North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-01-11
SENATE.


! The Senate met according to adjournment.
( William P. Watt, Esq. the Senator elected from
Oh county of Rockingham appeared. presented hi
credentials, was qualified and took his seat.
Bills AND RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. Bower offered the following resolution:
Resohed, That from and after Monday next, this
House will receive mere private bills this session
Laid on the table.
Mr. Cameron bill to facilitate the construction
the Fayetteville and Centre Plank Road Company
Referred.
NJ. Joyner, bill concerning the Seaboard and Ro-
anoke Rail Road Company. Read first time.
Mr. Fender, bill to incorporate the Roanoke and
Chowan Steamboat Company. Read first time.
Mr.. Cameron, a bill to amend the Common School
Law. Referred. ..a.
Mr.. Grst, bill to run the boundary line between
Craven and Beaufort Counties. Read first time.
The Resolution heretofore offered by MIR. Bond.
in relation to the appointment of Delegates to attend
the Worlds Fair in London, was taken up, and re-
jected-yeas Is, nays IS.
The Senate then voted, in conjunction with the
House, for two Trustees Of the Unversty-the Hon.
David S. Reid, W. w. Avery, John II. Haughton,
being in nomination. MIR. Reid received 81 votes,
Mr.. Avery p, MIR. Haughton %, MIR. Bynum, II,
MIR. Steele 5, and Mr.. Biggs 2.
Received message from the Commons, proposing
that the Houses adjonrn sine die the 9th in
slant. Mr.. Joyner moved to lay tl:e proposition on
the table, which motion was not agreed to-yeds 90,
nays 26. The Senate then disagreed to the House
proposition.
Mr. Drake, from the Committee, reported that the
Hon. David s. Reid had received majority Of all
the votes cast for Trustee of the University, and
was duly elected. Report concuIred in. --r.-
o." BILLS ON THIRD READING. '--S
= The bill to amend the act Incorporating the Cald-
well and Ashe Turnpike Company, and the bill to
amend the act incorporating the town of kinston
were read the third time and ordered to be engrossed
The bill to secure the more speedy administration
of JUSTICE and the bill to exempt persons OF IS years
of age and upwards from serving Jurors, post
poned until the first day of March. number of
bills, which will be noticed their third reading,
were read first and second time.
The bill 10 amend the act OF lS44-'5, entitled an
act to amend the in relation guardian and ward,
was read the third time and rejected.
Mr.. Speight moved reconsideration Of the vote
the bill exempting persons of IS years of
age and upwards from serving as jurors to The Isl of
March; and said motion prevailed. The Till
then rciected-yeas Is nays %.
The bill concerning divorces then taken up,
aRd pending the question the passage o the bill
its second reading, the Senate took a
IHREE O'CLOCK, p. NJ.
The Senate re-assembed and resumed the consid-
Grafton Of the bill concerning divorces, which was
read and rejected.
The bill 10 protect the patrol, was read the second
time and indeiin ately postponed Fl u
= The SLAVERY QUESTION. .s az
The Senate Proceeded TO the special order of the
day, being the Resolutions adopted yesterday the
Slavery question, upon their third reading. =
Mr.. Bower moved additional Resolution, which
was adoPted, requesting the Governor 10 forward
and TO our Senators and Representatives in Congress,
Mr.. Ellington moved Ia amend the fifth Resolution
by striking out the word is in the first line after
The words % United States," and inserting the words
y Is form Of goyernmeps,the result Of ESQ as 10
make the government the result OF q :" compact" 2