certain personal representatives and next of kin of deceased persons, to maintain Civil Actions in certain cases.

Taken up, read a second time, and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Assembly bill No. 351, An Act to legalize the City Assessment of the City of San Francisco for the Fiscal Year 1854-5.

Taken up, read a second time, and referred to Judiciary Committee.

Assembly bill No. 139, An Act to amend an Act to prohibit barbarous and noisy amusements on the Christian Sabbath, approved March 16, 1855.

Taken up, read a first and second time, and referred to Committee on Public Morals and Police.

Senate bill No. 21, An Act to provide suitable cases, desks and furniture, for the State Archives and State Library.

Taken up, and indefinitely postponed.

Senate bill No. 12, An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act defining the time for commencing Civil Actions.

Taken up, and considered as in Committee of the Whole, amended, Committee rose, reported the bill back with amendments, and recommended its passage, as amended.

Committee amendments concurred in.

The bill was then read a third time, and passed.

The Senate then took up Senate bill No. 11, An Act to authorize the Governor to issue Patents, and substitute Senate bill No. 218, An Act to authorize the Governor to issue Patents.

The substitute was adopted, and on motion, was indefinitely postponed.

Senate bill No. 43, An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning the Courts of Justice of this State and Judicial Officers, passed May 19, 1853. Taken up, and,

On motion, was laid on the table.

Senate took up Senate bill No. 22, a bill for An Act to create a Board of Supervisors for the Counties of Contra Costa, Sierra and Yuba, and to define their duties and powers.

On motion, the same was indefinitely postponed.

Senate took up Senate bill No. 35, Ân Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act concerning the Courts of Justice of this State and Judicial Officers, passed May 19, 1853.

On motion, the same was indefinitely postponed.

Senate bill No. 8, An Act entitled an Act in relation to the Indian War Debt of the State.

Taken up, and,

On motion, indefinitely postponed.

Senate bill No. 54, An Act to authorize John W. Owen to build a Wharf in Solano County.

Taken up, and,

On motion, indefinitely postponed.

Senate bill No. 72, An Act amendatory of an Act concerning the office of County Treasurers.

Taken up, and indefinitely postponed.

Assembly bill No. 79, An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning County Judges, passed April 4, 1854.

Taken up, and,

On motion, was indefinitely postponed.

Mr. Moore presented the following report:

Mr. President:

The Finance Committee, to whom was referred Assembly bill No. 386, for An Act supplementary to an Act making appropriations to defray the ordinary Civil Expenses of the Government of this State, from the first day of February, 1855, to the first day of February, 1856, report that they have examined the same, and recommend its passage, as amended.

E. J. MOORE,

Chairman.

Senate bill No. 49, An Act concerning the Treasurer's and Controller's Offices. Taken up, and

On motion, the same was indefinitely postponed.

Senate bill No. 67, An Act concerning State and County Treasurers.
Taken up, read a third time, and passed.

Mr. Rust presented the following report:

Mr. President:

The delegation to whom was referred Assembly bill No. 384, An Act concerning County Judges, report the same back, and recommend its passage.

P. C. RUST.

The bill was then taken up, read a third time, and passed.

Mr. Stebbins presented the following report:

Mr. President:

The Committee on Commerce and Navigation, to whom was referred Assembly bill for An Act to authorize Jno. Vance, and such others as he may associate with him, to build a Wharf at Eureka, in Humboldt County, have considered the same, and have instructed me to report the bill back for the consideration of the Senate.

JAMES G. STEBBINS.

The following message was received from the Assembly:

Mr. President:

The Assembly, on the 28th of April, concurred in Senate amendments to, Assembly bill No. 359, An Act to authorize the Board of Trustees of the City of San Diego to convey to the President and Board of Directors of the San Diego and Gila Southern Pacific and Atlantic Railroad Company two leagues of the Pueblo Lands, to aid in the construction thereof.

Assembly bill No. 388, An Act explanatory of and supplemental to an Act to Re-incorporate the City of San Francisco.

They also, on the 30th April, 1854, adopted a resolution for the appointment of a Joint Committee for drafting a bill for the construction of a State Prison Wall, &c., and ask the concurrence of the Senate.

They have, also, this day passed Assembly bill No. 377, An Act to organize the County of Remondo out of the County of San Francisco.

May 1, 1855.

J. W. SCOBY, Assistant Clerk of Assembly.

Assembly bill No 377, An Act to organize the County of Remondo out of the County of San Francisco.

Taken up, and referred to Committee on Counties and County Boundaries.

Assembly bill No. 388, An Act explanatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled an Act to re-incorporate the City of San Francisco.

Read first and second time, and referred to the San Francisco delegation.

The Senate then took up the following Concurrent Resolution :

Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That a Joint Committee of five from each House be appointed and instructed to report a bill providing for the construction of a wall around the State Prison; and such additional building as they may think necessary for the security and safe-keeping of the Convicts.

Concurred in.

The Chair appointed as such committee, on the part of the Senate, Messrs. McFarland, Keene, Scellen, Mandeville, and McCoun.

