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1868.] OF THE SENATE. 821 BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, March 30,1868. Gentlemen of the Senate: We have received your message in relation to a Committee of Conference concerning House bill entitled an Act to pay David Fowler for legal services, and concur therein, and have appointed upon the part of the House as said Committee Messrs. Legg, Herbert, and Biddison. By order, M. Y. KIDD, Chief Clerk. The Committee of Conference on the David Fowler bill made the following report : The Committee of Conference on the part of the Senate and House of Delegates upon the amendments to bill entitled an Act to compensate David Fowler for legal services rendered in the Comptroller's office, respectfully recommend the Senate- to recede from its amendments thereto. J. C. CLARKE, E. J. HENKLE, On part of the Senate, Which was adopted. But before the Senate called the yeas and nays on the final passage of the bill, the hour of adjournment arrived, and the President arose and delivered the following valedictory: SENATORS : — The time has arrived at which this session of the General Assembly must terminate. Before declaring this Body adjourned, I desire, in a brief valedictory, to join expression to a few of the emotions and reflections which the occasion prompts. On the first of January last we assem- bled here, in a majority of cases, (personally,) strangers to each other, united, however, without an exception, by one common sentiment in a bond of political brotherhood. Be- ginning our intercourse under such circumstances, we have reached the terminus of our labors without, so far as I am informed, the occurrence of a single serious jar in our entire social or official intercourse. This consideration, replete with gratifying reflections will throw around the record of our associations here a halo of such tempting hues, that memory will fondly linger upon, and distant meditation love to contemplate them. We depart as we came, the column unbroken. The fatal summons of the fell destroyer has been withheld, and without an excep- |
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