and appoint a committee to confer, the other House shall appoint a like committee; and such committees shall meet at a convenient hour, to be agreed upon by their respective Chairmen, and shall confer upon the differences between the two Houses, and shall report as early as convenient the result of their conference to their respective Houses for their action.

2.

When a message shall be sent from either House, it shall be announced at the door by the Doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it may be sent.

3.

Messages shall be sent by the Secretary, Clerk, or by such person as a sense of propriety of each House may determine to be proper.

4.

Notice of the action of either House to the other shall be on paper, and under the signature of the Secretary or Clerk of the House from which such notice is to be conveyed.

5.

After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled by the Enrolling Clerk of the Assembly or of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other House, before it shall be presented to the Governor of the State.

6.

When bills are enrolled, they shall be examined by the Enrolling Committee of the House in which they originate, who shall carefully compare the enrolment with the engrossed bill, as passed in the two Houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the enrolled bill, make their report forthwith to the House in which the bill origi nated, stating by whom such bill was examined.

7.

After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the respective Houses, first by the Speaker of the Assembly, then by the President of the Senate.

8.

After a bill shall have thus been signed in each House, it shall be presented by the Enrolling Committee of the House in which it originated to the Governor of the State for his approval, (it being first indorsed on the back of the roll by the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be, certifying in which House the bill originated.) The said, committee shall report the day of presentation to the Governor, which time shall be carefully entered on the Journals of the House in which the bill originated.

9.

All orders, resolutions, and votes, which are to be presented to the Governor of the State for his approbation, shall also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed, and shall be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as provided in the case of bills.

10.

When the Senate and Assembly shall judge it proper to make a joint address to the Governor, it shall be presented to him in his audience chamber, by the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Speaker and both Houses.

11.

When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one House is rejected by the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in which the same shall have passed.

12.

When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same session without a notice of five days, and leave of two thirds of that House in which it shall be renewed.

13. '

Each House shall transmit to the other papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.

14.

After each House shall have once adhered to their disagreement, a bill or resolution shall be lost.

15.

No bill or resolution that shall have passed the Assembly and Senate shall be presented to the Governor for his approval on the last day of

the session.

16.

No appropriations of money, for any purpose whatever, shall be made except by bill.

17.

Each House may order the printing of bills introduced and reports of its own committees, but no other printing shall be ordered except by a concurrent resolution passed by both Houses.

18.

There shall be a joint Standing Committee of three from each House, who shall examine all matter proposed to be printed by concurrent order, and shall report what part of such matter it is needful to print.

19.

No spirituous liquors shall be offered for sale or introduced within any portion of the building which is used for State purposes, or is under the control of this Legislature.

20.

No increase of the pay of any officer or attaché of the Senate pr Assembly shall be made by resolution, except by unanimous consent.

21.

All concurrent or joint resolutions, which relate to or contain communications to the Federal Government, shall be treated in all respects as bills.

Mr. Goodall, of the Mono and Tuolumne delegation, made the following report:

Mr. SPEAKER:-The Mono and Tuolumne delegation, to whom were referred Assembly bill No 7, an Act to fix the time of holding the County Court in the County of Mono, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report it back to the House, with the recommendation that it pass;

Also, Assembly bill No. 6, an Act to fix the salary of the County Judge and District Attorney of Mono County, and recommend the following amendment to the title of the Act: "and to provide for the payment of the same," and further recommend the passage of the bill as amended. GOODALL, for Delegation.

MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.

The following message was received from the Governor, transmitting a letter from the Honorable George Oulton, calling attention to certain charges against the State Controller, and the revenue officers of Trinity County:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Sacramento, December 9th, 1865.

To the Assembly of the State of California:

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I have the honor to transmit here with a letter from Honorable George Oulton, calling attention to certain charges against the State Controller,' and the revenue officers of Trinity County, which have appeared in some newspaper in San Francisco.

The Controller desires that the subject may be examined into by a proper committee of the Senate and Assembly; and, although I entertain the utmost confidence in his official integrity, as well as in the correctness which has characterized the business management of his office, yet it is competent and proper for the Legislature to cause an investigation to be made as requested in his letter, and I recommend that it be done.

FRED'K F. LOW,

Governor.

