COUNTY WORK-HOUSES.
Mr. KEMPF submitted the following, which was adopted:
Resolved,That the Committee on County and Township business inquire into the expediency of erecting workhouses, in connection with the county jails, for the employment of convicts, as idleness is the mother of all vice; and report by bill or otherwise.
On motion by Mr STANFIELD, (the rules and order being suspended,) Mr. Hunter's bill (H. R. 73) to raise a revenue for State purposes for the years 1859-1860, was considered again on the third and last reading. The question taken by yeas and nays, under the constitutional provision, resulted yeas 94, nays 0.
So the bill passed the House of Representatives.
Mr. DOUGHERTY submitted the following, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Committee on Agriculture inquire into the expediency of providing by law that when the owner of any lands shall desire to drain his land, or prevent the same from overflow of water, he may be authorized to enter upon the adjoining lands of another person and construct the necessary ditches - the damages resulting therefrom being first assessed and tendered - and report by bill or otherwise.
