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SCHOOL BOOKS FOR PAUPER CHIDREN.
Mr. SCHWEITZER'S bill [H. R. 51] authorizing Township Trustees and Trustees of cities and towns, to purchase books for schools, was read the tird time.
Mr. SCHWEITZER--This bill provides for the buying of school books for poor children. We have many poor children in the several Counties of the State who will be greatly benefited by this measure, and I hope the bill will pass.
The bill passed--yeas, 64; nays, 18.
