RESOLUTIONS ASSED SESSION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE. No. 1. RESOLUTION Authorizing the Canal Commissioners to purchase new Locomotives. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com Resolved, That the commissioners are hereby authorized to direct Stationary En W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED The eighth day of February, Anno Domini one thou d eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER, No. 2. RESOLUTION Authorizing the State Treasurer to pay George Bergner for printing Daly Record. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to pay George Bergner one hundred dollars, for services rendered in printing and furnishing Daily Record of the proceedings of the two houses of the Legislature Provided, That this sum shall be payment in full to him for the print ing of the said Record. APPROVED-The eighth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER No. 3. RESOLUTION Relative to the Postage of the Officers of the Legislature. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represents tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That officers of the Senate and House of Representatives sh. have the same rights and privileges as the members and elerts now have under the twelfth section of an act passed April seventeenth one thousand eight hundred and forty three, entitled "An Act to re duce the expenses of the Government." W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D., one thousand eigh hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER.. No. 4. RESOLUTION Relative to the publication of the School Laws of the Commonwealth, and the decisions thereon. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the Superintendent of Common Schools is hereby authorized to have printed for the use of the Legislature seven thousand five hundred copies of the School Laws of Pennsylvania, with his decisions annexed, two thousand copies in English and five hundred in German, for the use of the Senate, and five thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 5. RESOLUTION For holding a Convention to allot the Publi Printing. Resolved by the Senute and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the Legislature will meet in convention on the thirty first of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, for the purpose of receiving proposals for and allotting the public printing and binding for the period of three years from the first day of July next, to the lowest bidder, in accordance with existing laws, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and required to publish the act entitled "A further supplement to the act entitled 'An Act to create permanently the office of State Printer,' ," and give notice as provided for by the resolution entitled "Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to give notice of the letting of the State Printing:" Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to change hereafter the time established by existing laws for allotting the public printing and binding: Provided further, That hereafter the Speaker of the Senate shall preside at all conventions held for the allotments of the public printing and binding. W. P. SCHELL, APPROVED-The fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. No. 6. RESOLUTION Relative to the printing of the Daily Legislative Record. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to pay to Royal and Clyde the sum of seven hundred dollars, on account for printing the Daily Record, said sum of money to be accounted for at the final settlement of their account. APPROVED-The twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER No. 7. RESOLUTIONS Relative to a subscription to Peter A. Browne's proposed work on Sheep breeding and Wool growing. WHEREAS, In the opinion of the Legislature, the question of the Preamble. improvement in the breed of sheep and growth of wool in Pennsylva nia, which was referred to by the Governor in his last annual message, is eminently worthy of our serious attention : And whereas, It has been represented that Peter A. Browne, of Preamble. Philadelphia, after having devoted a number of years of his life to the study of the science, is about to (should sufficient encouragement be extended to him to enable him to do it without pecuniary loss) publish the result of his labors, investigations and experience on the subject: And whereas, In our opinion, the great object in view could not be better and more surely promoted at this time than by making a limited subscription on the part of the State to Mr. Browne's proposed work; Therefore, Preamble. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and required to subscribe for three Governor authohundred copies of Peter A. Browne's proposed work on the subject of rized to subbreeding sheep, and the growth and the improvement in the quality of scribe for 300 wool. copies. Res lved, That a copy of said work shall be presented to each mem- Members of the ber of the present Legislature, and a copy to every Agricultural and Legislature, Horticultural society now formed, cr that may hereafter be formed in &c., to receive this State. copies. W. P. SCHELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THO. CARSON, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. WM. BIGLER. |