REVISED STATUTES.
A majority of the Special Committee reported on the resolution relative to the purchase of the Revised Statutes for the House of Representatives, recommending its indefinite postponement.
A minority of the same Commtttee recommended that the resolution be concurred in.
Mr. Gibson said although the Committee raised a point of law--that the House is not liable for the payment of these statutes under the law--yet the Librarian (Mrs. Peelle) acted in good faith in the purchase of these books, and it would be morally wrong for this body to leave this woman with these books on her hands, to pay for them after the House had the use of them. He hoped the minority report would be concurred in.
Mr. CARTER said he thought, as a legal proposition, the State was not liable for the payment of these statutes.
Mr. STEWART moved to lay the minority report on the table.
The motion was agreed to--yeas, 45; nays, 28.
The majority report was then adopted.
