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6.] Mr. Martin moved to amend the said bill by adding the following:

"Whenever, in any cause of action hereafter to accrue, judgment shall be rendered by any court or justice of the peace within this territory, there shall be allowed, in the rendition of such judgment, five per cent, in favor of the parties recovering such judgment on the amount found due for his debt or damages, in addition to the amount so found due."

This motion was also disagreed to.

On motion of Mr. Bacon, the said bill was then indefinitely postponed.

On motion of Mr. Doty, the Council resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill to establish and create a common school fund, with the amendments reported thereto; and, after some time spent therein, the committee rose, and reported the bill with the said amendments.

The Council adjourned to 3 o'clock

The consideration of the bill to create and establish a common school fund being resumed, the amendments to it, made in committee of the whole, were concurred in.

Mr. Farnsworth moved further to amend the bill, by adding to the 7th section the following clause:

"And the amount of taxes so assessed and collected in any county shall be paid into the county treasury, and shall be distributed, for the purposes contemplated by this act, among the several townships in such county, in proportion to the number of inhabitants in such township."

The question on the said proposed amendment being taken by yeas and nays, it was decided in the negative, as follows:

Yeas: Messrs. Durocher, Farnsworth, Martin, Moran, M'Donell, president—5.

Nays: Messrs. Bacon, Britain, Doty, Millington, Renwick, Satterlee, Stockton—7.

Mr. Farnsworth moved to amend the 7th section, as follows:

"The interest of said fund, and one half of the amount annually raised under this act, including one half of the appropriation from the territorial treasury, shall be annually expended for the purposes contemplated by this act."

And the yeas and nays being taken on this motion, it was decided in the affirmative, as follows:

Yeas: Messrs. Britain, Durocher, Farnsworth, Hascall, Martin, Moran, M'Donell, president—7.

Nays: Messrs. Bacon, Doty, Millington, Renwick, Satterlee, Stockton—6.

On motion of Mr. Farnsworth, the further consideration of the bill was then postponed to the next session of the Council, the question on the motion being taken by yeas and nays, as follow: