San Quentin, covered by or adjacent to any of the Prison buildings or improvements; and the Surveyor-General is also hereby directed to make a survey and plat which shall embrace all such lands, and report the same immediately to the Legislature.

No. V.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted March 11, 1863.]

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that this Adjourn Legislature will adjourn, sine die, on Monday,the eighth day of ment. April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-three, at twelve o'clock, at noon, of that day, and that no new business shall be introduced after the thirty-first day of March, without the concurrence of three fourths of the members present of either House.

No. VI.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted March 23, 1863.]

Hooker.

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that it be- General Joe. comes the State of California to recognise the fame reflected on her name by the splendid services of General Joseph Hooker in the national cause, and to convey to that heroic soldier an expression of her satisfaction with his promotion to the command of the Army of the Potomac, and her confidence that he will lead that army to victories through which peace may return to the nation and new glory given to her flag.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested immediately to transmit a copy of these resolutions to General Hooker.

No. VII.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted March 31, 1863.]

No. 235.

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Senate bill Enrolling Clerk of the Senate is hereby required to make a correction of a verbal error in Senate bill Number Two Hundred and Thirty-Five, an Act to provide for the maintenance and supervision of Common Schools, by inserting in section twentyeight of said Act the words "tenth of September" in place of the words "fifteenth of August."

Eastern boundary

line.

No. VIII. Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted April 4, 1863.]

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives be requested to use their exertions to secure the passage of an Act by Congress changing the eastern boundary line of California,, so as to run from Fort Mohave, up the Colorado River, to the southern boundary line of Utah Territory; thence west, along said line, to the State of California; thereby attaching to California all of that portion of the Territory of New Mexico lying west of the Colorado River and south of Utah Territory.

Senate bill

No. 295.

No. IX.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted April 7, 1863.]

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate be and he is hereby authorized to correct a clerical error in the title of Senate Bill Number Two Hundred and Ninety-Five, entitled an Act supplemental to and explanatory of an Act entitled an Act to allow James E. Nuttman, Marcus Harlow, and their assigns, to construct and maintain a toll road in the County of San Mateo, passed March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by striking out the word "sixth" in line six of the title of the original of the above entitled bill, and insert the word "fourth" instead thereof.

Taxes, and collection

of revenue.

No. X.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted April 8, 1863.]

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Controller of State be and is hereby authorized and required to collate the laws relating to the levy of taxes and the collection of revenue in this State that may be in force at the close of the present session of the Legislature, and with all practicable dispatch to cause one thousand nine hundred and twenty copies thereof, in pamphlet form, to be published and distributed to the various county, district, and township officers intrusted with the execution of said laws, together with such forms and instructions as may be deemed necessary to insure their uniform operation and faithful execution.

No. XI.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted April 20, 1863.]

Concurrent Resolution authorizing the Secretary of State to purchase one hundred additional copies of the Statutes of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, from the State Printer.

of 1863.

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Statutes Secretary of State be and is hereby authorized and required to purchase from the State Printer one hundred copies of the Statutes of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in addition to the number now authorized by law, at a price not exceeding that authorized by law.

No. XII.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted April 20, 1863.]

Concurrent Resolution relative to Indian Affairs.

affairs.

WHEREAS, The Legislature at its last session, in view of the fact Indian that vast sums of money had been expended by the Government in regard to Indian matters on this coast, without resulting in any advantage or benefit either to the frontier settlers or to the Indians themselves, memorialized Congress for a change of policy in the premises, asking for a removal of all undomesticated Indians to distant Reservations, so they could not return; whereas, no action has yet been taken by the General Government in compliance with said memorial; and, whereas, during the last year, Indian disturbances, depredations, and murders, have been of frequent occurrence through an extensive portion of the State; and, whereas, it is now attempted to have the General Government confirm the selection of a Reservation in Smith River Valley, Del Norte County, and another in Round Valley, Mendocino County, against the remonstrance and protests of the people in those and other counties in that portion of the State; and, whereas, those Reservations being within easy communication with the section mostly infested with hostile tribes, the Indians can, and do, as often as captured and taken to said Reservations, escape therefrom, to repeat with increased effectiveness their deeds of plunder and murder; and, whereas, the purchase of these Reservations, while it would be a useless expense to the Government, would also inflict an irreparable injury upon that part of the State; and, whereas, the appropriations now annually wasted upon the various Reservations in this State, with but a small portion of the means exhausted in military expeditions employed in attempting to subdue the Indians, or in trying to guard the lives and property of our citizens against sudden outbreaks and attacks, would, if upon one Reservation distant from their former homes, thoroughly guard all the Indians in

Indian

affairs.

the State, and make their condition far more comfortable than at present; therefore

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that this State, as a matter of justice and right, do hereby request of the General Government, whose duty it is to take care of its wards, the Indians, that some speedy action whereby our people may be relieved from the present incessant disturbances, depredations, and murders, committed by these savages, that as a prac-' tical mode of remedying existing evils in this regard, a competent and suitable Agent should be appointed by the Government to select a Reservation sufficiently distant and detached from the section principally infested by hostile Indians, on which said Indians, as fast as they can be gathered in by the military, or otherwise, should be removed and there colonized, the Government having exclusive jurisdiction over said Reservation, so as to prevent conflicts with local authorities.

Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested without delay to bring the subject of Indian affairs on this coast to the attention of the Government, and to use their influence to have the changes herein suggested adopted and carried into effect.

Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

State Harbor Commissioner.

No. XIII.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted April 24, 1863.]

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Senate will meet the Assembly in Joint Convention at eight o'clock this evening, for the purpose of electing a State Harbor Commissioner, as provided in an Act entitled an Act to provide for the improvement and protection of the wharves, docks, and water front in the City and County of San Francisco, approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Public domain.

No. XIV.-Concurrent Resolution.

[Adopted April 24, 1863.]

WHEREAS, The State of California, through her officers properly authorized by law, has made selections of land from the public domain in part satisfaction of the various donations made to the State by Acts of Congress; and, whereas, the State has made sales of the lands so selected to purchasers in good faith, received partial or whole payments therefor, and has issued

certificates of purchase, or patents, to such purchasers for the public lands so selected, thereby pledging her honor to the procure- domain. ment of good and sufficient titles for the same; and whereas, the Honorable Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington, giving a different construction to some of said laws of donation from that entertained by the authorities of the State, has decided many of such selections to have been improperly made; be it therefore

the

Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Senators and Representatives in Congress are hereby requested to procure the passage of a law which shall provide that wherever proper authorities of the State have in good faith selected any portion of the public domain in part satisfaction of any grant made to the State by any Act of Congress, and have sold the same in good faith, the said selections shall be confirmed to the State, and the State hereby pledges herself that, if upon final investigation and decision, it shall appear that the State has selected any lands to which she is not entitled, she shall pay into the Sub-Treasury of the United States at San Francisco, to the credit of the United States, the sum of one dollar and twentyfive cents for each and every acre of land so determined to have been improperly selected.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be immediately sent by the State Register, under his seal, to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior, and one copy to the Honorable Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington.