Message from the Senate. MR. SPEAKER:—1 am directed to inform the House that the Senate has agreed to the concurrent resolutions of the House. J. H. SANDERS, Sec'y of Senate. The committee on enrolled bills ask leave to report that they have handed the following bills to the Governor for his signature, viz: house files 393, 325, 377, 353, 253, 372, 237, 344.

J. W. DENNISON, Chairman.

Mr. Baker moved that the Chief Clerk inform the Senate that the House is now ready to adjourn sine die.

The Chief Clerk having returned, Mr. Taylor moved that this House do now adjourn sine die.

Before announcing the vote, the Speaker said: Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:

I feel that this is one of the happiest moments of my life. The words which I might control would fail to convey to you the earnest feelings of gratitude which fill my heart when I think of the flattering sentiment contained in the resolution which you have adopted with so much ananimity.

The position in which I have been placed by the kind confidence of my friends, is of a delicate and responsible character.In the outset I begged of you to extend toward me your kind indulgence and your faithful co-operation in sustaining those rules which are necessary to the dignified conduct of a legislative assembly. I was not mistaken in thinking that you would do so; and for your many acts of kindness toward me, and your faithful co operation in, at all times enforcing the rules, I return you my most hearty thanks, and it at any time, in enforcing the rules of this House-and where is there an assemblage like this which can go through the storms of many debates without occasional harsh expressions?-If at any time I say, I have done injustice to any member, or if in the heat of debate, I have said a word which has wounded the feelings of any one, I am entirely unconscious of any such intent. It does afford me the greatest pleasure in bearing testimony to this Hoouse, and to the individual members thereof, for their uniform courtesy and kindness to the chair even during the most exciting and trying hours of our deliberations.It is also gratifying to my feelings to bear evidence in behalf of your untiring industry and application to business, the legitimate results of which has been the enactment of laws well calculated to promote the honor, welfare and happiness of our much beloved State.

You have also seen proper to present me the chair I have had the honor to occupy, as your presiding officer. I accept it, and shall ever regard it as a 'hallowed memento of by gone times, and shall leave it as a rich heir-loom to my children, directing them to look upon it with recollections of gratitude to the lower branch of the Eighth General Assembly of Iowa.

Gentlemen, we met here as comparative strangers-we shall part, I trust, as friends. As we retire from the scene of our deliberations, our labors, and our conflicts, it would be but the performance of a duty on my part-even had you not expressed so much kindness toward me-to express for you the heartiest benedictions -to wish for each and every one of you the fullest cups of happiness, and the choicest blessings of Heaven. Whether, therefore, we shall have the pleasure of meeting again in this Hall, or shall now part for the last time, let me sincerely pray that God may bless you all.

I now pronounce this House adjourned sine die.

ATTEST:

CHARLES ALDRICH, Clerk of the House of Representatives.

INDEX.

Agricultural College, 32, 244, 245, 300, 406.

Asylum-

.

Blind, 63, 306, 309, 452, 454, 457.

Insane, 31, 85, 231, 242, 260, 262, 378, 396, 446, 452, 456,

503, 526, 527, 528, 542, 560, 564.

Deaf and Dumb, 32, 101, 226, 129, 112, 154, 166, 328, 359,
415, 441, 451, 515.

Auditor's Office, 44.

Report, additional copies, 93, 131, 223.
Communications, 111.

Adultery, 259, 418.

Appraisement, See house files 8, 27, 150.

Banks, 33, 117, 316, 317.

Board of Education, 18.

Census 1859, 15, 96.
Capitol Building, 38.
College Agricultural, 32.
Committee-

On credentials, 3, 4.

To inform Senate and Governor of House Organization, 13.
To inform Senate that House was ready to go into Joint
Convention to canvass votes, 48.

To inform Senate that the House was ready to proceed with
the inauguration, 51.

To inform Governor and Lieut Governor elect, that Joint
Convention was ready to proceed with Inauguration, 51
To invite Supreme Court and State officers to be present at
the Inauguration, 51.

Select, on State Printing and Binding, 97, 286, 299, 62, 78,
79, 122, 173.

Standing, and on Capitol building, 62, 158.

To prepare rules for House, 65.

To inform Senate that House was ready to go into Joint
Convention to elect U. S. Senator, 80.

On Constitutional amendments, 103, 120, 121, 125, 126, 191
On Printing, 103, 105, 106, 122, 125.

To apportion the State, 103.

On Claims, 107, 123, 127, 177, 306, 338, 341, 436, 559.

Committee-

On Des Moines River Improvement, 226.

Code Amendments, 254, 288, 384, 427, 428, 435, 439.

Code of Civil Practice, 175, 181, 287, 231, 227, 302, 421, 426, 428,
431, 432.

Communications,

From Governor, 184, 225, 529.

Courts-

do F. M. Mills, 184.

John Teesdale, 184.

J. L. Corse & Sons, Booksellers, 316.
Henry P. Scholte, 358, 481.

J. S. Whicher, 77.

Sec'y of Agricultural Society, 109.

Auditor of State College and Farm, 222.

Wm. Lee to do State Binding, 113.

Sec'y of State, 130, 131, 135, 184, 197, 284, 496.
Stilson Hutchins to do State Printing, 138.

Sec'y of Board of Education, 159, 407, 487, 488.
Ladies of Des Moines, 628.

In 2d District, 198, 209, 215, 228.

In 7th do

In 5th do

In 11th do

In 3d do

In 4th do

In 10th do

77, 151, 158, 178.

239.

76, 89, 94, 108, 128, 433, 441, 490, 515.
213, 215, 220, 239.

67, 78, 88, 92, 103, 128.
393, 406, 503, 512.

Compensation of Officers of House, 6, 13.
Codification and revision of Laws, 40.
Costs, Security for, See house files 40, 161.

Des Moines River Grant, 22.