To the Senate and Assembly of the State of California :

The subscribers, teachers of San Francisco, feeling a deep interest in the State Geological Survey, respectfully petition for its completion under its present head.

Without forgetting the magnitude of the industrial interests directly involved in the completion of this survey, we, as teachers, desire to present for your consideration the fact that, until such completion, several important branches of science cannot be successfully taught in our schools for lack of proper instrumentalities.

So long as the chief occupation of man must be upon materials furnished by nature, so long as a knowledge of natural laws is essential to success in such work, so long should the natural sciences receive a large share of attention in our schools. Moreover, our State in vain provides for training a body of scientific men, without a public opinion educated up to the apprehension of scientific principles.

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That the limits of said town comprise sections ten, eleven, fifteen and fourteen, and the east halves of sections nine and ten of township four south, range ten west, of San Bernardino meridian and base line, forming a rectangle of two miles and a half in length from east to west, and two miles wide from north to south, as shown by the plan that accompanies this petition.

That the population of said town is more than seven hundred, and that the number of qualified voters is seventy-five or more.

And that a large majority of the inhabitants and of the qualified voters of said town desire that it should be incorporated according to the provisions of an Act entitled an Act for the incorporation of cities, passed March eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty.

Wherefore, your petitioners pray that the said town may be incorporated under the name of "The City of Anaheim," and made subject to the provisions of that Act, so far as the same may not be changed by the Act of incorporation.

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The reasons against such proposed action are numerous and cogent, among them may be suggested the following:

1. The cost imposed by such a proceeding would be onerous and burdensome, without conferring any corresponding benefit whatever.

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The angle at which the proposed extension of Montgomery street must intersect all the streets which it crosses and the entire mass of real property between Market and Connecticut streets, will be destructive of the symmetry of the official survey of all that part of the city and of a great amount of land and buildings, out of all proportion to any real or supposed benefits.

3. The terms of the ordinance of the Board of Supervisors, which it is proposed to confirm, are glaringly unjust, in this: that while a large area of property, purchased and paid for on the faith of the permanence of the city map, prepared and adopted under the sanction of the Legislature, will be injuriously affected in value by the proposed extension, no compensation whatever is proposed to be given except for land actually taken for the said street.

4. The proposed extension is to be eighty (80) feet wide; the width of the present Montgomery street being but sixty-two (62) feet, it will require to be widened eighteen feet to correspond therewith; and, as the centre lines of the two streets are to coincide, this involves the destruction of the fronts of all the buildings on both sides of the present Montgomery street-a useless and wanton expense. If the new street is to be opened, there is no reason why one side of it should not be made coincident with the corresponding side of the present street.

5. The proposed extension, if conceived in the public interest, would have been, by a deflection of a few feet, made to cut the blocks of the hundred-vara survey into equal subdivisions and pass through the intersections of alternate streets, as: Third and Howard, Fourth and Harrison, Fifth and Brannan streets, etc., thus involving much less destruction of property. The contemptuous and wanton disregard of all public considerations in the ordinance shows that it was got up purely in the interest of a few speculators, through whose property the proposed street is to pass.

6. The validity of the ordinances and proposed extension are now in controversy in two causes pending and undecided in the Supreme Court. The undersigned respectfully submit that it is not in accordance with the spirit of our institutions nor consistent with true republican government, for the Legislature to interfere under such ciremstances and make law to suit any particular case. Signed by

JOSEPH A. DONOHOE,
And twenty-eight others.

To the Honorable the Senate and Assembly of the State of California:

The undersigned, residents of Mariposa and Fresno Counties most respectfully urge upon the importance and necessity of changing a part of the boundary line between Mariposa and Fresno Counties, with the object and intent to make the same conform to the natural wants and demands of those residing near the present boundary line of each county.

As it is at present, many farmers living within less than twenty miles of the county seat of Mariposa County, with good wagon roads to that place, are obliged to travel fifty miles over a rough trail to get to Mil. lerton, the county seat of Fresno County, and to reach there by wagon are obliged to travel within less than two miles of the county seat of Mariposa County, and then proceed fifty miles southerly, making a distance of nearly seventy-five miles.

The value of the farming lands to be affected by the proposed change is not sufficient to make any question, as the distance necessarily travelled by the Fresno County officers at present, in serving papers, etc, renders the amount of revenue derived from them but a small item. The change we most respectfully urge is to have the line run as follows: Starting on the present county line at the southwest corner of section eleven, and the northwest corner of section fourteen, in township six, south, range twenty east, of Mount Diablo meridian; thence running east, following the section lines to the top of the main ridge between the waters of Big Creek and the Fresno; thence eastwardly on the main ridge which divides the waters of the Merced and San Joaquin Rivers, to the eastern boundary of Fresno County.

We would further state that the above proposed line, after striking the dividing ridge between Big Creek and the Fresno, is a natural boundary running between two streams, whereas the present boundary line crosses Big Creek, the south fork of the Merced, head waters of the main Merced and Tuolumne Rivers diagonally; and this alone we urge as sufficient reason for a change of the boundary line.

To the Senate and Assembly of the State of California:

Your petitioners respectfully represent that they are residents of a tract of land known by the name of "Sutter Island," embraced within the boundaries of Yolo and Solano Counties.

That between said island and the remainder of Yolo and Solano Counties large bodies of water intervene, which, in effect, completely cut off all communication between their county seats and our island, except by a route passing through the City of Sacramento.

That our geographical position and trade relations are such as to make "our island" the natural adjunct of Sacramento County.

To the Honorable the Senate and Assembly of the State of California:
The petition of the undersigned, constituting the Board of Trustees
of the Town of Grass Valley, in the County of Nevada and State of
California, respectfully showeth :

That the corporate limits of said town were declared and established by the Act of incorporation, prior to any survey of the public lands in that vicinity by the Government of the United States; that such survey has since been had; that application has been made, on behalf of the inhabitants of said town, by the Board of Trustees thereof, through the proper Land Office, for the purchase of the lands granted to the inhabitants of said town, under and by virtue of the Act of the Congress of the United States entitled an Act for the relief of towns and cities upon the public lands, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven; that the present corporate lines of said town do not correspond with the section or subdivision lines of the survey of the public lands of the United States, but differ therefrom to the extent of about one hundred and twenty yards; that it would be beneficial to the inhabitants of said town that the corporate limits thereof should be made to correspond with such section and subdivision lines, as such change would facilitate the obtaining of title to the lands included within the town site.

And we would further represent that a majority of the inhabitants occupying the small strip of land on the eastern side of said town, between the present corporate line and the proposed line, are favorable to the change and desire to be brought within the corporate limits.

Your petitioners therefore pray that section two of the Act to incorporate the Town of Grass Valley be so amended as to include within its area the southeast quarter, and the south half of the northeast quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, and the east half of the southwest quarter of section number thirty-seven, in township number sixteen north, range number eight east, Mount Diablo base and meridian.

And your petitioners would ever pray, etc.

C. CONAWAY,

C. C. SMITH,

C. C. TOWNSEND,

E. R. WEST,

BANWESCOLLINS.