The following message was received from the Assembly:

Mr. President:

I am directed to inform the Senate that the Assembly passed, on yesterday, Assembly bill, An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the sale of the interest of the State of California in the Property within the Water-line Front of the City of San Francisco, as defined in and by the Act entitled an Act to provide for the disposition of certain property of the State of California, passed March 26, 1851, passed May 18, 1853, notwithstanding the veto of the Governor, by ayes 58, noes 5.

May 1, 1855.

Respectfully submitted,

J. M. ANDERSON,

Clerk of Assembly.

Senate bill No. 68, An Act amendatory of an Act defining the time for commencing Civil Actions, passed April 22, 1850.

Taken up and indefinitely postponed.

Assembly bill No. 32, An Act to authorize J. R. N. Owen of Butte County to demand and collect Tolls on what is known as Owen's Turnpike.

Taken up, and,

On motion, laid on the table.

Assembly bill No. 124, An Act to authorize Joseph S. Wallis and Sarah Wallis to change the name of their infant son, Talbot Howard Green, to Talbot Howard Wallis.

Taken up, read third time and passed.

On motion of Mr. Mandeville, the Senate took up Assembly bill No. 101,

An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the sale of the interest of the State of California in the property within the Water Line Front of the City of San Francisco, as defined in and by the Act entitled an Act to provide for the disposition of certain property of the State of California, passed March 26, 1851, passed May 18, 1853.

The question being, "Shall the bill pass notwithstanding the veto of the Governor?"

Mr. Sprague moved a call of the Senate.

Upon which the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Sprague, Mahoney and Day, with the following result:

AYES.

Messrs. Colby, Day, Flint, Hall, Hawks, Mahoney, McFarland, Sprague, Tuttle and Whiting-10.

NOES.

Messrs. Burton, Crenshaw, French, Gove, Heintzelman, Hook, Keene, Kendall, Leake, Mandeville, May, McCoun, McGarry, McNeil, Norman, Rust, Scellen and Stebbins-18.

The previous question, "Shall the bill pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor?"

Decided in the affirmative by the following vote:

AYES.

Messrs. Burton, Crenshaw, French, Gove, Hall Hawthorne, Heintzelman, Hook, Keene, Kendall, Leake, Mandeville, May, McCoun, McGarry, McNeil, Norman, Rust, Scellen and Stebbins-20.

NOES.

Messrs. Colby, Day, De La Guerra, Hawks, Mahoney, McFarland, Sprague, Tuttle and Whiting-9.

So the bill was passed.

Senate bill No.

a bill for an Act to provide for the erection of additional Prison Buildings at Point San Quentin, and a wall around the same. Read first time and laid over under the rule.

Mr. Moore presented the following minority report:

Mr. President:

The undersigned, member of the Committee on Morals and Police, on the subject of the bill amendatory of an Act to suppress Gaming, passed April 17, 1855, submits the following:

He believes that it is the duty of the Legislature to keep pace with public sentiment in the enactment of laws for the better preservation of public morals. In doing this the Legislature does not assume the office of a moral preceptor, but simply reflects the common sentiment of the community, and inforces individual obedience to it. He remembers no instance in which a people has been legislated into religion or morality; for all laws rely, in a free Government, upon the healthy tone of the community for their execution. He is convinced that public feeling is ripe for a rigorous beginning in the task of abolishing from the State the vice of Gaming, both in its more open and secret forms; but he begs to remind the Senate that the State has, heretofore, lent itself to the practice of this vice, and has placed the business of keeping tables for games of chance upon an equality with ordinary employments, and has, knowingly, for a long period, received large sums into its public treasury for licenses received from this source. These facts, taken in connection with the fact that the State has only recently discovered that it can no longer continue to collect licenses from this source under a recent decision of the Supreme Court, seem to indicate that the sudden absolute prohibition of the practice in form however retired from public notice, is dictated rather by a sense of loss in revenue, than by a moral sense against the practice.

He, therefore, believes that the wrong of licensing gaming tables, and the wrongful collection of large revenues from that source, can be best repaired, both in point of morals and justice, by allowing the subjects of this encouragement a reasonable time to conform to the provisions of an Act to which this Act is supplementary.

Mr. McNeil presented the following majority report:

Mr. President:

E. J. MOORE.

The Committee on Public Morals and Police have had under consideration Senate bill No. 219, An Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to suppress Gaming, passed April 17, 1855, and the majority of them recommend the indefinite postponement of the bill.

A. MCNEIL.

Chairman.

Mr. Norman moved that the Chairman of the Committee on State Prison, Mr. Crenshaw, be requested to surrender to the Senate the testimony taken in relation to the management and government of the State Prison, and that the same is hereby ordered to be printed.

Mr. Mandeville moved to lay the motion on the table.

Lost.

On Mr. Norman's motion,

The ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Norman, McFarland and Mahoney, with the following result:

AYES.

Messrs. Burton, Colby, Crenshaw, Day, Flint, Gove, Hawthorne, Hook, Keene, Mahoney, McFarland, McNeil, Norman, Rust, Scellen, Sprague and Tuttle-17.