BREVIER AND HORTICULTURAL REPORTS--ACTS AND JOURNALS.
Mr. ZENOR submitted the following, which was adopted without a division:
Resolved, That the State Printer be authorized to bind in full law, and send to each member of the House of Representatives, and the elective officers thereof, three copies each of the Legislative Brevier Reports, the Acts, the Journals of the House and Senate, the Documentary Journal of the House and Senate, and the Horticultural Reports.
Mr. CALDWELL submitted a resolution which was adopted, to discharge the clerk of the committee on swamp lands.
Mr. WALKER submitted an order which was referred, that the Committee on Education report a bill to furnish township libraries for 10 townships unsupplied.
Mr. TEBBS introduced a bill [H. R. 361], for an act to fix a time for holding Courts of Common Pleas in Dearborn county.
Mr. CUNNINGHAM submitted a resolution which was referred, that the Judiciary Committee report a bill fixing the per diem of the clerks and police of the General Assembly.
Mr. McGOWAN. A bill [H. R. 362] for an act to amend section 6 of the ditch law of March 4, 1869, (making ditch obstruction a penal offense.)
Mr. McGOWAN. A bill [H. R. 363] for an act providing for the appointment by the several courts of the State of guardians for persons of unsound mind.
Mr. MINICH submitted a resolution which was adopted, allowing the usual compensation for indexing the journal.
Mr. SANSBERRY. A bill [H. R. 364] for an act to amend sections 1, 9 and 10 of the act providing for the election and qualification of Justices.
Mr. LINES gave notice of his desire that the Judiciary Committee would return his bill [H. R. 31.]
Mr. MILLKAN reported a substitute bill [H. R. 365] to amend sections 6 to 12, of the act of May 12,1869, to authorize railroad aid by counties and townships, which was made the special order for Friday.
On motion of Mr. NEFF, Mr. Sabin obtained indefinite leave of absence on account of sickness in his family.
The House then took a recess till 2 o'clock.