OFFICE OF CONTROLLER OF STATE,

Sacramento, Cal., December 8th, 1865. To His Excellency, Fred'k F. Low, Governor of California : SIR-One of the San Francisco daily newspapers, in its issue of the twentieth of November last, published an article purporting to be a communication from a Trinity County correspondent, containing substantially the following statement, viz: Tax Collectors can procure for fifty cents apiece foreign miners' licenses, regularly signed by the Controller, upon which they can realize a clear profit of three dollars and fifty cents. The communication referred to appeared over a fictitious signature, and although an application to the editors of the paper in which it was published failed to elicit the real name of the writer, one Charles E. Williams, of Weaverville, has declared himself to be its author. I learn, too, that Mr. Williams avows his ability and willingness to substantiate by proof the charges contained in the above named communication; and that an opportunity may be afforded him, permit me to request you to call the attention of the Legislature to the subject, and to suggest that a joint committee of the two Houses be appointed, with power to send for persons and papers, whose duty it shall be to make a thorough investigation of all matters pertaining to the issue of foreign miners' licenses.

Hoping that the course herein suggested may meet with your approval and co-operation, and that the Honorable Senate and Assembly will at the earliest day practicable make a complete investigation of the charges preferred by Mr. Williams, I reserve a statement of my own action in the premises to be laid before the committee when appointed. I have the honor to be, very respectfully,

(Signed :)

Your obedient servant,

GEO. OULTON,

State Controller.

Mr. Wilcox moved to take up the report of the Committee on Rules. Carried.

The report was adopted, and on motion of Mr. Wilcox, amended by Mr. Perrin, so as to include the list of Standing Committees.

The usual number of copies were ordered printed.

Mr. Satterwhite introduced a concurrent resolution to resist any attempt to repeal the Specific Contract Act.

Mr. Hopper moved to lay the resolution on the table,

Upon which, the ayes and noes were demanded, by Messrs. Satterwhite, Hoag, and Lupton, and the motion prevailed, by the following

vote:

AYES-Messrs. Ayer, Braly, Chamberlain, Chappell, Coghlan, Collier, Dorr, Dwyer, Eagar, Frink, Goodall, Greene, Hamlin, Hansbrow, Hatch, Hill, Hogle, Hollister, Hopper, Hunt of Sacramento, Hunt of Santa Clara, Huestis, Ireland, Kidder, Lee, Long, Maholmb, Olds, Pattison, Reed, Sexton, Sherwood, Smith of Butte, Smith of El Dorado, Wilcox, Wilson, Zuck, and Mr. Speaker-38.

NOES-Messrs. Anthony, Batchelder, Bledsoe, Brown of Tulare, Bugbee, Campbell, Clayton, Corey, Dornin, Downing, Dutton, Goodwin, Hawkins, Hoag, Holden, Howard, Leech, Lupton, Luttrell, Mace, McClelland, Meredith, Murch, Parrish, Satterwhite, Steele, Stewart, Taylor, Tilden, and Wiggin―30.

RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. Wilcox offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That Merlin Keyes be and is hereby appointed an additional Page of the Assembly, at the per diem allowed by law.

Mr. Downing moved to amend by inserting the name of Roderick Matheson.

The amendment was withdrawn.

The resolution was adopted.

Mr. Holden introduced a concurrent resolution for the appointment of a Joint Committee of Investigation in reference to Honorable George Oulton, Controller, and revenue officers of Trinity County.

Adopted.

Mr. Howard introduced a concurrent resolution granting leave of absence to John W. Ackerson, County Treasurer of San Mateo County. Referred to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to report a bill. Mr. Goodwin offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Ways and Means be allowed to appoint a Clerk, with the compensation allowed by law.

Laid on the table till the announcement of the committees:

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.

The following message was received from the Senate:

SENATE CHAMBER,

December 11th, 1865.

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Mr. SPEAKER: The Senate on Saturday adopted Senate concurrent resolution No. 5, to appoint a joint committee to investigate affairs at the Insane Asylum;

Also, Senate concurrent resolution No. 7, requiring the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the Assembly to have the numbers and titles of bills on general file printed.

CHAS. W. GORDON,

Assistant Secretary.

CONSIDERATION OF SENATE MESSAGE.

Senate concurrent resolution No. 5, above reported, was concurred in. Senate concurrent resolution No. 7, above reported, was laid on the table.

The Speaker announced the following

JOINT COMMITTEE ON INSANE ASYLUM.

Messrs. Chappell, Wiggin, and Long.

NOTICES OF BILLS.

Notices of the introduction of bills were given as follows: