DECEDENTS ESTATES.
Mr. BUNDY, from the Special Committee thereon, to which was referred several bills concerning the amending of the decedents' estates acts, reported a bill amending some twenty-three sections of that law. He moved a dispensation of the Constitutional rule that the bill may be pressed through the three several readings and put on its passage now.
The motion was agreed to by yeas, 34; nays, 14. And accordingly-
The Special Committee's bill [S. 262] to amend Sections 5, 47, 66, 86, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 153, 157, 158, 159, 160, 164, 165, 168, 169, 170, 180, 18, 208, 241, and repeal Sections 4, 108,106, 162 of an act for the settlement and distribution of decedents' estates, approved April 14, 1881, was read, only the first three sections and about half of the fourth section, when the reading was interrupted, and "
The Senate adjourned.