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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
After a few amendments, the bill having been perfected, a vote was at last taken on the bill. Only two votes were recorded against the bill--Messrs. August and McKenney. Ordnance Department.--The President laid before the Senate a communication from the Executive, as follows: Executive Department,March 26, 1861 Gentleman of the Senate: I nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of your honorable body hereby appoint, Captain Charles Dimmock, Colonel of Ordnance; Briscoe G. Baldwin. Captain of Ordnance; and P. G. Coohlan, Clerk, with the rank of Captain — in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly, entitled "an act to incorporate an Ordnance Department, " passed January 25th, 1861. The act provides for a large number of officers, but I believe these will be found sufficient to secure the objects designed to be effected by the passage of the law. In nominating Captain Dimmock, I take the occasion to say, it is understood between us that he is to retain th
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Weighty decision. (search)
A Weighty decision. --The Supreme Court of California, (Judges Field, Cope and Baldwin,) has affirmed the judgment of the Court below, whereby it was established that the owner of land in California, under a patent from the United States, owns all that grows upon or is buried within that land — owns from the centre of gravity to the top of the highest tree — the same as in our older States. In 1853, that same Court decided that the minerals imbedded in such lands belonged to the State, by virtue of a Spanish Mexican law and the principle of Eminent Domain. That decision is now completely reverse
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Census of the United States. (search)
tion for suspending all appropriations to works of internal improvement, was laid on the table. A resolution to refer the proposed amendment of the Constitution of the United States to the Committee for Courts of Justice, was laid on the table. The Governor, under the provisions of the bill, passed this session, for the creation of an Ordnance Department, sent to the Senate the following nominations as officers of the Department: Capt. Charles Dimmock to be Colonel of Ordnance; Briscoe G. Baldwin to be Captain, and Capt. P. G. Coghlan, of the 179th Regiment, to be Clerk, with the rank of Captain — all most excellent nominations, and thoroughly worthy of being confirmed by the Senate, who will, at an early day, go into Executive session to consider them. The Tax bill was passed, also House bills changing the names of the State Lunatic Asylums, and re-charring certain banks. The House passed a bill appropriating money to pay for printing the new edition of the Code; also, a bill