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Show I.ERISI..1TIVK. January II, ' C'JCSCII. Council mot at 1 p.m., pursuant to adjournment. Councilor Woodruff moved tha freedom free-dom of the council chamber to the principal officers, civil and military, residing at or near Salt Lake city. Councilor Thatcher presented a motion, mo-tion, that the Hon. Secretary Black be requested to furnish, at his earliest i convenience, to tho council, copies of! j the laws and journals of the last scs-i ' sion. Carried. Correspondence from Secretary '. j Black relative to th.; legi-daiive hall was received and read. The president of tho caunil referred the several portions of tho Governor's ! massage to the appropriate commit- ; tees. J j Councilor Jennings moved tho ap- ; pointment of a committee ou finance, to keep account of the various expen- ditures of the session, and to act in , conjunction with a similar committee j of the house. Councilor Thatcher moved tint a j : committee be appointed to inquire into ' ithe publication of official documents in (certain newspapers, prior to bcin?; sub- mitted to the legislative assembly. ; The president appointed councilors ; Thatcher and Cannon said committee, i house. j House mot pursuant to adjournment. A communication, embracing some ! correspondence on the subject of rooms for the assembly to meet in, was re- j leeived from secretary Biack and discus- i sed at some length, li was finally, ro- i I ferred to the conimiiteo on printing. I Mr. Pace introduced a bill providing i for the election of delegates to a con-! vention to form a constitution to be ! submitted to congress for the admission i of the Territory of Utah into the t'nion 1 as a Stato. Beferred to the committee I on elections. Mr. Rowberry intradural a bid pro- 1 viding for the granting of iie-jn-es out- : side of incorporated cities. Referred : to (he committee on judiciary. 1 |