The Placer herald., 1859-04-16
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
TENTH SESSION.

FRIDAY, April 9Th, 1859.
SENATE.-Bills were introduced to au-
thorze the Supervisors of the counties of
Solano and Yuba to subscribe stock to the
Marysville and San Francisco Railroad.
Bills passed authorizing Supervisors of Sutter
county to take $4,000 stock in the same
road. Several other bills passed.
AssEMDLY-The bill for the government
of the State Prison, after amendment was
ordered to an engrossment. The House re-
fused to engross the bill providing for re-
duction of the fees of the Clerk Of the Su-
preme Court. Resolution passed asking the
Governor to return without appeal, the bill
making certificates of purchase evidence of
title. Committee reported against the bill
providing for an appropriation Of $4,000
to pay the troops called out to suppress the
San Francisco Vigilance Committee.
SATURDAY, April 9th.
SENATE.-A number of local bills were
passed.
Observation-Disclosures asking Congress
to pass law prohibiting Chinese from i'm
migrating to this State, passed; ayes Al; noes
10. Bill to appropriate money for building
Capitol at Oakland was laid upon the table
The Committee of Free Conference reported
in favor of the bill paying It, Gov. Walkup
$2,33O for 333 days services as Chief War
den of State Prison. Various local bills
were considered and passed.
MONDAY, April 18th.
SENATE.-The bill from the Committee
of Free Conference to pay 1t. Gov. Walkup
for his services as Warden, passed. Ayes,
10; noes, /. The act creating an Insane
Asylum at Marysville, passed. A large
amount of other business transacted.
AssEMBLY.-The bill for payment of the
San Francisco troops in Vigilance Committee
days was indefinitely postponed. The bill
for the sale and reclamation of the swamp
and overhowed lands, passed. Resolutions
to cede the desert lands of the Colorado to
the General Government passed. The bill
to abolish chain gangs was ordered to an
engrossment. The House refused to recon
slider the vote whereby the Bachelors Home
stead Law was defeated. The State Prison
Committee reported the result of their in
vestigation. A bill was introduced. and re-
jected by the House, to provide for the
payment of $3.50, 900 of the outstanding
equitable Indebtedness of the State.
TUESDAY, April 10Th.
SENATE.-Senate bill No. 1O5, an Act
supplementary to and amendatory Of an Act
entitled an Act to provide for the sale of
the sixteenth and thirty sixth sections of land
donated to the State for school purposes by
Act of Congress, passed March Sd, 1858,
approved April Goth, 1853 passed.
The memorial asking Congress to pass a
law for the construction of Pacific Railroad,
passed. Senate resolution passed asking
Congress to donate ten millions acres OF
land to California for Internal Improvements.
The bill to create the county Of Mokelumne
was indefinitely postponed. Message receiv-
ed from the Governor announcing his APP
proval of a number of acts.
test against the action of the Assembly in
passing the resolution asking Congress to
pass law to prohibit the Immigration of
Chinese to California Mr.. Street believed
the Legislature of California possessed the
power TO pass law OF the kind, and in pc
ttioning Congress to that effect, the State
yielded an important attribute of its sover-
eighty. Bill to provide for the location OF
School Land Warrants upon unsurveyed
lands passed. The bill granting pay to Gov.
Johnson's troops, of 1856, on leave was
withdrawn. The bill granting District Judge
Barber, of Yuba, $500 back pay, was in
definitely postponed. The bill appropriatng
$4,000 to the Ell Dorado Wagon Road was
defeated-ayes "a; noes 3s.
The House refused to adopt the bill agreed
upon by The Committee of Free Conference,
giving to 1t. Gov. Walkup $2,33O for servi-
ces as Warden of State Prison, by vote OF
% ayes to "a noes The bill amending the
present Homestead law, was defeated. The
Committee appointed to receive proposals
from Esteli and McCauley, as for what amount
they would relnquish all claim against the
State on their State Prison contract, report
that Estel and McCauley, on their joint con-
tract, would release for $4,000, in conside-
ration of an additional amount Of $96,0S7
SO to be pad McCauley while keeping the
Prison alone.
WEDNESDAY, April 18th.
SENATE.-1he bill appropriating $4,000
TO the two Orphan Asyums Of the city of
San Francisco, passed. The proposals of
Estel and McCauley to relinquish their State
Prison claims against the State for the ag-
gregate amount Of $2l6,os7 SO was rejected
unanimously. The bill for the construction
of the San Francisco Bplkhead, passed
ayes 20; noes 15 Notice of reconsidera-
ton was given. The bill appropriatng S52,-
527 60 to pay the expenses of the late In
dian war at the North, passed. The bill to
create the county of Mokelumne, was, upon
the reconsideration of the vote again de-
feated. Bill passed appropriating $4,000
to pay the State Prison Judgment obtained