}llt,1nts ze9tslaturf.

SENATE
{"character_count": 3538, "word_count": 592, "ccnet_language_score": [0.941100001335144], "ccnet_perplexity": [1074.699951171875], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
TUESDAY, Feb. IL.


Mr.. SNYDER presented the petition of T.
W. Talbot, praying the passage Of law au,
thoriZlDg him to construct certain Canal.


Mr.. EWING from the committee on the Ju-
dietary, reported / i'll declaring what laws of
Ia general nature, shall be published with the
avs Of a general nature, passed at the present
session.


Mr.. MATHEa, from the committee on Fl
nance, reported bill defining the liabilities OF
securities of public officers.
Mr.. STROBE, from the select committee, to
* hom was referred the petition ofsnndry titizens
ot Putnam county, reported a bill grantingpre-
emption rights, to settlers on the Canal lands
The bill from the House of Representatives
providing compensation for Grand and Petit
Jurors, was twice read and referred.


The Lih to establish a State Bank, was
taken up, and after some discussion, laid on
the table.


Bills Of t1e following titles were read a
third time and passed:


! bill for an act to raise funds (by lotte-
Iry,) to construct permanent road across Pur-
gatory, and the Little Wabash bottom, on the
Vincennes and ST. Louis mail route.
A bill to extendthe provisions Of an act, to
erect certain bridges.


A bill (trom the House,) to regulate the
Penltentiary


Mr.. WILLIAMS reported a bill to authorize
county Commissioners Courts, TO levy an adds
tional tax, tur certain purposes.
Mr.. BIRD proposed the following resolutions,
which were referred to the committee on Edu
cation:


Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiues Of the State Of Illinois, That
|deeming the subject of Education one of the
most important objects which can be presented
to the people, or the Legislature Of this State,
and believing that it cannot be successfully
acted upon, without more accurate information
than is now in the possession either of the pub
lie, or of any branch of our Government, the
following persons be, and they are hereby au-
thorised and requested, to collect such inlor>
nation and report the same to the next Gener-
al Assembly, to wit: The Governor of the
State, together with James Hall, Cyrus Eds
wards, Bejamin Mills, Samuel ID. Lockwood,
John NJ Robinson, E. K. Kane, and Joseph
Duncan.


Resolved, That the gentlemen aforesaid, are
hereby requested to address letters to the Gov
ernors of the several States, in which systems
Iof education are established by State author-
ty, to the Presidents of Colleges throughout
the United States, and to literary gentlemen,
and others conversant with the subject, for the
purpose of obtaining exact information as to
all the existing schools, and institutions of
learning in the Union, particularly in relation
to the organization of such institutions, their
cost, the amount and character of instruction.
the relative advantages of different systems,
and the amount and kind of Legislative pat
ronage which has been extended to them, and
ofprocurlng authentic copies OF statutes, char
,ess, and other public documents,w (which bear on
this subject


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
! Mr.. NOEL from the select committee to
whom was referred the petition of sundry cit
izens Of Edgar county reported bill to locate
a road from Paris to the state line in the direc-
tion to Clinton, Ind.


On motion Of Mr.. WREN,


Resolped that the Auditor be requested to
furnish to this house the reports of the COM
nlissioners of the Sales of Saline lands since
his report Of the ~, 1881, and also
inform the House N ther said commissioner
has made regular reporn as required by Vie
10Th and 10Th sections Of Ia acts concerning