Mr. Watkins, from Special Committee on Translation, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT:-Your Special Committee on Translation of the Laws, having duly considered Senate Concurrent Resolution, authorizing the Secretary of State to contract for the Translation of the Message and other documents; therefore, we beg leave to report the same back with the following amendment:

Strike out the words "one dollar," and insert "seventy-five cents," and we recommend its passage as amended.

Report accepted and placed on file.

H. P. WATKINS,

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

From Committee.

Mr. Redman, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act for the Permanent Location of the Seat of Government at the City of Oakland.

Read first and second times, and referred to a select committee of five. Mr. Ballou, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act to provide for the disposal of the Sixteenth and Thirty-Sixth Sections of Land donated to the State for School Purposes by Act of Congress, passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and to appropriate the proceeds of the sales thereof to the credit of the General School Fund.

Read first and second times, and referred to Committee on Education. Mr. Kirkpatrick, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act to provide Revenue for the Support of the Government of this State. Read first and second times, and referred to Finance Committee. On motion of Mr. Kirkpatrick, the Finance Committee was increased by adding three more to it, for the special purpose of considering the bill just introduced.

On motion of Mr. Denver, double the usual number of copies were ordered printed.

The Chair announced the following as the Select Committee, to take into consideration the bill introduced by Mr. Redman, Relative to moving the Capital to Oakland, consisting of Messrs. Redman, Kirkpatrick, Sharp, Wheeler, and Titus.

On motion of Mr. Ballou, the usual number of copies were ordered printed of the bills introduced by him, relative to School Lands.

Mr. Redman, for and at the request of Mr. Merritt, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act to amend "An Act relative to Escheated Estates," approved April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Read first and second times, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The President here announced the following additional members to the Finance Committee, in accordance with the motion of Mr. Kirkpatrick, for the purpose of considering the bill introduced by him, to provide revenue for the support of the government of this State, consisting of Messrs. Kirkpatrick, Leet, and Bradley.

The President announced as the committee on part of the Senate, Messrs. Watson and Peachy, in accordance with Senate Concurrent Resolution, No. 19, Relative to Printing the Governor's Message in the German language.

RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. Peachy offered the following Concurrent Resolution:

Whereas, The interests of the people of the State of California imperatively require that the mail communication, whether overland, or by ocean, between the Pacific Coast and the Atlantic States of the Union, be carried on with safety, speed, and unfailing regularity; And, whereas, since the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, the mail service by the ocean has been attended with ruinous delays, and with repeated and vexatious irregularities; therefore,

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Representatives in Congress be requested, and our Senators instructed, to use their influence with the United States Postmaster-General to have all future contracts for the transmission of the Ocean Mails, if such should be made, awarded to a company able and willing to perform said service, with as much promptness and regularity as were exhibited in the performance of that service prior to the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

The resolution was adopted.

By Mr. Bradley offered the following resolution:

Resolved, By the Senate, that from and after Monday, the twenty-third day of January instant, the Secretary of the Senate be required to read the proceedings of the previous day from the Journals, instead of from manuscript, as at present.

On motion of Mr. Clark, the resolution was laid on the table.
Mr. Ryan offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be authorized to employ one Printer's Clerk, and one Assistant Minute Clerk, at a per diem of eight dollars per day each, payable out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate.

The question being on the passage of the resolution, the ayes and noes were demanded by Messrs. Dickinson, Redman, and Lansing, with the following result: ayes, 13-noes, 17:

AYES-Messrs. Bradley, De la Guerra, Denver, Eagon, Lansing, McDonald, Peachy, Pico, Ryan, Sharp, Watkins, Watson, and Wheeler-13. NOES-Messrs. Ballou, Clark, Chase, Dent, Dickinson, Edgerton, Franklin, Haynes, Kirkpatrick, Leet, Logan, Merritt, Parker, Parks, Redman, Titus, and Vance-17.

So the resolution was lost.

Mr. Leet gave notice, that he would, on to-morrow, move to amend the Standing Rules of the Senate, by adding as Rule Forty-Six the following:

RULE XLVI.

When nominations shall be sent by the Governor to the Senate for their confirmation, a future day shall be assigned for taking them under consideration, unless the Senate shall unanimously direct otherwise.

GENERAL FILE.

Assembly Bill, No. 39, An Act authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County to make an Annual Appropriation to the Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Society, and legalizing an Appropriation heretofore made-was taken from file, considered in Committee of the Whole, and amended.

IN SENATE.

Reported back, amendments of the committee concurred in, bill read a third time and passed.

On motion of Mr. Watkins, the Senate proceeded to the election of President and President pro tem. of the Senate.

FOR PRESIDENT.

Mr. Dent nominated Mr. Quinn for President of the Senate.

Mr. Phelps nominated Mr. Parker.

Nominations being closed, the roll was called, with the following result: Quinn, 26-Parker, 1:

Mr. Quinn having received a majority of all the votes cast, was duly declared elected President of the Senate.

FOR PRESIDENT, PRO TEM.

Mr. Parker nominated C. J. Lansing for President, pro tem. of the Senate.

Mr. Ballou nominated Mr. Clark.

Nominations being closed, the roll was called, with the following result: Lansing, 27-Clark 1.

Mr. Lansing, having received a majority of all the votes cast, was declared duly elected President pro tem. of the Senate.

Mr. Watson, by leave, introduced a bill for an act entitled An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County to issue a License for a Toll-Bridge across the Pajaro River at Mal Paso, on the line between the counties of Santa Clara and Monterey.

Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Roads and Highways.

REPORTS.

Mr. Denver, Chairman Committee on Enrolled Bills, made the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:-Your Committee on Enrolled Bills have examined and find correctly enrolled, Senate Bill, No. 16, entitled An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act amendatory of, and supplementary to, an Act entitled 'An Act concerning Estray Animals," passed April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. A. ST. C. DENVER,

Report accepted.

Chairman.

Mr. Dent, Chairman Committee on Engrossment, made the following report:

Mr. PRESIDENT:-The Committee on Engrossed Bills bave examined Senate Bill, No. 13, An Act to authorize the Administrator of Samuel J. Crosby, deceased, to sell and convey Real Estate, and find the same correctly engrossed.

Report accepted and bill placed on file.

MESSAGE FROM THE ASSEMBLY.

DENT,

Chairman.

ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,

January 20, 1860.}

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The following message was received from the Assembly:

Mr. PRESIDENT:-The Assembly on the seventeenth instant passed Assembly Bill, No. 54, An Act to extend the time for the Collection of State and County Taxes in the County of Sonoma;

Also, Assembly Bill, No. 43, An Act to authorize the Shasta and Yreka Turnpike Company to file certain papers, nunc pro tune;

Also, Assembly Bill, No. 33, An Act to extend the time for the Tax Collector of Sutter County to collect the Taxes in said County and make his final settlement with the Auditor;

Also, on the eighteenth instant, passed Assembly Bill, No. 21, An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create the County of Merced, to define its Boundaries, and to provide for its Organization," approved April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five;

Also, Assembly Bill, No. 60, An Act to extend the time to the Tax Collector of the County of Napa to collect the Taxes in said County and make the final settlement with the Auditor;

Also, on yesterday adopted Assembly Concurrent Resolution, No. 25, Relative to the Joint Committee on the Constitution;

Also, substitute for Assembly Concurrent Resolution, No. 15, Relative to the State Prison.

Assembly Bill, No. 54, An Act to extend the time for the Collection of