No. VIII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted February 12, 1862.] WHEREAS, It is reported that the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives have stricken out the appropriation for the California Overland Mail service, for inefficiency of service and for economy; therefore Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the overland daily Overland Mail is of vital importance to the people of the Mail. Pacific Coast; that in the event of a war with a European power, which is not improbable, the overland would be our only secure route for the transportation of mails, passengers, and treasure; that the late interruption, occasioned by floods of unprecedented severity, should not operate to the prejudice of the present route. Resolved, That the daily Overland Mail Company's numerous stations are a necessity to the continuance of the Overland Telegraph, which cannot be kept in order, through so long a stretch of uninhabited country, without the aid rendered by the Overland Mail Company. Resolved, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their strongest exertions to induce the Federal Government to transfer from the Overland Route all printed postal matter, other than the letter mail, to a steamship line, by way of the Isthmus of Panama; and that the schedule time, for the letter mail across the continent, be reduced to sixteen days, from the first of May to the first of November, and twenty-three days, from the first of November to the first of May, and, in addition to this service, that the Pony Express be restored. No. IX.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted February 19, 1862.] WHEREAS, the Honorable the Secretary of the Interior, in his last annual report to the President of the United States, recommended the taxation of mining claims for the financial benefit of the General Government; therefore Taxation of claims by the Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our mining Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives Federal requested, to use all honorable means to prevent the passage of Government any law incorporating the recommendation of the Honorable the Secretary of the Interior. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to send a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Change of Overland service. No. X.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 28, 1862.] Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Senators be and they are hereby instructed, and our Representatives in Congress are requested, to use their influence to have the Overland Mail service so changed, that from Carson City, Nevada Territory, so much of the Eastern Mail as is destined for California, shall be conveyed across the Sierra Nevada Mountains by three routes, the Henness Pass, the Placerville, and the Big Tree routes, to Marysville, Sacramento, and Stockton, as the termini of said routes, and as distributing offices for Northern, Central, and Southern California, with provisions for way deliveries, at the principal towns lying on or contiguous to said routes, between Carson City and their termini in California, say at Downieville, Forest City, North San Juan, Nevada, and Grass Valley, on the Henness Pass route; Placerville, Diamond Springs, El Dorado, and Folsom, on the Placerville route; and Sonora, Columbia, and Mokelumne Hill, on the Big Tree route. Such a division of the Overland Mail service across the Sierra Nevada being necessary to promote the convenience of the extremes of the State, likely to stimulate settlements along the important transmontane highways enumerated, and to lessen the difficulty and uncertainty of winter transportation of the mail. Patents. No. XI.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 28, 1862.] WHEREAS, Mechanics, inventors, and discoverers, in the Pacific States, but more especially in the State of California, are without the facts, data, and full particulars in regard to patents issued by the Patent Office of the United States; therefore Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to secure, if possible, the publication of the number, description, and data connected therewith, of all patents issued by the United States, in some scientific journal published in this State. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. No. XII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted April 4, 1862.] WHEREAS, The Federal Government is at this time struggling to put down a formidable rebellion, and to preserve the integrity of the Union, under which, by the blessing of Heaven, we have grown to be a great and prosperous nation; and, whereas, the people of this State, as a part of the common Government, whose existence has become endangered by such rebellion, cannot, with honor or propriety, remain silent or passive; therefore, be it Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring: First-That the attachment of the people of California to the Union of the States, in one undivided nation, as designed by our patriotic forefathers in the adoption of the present Constitution, is firm, unabated, and unalterable; that the present rebellion is without justification or decent excuse, and but the result of a wicked conspiracy, long since formed by designing and ambitious men, to overthrow our republican form of Government, and subvert the liberties of the American people. Second-That we are in favor of the most thorough and vigorous prosecution of the war for the suppression of the rebellion, the maintenance of the Union, and the enforcement of the laws of the country over the whole national domain. Third-That we view with pride and admiration the conservative and patriotic course pursued by the Chief Magistrate of the nation, in this crisis, and denounce as enemies of the country all those who would seek to divide the Executive Councils, or embarrass the Government, either by captious criticism, or by efforts to convert the war into a means for carrying out ultra political doctrines. Fourth-That the people of this State hereby pledge to the Federal Government a cordial and earnest support until this unholy rebellion shall be suppressed, and the Union rescued from the danger of foes without, or traitors within. Fifth-That the questions which have heretofore divided the people into different political organizations, have either become obsolete, or are for the present in abeyance, and the only vital issue now before the country is the one of loyalty or disloyalty; that no party considerations or party names should be allowed to distract the loyal, or weaken their influence, until our national difficulties are settled, but the patriotic sentiment of the people should be represented by one great party, its mottoThe Union, and Fealty to the Government as our fathers established it. Union. Indians. No. XIII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted March 28, 1862.] WHEREAS, The Federal Government has, since this State was admitted into the Union, expended vast sums of money in regard to Indian affairs on this coast, without resulting in any perceptible advantage or benefit either to our frontiers, settlers, or the Indians themselves, showing that some change of policy is imperative; and, whereas, we deem the important change now demanded to be the removal of all undomesticated Indians from the white settlements to distant reservations, and not suffered to return to their old haunts, as heretofore, and there be protected from molestation on the part of the whites, under suitable enactments by Congress for that purpose; therefore Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to secure the adoption by the General Government of the policy in the foregoing preamble suggested, in regard to the Indians in this State. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit copies of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. expenses, etc. of Indian expeditions No. XIV. Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted April 12, 1862.] Vouchers for Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Adjutant-General of this State is hereby instructed to forward to the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department of the United States, for settlement, all additional vouchers (original) representing claims for supplies furnished any of the expeditions against the Indians of this State, for the payment of which Congress made an appropriation by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Adjourn. ment. No. XV.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted January 14, 1862.] Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that when this Legislature adjourn, it do adjourn until Tuesday, the twentyfirst instant. No. XVI.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted January 30, 1862.] reports Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that there Printing be printed, of the Reports of the Secretary of State and Attor- of State ney-General, four hundred and eighty copies of each, in English; officers. of the Reports of the Controller, Treasurer, and SurveyorGeneral, each, nine hundred and sixty copies, in English, and two hundred and forty in Spanish; of the Reports of Directors and Resident Physician of the Insane Asylum, twenty-four hundred copies, in English; provided, that four hundred copies of the Report of the Resident Physician of the Insane Asylum be furnished to the Trustees of the Insane Asylum; of the Report of the Trustees for the Establishment of the State Reform School, two hundred and forty copies, in English; of the Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, twentyfour hundred copies, in English, and four hundred and eighty in Spanish; of the Report of the Trustees of the California Institution for the Education of the Indigent Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, two hundred and forty copies, in English; of the Report of the Swamp Land Commissioners, nine hundred and sixty copies, in English; of the Report of the State Geologist, thirtysix hundred copies, in English; of the Report of the Trustees of State Library, two hundred and forty copies, in English; of the Report of the Adjutant-General, nine hundred and sixty copies, in English; and that the Sergeants-at-Arms of the two Houses be directed to distribute the same, as soon as printed, pro rata, among the members. No. XVII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted February 17, 1862.] Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Delegates to Governor is hereby authorized to appoint such number of Dele- World's Fair gates to the World's Industrial Exhibition, at London, as the State of California may be entitled to; provided, that such representation shall incur no expense to the State. No. XVIII.-Concurrent Resolution. [Adopted February 3, 1862.] Resolved, By the Senate, the Assembly concurring, that the Indians. Committee on Military Affairs, of the Senate, and the Committee on Indian Affairs, of the Assembly, take into consideration the policy of the Government in regard to Indian matters in |