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Show wAsmxt; ron. Washington, 7. A patent was sigued and sent to Surveyor General Wagner, to-day, (or the ranchola Boca De La Canada Dol Piuola, comprising 13,310 acrea in Contra Costa county, confirmed to Maria Mouuela Valencia. This ends the controversy which has been pending for many years concerning the property, prop-erty, which is said to he very valuable. valu-able. Representative Horace Davis, as a result of continued reflection and further inquiry concerning tho feeiing of congressmen on the tuhject, has arrivpd at the conclusion that it would ba a wise policy lbr the Pacific coast delegation to procure, at the nauds of the houee committee on education and labor, a nominal modification ol tbe bill concerning Chinese immigration, immigra-tion, which thoy bavo agreed to report re-port to tbe -house for action when reached in the regular call of the committees. Tbo bill, as it now stands, prescribes penalties of fine, imprisonment, forfeiture, etc., against the bringing or landing ' of more than fifteen Mongolians by any ono vessel, and Davis thiuks the same object ol discouraging aud practicnlly preventing an influx of Chinese can be affected without with-out thoso penal provisions, Much, in his opinion, are likely iu prejudice many eastern membtr-t against the whole movement. Hi3 .lau is to substitute for them a heavy capitation tax, say $jO or $100 for every Cniuanian carried or landed iu exeesd of the-tiitieu the-tiitieu en any one vessel, and pro-v:k' pro-v:k' Unit ihe money th s coJeUed -hikll W- devoted nominally, at least, lor the beuf lit of the Chinese, in returning re-turning sick and indigent MengnlunB to China and in building qu:-r.n,tine hospitals aid large housa?, etc., lor t lie reception oi such passengers h-i. landed. Provisions of this sort w, old quiet the scruples of many eastern men, who might refuse to vote lor any measure which, in pUiu t. .niv proposed to make a criminil misdemeanor mis-demeanor of the aclions on the, part of shipowners ai.d oincrs, which are allowed by the treaty stipulations. Legislation of this quaai-bencvo'ent cnarctrr, though for biu.lt n to the eUk-j, is clearly wit toot the jurisdiction ol cung:c-s, and tho bill that is framed would, in Davis' opinion, have vastly belli r chances of enactment tuan the m.(? now pending, which would prac-y prac-y acc'implieh nothing more. Merchants am recmenttd to Use thtir infiuence (or a redaction of port chargee. |