that they have examined and find correctly engrossed Assembly Bill No. 134-An Act to provide for the construction of a wagon road from and to the Yosemite Valley and Big Tree Grove, in Mariposa County.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 551-Proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of California.

Also, Memorial and Joint Resolution No. 28-Relative to asking Congress for an appropriation to improve Humboldt Harbor.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 501-An Act to provide for settling the boundary line between the Counties of Kern and Tulare.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 546-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act restricting the herding of sheep to certain pastures in the Counties of Sonoma and Marin, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 555-An Act to regulate the salaries and fix the compensation of the county officers of San Joaquin County.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 564-An Act to provide for the levying and collection of a special tax, to be used in the construction of bridges, in Tehama County.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 558-An Act properly defining the boundaries of the Town of Antioch and extending the same.

. Also, Assembly Bill No. 432-An Act amendatory of and supplementary to an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for a better system of common schools, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 505-An Act to amend an Act entitled at Act to provide for the management and sale of the lands belonging to the State, approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Also, Assembly Bill No. 544-An Act for the relief of J. N. Walker, former Tax Collector of Fresno County.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 522-An Act to empower the City of Stockton to excavate, widen, and open the Mormon Slough and provide funds therefor.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 499-An Act requiring Sheriffs to wear a badge of office.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 514-An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to provide for the better care of indigent sick in the County of San Bernardino, approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 519-An Act in relation to death penalty. Also, Assembly Bill No. 554-An Act to prevent hogs from running at large in the Town of Susanville.

By Mr. Gibson:

BARNES, Chairman.

Mr. SPEAKER: Your Committee on Enrollment beg leave to report that they have examined and found correctly enrolled Assembly Bill No. 363-An Act to provide for the construction and protection of the Alameda road.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 394-An Act to authorize the City of San José to issue bonds to provide sewerage for said city.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 380-An Act concerning roads and highways. in the County of El Dorado.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 196-An Act to determine who must act as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 298--An Act to confirm the title to a certain lot of land in the City and County of San Francisco to the Trustees of the Associated Veterans of the Mexican War, and to authorize an exchange of said lands for certain property belonging to said city and county, or for a lease thereof.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 403-An Act for the relief of William S. Brown. Also, Assembly Bill No. 274-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the Exempt Fire Company of San Francisco to receive and manage the San Francisco Fire Department Charitable Fund and receive from the City and County of San Francisco a house and lot for its use, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 260-An Act to amend an Act to provide for a system of common schools, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 423-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate fees and salaries in the County of Calaveras, and to define the duties of certain officers in said Calaveras County, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Assembly Bill No. 248-An Act to grant to the Town of San Bernardino all the interest of the State in certain real property.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 392-An Act supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to raise a fund for the improvement of Napa City, approved January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 379-An Act to authorize the Treasurer of San Joaquin County to transfer certain funds to the General School Fund of said county.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 357-An Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 490-An Act to provide for the opening and improvement of Santa Clara Avenue, in the County of Santa Clara.

Also, Assembly Bill No. 287-An Act to prevent persons passing through inclosures and leaving them open, and tearing down fences to make passage through inclosures.

And that the same have, this fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at thirty minutes past ten o'clock, been transmitted to the Governor for his approval.

GIBSON, Chairman.

REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES.

Reports were made from special committees as follows:

By Mr. Freeman:

Mr. SPEAKER: The Yolo and Solano delegation, to whom was referred Assembly Bill No. 519-An Act to adjust the accounts of Swamp Land District Number Eighteen, Yolo County-report the same back with substitute, and recommend the passage of the substitute.

FREEMAN, for Delegation.

up, rules

The rules were suspended, the bill above reported taken again suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

By Mr. Woodward:

Mr. SPEAKER: The San Joaquin delegation, to whom Assembly Bill No. 567 was referred for amendment, report it back and recommend its passage as amended.

SARGENT,
WOODWARD,

Delegation.

The rules being suspended, the bill above reported was taken up, reported amendments adopted, rules again suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

By Mr. Mott of Sacramento:

Mr. SPEAKER: The Sacramento delegation, to whom was referred Assembly Bill No. 481-An Act to establish a Paid Fire Department in the City of Sacramento-beg leave to report it back with a substitute, and recommend the passage of the substitute.

MOTT, for Delegation.

The rules were suspended, and the bill above reported taken up, substitute reported adopted, rules again suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed.

By Mr. Pardee:

Mr. SPEAKER: The Alameda delegation, to whom was referred Assembly Bill No. 612, have examined the same and recommend its passage.

PARDEE, for Delegation.

The rules were suspended, the bill above reported taken up, rules again suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time and passed. By Mr. Franck:

Mr. SPEAKER: The Santa Clara delegation having considered Senate Bill No. 405-An Act to provide for the opening and improving of Santa Clara and Saratoga Avenue, in the County of Santa Clara-report it back with amendments, and recommend its passage as amended.

