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al liability clause, and asked rccharter without
that provision.
HARRIsBrnG, Jan. 18th.

iihhkISblHi', Jan llln.
SrSArE.--The Secretary Of the Commonwealth
being formally intr oduced, presented the returns
of the election for Governor, held on the second
Tuesday of Obtober last. Laid on the table.
Mr.. Rain presented a remonstrance signed BY
eight members of the Bar of Schuylkill county.
against the confirmation of Luther Kidder, as
President Judge ofthe 2lst district These law
yers think that Mr.. X. was mainly instrumental
in getting the new district set off to feather his
own nest, and that the Governor took too much
time eight months more) to consider who to
appoint, &c.
Mr.. Hickman moved to refer il to the Com.
mittee on the Judiciary, with instructions to re.
port bill repeating the law establishing the
new district, and adding Dauphn county to the
Lancaster District. Some objections was made
! 10 The repeal, and IT was finally referred with
instructions to inquire into the "expediency" of
making the proposed repeal and change proposed.
If the Court is abolished, in all probability the
Judge will claim his salary for ten years. Two
memorials, signed by fifteen members of the
Schuylkill Bar, were presented in favor Of the
confirmation of Mr. Kidder.
The Governor, by Message transmitted to the
Speaker, who laid it before the Senate, the evi.
dence which he had received on the 18th Decem.
bcr last of the completion of the Erie Extension
/ from Erie to New Castle 1t consists of the af.
hdavits Of numerous persons who passed from
one to the other of the places named, in boats or
/ barges
/ message received from the Governor,
! nominating Pcrciphcr Lemon to be an Associate
Judge for Wayne county.
| Mr.. Darsie. from the Select Committee TO
which was referredthe letter from the Secretary.
at War, reported a bill ceding TO the United
States three lots of ground, purchased for an U
$ Arsenal, at Pittsburs x
Mr. Darsie also read bill in place, extending
/ the time for the completion of a portion of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, through a corner o,
the State Of Pennsylvania Mr. Snlliven ir
| place, a bill more effactunIly to enforce tn,
judgment ofCourts, giving TO sentences fCri
mina Courts the effect of judgments rendcredr
! civil suits
| Monsieur Tonson was intraduced by Mr. Uick
man, in a suit, viz "a bill to authorize III
| Elzabethtown and Somerville Railroad Conn;
ny 10 extend their road by bridge over the d,
laware, at or near the borough of Easton in,
said borough or South Easton.
Mr.. Sullivan ofIereda resolution requestin.th
Auditor General to inform the Senate what a,
ton had been had under the act of last session
relation 10 the settlement of the accounts ofN
j. b. Andrews, late Clerk ofthe House OF Repr,
sentatives.
Mr.. Darsie moved TO add, and whether an
action has been had in relation to the colectio
of the amount du" the Committee from Fredcri,
Fritz and others which after some discussio
was agreed to, and the resolution adopted.
Mr.. Fegely offered a resolution for the fiji
adjournment of the Legislature on the ith
March (') next Laid on the table
Mr.. Sherwood, a resolution of inquiry tot
Judiciary Committee, as to the expedcncy
granting jurisdiction to Justices of the Peace
hold jury trials with three iustices) in cases
as. ault and battery and petty larceny Adopt
Mr Hill, resolution of inquiry TO the Co
mittee on Finance, TO the expediency of
porting bill subjectng State loans and all sa
or transfers of State stock to such taxes ass
imposed on other securities
Mr. Biglrr, a resolution OF inquiry 10 the Co,
H''''e on tue 'uuiCIdIS as 10 the eNpedleney
v'>ting in Courts OF Common Pleas or Coun
Commissioners, power to regulate election
tricts Adopted.
Mr. Fonkrod resolution fixing the hour
10 on the third Tuesday, inst, as the time
opening and reading OF the returns of the elect
for Governor, and for the appointment of 10
Committee OF Elk to escort the Governor elect
the House of Representatives. Laid on the tab
HorsE.-The matter of alleged fraud in the
lection of Sergeant. .at-arm. was resumed, a
after some explanation, postponed indefinite
by a vote of f:ly TO forty three.
Nr Muse, of Allegheny appeared and took
oath of member Mr.. q Bren is still abse
and one vacancy in Perks, leaving 9s memb
present
Mr. Herr read in place bill to constIue
act of 3lst Nay last, that School Direc
shall assess, for common school purposes,
not less than s per every taxable inhabitr
and not more than three. By the act of last
SION II has been reduced to fifty cents per Ia
Bile, and this act is to renew the old one,
Mr. Merryfeld read, in place, an act TO auth
ize the holding of Jury Trials before Justices
the Peace, for certain petty cases, as is the |
in New Yo'k and other States
Mr. Bayard read, in place, by il. title, anA
for the Suppression of Riots, The bill provid
for the reading proclamation of the Riot A
by peace officers, in the name Of the Commo
wealth al any tumutuous, rotous assemblage Z,