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 Penditures of the same, and to exan;na the acts of Congress giving to the Terr;to- " Ten Sections of land for the purpose of erecting State-house, and see whether or not the Govenor has transcended his pow CT, and report the same.

 Messrs Bgrd, Tucker, Shau, Still,reu. and HiA, were appointed said committee.

 Five hundred copies of the report of the joint committee on the books of the Auditor and Treasurer, were ordered to be printed for the use of this House.

 Said report will he found iii another nor ton of this paper.

 .Noeenl6er 7.-Mr. Rutherford offered a petition from the citizens of Little Rock. which was ordered to be filed with the bill to incorporate the town of Little Rock.

 Mr. Byrd, from the select committee ap- fet.Nsa Co ss.~ss;aa the Public Building. ana request tho Goycrior 10 make a full ~ pose of all expenditures of the same. and to examine the acts of Conarcs prantino Ten Sections of land, for the erection of ? otafe-house, and examine whether or not the Governor has transcended his power uu- der sand acts,made a report---which we shall publish next week.

 The bill for the protection of mechanics and laborers, was laid upon the table.

 B'Hs ordered 10 c second yenlimg.-6 blii to repeal an act. approved 3oth of Oc- tober, 1883; bill supplementary to the se- verdi acts concerning roads and highways. and, bill requiring the owners of mills in Jefferson county to keep their flood gates down. oSs

 Bulls asad memorial passcd.--A bill pef- manently to locate the seat of justice for izard county; a bill 10 permit John MoEl- nancy to sell, hawk and peddle merchan- dize in this Territory; bill to dissolve the ponds ot matrlmony between Rebecca A. Beldlng and Samuel c. Belding; and, me- nonal praying an amelioration of inc law;s m force respecting land sales, and the en- tering of land.

 The bill supplementary to an act concern- Ing marriages, was laid upon the table until the 25fhof December nert.

 The memorial praying an appropriation to build hospital in Arkansas county. was laid upon the table.

 he blll apportioniDg the debts of the county of Clark and Hampstead, with the county of Pike, was ordered to third read ing.

 The bill supplementary to an act estab- lishlng County Courts, was made the order der of the day for Sat,lrdays .Nouember S.--Bilis ordered 10 q second Tedo'pg.--A bill exempting ministers of the uospei rom serving as grand or petit iu- TOTS; bill for the relief of Lafayette Jones: and, a bill to divide the militia into six bri- giades. = Frsl I ffe President and members of the I,e- glslatye Council together with their Secfe- tarles, having assembled in the House If Representatives, for the purpose of eloctinp an Auditor and Treasurer, and Justices of the Peace--r

 Mir. Jan1es sScuu and Col. Samud .N. ifuhes1ord, were put ia nomination for the office of Treasurer. -

 on calling the roll (the members voting vira roce) there appeared

 For 5. M. Rutherfn~a o7 7ot....

 James ScuIl, 2I

 So SAmL. M. RUTHERFORD was declar ed duly elected.

 William Pelham, Emzy Wilson, and Robert A. Watkins, were put in nornina- ton for the office of Auditor, and, on count ing the votes-~

 Emzy Wilson had % votes.

 William Pelham (. l9

 Robert A. Watkins

 No one having received minority of all the votes given, second election was held, which resulted as follows-(R. A. Swat. kins having been withdrawn by Mr. Byrd ByTs.H5:

 For William Pelham, g votes,

 's Emzy Wilson, 24

 And WILLIAM PELHAM was declared duly elected.

 The two houses then proceeded to the election of Justices of the Peace, for the several counties of this Territory.

 In the county of PULASKI, the following gentlemen were elected Justices of the Peace:

 John Magness, William Britton, John Arnold, Benjamin ". Cochran, Samuel Newell, John McPherson, Daniel Great. house, James Erwin, Amos King, William Saunders, Thomas B. Erwin, James Saun- ders, Isaac Baldwin, Thomas Jones, Isaac Stone, john Douglass, Jr. Samuel H. HincksoD, Jesse Brown, Dudley D. Ma son, John II. Cooke, William F. Revburn. Isaac Sutton, William Atchison, Jesse B. Badgett, Francis A. McWilliams, Jared C.. Martin, Smith Kelleam, Rudolph N. Ro- land, James Graham, Alexander Starbsick. Eli Eli Lindsey, J oiian Greenhouse, William Field, Robert A. Watkins, John Lockeu. Ezra M. Owen, Rezin Davis, Beniarnin Williams, Richard Brazil. Valentine Bra gil, Silas Dodd, James Hester. and Hal sey Prudden.

 The Speaker presented n petition against tho nomination of ELIJAH A. MORE, and Mir. Byrd presented one in his favor, which