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62 Mr. Dubignon from the select committee to wbom was referred the memorial of A. Delaroche, relating to alleged official misconduct of the Hon. William B. Fleming, late Judge of the Eastern Circuit, and of William P. White, late Solicitor General of the same Circuit, beg leave to report, That they have bestowed upon the memorial of the aggrieved party and the papers submitten to their consideration, a careful examination, resulting in the conviction that there is no satisfactory evidence of official delinquincy in reference to the matters presented in the memorial. Your Committee are of the opinion that the charges preferred against these high official functionaries, are not sustained by such circumstances, as to afford just ground in their judgment to warrant further action by this body, and therefore they beg leave to be discharged from the further consideration of this subject. The House took up the special order of the day, which was the report on the bill to be entitled an act to repeal all laws respecting the importation of slaves into this State. Mr. Jones moved to amend the bill by inserting after the words "into this State," the following words to-wit: "from any other slave-holding State of this Union." The amendment prevailed. Mr. Wiggins offered the following proviso: Provided, That any person or persons bringing, importing, or introducing any slave or slaves into this State for the purpose of traffic, shall within twenty days thereafter present to the Tax Collector of the county into which he or they shall first enter the State with said slaves, a true schedule under oath, of the uumoer, names, and sexes of all the slaves by him or them thus introduced, which schedule and affidavit shall be lodged with the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, and shall further pay over to said Tax Collector, five dollars for each and every slave, which amount of money shall be paid into the Treasury of this State, accompanied with a copy of said schedule and affidavit, and on fail-ure so to do, he or they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to be indicted in any Superior Court in this State having competent jurisdiction thereof, and on conviction shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars for each slave imported in violation of this act, one half to the informer, the other to the State. The proviso was rejected. The following message was received from the Senate by Mr. Glenn, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker:—I am directed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has concurred in the amendment proposed by the House to the resolution of