15.

The final adjournment of the General Assembly shall be fixed at an hour between six o'clock in the forenoon and nine o'clock in the afternoon.

16.

A two-thirds vote of all present shall be required for the suspension of any joint rule.

17.

A joint committee on the Library, consisting of two Senators and three Representatives, shall, on nomination of the presiding officers of their respective Houses, be appointed by each House respectively.

18.

A joint committee of three Senators and five Representatives shall be appointed by the presiding officers of the two Houses, respectively, to be designated the Committee on the Reform School; whose duty it shall be to visit such School and report the condition thereof to the General Assembly, each session, and to take into consideration all matters relating to said School, which may be referred to them.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Clark, their Secretary, as follows:

Mr. SPEAKER: I am directed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives, that the Senate have considered the joint resolution ratifying the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and have unanimously adopted the same in concurrence.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Carpenter, their Assistant Secretary, as follows:

Mr. SPEAKER: I am directed to inform the House that the Senate have adopted a joint resolution granting the use of the Hall of the House of Representatives to the managers of the Home for Destitute Children;

In the adoption of which the concurrence of the House is requested.

On motion of Mr. Hinckley, Mr. Harman Canfield, as the Representative of the town of Arlington, was admitted to take his seat in the House without producing his credentials; and he was duly sworn, and so admitted.

Mr. Joyce presented the petition of D. E. Nicholson and three others, praying for the commutation of the sentence of Horace R. Plumley;

Which was referred to the Select Committee raised for that purpose.

Joint resolution from the Senate, as follows:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the use of the Hall of the House of Representatives be tendered to the managers of the Home for Destitute Children, at Burlington, on Wednesday evening, October twenty-seventh, 1869, for a meeting to set forth the objects of that Institution;

Which was read and adopted in concurrence.
On motion of Mr. Page, the House adjourned.

AFTERNOON.

A message from the Senate by Mr. Carpenter, their Assistant Secretary, as follows:

MR. SPEAKER: I am directed to inform the House that the Senate have appointed as Joint Committee on the Library, on the part of the Senate:

Senator Hutchinson of Orange,

66 Saxe of Franklin.

As committee on the part of the Senate to canvass votes for county officers:

The Speaker laid before the House a communication from his Excellency, the Governor, as follows:

To the Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives: SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith to the House of Representatives, a communication from the Governor of Ohio, with an accompanying act of the Legislature of that State, providing for the transfer to the General Government of the National Cemeteries at Antietam and Gettysburgh.

The title to these cemeteries is held by the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania respectively in fee, but in trust for the States which have participated in their establishment. The joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of this State, in 1868, was applicable only to the cemetery at Gettysburgh: and it may admit of question whether it is sufficient to accomplish the full purpose which was intended.

I respectfully suggest the propriety of the enactment of a law applicable to both cemeteries, and similar in its general character to the first and second sections of the law enacted by Ohio.

I remain, &c.,

PETER T. WASHBURN.

Which communication, together with the accompanying document, were read and referred to Committee under Fourth Joint Rule.

(See Appendix.)

Bills of the following titles were severally introduced, read the first and second time, and referred, as follows:

By Mr. Clark of Williston,

H. 24. An act entitled "An act making the Winooski river the boundary line between the towns of Williston and Jericho ;"

To the Committee on Town Lines.

By Mr. Hoskison,

H. 25. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend section thirteen of chapter forty-seven of the General Statutes, entitled 'Of levy of execution;'"

To the Committee on Judiciary.