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Show HOUSE. On motion of Gunter, chairman of the committee on private land claims, the senate bill was passed defining the manner in which certain laud Bcrip may be assigned and located by actual settlers. The hniiufi thrtn went into com mittee of the whole on the private I calendar. After laying aide several bills to report to the house, a bill was reached for the payment of $200,000 to the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal seminary and high school in Virginia, for rent ol buildings during the war. Quite a lengthy discussion ensued, the opponent, of the bill as-sertiog as-sertiog that it was a war claim, and ihe frionda of the measuro stiting lhat it was a just bill for the rent ol property and that government ws as much bound to pay rent for this building as for any building occupied by it. Without reaching a vote, the committee rose and the house adjourned ad-journed until to morrow. |