The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-02-21
SENATE.
ResOlutIOnA for the Extension Of the
SessIon-OIher business.

session Other business.
The Senate met at l0A. NJ, Yesterday
Mr., Samples, from the Committee on
Public Library, reported back with IN N,
favorable recommendation the Senate Dill
nrovidipp for the appointment OF the State
Librarian by the Supreme Court, and pre-
scribinv bis duties and fixing his salary.
MI, Brown presented the petition oil D.
w Weizel and others OF Jackson county,
ostinv ior an amendment 10 the charter
Of the town OF RSvenswood' ..-.
Mr., Stollings offered q resolution IN
slructiup the Judiciary Committee 70 N
Gnire into the expedieucy Of establishing
q State Land Bureau, and report ny p"'
or otherwise.
EXTENSION OF SESSION.
The Joint committee appointed to con-
slider and report upon tho necessity and
propriety OF extending thepreaont session
of the Legislature, and Of holding an cd
iourred session to complete the business
necessary 10 be done submitted report to
which was appended two resolutions
The committee assert that the necessary
business can not possibly be iinlaheI
within the time OF the constitutional
Iimit. and recommend unlimited extension
If ,he nresent session; and also that Al
adjourned session Will be necessary 70
complete the workIot the reapporIlonmeht
Of Delegates and .re'dlstricttDg the Oong'es'
Bional Districts. ,-,.. n.I !
They are further oil the opinion lhat 3
mint Committee Of revision, consisting Of
three members OF the House and two OF
he Senate should be appointed to cit dur
inc Inc recess Of the Legislature, to pre-.
paIe and have printed for the action Of
ihe Legislature at its adjourned session, all
ihe billy necessary to the publication OF
the new Code; and to carry out these rec
concentrations the committee submit the
following Joint Resolutions:
Joint Resolution No. II: Providing Tor
an extension Of the present session oil the
Legislature beyond the limit liked BY the
Constitution.
Resolved by the Legislature OF West
Virginia, two.thirds Of the members elect
ed to each house ConCuIrlnG thereln'
That the present session OF the l.egGIa,'
ture be and the same Is hereby extended
beyond the period Of fOrty'tive days puT;;
guant to the provisions OF Section " oil
Article VI ofths Constitution.
Also:
m adjourned session OF tho Legislature,
and ior the appointment OF q committee to
ait In the recegB OF tho Legislature Tor the
purpose therein named. -,
RESOLVED Ly The kgisIdture0r IVeS! VirJInFd;
First-Thst when the Legislature ad:
iourps on the - day,O -, 1881, 1t VIII
adjourn to meet ut the Capitol, in the city
of Wheeling, on the first Wednesday in
February, 1882, at - O'Clock M
SeCond-That Joint Committee on the
revision OF the laws, consisting oil three
members OF the House and two oil the
SENATE, be appointed prevou9 to such adj
ournment to sit for such time as may DO
necessary during the recess Of the l'egisla;;
ture, whose duty 1t shall DO 10 prepare and
have printed by the public printer and re-
mort to the two houHes, ut said adjourned
session, such bills as may be necessary to
q complete revision Of the laws Of tho
State, preparatory to the publication OF a
new edition OF the Code OF West Virginia
Third-That each member OF said COM
mittee shall receive s. per day for each
day he Is actually and necessarily en-
ployed in the discharge OF his duties I'M
der the second resolution, 10 be paid out
OF the Treasury Of the State upon hisicer'
tiacate Of the number Of days he was 30
employed. a.
Both resolutions will be acted on Mon
day.
The remainder Of the days session was
taken up with the consideration Of House
Bill No. 90, the Justices bill. Adjourned
10 10 A. NJ. to-day.