No. 25. RESOLUTION directing the employment of an additional page in the Sen ate. Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate may appoint one more page for the use of the Senate than the number now provided by law, whose per diem allowance shall be the same as that heretofore provided for by the act approved January 24th, 1880. Approved January 31, 1882. No. 26. JOINT RESOLUTION concerning the per diem of Hon. W. N. Beckham, deceased. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and is hereby, directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of Mrs. Julia W. Beckham, widow of Hon. Wm. N. Beckham, late Representative from the county of Nelson in this General Assembly, for the per diem as such Representative that would have been due to him had he died on the day preceding the qualification of his successor. Approved February 1, 1882. No. 27. RESOLUTION fixing a day for the election of Public Printer and Binder. Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That on Friday, February 10th, 1882, at 12 o'clock, meridian, the General Assembly will proceed to the election of a Public Printer and Binder. No. 28. Approved February 2, 1882. RESOLUTION in relation to the erection of a monument to the late Jno. M. Elliott. WHEREAS, The honorable John M. Elliott, one of Kentucky's most noble and gifted sons, whilst one of the Appel late Judges of Kentucky, and whilst honorably wearing the judicial robe of said office to which he had been elected by a noble and generous constituency, was shot down in the city of Frankfort; and whereas, his unnatural and untimely death occurred at a time when he was most useful, and his services. most needed to the State he loved so well, and at a time when his profound statesmanship and brilliant intellect had ripened and rounded into a glorious manhood, making him the equal of Kentucky's greatest and best men, universally loved and esteemed by the people of his mountain district without regard to party. It was but natural they should mourn his loss, for those who knew him best loved him most; and whereas, the remains of the immortal Elliott are deposited in the cemetery at Frankfort, Kentucky, without a tombstone or anything else near his grave to mark the last resting placeand interment of the departed jurist and sage; and whereas, it is eminently right and proper that Kentucky should dohonor and homage to the memories of her great and good men who have died, by erecting suitable and befitting monuments to their memories; therefore, be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That a committee of five from the House and three from the Senate, appointed by the Speakers thereof, be appointed to estimate the probable cost of a suitable monument to be erected over the grave of the lamented Elliott in the cemetery at Frankfort, Kentucky; and said committee will report to this House, by bill or otherwise, as soon as practicable. Approved February 11, 1882. No. 29. RESOLUTION authorizing the employment of a clerk by committee to inquire into the treatment of convicts leased out under contract. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the joint committee to investigate the treatment of the convicts leased out under contract be, and they are hereby, allowed the services of a clerk to report the testimony taken in the course of said investigation. Approved February 18, 1882. No. 30. RESOLUTION directing salute to be fired on February 228. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the Adjutant General be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be fired a salute of thirteen guns, beginning at 12 o'clock, noon, to-day, in honor of the birthday of George Washington, the father of his country. Approved February 27, 1882. No. 31. RESOLUTION raising a joint committee in relation to apportionment for Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of That a joint committee, consisting of one member of the House of Representatives from each of the present Congressional districts of the State, and of five members from the Senate, be appointed by the Speakers thereof, respectively, to reapportion and lay off the State of Kentucky into eleven. Congressional districts, and said committee is directed to complete said work, and make report thereof to this General Assembly as early as practicable. Approved March 2, 1882. No. 32. RESOLUTION in regard to the death of James A. Garfield. WHEREAS, On the second day of July last James A. Garfield, President of the United States of America, fell by the bullet of an assassin, and, after a long and manful struggle for life, died the victim of the cowardly wretch who sought his life; and whereas, the whole nation, from Maine to California, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, manifested the deepest abhorrence of the deed, the utmost solicitude for his recovery, the most ardent sympathy with his afflicted family, and the profoundest grief when the long conflict. ended in the triumph of the last and greatest enemy of mankind; and whereas, this sorrow and this solicitude were not confined to our own country; but from other lands came words of sympathy and condolence, and especially from the British Isles, to whose people we are so closely related by the ties of kindred and tongue, whose august sovereign mingled her tears and her sorrow with those of the mothers of America; and whereas, this chord of sympathy which vibrated throughout the nation embraced all that is great and good in our common humanity and in our common country, bringing together, in one common sorrow, those who had faced each other in the late unhappy strife in honesty and in honor on the hard fought fields crimsoned with the blood of America's bravest and truest kons; and whereas, in the oblivion of the past, over the bier of the illustrious dead, the great hearts of Kentucky shared the common grief, and partook of the common sorrow, beating in unison with the dirge which rose from hill and dale throughout the land; and whereas, this spontaneous tribute arose from a just appreciation of the deceased, from admiration of the heroic courage and invincible resolution which, under all difficulties, bore him on from the canal boat to the bar, from the bar to high official rank in the army, from the army to Congress, and from Congress to the Presidency of this great Republic; therefore, be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That we express our sense of the great loss which the nation has sustained in the untimely death of James A. Garfield, President of the United States, and that we tender to his family the sympathy of the people of this Commonwealth. Be it further resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased. No. 33. Approved March 2, 1882. RESOLUTION for the relief of William Preston and the Texas Association, and the establishment of their rights under the acts of annexation admitting the State of Texas into the Union. WHEREAS, The circuit court of the United States for the Fifth circuit and Western district of Texas, in the case of William Preston, complainant, rersus William C. Walsh, Com missioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, defendant, did pass and enter a decree in equity, on the 26th of January, 1882, accompanied by an opinion declaring that the complainant and his associates were entitled to a large grant of land lying in the State of Texas, under a contract made between the Republic of Texas and Charles Fenton Mercer, and under an express trust, created in favor of Mercer and his associates by the compact of annexation under which said State was admitted into the Union, which created a case of the highest equity, pledging the public faith of the State of Texas to its execution, and holding further that it had no jurisdiction to extend full relief without the action of the political departments of the high contracting parties to said compact of annexation; and whereas, said William Preston and his associates, most of whom are citizens of this Commonwealth, entitled to its sovereign protection, have petitioned this General Assembly to take such measures as may be appropriate to secure the action of the political departments, as suggested by the circuit court of the United States; now, therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That our Senators in Congress be, and they are hereby, instructed, and our Representatives requested, to adopt all proper measures to obtain from the political department of the United States such action as may be necessary to give full, adequate, and complete relief to William Preston and his associates, according to the views expressed by the circuit court of the United States in the case of William Preston, complainant, rersus William C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, defendant, and to enforce said trust, created by the acts of annexation for the admission of the State of Texas into the Union, according to its true intent and meaning. Resolved. That his Excellency the Governor may authorize the said William Preston, or his successors, to institute proceedings in the courts of the United States in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to prosecute their claim and enforce said trust according to the Constitution and laws of the United States, and to do all acts under the name and authority of the Commonwealth necessary therefor: Provided, That before such authority is exercised, the said William |