SOLDIERS' HOME - JUDICIAL.
The Speaker resumed the chair and laid before page: 67[View Page 67] the House a message from the Senate transmitting a concurrent resolution for a joint special committee of two Senators and three Representatives, to examine the books and vouchers of the Superintendent of the Soldiers' and Seamen's Home, in accordance with the request of said Superintendent, and report whether the funds intrusted to said Superintendent have been properly applied, and whether his accounts are true and correct.
The resolution was concurred in.
The Speaker also laid before the House a concurrent resolution of the Senate for a joint special committee of four on the part of the House and three on the part of the Senate, whose duty it shall be to rearrange and redistrict the State for judicial purposes, so as to equalize the labor of the judges, etc.
The resolution was concurred in.
He also laid before the House the Senate concurrent resolution for a special joint committee of three Senators and five Representatives to employ an official reporter and to contract for binding the Brevier Reports.
On motion of Mr. Woollen it was postponed and made the special order for Monday at two o'clock P. M.
On motion of Mr. Mellett his bill [H. R. 55] to amend the common school law, was taken up again and referred to the Committee on Education.
