The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-02-06

resignation of the Surveyor elected the other
day, which was sustained by the Chair.
| Upon motion, the Convention adjourned
The House then adjourned.
SENATE.
INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING.
By Mr.. SHILLOCK, a joint resolution rela-
| tive to pensions. Read three times, and re-
ferred to the Committee on Federal Relations.
By Mr.. BALDWIN, bill for an act for the
protection of bridges.
BY Mr. MCKUSICK, a bill for AL act to amend
an act relative to logs and lumber.
| By MIR. NASH, bill for the relief of Inver
Grove School District. Dakota county, by legal
| izing certain taxes assessed by the trustees OF
said School District.
By Mr.. SHILLOCK, a bill for an act repeal
ing the act of 1868, relating to a jury fee.
Read twice, and referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee
BY Mr.. sHILLOCK, a bill for an act amend
ing the law relating to County Commissioners.
| Read twice, and referred to the Judiciary Com
| mittee.
By the Committee Of Ways and Means, bill
for an act for the relief of disabled citizens &c.
in the late Sioux outbreak. Read twice.
REPORTS.
Mr.. MCKUSICK, from the Committee OF
| Ways and Means, reported back q substitute
for the bill for relief of disabled citizens, and
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tAC pdoSdSC VI tuC cuUotAtutC.
Mr.. DAVIS, from the special committee to
whom was referred the joint resolution tender
| ing the thanks of the people of the State to
those who defended the frontier, reported the
bill back with an amendment, and recommend
ed its passage.
THIRD READING AND PASSAGE
Senate bill to legalze the official proceedings
of NOtaries Public. Passed-ayes is, nays l..
Senate bill to compel clerks and justices OF
| fho TO- f>r% 4
ayes II, nays g.
Senate bill amending the charter of the town
of Chatfeld. Passed.
SPECIAL BOARD OF AUDITORS.
The bill creating a special Board of Auditors
was again under consideration in the Commit
| tee OF the Whole, Mr. BALDWIN in the chair.
Some discussion was had on the salary of the
| Board.
Mr.. DANIELS proposed that they should be
| paid three dollars per day.
| Mr.. SMITH proposed they should have five
! dollars per day. No competent person could
| perform those arduous duties for the sum of
| three dollars per day. He was not in favor OF
employing cheap doctors or cheap lawyers as
experience shows that those who do employ
them generally lose money.
MIR. DANIELS said he presumed that those
who employed laws at all, generally lost money.
The amount of three dollars was fixed as the
! per diem, and ten cents per mile for each mile
| necessarily travelled.
! When the Committee rose, the bin was Or
! dered cngrosscd for a third reading.
| OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT.
| \ communication was received from Chief
Justice Emmett, declining to give an opinion in
! relation to the question prOpounded by the
Senate, in relation to the constitutiOnality of
certain measures in regard to corporations,
''for the reason that he could not, with prOpri-
city, give an opinion rs to the cOnstitutiOnality
OF any measures pending before the Legislature;
that the court cannot authOritively pass upon
any questions unless it is presented in the regu-
lar course OF judicial proceedings; that such
an opinion would not be binding upon any one
! not even the person who wrote it, and therefore
entitled to no more consideration than the
opinion OF any other person of equal intcll-
gence."
DEATH OF ONE OF THE INSANE PATIENTS
FROM MINNESOTA.
The Governor has received letter from the
Superintendent Of the Insane Asylum at Mount
| Pleasant, Iowa, that Swan Nelson, one of the
| patients recently sent there from Minnesota,
died suddenly in an epileptc tit on the morning
of the 10th inst, and was buried in the Asylum
burial ground. AS this patient was deemed an
''incurable, it can hardly be considered Us a
calamity by the friends OF the deceased.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
| JANUARY 20, 1868.
! The house met at the usual hour. Prayer
) by the Chaplain.
: PETITIONS.
| BY Mr.. McGRATH, petition for the protec-
ton of fish in Lake Minnetonka. Referred to
| the delegation from Hennepin county,
! By Mr.. THATCHER, petition for the APP
/ pOintment OF Commissioners to amend the re-
cord of the plat of the town OF Cannon Falls
i Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
| DIV n CAMpREJI Co. \,
ton of q State Road from Wabashaw to Rocll-
ester. Referred to Committee on Roads
By Mr.. YEOMANS, petition from citizens
| of WinOna for an abatement of taxes on pro-
perty destroyed by fire in July, 1862 Referred
to delegation from Winona county.
| REPORTS.
Mr.. WOOD, from the Committee on Agricul-
ture, reported adversely to the passage of the
! bill amending the Game law. Report adopted
| The Committee on Claims reported in favor
of allowing Jno. Il. Sanborn $3.50 GO on his
| claim; Richard Marvin, So 90; and G.. d..
Strong $12S %. Adopted.
The same Committee reported adversely to
the claims of +. A. Froiseth, John j. Shaw and
seventeen Others, for additional pay as officers
! in the late Sioux raid.
| Mr.. TAYLOR, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, reported in favor of the passage of
| the bill abatiDg State taxes due from Wabashaw
county, in 1856 and 1857. The bill was re-
| ferrcd to the Joint Committee on Taxes, to
bring in a general bill for other sections of the
! State in the same condition.
The Judiciary Committee reported back the
bill to prevent the commission of waste by ten
ants, with recommendation for indefinite
! postponement. The report was adopted.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
BY Mr.. BUELL., bill changing the name of
Iucius Beatty to Lucius Fry
BY Judiciary Committee, q substitute for Sen
ate and House bills relating to terms of the Dis
trict Court in the Third, Fifth and Sixth Ju-
oicial Districts
By Mr.. SPRAGUE, a bill to change the name
of Forest Alfred DEMO to Forest Alfred Marsh
By Mr.. BRISBIN, a bill to amend sections 80
and 81 of chapter 104, OF the Compiled Stat
utes. relating to indictments and presentments
by Grand Jurics
| SENATE BILLS In PROGRESS.
A bill for the relief of School District No. 81,
/ In Hennepm County. Read first time and
referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to compel Clerks and Justices of the
| Peace to account for fines collected. Read u
first time, and referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee. .st.s
A bill to amend the Town Charter of Chat
! field. Read first time and referred to Com