Petition from the bar of Sumner county, asking amendments to sections of chapter 81, General Statutes of 1868 and laws of 1870, touching costs in appeal cases from justices,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be rejected.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary to whom was referred

Petition of L. G. Jeffers, asking to have the currency and banking laws changed,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be rejected.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

Senate Bill No. 54, An act to amend an act to amend the code of civil procedure of the Laws of 1868, approved March 2, 1872,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the same to the Senate with the recommendation that it be rejected.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 95, An act to amend section 253 of chapter 80, of the General Statutes of 1868,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am di

rected to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

Substitute for

House Bill No. 54, An act to amend section 1, chapter 14, of the Laws of 1872,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 45, An act to authorize the consolidation of bridge companies organized under the laws of this State, with similar companies organized under the laws of an adjoining State.

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

Senate Bill No. 73, An act in regard to the service of process upon corporations within this State,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be rejected.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

Senate Bill No. 71, An act to amend section 12 of chapter 37 of the laws of 1868, concerning executors and administrators,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it rejected.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom. was referred

Statement of matters pertaining to amendments to the Statutes relating to district court fees and other matters,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be rejected, for the reason that no bill accompanied the statements.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

Senate Bill No. 100, An act to amend section 91 of chapter 25 of the General Statutes of Kansas,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

Substitute for House Bill No. 3, an act to enable certain minors to exercise the rights of majority,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 8, An act to amend an act entitled an act regulating the jurisdiction and procedure before justices of the peace in civil cases,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate without recommendation.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 15, An act to allow compensation to councilmen of cities of the first class,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be rejected.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 36, An act to create the fifteenth judicial district, and to provide for a judge thereof, and for holding the terms of courts therein,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 40, An act to amend section 28, chapter 77, of the General Statutes of 1868,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be rejected.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 43, An act to amend sections 325 and 328 of article 16 of the code of civil procedure,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed with the accompanying amend

ment.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 48, An act legalizing certain acts of the city of Wichita,

Have had the same under consideration, and I am directed to report the said bill to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

N. C. MCFARLAND,

Chairman.

Mr. President: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred

House Bill No. 83, An act to define the boundaries of the twelfth judicial district, and to regulate the terms of court therein,