REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. The select committee to whom was referred No. 410, A., A bill to create the office of public examiner. Respectfully report the same with the recommendation that the same be printed and referred to the commtttee on State Affairs. GEO. D. McDILL, So ordered. Committee. The committee on Incorporations, to whom was referred No. 172, A., A bill to authorize Charles H. Moss, his associates and assigns, to erect and maintain a dam and boom and otherwise improve the Black river, in Taylor county, Wisconsin, Have considered the same, and instructed me to report it back with amendments, and recommend its passage when so amended. WM. T. PRICE, Chairman. Mr. Price moved that No. 85, A., A bill to amend chapter 84 of the private and local laws of 1864, an act to incorporate the Black River Improvement Company, Be ordered printed and recommitted to the committee on Lumber and Manufactures. Which prevailed. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. By CHAS. E. BROSS, chief clerk thereof. Mr. SPEAKER: I am directed to inform you that the senate has appointed on part of the senate, as a committee of conference on apportioment, Senators Hill, Simpson and Hudd. SPECIAL ORDER. On motion of Mr. Stewart, The consideration of No. 34, S., Was made a special order for to-morrow at 11 A. M. SENATE BILLS ON THEIR THIRD READING. No. 2, S., A bill to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Lawrence Institute of Wisconsin. No. 33, S., A bill to amend section 671 of the revised statutes of 1878, as amended by chapter 190 of the laws of 1879, entitled of county government. No. 13, S., A bill to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Peshtigo Lumbeirng and Manufacturing Company, approved October 11, 1856, and the amendments thereto, Were severally read a third time and concurred in. ASSEMBLY BILLS READY FOR A THIRD READING. No. 11, A., A bill to authorize the Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of the city of Janesville, Rock county, state of Wisconsin, to reduce its capital stock from one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). No. 13, A., A bill to authorize Chauncy R. Thayer, his heirs or assigns, to build and maintain a pier in the waters of Green Bay. No. 16, A., A bill to repeal chapter 162 of the laws of 1880, entitled an act authorizing and allowing horses, mules, cattle and sheep to run at large upon uninclosed lands in the county of Vernon. No. 24, A., A bill to provide for the numbering of houses, stores and other buildings in villages. No. 45, A., A bill to repeal chapter 204 of the laws of 1881, relating to the sale of intoxicating drinks. No. 48, A., A bill to amend section 1, chapter 121, general laws of 1881, entitled an act to amend chapter 76 of the revised statutes, relating to weights and measures. No. 80, A., A bill for the protection of life and property while crossing Sturgeon Bay, in Door county, Wisconsin, No. 84, A., A bill to grant the land necessary to increase the depot accommodations of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. No. 88, A., A bill to amend the title of section 1 of chapter 434 of the private and local laws of Wisconsin for the year 1871, entitled an act to incorporate the Scandinavian Brother Association, Were severally read a third time and passed. On motion of Mr. Price, The assembly resolved itself into a COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, On the General File of bills, Mr. Maxon in the chair. After some time spent therein, the committee rose and through their chairman reported as follows: MR. SPEAKER: The committee of the Whole have had under consideration the General File of Bills, have gone through with the same, and have directed me to report the same back to the assembly without amend ment: No. 66, S., A bill to regulate commitments to and discharges from industrial schools. No. 84, S., A bill relating to the state board of supervision, and amendatory of chapter 298, laws of 1881, entitled an act relating to the charitable, reformatory and penal institutions of Wisconsin, and to provide for the more efficient supervision and management thereof, and to repeal certain provisions of law relating thereto. No. 248, A., A bili authorizing the Sheboygan and Calumet Plank Road Company to abandon a part of the road of said company. No. 235, A., A bill to amend chapter 250 of the laws of 1874, entitled an act to provide for the improvement of certain parts of the west branch of the Wolf river. No. 252, A,, A bill to authorize Christian Weber, his associates and assigns, to erect and maintain a dam for manufacturing and hydraulic purposes on Big Eau Pleine river in Marathon county. No. 239, A., A bill to amend chapter 185 of the session laws of 1880, entitled an act to amend chapter 34 of the revised statutes and the acts amendatory thereof, and to provide for the greater efficiency of the Wisconsin national guard. No. 230, A., A bill to amend section 4560 of the revised statutes, relating to taking of fish in lakes, and to repeal chapter 351, laws of 1865, and 171, laws of 1874. No. 210, A., A bill to appropriate to the Unity Guards a sum of money therein named. No. 200, A., A bill authorizing the village of Reedsburg, in this state, to dig or drill a well. No. 149, A., A bill to provide for the laying out and establishing a state road from the city of Milwaukee to Port Washington, in the counties of Milwaukee and Ozaukee. No. 233, A., A bill providing for the assessment of the extra compensation of overseers of highways upon their respective road districts, No. 135, A., A bill for the protection of the valleys of Neenah creek and Fox river from overflow. No. 133, A., A bill to detach the county of Waukesha from the second judicial circuit, and to attach the same to the thirteenth judicial circuit, and amendatory of section 2423 of the revised statutes of 1878, and also amendatory of chapter 37 of the laws of 1881. No. 110, A., A bill to repeal part of chapter 478, laws of 1864, entitled an act to accept the grant of lands made to the state of Wisconsin by the United States, to aid in the construction of a military road from Fort Howard, Green Bay, to the Michigan state line. No. 47, A., A bill to provide for the payment of a sum of money therein named to Mrs. Margaret Coleman, the widow of Charles G. Coleman, of Durand, Wisconsin. No. 30, A., A bill to amend section 2, chapter 174 of the laws of Wisconsin for the year 1879, relating to grain testers. BILLS REPORTED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. On motion of Mr. Gillen, No. 30, A., Was laid aside until the return of Mr. Carmichael. On motion of Mr. Elver, No. 233, A., Was recommitted to the committee on Roads and Bridges. On motion of Mr. Murray, No. 47, A., Was laid aside until one week from next Wednesday. No. 110, A., Was indefinitely postponed. Nos. 133, 200, 210, 230, 235, 239, 252 and 248, A., Were severally ordered engrossed and read a third time. No. 135, A., Was laid over until next Wednesday. The amendments proposed by the standing committee to No. 149, A., Were adopted, And the bill ordered engrossed and read a third time. Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Bartlett until to-morrow morning. On motion of Mr. Price, The assembly adjourned. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1882. 10:00 A. M. The assembly met. Mr. Speaker in the chair. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Richards. Mr. Horn moved that the roll call of this morning and hereafter be dispensed with except when called for by members, or at the disposition of the chair. Which prevailed. By Mr. Maxon: LETTERS, PETITIONS, ETC. Pet. No. 202, A., Remonstrance of Adam Kauth and other citizens of Washington county against the taxation of church property. To committee on State Affairs. By Mr. Keogh: Pet. No. 203, A., Remonstrance of citizens of Franklin, Milwaukee county, against taxation of church property. To committee on State Affairs. |