RELOCATION OF COUNTY SEATS.
Mr. BROWN moved that the relocation of County seats bill [S. 9] be taken up.
Mr. MAY made an ineffectual motion-yeas, 11; nays, 26-to lay this motion on the table.
The motion was agreed to and the bill was read the second time.
On motion by Mr. JOHNSON the further consideration of the bill was postponed till to-morrow.
Mr. BELL, under a suspension of the Constitutional rule by a two-thirds vote, introduced a bill [S. 294] to make the general index of a deed or mortgage prima facie evidence of the record to which it refers, when the destruction of the record by fire and loss of the original instrument is made to appear, which was read twice by title only, the third time by sections, and passed by yeas, 40; nays, 0.
On motion by Mr. VOYLES the bill [H. R. 464] supplemental to an act relating to the disposal of estates of persons who have absented themselves from their usual places of residence and gone to parts unknown, under a dispensation of the Constitutional restriction by a two-thirds vote, was read twice by title only, the third time by sections and passed by yeas, 41; nays, 1.
On motion by Mr. SMITH of Delaware, the bill [H. R. 380 ] to legalize the Daleville and Bell Creek Turnpike Company, in the County of Delaware, under a suspension of the Constitutional rule, was read twice by title only, the third time by sections and passed by yeas, 34; nays, 0.
