No, 20. Neb Sealant

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SESSION 111. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1855. The House met pursuant to adjournment. Present: —The Speaker and 16 members. The Speaker read prayers and took the Chair. Mr. Sewell, with leave of the House, withdrew the motion standing in his name, fourth on the notice paper of this day, in older that Mr. Brown might more the House to go into Committee of the whole, for the purpose of considering an address to his Excellency the Governor. On motion of Mr. Merriman, House adjourned until one o'clock, in order to enable Members to attend the ceremony of administering the oaths of office to his Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, C.8., as Governor of the Colony. The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Speaker took the Chair. A message from the Legislative Council was announced. The Hon. R. Richardson, Esq., was introduced who presented to the Speaker the Land Claimants Ordinance Amendment Bill with an amendment, to which amendment the Council prayed the assent of the House. On motion of Mr, Travers, the amendment of the Legislative Council read a®d adopted by the House, Mr. Travers and Mr. Hart deputed to notify the same to the Legislative Coun-

MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.