bill No. 12 be indefinitely postponed, which was agreed to.

Senate bill No. 54, entitled "An act to abolish the contract system of hiring the labor of prisoners in the State penitentiary," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Penitentiary.

Senate bill No. 55, entitled "An act entitled an act permitting employes and their representatives to recover damages from employers on account of the negligence of co-employes in certain cases," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Internal Improvements.

Senate bill No. 56, entitled " An act authorizing the formation of real estate title guarantee companies," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Banks and Corporations.

Senate bill No. 57, entitled "An act to provide a State hospital for inebriates," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 58, entitled "An act to exempt from taxation the loan and building associations in the State of Missouri, was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 59, entitled "An act to provide for the transfer of cases from one court of appeals to the other, and from the courts of appeal to the Supreme Court, and for the hearing and determination of such cases by the courts to which they may be transferred," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 60, entitled "An act to amend section 1550 in relation to bawdy houses," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Senate bill No. 61, entitled "An act entitled an act to establish an appellate court to be known as the Springfield Court of Appeals, the appointment and election of their judges and their tenure of office, and providing for the appointment of officers and attendants of said court and their compensation," was taken up and read second time.

Senator Yancey offered the following amendments to Senate bill No. 61, which was read first and second times and bill laid over, and amendments ordered printed.

An act entitled an act to establish an appellate court to be known as the Springfield Court of Appeals, the appointment and election of their judges and their tenure of office, and for the providing for the appointment of officers and attendants of said court and their compensation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. The following named counties embraced within the territorial jurisdiction of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, as established by an amendment to the constitution of the State of Missouri and duly adopted at the general election held in said State on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1884, are hereby excepted out of and withdrawn from the jurisdiction of said St. Louis Court of Appeals, that is to say: Pemiscot, Dunklin, New Madrid, Stoddard, Mississippi, Scott, Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Wayne, Butler, Ripley, Carter, Reynolds, Shannon, Oregon, Howell, Ozark, Taney, Douglas, Iron, Madison.

SEC. 2. There is hereby created and established at in the county of and State of Missouri, an appellate court, which shall be known as the "Missouri Court of Appeals." The territorial jurisdiction of said court shall be co-extensive with and embrace the several counties named in the first section of this act. Said court shall hold two terms in each year, beginning on the first Mondays in May and November; and the first term of said court shall be held on the first Monday in May, 1885. The provisions of the constitution of the State of Missouri concerning the organization, the judges, the powers, the jurisdiction and the procceedings of the St. Louis Court of Appeals and the Kansas City Court of Appeals, shall in all appropriate respects, apply to the "Missouri Court of Appeals."

SEC. 3. Immediately after the approval of this act the Governor shall appoint three judges for the "Missouri Court of Appeals," who shall have resided within the limits of said court at least five years next preceding such appointment, and who shall severally possess the the qualifications of judges of the Supreme Court and who shall hold their offices until the first day of January, 1887, and until their successors shall have been duly elected, commissioned and qualified.

SEC. 4. At the general election to be held in said counties in the year 1886, three judges of the "Missouri Court of Appeals " shall be elected by the qualified voters of said district. Such judges shall have resided within the territorial limits of said district at least five years before such election, and shall severally possess the qualifications required by the constitution of this State for judges of the Supreme Court. The term of office of such judges shall commence on the first Monday in January next following their election, and they shall be commissioned, and the election returns for such judges shall be made in like manner as judges of the Supreme Court. The judges so elected, and before entering upon the discharge of their duties as such, deter

mine, by lot, the duration of their several terms of office, which shall be four, eight and twelve years respectively, and they shall immediately certifiy the result to the Secretary of State, and they shall be commissioned accordingly. The judge having the oldest license to practice law shall be presiding judge of said court until the expiration of his commission; afterwards, the judge oldest in commission shall be presiding judge of said court.

SEC. 5. Causes coming to said court by appeal or writ of error, may be docketed on or before the day whereon said court shall convene, and shall, when so docketed, be set for hearing, in proper numerical order, at the same term; causes docketed after the first day of the term shall be set for hearing at the next term thereafter.

