The Nevada journal., 1854-01-13


The receipts and expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year
are estimated by the Comptroller as follows
! Receipts, S780,000 Expenditures. 100000.
The have received from twenty
counties Appraised amount of real and personal
property SOL The remaining eight counties will
increase the assessment to least 800 OOO being
increase, compared with 80, of S40.7ss,144.
! Amount of revenue on an assessment OF
SlOt,00OOO0 at 90 cents on each 800 of val
Amount Of Foreign Miners Tax $4,000 90
Amount of Consigned Goods $4,000 90
Amount Of Auction Duties, $4,000 90
Amount OF Passenger Tax, x,.....26OO 26 OOo 90
Amount OF Possessoy Claims, ms,..............2O0 90
Deduct for denquenccs and cost Of collection 10000 90
Nett amount of revenue. 789 oO0 90
From close investigation subject am inclined
to believe that the estimated receipts are at
hundred thousand less than will actually be collected be-
fore the close of the present fiscal and have
TO expect that the total receipts will vary but little
from eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
The cash receipts into the Gene raj Fund from Decem
Der 9Th, le5 TO April 18th, '54 inclusive estimated
by the Comptroller Of State at Sl75O00 which togeth
with the amount realized in cash from the sales of
property made by the city San Francisco on the Goth
OF December 53 presumed to be about $500 000can be
applied payment accruing expenses of government
To provide the amount of means necessary the spec
dy payment of the existing civil debt recommended at
the commencement OF the last session of the Legislature
interest in all property within the limits of the city of San
Francisco
passing law authorsing the extensien, then
mended, deem ii my duty ngan invite attention
the question and mplore you give to the SUBJECT
early and favorable consideration
Every consideration of honor patriotism, and fidelity to
our constituents imperiousy calls upon at this tme
apply all the means, legitmaely disposal, in pay
Ineni Of the existing state debt
since the adjournment of the Legislature the question
OF extension has been discussed and examined in all its
bearings, and gives me pleasure you that the
project has now, comparatively few opponents
That the title to this property is in the State of CalifO
seems to be generally conceded Indeed, it cannot
be plausiby questioned the moment the right
Of sovereignty vested in the United States they took upon
Themselves merely the right to hold the municipal
domain trust new States Us might be or
g.nzel within the acquired territory and upon their
admission into the Union, 10 invest them with it, the
extent and i'll all respects the other States OF the
COnederacy.
The supreme Court of the United States. ut its January
tern in the ls45 declared that The power of Con-
rt and regulations, for the sale and disposition
public ands conferred no power grant lands below
hglwaler mark in State admitted into the Union
that the shores of all navigabe waters and the soil
them not granted by the Constitution but were re-
served by the States respectively and that the States
nave The same rights sovereignty and jurisdiction the
original States 1t cannot therefore, be doubted, that
On the admission of Cali fornia into the Union tho excu
right dispose OF all the lands below high water
mark > within her limits passed to the State.
The Supreme and Circuit Courts of the Ured States,
It may be proper here 10 remark have also well settled
The princi that separate exclusive right, is
quirc by city town the tide the soil
der them by virtue act the Legislature merely
extending the limits fsuch city such wate
An act cHtendn the bounds of city bay,
merely the purpose Jurisdiction is no evidence of
grant OF property in the soil covered by water" Nu-
Is decisions could be here cited in support of this
position, bit it is deemed unnecessary
Permi: in this connection. however suggest tnat
in carry ing into effect the recommendation extend the
Water Front of The City of San Francisco would be
advisable to provide for the appointment OF Board OF
Commissioners, with such checks and limitations
be necessary, and that without prescribing arbitrary
line, authority be given them extend such points
aud TO such distance may after careful examinations be
deemed proper and expedient provided that point
sha the extension exceed given number of feet; and
further that the said board be required to provide for
many slips, to be kept free and unobsLructed may
be necessary for the wants and requirements
is believed that extension be made at various
points, and in such manner will not only injury
to the harbor but result in positive benefit By providing
proper spsto be kept open and unobstructed for the
venIence Of commerce, sufficient drainage be obtained
and the expense and Inconvenience incident to change
of the present grade of the city avoided.
The practicaby of this cannot questioned
and the fact that from udcious sale of the property
within the limits of the proposed extension, sufficient
means W Ill be realized to pay the State debt and relieve
our people from the burthen of taxaon mus
commend to the favorable consideration of the Repre-
senation of the people And these facts better
understood and appreciated by the citizens of San Fran
CISCO there can be doubt that they will hail the extern
son not only act beneficial to themselves but as
imperiousy demanded by the future and interests
OF the gre and popuous emporium of the Pacific.
Inc consummaion of the measure of extension in the
manner contemplated in truth. must reault directly to
OF the residents of the city of San Francisco
and Indirectly benefit the whole people of the State.
The limited space now occupied by the business portion
of the cy demands extension for the accommodation
her present commerce, which is in its infancy and
small. indeed, compared with that which, we have every
reason to believe will, remote PERIOD be centered in
the harbor of San Francisco To assume that that com
merce be conveniently advantageousy transacted
within the present contracted limits it recede
rom rather than encroach upon the waer alike con-
ary to well matured public opinion experience
The sale, from time to time, deemed expedient,
such amount of water property adapted it h
wants and requirements OF commerce. exercise
wholesome influence in regulating nt-cl ges, which,
the increased price Of goods eventually paid by the
: consumers throughout the State.
The harbor Of San Francisco, from its position and ca
pacity, is of importance TO the Of the
world than other within confederacy. and it il
therefore hoped that Congress- during the present
will adopt the necessary measures to protect and render
perfectly secure.
BY an Act of the Legislature, approved
: March 26, 1851, property owned by the State
t known as the "Beach and Water Lot proper
ty," was released to the city of San Francisco
for the term Of ninetynine years, the city paying
7 into the State Treasury twenty-five per cent.
upon all moneys arising from the disposition
made ofthe property after the passage of the
/. Act On the first day of May, 1851, another
Act was passed, relinquishing the city certain
f Beach and Water Lot property, upon the ex
press condition that certain titles which had
: been Heretofore granted by Justices of the
$ Peace, should be confirmed The requirement
to confirm grants made by Justices of the Peace
up to March 18th 1853, the date of the repeal
of the Act of May lst, 1851, had been wholly
neglected, and up to the 25th December, 1888
comparatively but a small sum had been paid
into the State Treasury under the provisions o
the second section of the Act Of March 26
; 1851
would therefore recommend that the Act
annroyed Nav l6, 1858, entitled IAN Act to
r.. .Ln ralo oF tLa ip{crort af tha State