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must be an everpresent realization of individual responsibility. Industry and application must be brought steadily to bear upon every proposition that is offered for our consideration. No vote should be thoughtlessly given nor definitive action taken on any subject without due deliberation. In making laws, the interests of the public should occupy the paramount place in our purposes, and every official action should be directed by an enlightened regard for the people's happiness and advancement in the scale of prosperity and civilization. Their wishes, as expressed in the late canvass, or as they may be made manifest by petition, ought to influence our deliberations and meet with a ready response from this Chamber. They who have honored and commissioned us as their representatives, demand some radical modifications of systems tried and found oppressive. This remark especially expresses the sentiments predominant in San Francisco. In behalf of my colleagues and constituents, I bespeak the coöperation of all in aid of much needed reformatory measures for the metropolis. She asks us to inaugurate a system that shall keep pace with her progress and permit her people to exercise their energy, untrammeled by the mistakes of our predecessors. But our attention must not be confined to the wants of the commercial center. The interests of the most sparsely settled districts demand a corresponding care and are entitled to receive our best consideration. If we observe these general rules, public expectation will not be disappointed, the general good will be promoted, and we will return to our respective constituencies confident or their approbation.

Gentlemen, I return you my most grateful acknowledgement for the honor you have confered on me.

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Mr. Hopper having received a majority of all the votes cast was declared duly elected Speaker pro tem.

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Mr. Boruck having received a majority of all the votes cast was declared duly elected Chief Clerk.

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