REPORTS FROM THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Mr. Walker, from the Committee on the Judiciary, returned Mr. Heller's bill [H. R. 284] to amend the 22d section of the act for the incorporation of cities and towns and the supplemental act of August 2,1855(the temperance clause) - recommending that it be referred to the Committee on Temperance. He also returned the Senate bill [S. 71] to amend sections 7 and 49 of the act for the settlement of decedents' estates, recommending that it be laid on the table. He also returned Mr. Anderson's bill [H. R. 342] to provide for taxing of costs in criminal actions, recommending its indefinite postponement. These reports were severally concurred in.
