NUMBER X.-Concurrent-Resolutions in relation to Swamp and Overflowed Lands. [Passed February 14, 1859.] General WHEREAS, Many tracts of land, belonging to this State, by vir- Lands offered tue of an Act of Congress, of September twenty-eighth, for sale by eighteen hundred and fifty, have been sold by this State as Government. swamp and overflowed lands; And whereas, the same lands are now offered for sale by the proclamation of the President; And whereas, under the said proclamation, the Registers and Receivers are required not to sell swamp or overflowed lands: Therefore, General Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Surveyor Surveyor-General of this State be requested to furnish the Re- requested to gisters and Receivers of each of the Land Offices of this State furnish list with a list of swamp and overflowed lands, in their various Land Districts, offered for sale by the President's proclamation. to Register. requested to Resolved, That the Registers and Receivers of the Land Register Offices in this State, be, and they are hereby, requested to with- withhold hold the said lands, designated in said list as swamp lands, from from sale. sale, until further instructions may be received from the Department, at Washington. to forward. Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor, be requested to Requested furnish each of the United States Land Offices, in this State, a copy of these Resolutions. NUMBER XI.-Concurrent-Resolution. [Passed February 5, 1859.] papers to Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Return Secretary of State be allowed to return owners all original original papers and claims that have been audited by the Legislature. owners. NUMBER XII.-Concurrent-Resolution, relative to the Boundary-line between California and Utah. [Passed February 9, 1859.] line. WHEREAS, The valleys on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Boundaryare rapidly filling up with bona fide settlers, and an early organization of a Territorial Government, in Carson Valley, is contemplated, it is of the utmost importance to the eastern tier of Counties, that the boundary-line between California and Request for a Utah be speedily established; And whereas, no action has been ascertained in regard to Concurrent-Resolution No. 21, relative to boundary-line between the State of California and Territory of Utah," passed April twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, or of Assembly Joint-Resolution No. 14, in relation to the survey of the eastern boundary of the State of California, passed April twenty-seventh eighteen hundred and fiftyseven: Therefore, Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Commission Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives earnestly requested, to communicate with the President of the United States, setting forth these facts, and requesting that officer to act, in conjunction with the Executive of this State, in the appointing of Commissioners to ascertain, and definitely locate, said boundary-line; such line to conform to that established by the Constitution of the State of California. Requested to forward. Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to forward copies of this Resolution to our Senators and Representatives, and one to the President of the United States. Murder of citizens in Investiga NUMBER XIII.-Concurrent-Resolution. [Passed February 4, 1859.] WHEREAS, We have information that during the Spring of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, a few days subsequent to the massacre of the members of the Crabb Expedition, in the State of Sonora, Mexico, a band of armed Mexican soldiers invaded American soil, at Dunbar's store, on the Gadsden Purchase, and then and there murdered four American citizens, who were in no manner connected with an unlawful expedition, but quietly pursuing their avocations as peaceable men, in American territory: Therefore, be it Resolved, By the Assembly of the State of California, the Sention urged. ate concurring, that our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives in Congress requested, to urge upon the General Government the necessity of investigating this outrage upon American citizens, and demanding of the Mexican Government immediate reparation for the same, and a sufficient guarantee from that Government that like outrages shall not again be inflicted on our citizens, or a like indignity offered to the Government of the United States. Requested Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to forto forward. ward to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, a copy of this Preamble and these Resolutions. NUMBER XIV.-Concurrent-Resolution. [Passed January 10, 1859.] of pre WHEREAS, The Act of Congress of the third of March, eighteen Expiration hundred and fifty-four, for the extension of the pre-emption emption privilege in the State of California, expired on the third of privilege. March, eighteen hundred and fifty-six: Therefore, Revive the Resolved, By the Assembly, the Senate concurring, that our pre-emption Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives re. Laws. quested, to use their best endeavors to have the Pre-emption Laws for California revived and continued. to forward. Resolved, further, That the Governor be requested to forward Requested a copy of the foregoing Resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. NUMBER XV.