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* decision on a subject so important to the hon. 



* or and dignity of this state, and the individuals 



* implicated therein."* The committee made 

 report that they had carefully examined the evi- 

 dence which they had been able to obtain, and 

 had heard a further statement and proof of facts 

 which were not related in the former report ; 

 and th.U it had been the practice of the judges 

 to take the fees that had been complained of in 

 a variety of cases and actions, which were men- 

 tioned, f The next day the business was cal- 

 led up again, the house resolved themselves in- 

 to a committee of the whole, debated largely on 

 the subject, reported progress, and asked leave 

 to sit again.J On the succeeding day the sub- 

 jtct was again considered in a committee of the 

 whole, and much time was spent in the debate; 

 and the committee agreed to recommend to the 

 house to adopt the following resolution, *' Ile- 



* solved^ That it is the sense of this house, that 



* the tees taken by the judges of the supreme 



* court, as stated in the report of our select com- 

 ' mittee, were taken by said judges with upright 



* views, and that they are by law made the 



* judges of what is a reasonable and lair con- 



* structim of the fee bill ; and therefore, that 

 ' no further order ought to be taken relative to 

 ' the said judges taking of fees as aforesaid." 

 The question was then put whether the house 

 would accept of the report of the committee of 

 the whole ; it passed in the iifiimiative, yeas 

 100, nays 82.^ 



Thus terminated this dangerous contest. Its 

 origin, progress, and termination, seem to have 



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