SEC. 6. The Missouri Court of Appeals shall appoint the following officers, to wit: One reporter, one clerk, who may, with the sanction of said court, appoint one deputy, to be approved by the court, and also such assistants as the exigencies of the office may from time to time require, when ordered by the court for reasons filed, onemarshal and one janitor. The duties of said reporter, clerk, marshal and janitor shall be the same respectively as is now or may hereafter be prescribed by law for like officers of the Supreme Court, so far as applicable. They shall severally receive the compensation following, to wit: The reporter, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; the clerk, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; the marshal, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; the janitor, the sum of nine hundred dollars per annum. Such officers shall hold their several offices during the pleasure of the court, and shall be paid, as herein before provided, out of the State Treasury, quarter-yearly, c the certificate of said court; which certificate, signed by the judges, or a majority of them, and attested by the clerk of said court, with the seal thereof thereto affixed, shall be a sufficient voucher for the payment out of the State Treasury Department of the sums so due to such officers, and so certified.

SEC 7. The State shall provide a suitable court room at

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in which the Missouri Court of Appeals shall hold its sessions; also, a clerk's office and furnished offices for the judges; and the bills therefor, together with the bills for necessary books, stationery, furniture, fixtures, fuel, lights and other things necessary in organizing and properly conducting said court, shall be paid by the State in like manner and upon like certificates as that of the minor officers of said court and as herein before provided.

SEC. 8. The Missouri Court of Appeals shall be furnished by the Secretary of State with the following books, at the expense of the State, to wit: Three full sets of the Missouri Reports, three full sets

of the Reports of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, three full sets of the Reports of the Kansas City Court of Appeals and the Revised Statutes of Missouri, embracing the several revisions from 1835 to 1879, together with the session laws since 1879; and so often as such reports, session laws or Revised Statutes shall be published, a like number of each shall be furnished to said court by said secretary and forwarded to the clerk of said court, at the cost of the State, in the manner provided for the distribution of other public documents.

SEC. 9. To avoid the expense incident to docketing causes. taken by appeal or writ of error from any one of the counties within the limits of the Missouri Court of Appeals, in the St. Louis Court of Appeals, and the subsequent transfer of said causes to the Missouri Court of Appeals, and to facilitate the economical and prompt administration of justice, it is hereby deelared that an emergency exists within the intent and meaning of the Constitution of this State, requiring this act to take effect without delay; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Senate bill No. 62, entitled "An act to amend section 2 of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the counting, comparing with the list of voters and examining ballots in cases of contested elections,' approved March 27, 1883," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections.

Senate bill No. 63, entitled "An act to amend section 5454, chapter 98 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled 'Of dramshops,"" was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Senate bill No. 64, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide a jury system in cities having over one hundred thousand inhabitants,' approved April 11, 1879, by adding thereto three new sections, to be known and designated as sections 30, 31 and 32," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 65, entitled "An act to amend section 809, article two (2), chapter twenty-one (21), Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled 'Of private corporations,"" was taken up and read second time.

Senator Downing offered the following amendment, which was read first and second times, and with Senate bill No. 65, referred to the Committee on Internal Improvements:

Amend section 809 of printed bill by inserting between the words "thereby" and "after," in the forty-seventh line, the words "provided further, that."

Senate bill No. 66, entitled "An act to repeal section 807, chapter 21, article 2 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, entitled 'Of railroads,

and to enact a new section in lieu thereof," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Internal Improvements.

Senate bill No. 67, entitled "An act to repeal an act entitled 'An act to amend an act to facilitate the construction of railroads in the State of Missouri, approved March 23, 1868, being section 52 of article 2 of chapter 37 of Wagner's Statutes, and to limit the amount of stock which any county, city, incorporated town or municipal township may subscribe for the construction of railroads,' approved March 10, 1871," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Senator Oliver was granted leave of absence for two days.

Senate bill No. 68, entitled "An act to protect the property of manufacturers, bottlers and dealers in mineral waters, soda waters and other beverages from the loss of their syphons, bottles and boxes," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Senate bill No. 69, entitled "An act to amend sections 6901 and 6904 of article 9, entitled taxation of bridges and telegraph and express franchises, of chapter 145 of the Revised Statutes of 1879, entitled 'Of the assessment and collection of the revenue,'” was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 70, entitled "An act to amend section 2953, article 6, chapter 44, Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1879, entitled 'Of justices courts,' was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Justices of the Peace.

Senate bill 71, entitled "An act to repeal section 2161, chapter 27 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1879, entitled 'Of descent and distribution,' and to enact a new section in lieu thereof, was taken up read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 72, entitled "An act to amend article 10 of chapter 1 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1879, entitled 'Of the administration of the estates of deceased persons,' by adding a new section thereto, and to amend section 103, article 5, section 116, article 6, and section 224, article 10 of said chapter," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 73, entitled "An act to amend chapter 37, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1879, entitled 'Of guardians and curators,' by adding four new sections thereto, and to amend sections 2580 and 2601 of said chapter," was taken up, read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 74, entitled "An act to provide for the improve