Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-21
STATE sOLONs.
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HOSE OF DELEGATES.

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House OF DELEGATES.
Morning session.
Frsyer was offered by Delegate Holt, of
Lincoln county.
Petitions.
The following petitions we're presented:
by Mr. DAWSON: A petition from Tay-
lor county asking that the hiring Of con-
vict labor be prohibited by law.
By Mr.. Tippett: 4 petition from Mason
county asking for the enactment OF gen.
eIal ditch law.
By Mr.. DAVIDSON: A petition asking that
the act of the Legislature creating an addi-
tional assessment district in Taylor coun-
ty, be repealed.
The following resolutions were offered:
BY Mr. Grantham: A resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee TO re-
port a bill fixing the compensation OF per-
sons acting under reauisition by the Gov
ernor, and from what fund paid.
BY Mr.. Tippett: A resolution providing
for the appointment Of a committee conf
nosed of three members of the House and
two OF the Senate, to take into considers
tod the charges made by the publishers of
the Constitutional amendments, and ascer-
tain the proper compensation for same.
Adopted.
By Mr.. Hobbs: A resolution directing
the Committee On Education, to inquire
into the expediency of permitting the use
OF Barnes 0ne-Term History in the public
schools, where preferred.
By Mr. Monroe: 4 resolution referring
so much of the Governors message as re-
lates to the institution of the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind, to the Committee on Humane
Institutions.
By Mr.. Watson: A resolution directing
the Judiciary Committee to inquire into
the expediency of providing for the publ.
cation OF book of forms for the use oil
State and county officers.
By MIR. Holt: A resolution providing
for annotating and making side notes to
the acts of this Legislature as soon rs they
shall become laws. Adopted.
BY Mr. Hall. OF Barbour: y resolution
that when the House adjourns to-day. 1t
adjourn to meet at 10 o'clock on Monday.
MI. Ferguson stated that the resolution was
offered at the request OF the Judiciary com.
mittee which was pressed for time, and
that they 'deSired to give tomorrow to
hearing OF the druggists upon certain legis-
lation in which they are interested.
Adopted.
Bills Passed.
A bill relating to the duties Of the Sec
rotary OF State, and to the Supreme Court
Reports.
Passed Ayes A, nays Is.
We append the clause OF this bill! to
which opposition was made, and which
created u warm discussion on its second
reading:
IS. Whenever the Supreme Court OF APP
peals directs a volume Of the reports of its
decisions to be published, the Commission
ers Of Public Printing shall contract, in the
manner prescribed by law for the printing
and binding of six hundred copies thereof.
in q style not inferior to Grattan' $ reports;
and the Secretary Of State shall secure the
copyright Of the same for the benefit OF
| the State. The reports shall be styled
West Virginia Reports. The printing and
binding OF the reports shall be done under
the direction of and in the manner pre-
! scribed by the reporter, subject, however,
to the control OF the Court. The reporter
shall prefix to the printed report OF each
case, the dates when the same was
submitted and decided. Each vol
ume shall contain the reports OF at
least eighty cases. and shall not contain
more than nine hundred pages, exclusive
OF the index and tables of cases reported
and cited, each page to be OF the size and
type of the pages OF Grattan 5 reports; and
should it be necessary, in order TO comply
porter is hereby required and authorized
10 condcnse for publication any or all OF
the opinions OF the judges, or either OF
them; but the syllabus of no case shall be
condensed Proof-sheetS shall be furnished
by the printer TO the reporter, and to each
OF the judges, a reasonable time before the
| type shall be distributed, and such correc-
| tons or notifications shall be made by the
printer as either the reporter or either Of
the judges shall suggest. Ii the said print
| ing and binding be not done in such man
ner as is required by law, the volume Of
! reports shall not be received by the super
intendcnt of printing
fMeSsrs. Beckwith and MOffctt explain
cd, in voting against this bill, that they
| regarded il as an interference on the part
OF the Legislature with u coordinate
| branch of the Government, and that while
they appreciated the evils sought 10 be re-
| formed, they thought the remedy worse
I than the disease
4 bill to amend the act establishing
county court for the county Of Pcndlet0n.
Passed. Ayes O., nays none.
Afternoon Session.
The House met promptly at 3 o'clock,
and al once commenced business.