Messrs. Burton and Ketcham declined voting.

Mr. Hart voted for Messrs. Hicks and O'Neill.

Mr. Daggett voted for Messrs. Watkins, Laspeyre, and DeLong.
Mr. DeLong voted for Messrs. Walkup, Holden, and Grant.
Mr. Eagon voted for Messrs. Broderick, Gwin, and Weller.
Mr. Hancock voted for Messrs. Pixley, Jackaway, and O'Neill.
Mr. Hill voted for Messrs. Pixley, Lamar, and Hart.
Mr. Lynch voted for Messrs. Springer, Imus, and Lynch.
Mr. Pixley voted for Messrs. Estill, McCauley, and Jackaway.
Mr. Watkins voted for Messrs. Melony, Bulk-head, and Shannon.
Mr. Whitman voted for Messrs. Jackaway, Parsons, and Pixley.
Mr. Shafter received one vote, and Mr. Shattuck received two votes.

S. A. Booker, L. R. Bradley, and John W. O'Neill, having received a majority of all votes cast, were declared, by the President, duly elected Trustees of the State Insane Asylum.

The objects for which the Convention convened having been accomplished, the Convention adjourned, and the Senate returned to its chamber.

IN SENATE.

President in the Chair.

Roll called.

Quorum present

Reports were made as follows:

REPORTS.

Mr. Bradley, of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, made the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:-The Committee on Engrossed Bills have examined Senate bill No. 284, an Act for the payment of expenses incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities, in certain Counties in this State." And find the same correctly engrossed.

Report accepted.

B. T. BRADLEY, for Committee.

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

MR. PRESIDENT:-The Committee on Enrolled Bills, to-day, at eleven o'clock, A. M., presented to His Excellency, the Governor, for his approval, Senate bill No. 134, "An Act for the establishment and erection of a State Reform School."

Also, Senate bill No. 279, an Act fixing the time at which the County Officers of Amador County shall be elected.

Report accepted.

BERRY, Chairman.

The question recurring on the motion to indefinitely postpone Assembly bill No. 257, "An Act to create the County of Mokelumne, and to provide for its organization," the ayes and noes were demanded, by Messrs. Dickinson, Dent, and McDonald, and taken, with the following result: ayes, 16-noes, 15:

AYES-Messrs. Anderson, Baker, Burton, Dent, Dickinson, Garter, Hamm, Kirkpatrick, Lansing, McDonald, Merritt, Phelps, Price, Quinn, Redman, and Williams-16.

NOES-Messrs. Berry, Bradley, Burch, Denver, Grant, Griffith, Hart, Holden, Ketcham, O'Farrell, Parks, Parker, Thom, Titus, and Wheeler -15.

DECLINED Messrs. Gregory and Pacheco.

So the bill was indefinitely postponed.

Mr. Burton, by leave, introduced a bill for "An Act to appropriate money for the payment of a certain judgment against John B. Weller." Which was read first and second times, rules further suspended, bill considered engrossed, read a third time, and passed.

On motion of Mr. Burton, the forty-fifth standing rule of the Senate

was suspended, and the Secretary directed to immediately transmit, to the Assembly, the bill just passed.

Mr. Phelps moved to reconsider the vote by which Senate bill No. 234, "An Act authorizing the construction of wharves at the foot of certain streets, in the City and County of San Francisco," was passed, on yesterday.

Upon which, the ayes and noes were demanded, by Messrs. Parker, Phelps, and Williams, and taken, with the following result: ayes, 14noes, 14:

AYES-Messrs. Baker, Burton, Dickinson, Denver, McDonald, O'Farrell, Pacheco, Parks, Parker, Phelps, Quinn, Redman, Thom, and Williams -14.

NOES-Messrs. Allen, Berry, Bradley, Burch, Dent, Grant, Hart, Hamm, Holden, Lansing, Merritt, Price, Titus, and Wheeler-14. DECLINED Mr. Kirkpatrick declined to vote.

So the Senate refused to reconsider the vote.

FURTHER SPECIAL ORDER.

Assembly bill No. 223, "An Act granting the consent of the Legislature to the formation of a different Government for the Southern Counties of this State," considered in Committee of the Whole, and amended.

IN SENATE.

Reported back, amendments of Committee concurred in, bill read a third time, and made the special order of the day, for Thursday, at halfpast ten o'clock.

Mr. Titus, of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, made the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:-The Committee on Engrossed Bills have examined Senate bill No. 200, an Act to provide for a more thorough distribution of the Laws of this.State, and find the same correctly engrossed.

Report accepted.

I. S. TITUS, for the Committee.

Mr. Baker made a verbal report on Senate bill No. 234, an Act granting the right to construct a wharf in the City and County of San Francisco, to certain parties therein named, reporting it correctly engrossed. Mr. Berry offered the following resolution, which was adopted:

Resolved, That the Enrolling Clerk be allowed one Assistant, from and after this date, to be paid out of the Contingent Fund of the Senate, at the rate of eight dollars per day.

Mr. Titus moved a call of the Senate.
Adopted.

Roll called.

Absent-Messrs. Anderson, Dickinson, Grant, Holden, and Lansing. Messrs. Holden, Anderson, Grant, and Lansing, appearing at the bar of the Senate, were admitted.