CALUMET FEEDER DAM.
Mr. VEATCH, from the Committee on the Judiciary, returned Mr. Wood's resolution relative to damages occasioned by the Calumet Feeder Dam overflowing lands in Lake county, and recommended the adoption of the following:
Resolved, That the Attorney General of the State be requested to examine into the matter complained of in relation to the damage done to the lands in Lake and adjoining counties by the Calumet Feeder Dam; and report to the House what measures are necessary to remedy the evils complained of.
This resolution was adopted.
Mr. McLEAN, from the Committee on the Organization of Counties, returned Mr. Prosser's bill (151) for the erection of the 14th Judicial Circuit, and Mr. Kendrick's Marion County Judicial Circuit bill, recommending their indefinite postponement, and reporting a bill in lieu of both, viz : a bill (241) to prescribe what counties shall hereafter compose the od, 5th and 6th Judicial Circuits; to fix the times, &c.
The report was concurred in, and the new bill was passed to the second reading.
Mr. FORD, from the Committee on County and Township Business, returned Mr. Black's bill (100) to authorize township trustees to sign saline land certificates, recommending its passage; and it was ordered to be engrossed.
