Excerpt from Appendix to Assembly Journals for the Eighth Session of the Legislature of the State of California The history of California, brief as it is, has been an eventful one. Her almost fabulous mineral wealth, has scarcely less attracted the attention of the civilized world, than has her social eccentricities and financial blunders. The evils that affect the financial prosperity of our State, lie so deeply imbedded in, and are so inseparably connected with her organic law, that it can scarcely be hoped, that any permanent or adequate remedy can be applied, without a radical change of our system of government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.