Gentlemen of the Assembly: A discreet and conscientious discharge of the duties of an official station ever receives the twofold reward of private peace and public approbation. The embarrassments surrounding California legislation are only realized by those who have been participants. The unrivaled rapidity of our governmental growth, the varied and conflicting interests contending for mastery, the corrupt councils that have at times prevailed, the correction of the errors of the past, the prudent policy for the future, the force of education in the statutes and institutions of the States of our nativity-all conspire to confuse and confound the most upright and intelligent efforts of the legislator in the performance of his duties. One has studied statesmanship under the conservative Webster, another under the compromising Clay, another under the stubborn and solid mastery of Calhoun, and yet another under the Giant of the West—as in the halls of Congress, the puritan and the pioneer, the strict and the liberal constructionist, mingle in our deliberations. Under circumstances such as these, with contending interests and views at variance, it would be strange indeed, if, at times, the hall of legislation was not the theatre of heated and violent discussion, and the source of imprudent and unwise, as well as wholesome and judicious enactments. To contend that we have been faultless, and that our deliberations will only tend to the advantage of the people, would be to arrogate to ourselves a superiority of wisdom and foresight never accorded to a similar body; but, it is with pleasure that I testify to the honest pervading purpose, though the judgment may have widely differed. It is not my province to eulogize or extol my legislative associates. Each has his account to arrange with his conscience and his constituents-each has left upon the faithful Journal a record by which he is to be judged. But, gentlemen, there is a history connected with your career, engraven upon the heart of one of your number, unintelligible to all except its possessor, and only to be defaced or bedimmed by death itself. The kind and dignified demeanor extended towards me by the Assembly, the uniform support which has sustained my action, could only emanate from a body of indulgent and courteous gentlemen. No matter how heated the debate, no matter how intense the excitement, no matter how stupendous the interest involved-when party was arrayed against party, each pursuing the policy pointed out by honest opinion -still, none forgot the dignity of his own station, or failed to add to the obligations towards my brethren daily augmenting upon me. God grant that the future of each of you may be as agreeable as the recollection of the associations of this session will ever be a source of pleasure to your presiding officer. I now declare this Assembly adjourned sine die. So the Assembly adjourned sine die. J. M. ANDERSON, Clerk of Assembly. ACTIONS, CIVIL. ADKISON, D. O. ADJOURNMENT. Act to define the time to commence, 87, 102, 114, 358, 300, 330, 545. Act to amend Act to define the time to commence, 417, 474, 498, 514, 640, Bill to regulate the rights of ditch owners, 90, Bill to define the method of acquiring rights to divert water in mineral Petition to suppress gambling, 250. Leave of absence, 329. Act to separate Collector's office from Sheriff's in Yuba County, 526. Concurrent Resolution relative to, 434, 548, 647, 673, 796, 822, 823, 861, ADMINISTRATOR. AGENT. Bill to amend Act concerning Public, 288, 294, 609, 780, 857, 860. Act to regulate the fees of Public, 536, 671. Bill to appoint, at Washington City to attend to war debt, 249, 251, 346, AGRICULTURAL. Act for the relief of the State, Society, 266, 273, 283, 290, 768, 772, ALAMEDA COUNTY. ALIENS. Member from, 6. Petition relative to docket book for, 113. Act to create Board of Supervisors in, 138, 190, 383, 400, 430. Act to amend Act to create Board of Supervisors in, 527, 540, 648, 670, Act to authorize Board of Supervisors to re-assess taxable property in, 809. Act granting certain rights to, 323, 354. AMADOR COUNTY. AMYX, F. Member from, 5, 6. Act to adjust the debt between, and Calaveras, 629, 654, 731, 779. Act to define the boundaries of, 632, 650, 652, 675, 680, 683, 685, 719, 720, Bill supplemental, &c., concerning the duties of county officers, 18. Bill to improve emigrant road from Sonora to Walker's River, 91. Resolution of, inviting clergy to officiate as Chaplains, 148. Bill to amend Act to establish insane asylum, 169, 397. Resolution of, relative to F. C. Edwards, 229. Bill to suppress immoral assemblages, 288. Bill to amend 123d Section of Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases, Resolution for leave of absence to Committee, 351. Leave of absence, 425, 711. Protest of, against the action of the House on bill concerning civil actions, Act for E. H. Thomas et al., to build a bridge, 535. Act for the relief of P. S. Solomon, 536. Bill for, to meet deficiencies, 111, 113, 118, 171, 186. Act for making, for deficiencies in State Printing, 189, 198, 229. |