IN SENATE.
MONDAY, February 16, 1863.Committee reports recommending that Senate bills 29, (see page 50;) and 70, (p. 100;) be laid on the the table, were concurred in.
Mr. MURRAY offered a resolution,which was adopted, that the Committee on Benevolent Institutions inquire as to the expediency of so amending the law as that insane persons may be received from the prisons in the State into the State Asylum.
NEW PROPOSITIONS.
The following bills were introduced, read the first time, and severally passed to the second reading, to-wit:
By Mr. GRAVES, by direction of a select committee, and in lieu of the bill S. 104see page 127which was laid on the table, [133] fixing and determining the amount of the equivalent to be paid by persons conscientiously opposed to bearing arms in pursuance of the requirements of the Constitution, declaring when the same shall be due and payable; directing the making of rules and regulations for the collection thereof, and the manner in which suit therefor shall be brought and judgment recovered; and also declaring when this act shall take effect.
By Mr. MURRAY, [134] supplemental to an act to regulate and license the sale of spiritous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, approved March 5, 1859.
By Mr. WILLIAMS, [135] to amend the first and third sections of "An act for the encouragement of agriculture," approved February 17, 1852.
page: 152[View Page 152]By Mr. RAY. [136] to divide the State Into eleven Congressional Districts, and to repeal "An act to divide the State into Congressional Districts," approved February 9, 1852.
WORK FOR COMMITTEES.
Senate bills numbered 120 to 132 inclusive--introduced yesterday were read the second time and appropriately referred.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
House bills 17, 23, (see page 46;) 48, 57, 58, (p. 57;) 62. (p. 68;) 78, 82, 85, (p. 82;) 87, (p. 85.) 97, (p. 94;) 107, 110, 114, (p. 109;) 117, 119, (p. 110) ) 128, 129, 133, (p. 112;) and 145 (p. 121;) were read the second time and appropriately referred; except 114 and 119, which were ordered engrossed: and 129, which was laid on the table.
A call of the Senate revealed the fact that but thirty two Senators were present, when, for want of a quorum--the State Prison Committee being absent, by leave--the Senate adjourned.