-Joint-Resolution of Instruction to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. [Passed February 7, 1859.] commerce. WHEREAS, We believe it to be the duty of the Federal Govern- Interest of ment to render all necessary aid which the safety of life, as well as the great and important interests of commerce require on the Coast of California, equally, and with the same liberality, as shown and extended to other States of this Union : Therefore, Resolved, By the Senate and Assembly of California, that our Fog-bell and Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives re- light-house. quested, to procure the establishment of a light-house and fogbell on Punta de los Reyes, in the County of Marin, and to adopt such measures as will insure a speedy erection. Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to for- Requested ward a copy of the foregoing Preamble and Resolution to our to forward. Senators and Representatives in Congress. NUMBER XVI.-Concurrent-Resolution. [Passed February 12, 1859.] time on Salt Resolved, By the Assembly of the State of California, the Sen- Scheduleate concurring, that our Senators be instructed, and our Repre- Lake route. sentatives in Congress requested, to urge the passage of a law requiring and authorizing the Postmaster-General to increase the Requested to forward. number of trips, and shorten the schedule-time, of the contract to carry and transport the overland mails, on the Salt Lake Route; also, the route from Kansas City to Stockton, so as, in all respects, to place said routes on an equal footing with the Butterfield Route, as to schedule-time and compensation. Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to transmit, to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, a copy of the above Resolution. Leave of absence. NUMBER XVII.—Joint-Resolution, granting leave of absence to Stephen J. Field, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court. [Passed February 15, 1859.] Resolved, By the Senate and Assembly, that Stephen J. Field, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, have permission to be absent, during the present year, from the Sate of California, on a visit to the Atlantic States, for the period of four months. Committee to examine vouchers. NUMBER XVIII.-Concurrent-Resolution. [Passed February 16, 1859.] Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that a Committee, consisting of three from each House, be appointed to examine the vouchers for the issuance of the three millions nine hundred thousand dollars bonds, issued by the State Treasurer, and to deface all that are found to be legal. Geological survey. NUMBER XIX.-Concurrent-Resolution relative to a Geological Survey of this State, by the General Government. [Passed February 16, 1859.] WHEREAS, The whole Union is directly interested in the develop. ment of the mineral resources of California; And whereas, a geological survey of the mineral and agricultural lands of this State would place important information in possession of the public, thereby directing attention to their value, and have a tendency to promote the development of the same: Therefore, Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives re quested, to use their influence to provide, at an early day, for a complete scientific geological survey of the mineral and agricultural districts of this State by the General Government. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward copies of Requested this Resolution to our Senators and Representatives in Con- to forward. gress. NUMBER XX.-Concurrent-Resolution. [Passed March 2, 1859.] Committee Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Clerk to Joint Committee appointed to examine the vouchers upon which to examine were issued the three millions nine hundred thousand dollars in vouchers. bonds of this State, under the Act of eighteen hundred and fiftyseven, be allowed a Clerk, to be paid one-half out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate, and one-half out of the Contingent Fund of the Assembly. NUMBER XXI.—Joint-Resolution. [Passed February 25, 1859.] report. WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States, by an Act entitled Deaths on an Act to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and vessels. other vessels, passed March third, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, did provide, among other things, by the fourteenth section of said Act, as follows, viz.: That in case there shall nave occurred on board of any ship or vessel arriving at any port or place within the United States, or its Territories, any death or deaths among the passengers, other than cabin passengers, the Mates officers or Captains, or owners or consignee of such ship or vessel, required to shall, within twenty-four hours after the time within which the report and list, or manifest, of passengers mentioned in section twelve of this Act, is required to be delivered to the Collector of the Customs, pay to said Collector the sum of ten dollars for each and every passenger, above the age of eight years, who shall have died on the voyage by natural disease; and the said Collector shall pay the money thus received, at such times and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury, by general rules shall direct, to any Board or Commission appointed by, and acting under the authority of the State within which the port where such ship or vessel arrived is situated, for the care and protection of sick, indigent, or destitute emigrants, to be applied to the objects of their appointment: Now, therefore, Resolved, That the Governor of this State be, and he is hereby, Board. authorized and requested to appoint such persons or association as he may think proper, as a Board, or Commission, to act by the |