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PAID CANAL BONDS - CANCELLATION.
The Speaker laid before the House a communication from the Governor, transmitting a letter from the Treasurer of State - submitting to the General Assembly, for consideration and correction, the fact that section eighty-five, of the act of December 12, 1872, providing for the payment to the extent of 191 of the old unsurrendered canal bonds, etc., does not provide for the cancellation of such bonds and coupons before placing them in the hands of the Treasurer of State, and recommending tue passage of a joint resolution to authorize such cancellation.
On motion of Mr. Woollen, it was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
