RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. GREGORY offered a resolution, That the Committee on Benevolent Institutions be requested to examine into the practicability of the passage of a bill, during this session, to establish a State Board of Visitors, investiged with powers to visit at any time any and all of the Benevolent Institutions of the State, with full authority to investigate into anything pertaining to the management of such institutions, to send for persons and papers to inquire into the charges so preferred. Such Board to be elected by the General Assembly.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. ADRIAN offered a resolution which was adopted; That the Secretary of State be instructed to forward, without delay, to the different County Auditors of this State, the blank inquiries, in regard to the number of orphan children in the County Poor House, and that the principal clerk see that this resolution be carried into immediate effect.
Mr. ROBINSON offered a resolution, which was adopted--yeas, 78, nays, 0--that our Senators and Representatives in Congress are respectfully requested to use their best efforts to secure the passage of a law by Congress equalizing the bounties of soldiers of the late war of the Rebellion.
Mr. SWITZER offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the Attorney General be requested to inform this House of the steps taken by himself or predecessor in the matter of bringing suit against E. B. Henderson, late Auditor of State, for the recovery of moneys from foreign Insurance Companies, as directed by the General Assembly of 1879, etc.
The House adjourned.
