THE AUSTIN PAPERS. . 285 of the Legislative Counsel shall possess two hundred acres of land in bis own right and it appears by the acknowledgement of said member from Howard County that he is not possessed of two hundred acres of lnnd and therefore is not legally a member of the Legislative Counsel and consequently all acts votes or decissions of the Councel which were passed and decided by a Majority of one vote wherein said member from I-Iowa.rd voted in the Majority are illega_l and null and void they also protest against said vote of reconsideration on the ground that the motion for said reconsideration after having been declared to be out of order by the President was decided to be in order by the House on an appeal by a majority of one vote only the said member from Howard County giving the casting vote who had only taken his seat on the morning of the day on which the vote was decided and was ignorant of the Rules of the Counsel as well as of the principles of Parliamentary proceedings as he afterward. acknowledged and was therefore not prepared or quallified to vote on a point of order wherefor the -undersigned do hereby enter their solem protest against said vote of reconsideration and against all the subsequent votes on said act to incorporate the Stock holders of the Bank of Missouri and they do protest against the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President o~ the Legislative Counsel signing said act and also against the Governor's approving and signing the same and against the legality of said act to incor- porate the Stockholders of the Bank of Missouri should it be ap- proved and signed by the Governor. • Acknowledged at·the [same] time that they are fully satisfied of the correctness and honesty of the intention and meaning of the majority and regreting that a different will and understanding of the subject on the part of the minority should occasion a difference in opinion. . [Endorsed:] Relative to the Bank question in Mo. 1818
G. BILL TO ESTABLISH A LOTTERY FOR CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS
[1817-18181] Whereas the opening of Public Roads and Highways are objects of P.rimary importance to this Territory, and there being at present no disposable Revenue to appropriate to those purposes, it is deemed expedient by the General Assembly to raise a fund for those purposes by means of a Territorial Lottery, Therefore-- Sect. 1. Be is enacted by the General Assembly of the Territory of Missouri that , be and they are hereby appointed Commis- sioners to establish a Territorial Lottery under Such Schemes as they, or a majority of them may deem most expedient and proper and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The said Lot-
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