consideration. So ordered. Senate Bill No. 641-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to legalize the assessment of taxes in the City and County of San Francisco, and to ratify and confirm a resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Read third time, and passed. Title approved. Senate Bill No. 495-An Act to appropriate money for the relief of the sufferers of the late floods. Amendments adopted, read third time, and passed. Title approved. Senate Joint Resolution No. 55-Concerning United States Engineers acting with State Engineers in reference to irrigation and the improvement of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers. RECESS. Pending discussion, at three o'clock and forty-five minutes P. M., on motion of Mr. Nott, the House took a recess until seven o'clock and thirty minutes P. M. RE-ASSEMBLED. House re-assembled at seven o'clock and thirty minutes P. M. Roll called, and a quorum present. By Mr. Hart: RESOLUTION. Resolved, That the bills introduced by the Honorable William Hanna, to wit: Assembly Bills Nos. 367, 563, and 633, be made the special order for nine o'clock and thirty minutes P. M., this evening. MR. SPEAKER: Your Committee on State Prison, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 470An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate and govern the California State Prison, approved April third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six-have had the same under consideration, and report it back without recommendation. By Mr. Gildea: RESOLUTION. MILLER, Chairman. Resolved, That the per diem of the late Honorable Robert Ludgate, from his decease to the close of the session, namely, forty-five days, amounting to the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, be and is hereby allowed and ordered paid to his widow, Mary H. Ludgate, out of the Contingent Fund of the Assembly, and the Controller of State is hereby authorized to draw his warrant in favor of Mary H. Ludgate for the said amount of four hundred and fifty dollars. Adopted. House took up Senate Bill No. 282-An Act to amend section two thousand and eighty-four of the Code of Civil Procedure, in relation to proceedings to perpetuate testimony. Read third time, and passed. Title approved. SPECIAL ORDER. Senate Bill No. 685-An Act to provide a Contingent Fund for the use of the Legislature. Considered in Committee of the Whole. [Speaker in the chair.] The committee arose, and reported the bill back with an amendment, recommending passage as amended. IN ASSEMBLY. The report of the committee was adopted, the bill read third time, and passed. Title approved. REPORT. MR. SPEAKER: As directed by a resolution of this House, your Committee on Public Expenditures and Accounts have obtained from the Secretary of State a statement showing the amount of stationery drawn from his office by each member of the Assembly during the twenty-second session of the Legislature; also, the stationery account of the attachés, committees, etc., and a complete showing of the contingent expenses of this honorable body for the twenty-second session of the Legislature, and a comparative exhibit with the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first sessions, all of which are herewith submitted. HINSHAW, Chairman. Statement of the amount of stationery, etc., drawn by the members of the Assembly, officers, attachés, and committees of the twenty-second session of the Legislature, commencing December third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and up to and including March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight: |