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Which was read, and
On motion of Mr. Jones,
The resignation of Mr. Meginniss was accepted.
Mr. Lee gave notice that if the Committee on Revision and
Compilation would at any later day of the session require the
services of an additional Clerk to fill the place made vacant by
the resignation of Mr. Meginuiss,—he would move the ap-
pointment of such Clerk.
Mr. Hammond submitted the following order :
Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal, that Mr. Bate-
man is detained from his seat by sickness ;
Which was adopted.
Mr. Merrick, Chairman Select Committee, submitted the
following report:
The Committee to whom was referred the inquiry "Whether
it he practicable to divide the State into seven judicial cir-
cuits, and if practicable to report a plan of division," have
had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report
that such a division cannot be made without at least one cir-
cuit being disproportionately large, and without imposing
upon it an amount of judicial business which the Judges could
not dispatch with efficiency. Being of opinion that no saving
of expense by the proposed reduction could authorize such a
division as might operate a denial of justice to some portion
of the State, and that no better division can be made than
the one recommended by the Judiciary Committee. We ask
to he discharged from the further consideration of the sub-
ject.
WM. M. MERRICK,
Chairman.
Which was read and accepted, aud,
On motion of Mr. Mitchell, the Committee were dis-
charged.
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the un-
finished business of yesterday, being the Report of the Com-
mittee appointed to Report upon the Formation of a New
County out of portions of Somerset and Worcester Counties.
Pending the consideration of which,
On motion of Mr. Merrick,
The further consideration of the Report was postponed and
The Convention proceeded to the consideration of the Re-
port of the Committee upon the Judiciary Department.
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