FRANCK, for Delegation.

The rules were suspended, the bill above reported taken up, reported amendments adopted, and the bill read a third time and passed.

By Mr. Goodall:

Mr. SPEAKER: Your Committee on Commerce and Navigation, to whom was referred Assembly Bill No. 581-An Act to authorize the mainte

nance of a boom in Elk River-report the same back and recommend its passage.

GOODALL, Chairman.

The rules were suspendled, the bill above reported taken up, rules again suspended, considered engrossed and read a third time, and on its passage the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Berry, Andrews, and Days, with the following result:

AYES-Messrs. Baird, Barnes, Bell, Bradley, Bockius, Brown, Burckhalter, Caldwell, Center, Connolly, Crane, De Haven, Eagan, Edgar, Franck, Freeman, French, Gibson, Harvey, Hayes, Hopper, Johnston, Jost, Lee, Lofton, Long, Mecker, Mott of Los Angeles, Mott of Sacramento, Munday, McCullough, Pardee, Reed, Rice, Russ, Sammons, Sargent of Santa Clara, Sargent of San Joaquin, Schrack, Seibe, Sensabaugh, Slaughter, Spencer, Stillwagon, Turner, Walker, Welty, Whitney, and Mr. Speaker-49.

NOES-Messrs. Aldrich, Andrews, Barklage, Bayley, Berry, Chalmers, Dannals, Days, Everett, Henshaw, Little, Luttrell, Tinnin, and Woodward-14.

By Mr. Bockius:

Mr. SPEAKER: The Santa Cruz delegation, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 378--An Act in relation to the office of District Attorney of Santa Cruz County--having examined the same, report it back and recommend its passage.

BOCKIUS, for Delegation.

The rules were suspended, and the bill above reported taken up, read a third time and passed.

By Mr. Wright:

Mr. SPEAKER: The Committee on Education, to whom was referred Assembly Bill No. 366--An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for a system of common schools, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-report the same back, with substitute, and recom mend passage of substitute.

WRIGHT, Chairman.

Rules suspended and the bill and substitute therefor, above reported, taken up.

Mr. Berry offered a substitute for the substitute reported.

Mr. Wright moved that both substitutes be printed, and that consideration of the matter be postponed until Tuesday, March nineteenth, and the bill be placed on top of the file for that day.

On adopting this proposition, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Wheaton, Bell, and Everett, with the following result:

AYES-Messrs. Bacon, Barnes, Bayley, Bradley, Brown, Crane, Dannals, Days, De Haven, Franck, Harvey, Hopper, James, Johnston, Jost, Little, Long, Luttrell, Mott of Los Angeles, Mott of Sacramento, Russ, Sammons, Sargent of Santa Clara, Schrack, Sensabaugh, Slaughter, Spen

cer, Stillwagon, Tinnin, Turner, Walker, Ward, Welty, Whiting, Whitney, Wilcox, and Wright-37.

NOES-Messrs. Aldrich, Andrews, Baird, Barklage, Bell, Berry, Bockius, Caldwell, Center, Chalmers, Connolly, Edgar, Ellis, Everett, Freeman, Galloway, Gibson, Goodall, Gray, Hayes, Henshaw, Lee, Lofton, Mathers, Meeker, Munday, McCullough, Pardee, Reed, Rice, Seibe, Spli valo, Wheaton, Woodward, and Mr. Speaker-35.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

Bills were introduced as follows:

By Mr. Freeman-An Act validating certain contracts in relation to the excavation of Putah Creek Canals, and extending the time of performing the same.

Read first and second times and placed on file.

By Mr. Aldrich-An Act for the relief of J. A. Camron, and to legalize assessments.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. By Mr. James-An Act extending time to the City Railway Company. Read first and second times and referred to the San Francisco délegation.

By Mr. Mott of Los Angeles-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act concerning County Recorders, passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. By Mr. Reed-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act in reference to corporations organized in this State for the purpose of mining out of this State, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

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

By Mr. Baird-An Act to authorize certain persons to improve Pescadero and Butano Creeks, and to erect booms thereon.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Internal Improvements.

Also, an Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo to fix the compensation of any county officer of said county, for services the payment for which is not otherwise provided for by law. Read first and second times and referred to the San Mateo delega

tion.

By Mr. Barker-An Act for the relief of R. G. Gilmore.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. Barklage-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate fees and salaries of officers and defining their duties in the County of El Dorado, and other matters relating thereto, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Read first and second times and referred to the El Dorado delegation.

By Mr. Gray-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the Courts of justice in this State, passed April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

Read first and second times and referred to the Judiciary Committee. By Mr. Lee-An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate fees of office and salaries of certain officers, and to repeal certain other Acts in relation thereto, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy.