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(S. J. R. No. 11.)

JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 26.

[Adopted January 28, 1901.]

Requiring the commissioners of public printing to report to the legislature why senate and house bills are not promptly printed and furnished the two houses.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the commissioners of public printing be required to report to the legislature, on Monday next, the twenty-eighth instant, at 11 o'clock, A. M., why the bills of both the senate and house have not been printed as placed on the calendar, and furnished the two houses promptly, and that hereafter all printing required by either house, be furnished promptly to the house so requiring same.

(S. J. R. No. 12.)

JOINT RESOLUTION No. 27.

[Adopted January 29, 1901.]

Requesting the senators and representatives in congress from this State to consider the proposition for the purchase of the Moore House and Temple Farm at Yorktown, Virginia:

WHEREAS, The Moore House, and Temple Farm, upon which it is situated, at Yorktown, Virginia, will carry with them through all time memories of the siege and victory by which the allied armies of France and the American colonies secured the independence of our nation; and

WHEREAS, It is reported that the property can at this time be bought for a nominal sum, and it is believed that the products of the farm will be sufficient to keep the building in repair, and the buildings are so situated as to be well adapted for government purposes on occasion of naval inspections and reviews on York river; be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the senators and representatives in congress from this State be, and are hereby, requested to consider and, if in their judgment they can wisely do so, to support a bill for the pur

chase of Temple Farm and Moore House, at Yorktown, Virginia, by the government of the United States of America: provided, that the cost of the said farm with its improvements shall not exceed a reasonable sum; and be it

Resolved. That properly attested copies of these resolutions be sent to the senators and representatives in congress from this

State.

(S. J. R. No. 13.)

JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 28.

[Adopted February 1, 1901.]

Providing for a joint committee of the two houses to visit, inspect and investigate the management of the hospital for the insane at Weston, and the second hospital for the insane at Spencer.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That a joint committee, consisting of three on the part of the house and two on the part of the senate, be appointed to visit, inspect and investigate the management of the hospital for the insane at Weston and for the investigation of the second hospital for the insane at Spencer, and to report the condition and treatment of patients, therein. Those on the part of the house to be appointed by the speaker and those on the part of the senate by the president.

(S. J. R. No. 15.)

JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 29.

[Adopted February 11 1901.]

Raising a joint committee to visit three miners' hospitals, provided for by an act of the Legislature of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That a joint committee, consisting of three on the part of the house and two on the part of the senate, be appointed by the speaker of the house and president of the senate to visit the three miners' hospitals provided for by an act of the legislature

now

of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and report the progress and condition of the several buildings for the said hospitals under construction, and make such recommendations to this legislature as said committee may deem necessary for the completion of said buildings, and the equipment thereof, that the end and objects of the said hospitals may be realized to the fullest possible extent.

(S. J. R. No. 17.)

JOINT RESOLUTION No. 30.

[Adopted February 14, 1901.]

Providing for the appointment of a committee to arrange for a gift on behalf of the State to be placed on the armored cruiser "West Virginia."

WHEREAS, The secretary of the navy of the United States has given official information that one of the great armored cruisers now building will be named "West Virginia," and completed in about two years; and

WHEREAS, The said cruiser is to be of a new type known as the "West Virginia;" and

WHEREAS, The "West Virginia" is to be the largest and swiftest and most effective of any of the vessels either built or contracted for the United States navy; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That a committee of five be appointed from the senate and house, two by the president of the senate and three by the speaker of the house, and that the governor appoint a number from the citizens of this State, to select, purchase and arrange for the construction and placement of a gift on behalf of the State of West Virginia of the coat of arms of the State, to be made in bronze with silver mountings, and placed on the two main turrets of the armored cruiser "West Virginia," and, in order to carry out the provisions of this resolution, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the State for the year one thousand nine hundred and two and not otherwise appropriated; provided the said committee shall serve without pay.

APPENDIX A.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

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