GAVIN & HORD'S STATUTES.
Mr. HEFFREN, from the special committee appointed to inquire with reference to the purchase of Gavin & Hord's Statutes, reported letters from Bingham & Doughty and Gavin & Hord, the publishers and editors of said Statues, proposing to fill the State's order for three dollars a volume; and recommending a State subscription for a - number of copies for the use of the General Assembly, and - copies for the public officers.
Mr. NEBEKER moved to refer the report, to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. HURD would stand in need of this work, unless he were supplied with all the acts since 1850. The House would not be capable of acting intelligently on many questions without it, and he thought it would be economy to procure it.
Mr. EDSON. The first volume brings up the compilation of the nets to this time, and the second volume would embrace the acts of the present Legislature. It seemed to him that the body ought to subscribe for the first volume, aud that at least 100 copies be procured for the use of the House.
Mr. SMITH, of Bartholomew, understood the the subscription for these books to be proposed for the benefit of lawyers.
Mr. HEFFREN. Yes, sir.
Mr. SMITH. Then it should be ascertained how many practicing lawyers there are in the House, that they might be supplied to the extent of their number.
Mr. HURD. It was not a subscription for members in the sense of taking the books home with them. They were for use in the public service.
page: 73[View Page 73]Mr. HEFFREN moved ineffectually to post-pone the further consideration of the report till Tuesday.
Mr. BRANHAM hoped the House would not vote this supply of books without the proposition first going to the committee proposed. If it was right for the House to have them he was ready to vote for the proposition.
The report was then referred to the Judiciary Committee.
