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Rh refrained from overstepping the limits assigned him by the organic law. When informed by a joint resolution of the assembly that they had completed their organization, he simply replied that it would afford him pleasure to communicate from time to time from the archives any information they might require. This was a satisfactory beginning, and indicated a policy from which the fourth gubernatorial appointee found no occasion to depart during his administration.

The money being on hand, the next thing was to spend it as quickly as possible, which the commissioners had already begun to do, but which the legislature was compelled to check by appointing a new penitentiary board, and altering the plans for the capitol building. A bill introduced at this session to