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Resolved, That we, as representatives of the farming 

 community, in Grange assembled, demand that the law 

 be so amended as that one or more counties may be 

 organized into such companies by the farmers thereof. 



Referred to committee on Insurance. 



Bro. Mell en offered the following: 



Resolved, That the use of tobacco is a useless, filthy 

 habit, injurious to health and the development of our 

 intellectual faculties, and that we, as Brother Patrons, will 

 join our Sisters in condemning its use. 



Referred to committee on Good of the Order. 



Bro. Hamilton offered the following: 



Whereas, there is a great multiplicity of common 

 school books, causing an outlay of a vast amount of money 

 in this State, and that amount being forced from those 

 who are least able to bear it. Therefore, 



Resolved, That we urge it upon our Representatives in 

 our State Legislature, to enact a State law, establishing a 

 uniform series of text books for common schools, having 

 them selected by a competent Committee, revised, stereo- 

 typed and established during a term of years, and let by 

 contract to the lowest responsible publishing house. 



Referred to Committee on Good of the Order. 



Bro. Giller asked the suspension of the rules, and moved 

 the adoption of the following resolution: 



Whereas. The question, as to whether the people of the 

 State of Illinois have the right by law to control the rail- 

 roads and other monopolies of the State, is yet in obeyance. 

 no decision having been rendered by the Supreme Court 

 of the United States on the questions brought before them 

 by the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners. There- 

 fore, be it 



Resolved by the members of the State Grange of Illinois. 

 at their annual meeting, held at Decatur, that we earnestly 

 request and instruct our Senators and Representatives at 

 Springfield assembled, to uphold and support the Railroad 

 and Warehouse Commissioners in their efforts to defend 

 the rights and privileges of the people of this great State. 



Resolved, That our Representatives be also requested, to 

 perfect such legislation aswili compel the railroads of the 

 v State to pay promptly their taxes due the different counties 

 \SvOf the State, so long unjustly withheld. 



-~-"E. A. Giller, of Greene county. 



Rule suspended and resolution adopted. 



