IN SENATE.
FRIDAY, February 20, 1863.Mr. FERGUSON offered a resolution, which was adopted, that a committee of three be appointed to compile and report to the Senate, from the reports of the officers of the two State Prisons, a statement of the annual expenses of each prison for the two years last past, exclusive of repairs, machinery and construction, but including salaries of officers, and showing the average annual expenses for each convict in each prison, during said period.
Mr. CLAYPOOL called up the bill, [H. R. 44) to change the time of holding Common Pleas Courts in Fayette county, which was read the third time and passed, by yeas 41, nays 0.
NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Were introduced, read the first time and passed to the second reading, to-wit:
By Mr. COBB, a joint resolution, (13) against the expediency of Congress accepting League Island for a Navy Yard.
By Mr. CORBIN, [147] a bill providing for the election and appointment of officers for the Benevolent Institutions of this State; prescribing some of their duties and other matters properly connected therewith; repealing all laws in conflict with the game, and declaring an emergency for the Immediate taking effect thereof.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
By Mr. BROWNE, of Randolph, [148] a bill for the relief of Peter Wells and Benoni Wells--read twice and referred.
A committee report recommending that the bill S. 110--see page 129--be laid on the table, was concurred in.
LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT.
The hour having arrived for the consideration of the bill [S. 111] for districting the State for legislative purposes--
The bill was read by sections; and various amendments offered, some of which prevailed, and many others did not. Finally the bill and amendments got exactly into the shape the committee imported, and at that stage, and at a late hour, the bill and amendment were ordered to be engrossed. All sorts of parliamentary expedients were used to strive off the vote, but failed.
