ernor and to inform him that the legislature is organized with a quorum of each house present, and is prepared to receive any communication he is pleased to make, and to proceed with the business of the session. HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 2. (Adopted January 21, 1921.) "WHEREAS, The United States commissioner of education, P. P. Claxton, will conduct a series of educational meetings in this city Monday, January twenty-fourth, therefore, be it Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That the Hon. P. P. Claxton be, and is hereby invited to address the members of the legislature in the hall of the house of delegates at two o'clock, P. M., Monday, the twenty-fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-one." HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 5. "Raising a Joint Committee to wait upon the governor." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That a joint committee of five, consisting of three on the part of the house of delegates, to be appointed by the speaker thereof, and two on the part of the senate, to be appointed by the president thereof, be appointed for the purpose of notifying the governor that the legislature is ready to recess until March 16th next, and ask him if he has any further communication to make. HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 6. (Adopted March 16, 1921.) "Raising a Joint Committee to wait upon the governor." 1 Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That a joint committee of five, consisting of three on the part of the house of delegates, to be appointed by the speaker, and two on the part of the senate, to be appointed by the president threof, be appointed for the purpose of notifying the governor that the legislature has re-convened at the expiration of the constitutional recess, with a' quorum present, and is ready to receive any communications he may desire to make. HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 7. (Adopted March 30, 1921.) "Adopting Joint Rule No. 16." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That the following be adopted as Joint Rule No. 16: No. 16. In order to introduce a bill in either house at the session of the legislature beginning on the Wednesday after the second Monday in March, the proponent of the bill shall first introduce a proper concurrent resolution, which resolution must set out therein the title of the bill and be accompanied by a typewritten copy of the bill, and such resolution shall, by appropriate language, give permission to introduce the said bill. When such concurrent resolution is adopted by the affirmative vote of three-fourths of all the members elected to each house, taken by yeas and nays, such bill shall stand as properly introduced into the house into which such resolution was introduced. HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 8. (Adopted March 30 1921.) Providing for the introduction of a bill." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That permission is hereby given by the legislature of West Virginia to introduce a bill with a title as follows, to-wit: "A Bill to provide for the control and management of the law book library, now known as the state library at Charleston, and for the appointment of such persons as may be necessary for those purposes:" HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 12. (Adopted April 4, 1921.) 'Providing for the introduction of a bill." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That permission is hereby given by the legislature of West Virginia to introduce a bill with a title as follows, to-wit: "A Bill abolishing the independent school district of Burnsville, in the county of Braxton, and the corporation of the board of education of the independent school district of Burnsville." HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 13. (Adopted April 1, 1921.) 'Providing for the introduction of a bill." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That permission is hereby given by the legislature of West Virginia to introduce a bill with a title as follows: "A Bill to amend and re-enact section two of chapter ninety-twoof the acts of one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven, as amended by chapter forty-seven of the acts of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, as amended by chapter thirty-eight of the acts of the legislature of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine." HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 14. (Adopted April 11, 1921.) "Providing for the introduction of a bill." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That permission is hereby given to the legislature of West Virginia to introduce a bill with a title as follows, to-wit: "A Bill to amend and re-enact section two of chapter five of the acts of the legislature of West Virginia of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, being section two of chapter thirty-nine of the code of West Virginia of one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, prescribing that county courts shall be composed of three commissioners, any two of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of businow known as the state library at Charleston, and for the appointment when such vacancies exceed more than one commissioner at any one time.” HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 15. (Adopted April 7, 1921.) "Changing rule one of the joint rules of the senate and house." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That rule one of the joint rules of the senate and house of delegates be changed and amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: 1. When it is desired that a message be sent by one house to the other it shall be sent by an assistant clerk and delivered to the clerk of the other house, who shall make proper note thereof in the journal. But the presiding officer of either house may, if he thinks proper, send a message in such manner as he may direct. The clerk of one house may communicate a message to the clerk of the other house after adjournment and any message so sent shall be received by the house to which it is sent whenever it may be in session." HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 16. (Adopted April 13, 1921.) "Providing for the introduction of a bill." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That permission is hereby given by the legislature of West Virginia to introduce a bill with a title as follows, to-wit: "A Bill to amend and re-enact sections forty-seven and fortyeight of chapter eighteen of the acts of the legislature of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, as amended and re-enacted by chapter twelve of the acts of the legislature of the year one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, relating to the construction and repair of sidewalks and street paving in the city of Cameron, Marshall county, West Virginia." HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 18. (Adopted April 20, 1921.) · "Providing for the introduction of a bill." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein : That permission is hereby given by the legislature to introduce a bill with title as follows: "A Bill allowing counties of more than one hundred thousand population to lay a special levy to purchase land and erect a jail and jailer's residence thereon and put any additions or repairs to the court house thereof." HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 19. (Adopted April 20, 1921.) 'Providing for the introduction of a bill." Resolved, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring therein: That permission is hereby given by the legislature to introduce a bill with title as follows: "A Bill to amend, and re-enact sub-section (f) of section fifty-one, and section fifty-two, of the acts of the legislature, regular session one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, An act to incorporate the town of South Charleston, in Kanawha county, West Virginia, fixing its corporate limits and prescribing and defining the powers and duties of said town and the officers of same." HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 21. (Adopted April 25, 1921.) "Providing for the payment of the expenses of the members of the committee appointed by Governor John J. Cornwell under Senate Joint Resolution No. 21, of the session of 1919." WHEREAS, Governor John J. Cornwell did, under the above resolution, appoint Senator E. H. Morton and Senator J. A. Bloch and Delegate F. O. Sanders and Delegate J. S. Zimmerman as members of such committee; and, |