The Speaker announced as the regular order the bill (S.No.343) to quiet land titles in California, reported from the Committee on gublic Lands, Mr. JULIAN being entitled to the cor. The bill provides in the 1st section that in all cases where the State of California has here tofore made selections of any portion of the public domain, in art satisfaction of any grant made to the State y any act of Congress, and has disposed of the same to purchasers in good faith under her laws, the lands so selected shall be confirmed to the State. NO selection made by the State contrary to existing laws is to be confirmed for lands to which any adverse preemption, homestead, or other right has, at the date of the passage of the act, been acuired by any settler under the laws of the U.S., or to any lands which have been reserved for naval, military, or Indian purposes by the U.S., or to any mineral and, or to any land which, at the time of the passage of the act, was included within the limits ofany city, town, or village, or within the county of SanFrancisco. The State of California is not to receive under this sets. greater quantity of land for school or improvement purposes than she is entitled to by law. The 2nd section provides that where the selections named in section one have been made upon land which has been surveyed by authority of the U.S. it shall be the duty of the proper authorities of the State, where the same as not already been done, to notify the re ister of the U.S. land office for the istriet in which the land is located of such selection, which notice shall beregarded as the date of the State selection, and the ComrGLO shall, immediately after the passage of this act, instruct the several local re isters to forward to the GLO, after investigation and decision, all such selections, which, if foundto be in accordance with section one, the Comnqjssioner shall certify over to the State in the usual manner. The 3rd section enacts that where the selections named in section one have been made from lands which have not been surveyed by authority of the U.S., but which selections have been surveyed by authority of and under the laws of the State, and the land sold to purchasers in good faith under the laws of the State, such selections shall, from the date of the passage of this act, when marked off and designated in the field, have the same force and effect as the preemption rights of a settler upon uusnrveyed public land; and if, upon survey of such lands by the U.S., the lines of the 2 surveys shall be found not to agree, the selection shall be so changed as to include those legal subdivisions which nearest conform to the identical land included in the State survey and selection. Upon the filing with the register of the proper U.S. land office of the township plat in which an such selection of uusnrveyed land is located, the holder of the State title is to be allowed the same time to present and prove n his purchase and claim under this act as is allowedppre'emptors under existing laws; and if found in accordance with section one of this act, the land embraced therein shall be certified over to the State, by the ComrGLO. The 4th section provides that in all cases where township surveys have been or shall hereafter be made under authority of the U.S., and the plats thereo approved, it shall be the duty of the ComrGLO to certify over to the State of California, as swamp and overflowed, all the lands represented as such, upon such approved plats, Within one year from the passage of this act, or within one year from the return and approval of such township lats. The Commissioner is to direct the U.S. surveyor general for the State of California to examine the segregation maps and surveys of the swam and Overflowed lands made by the State; an where he shall find them to conform to the system of surveys adopted by the U.S. e shall construct and approve township plats accordingly, and forwar to the genera fiaud Office for up roval. But in segre gating large bodies 0 land, notoriousl and obviously swamp and overflowed, it shal not be necessary to subdivide the same, but to run the exterior lines of such body of land. In case such State surveys are found not to be in accordance with the system of U.S. surveys, and in such other townships as no survey has been made by the U.S., the Commissioner shall direct the surveyor general to make segregation surveys, upon appliction to the surveyor general by the governor o the State, within one year of such application, of all the swam and overflowed and in such townships, an to report the same to the GLO, representing and describing what land was swamp and overflowed under the grant, according to the best evidence he can obtain. If the authorities of the State shall claim as swamp and overflowed any land not represented as such upon the maps or in the returns of the surveyors, the character of such land at the date of the grant, September 28, 1850, and the right to the same shall be deter mined by testimony, to be talren before the surveyor general, who shall decide the same, subject to the a proval of the ComrGLO. The 5th section proposes to enact that it shall be the duty of the ComrGLO to instruct the officers of the local land offices and the surveyor general, immediately after the passage of this act, to forward lists of all selections made by the State referred to in section one, and lists and may 5 of all swamp and overflowed lands claimed y the State, or surveyed as provided in this act, for final disposition and determination, which final disposition shall be made big the ComrGLO without dela. Tlfc 6th section enacts that an act entitled “ An act to provide for the survey of the public lands in California, the granting of preemption rights therein, and forother purposes, " approved [arch 8, 1853, shall be construed as win the State of California the right to select or 851001purposes other lands in ieu of such 16th and 36th sections as were settled upon prior to survey, reserved for public uses, covered by grants made under Spanish or Mexican authority, orby other private claims or where such sections would be so covered i the lines of the public surve s were extended over such lands, which sha 1 be determined whenever township lines shall have been extended over such land and in case of Spanish or Mexican ants, when the final survey of such grants shall have been made. The surveyor general for the State of California is to furnish the State authorities with lists of all such sections so covered, as a basis of selection, such selections to be made from surveyed lands, and within the same land district as the section for which the selection is Tnade. The 7th section provides that where persons in good faith, and for avaluable consideration, have purchased lands of Mexican grant ees or assigns, which grants have subsequently been rejected, or where the lands so purchased have been excluded from the final survey of any Mexican grant, and have used, improved, and continued in the actual possession of the same contermine us proprietors according to lines of their original purchase, and where no valid adverse right or title (except of the U.S.) exists, such purchasers may purchase the same, after having such lands surveyed under existin laws, at the minimum price established by aw, upon 1st making proof of the facts as require in this section, under regulations to be provided by the ComrGLO. But whenever it shall be made to ap car by petition of the occupants of such land that inJury to permanent improvements would.result from running the lines of the public surve s through such permanent improvements, the ComrGLO may recognize the existing lines of the subdivision. The 8th section proposes to enact that in all cases where a claim to land by virtue of a right or title derived from the Spanish or Mexican authorities has been finally confirmed, and a survey and plat thereof shall not have been made, as provided by sections 6 and 7 of the act of July 1, 1864, “to expedite the settlement of titles to lands in the State of California, ” and in all cases where a like claim shall hereafter be finally confirmed, and a survey and plat thereof shall not be made as provided by said sections within 6 months after such final confirmation, it shall be the duty of the surveyor general of the U.S. for California, as soon as iracticable after the passage of this act, or such final confirmation, to cause the lines of the public surveys to be extended over such lan; and he shall set off, in full satisfaction of such grant, and according to the lines of the public surveys, the quantity of land confirmed in such final decree, and as nearly as can be done in accordance with such decree; and all the land not included in such grant as so set off shall be subject to the general land laws of the U.S. It is provided in the 9th section that from the decrees of the district courts of the U.S. for the district of California, ap roving or correcting the surveys of private lan claims under Spanish or Mexican grants, rendered after the 1st day of July, 1865, an appeal shall be allowed for the period of one year after the ent of such decrees to the circuit court of the U.S. for California, as provided by section 3 of the act of July 1, 1864, to expedite the settlement of titles to land in the State of California; and the decision of the circuit court shall be final.