ILLINOIS.-Proceedings and Debates of the American Board of Cattle Commissioners, 24 copies; Reports of cases at law and in Chancery, argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, by N. L. Freeman, volumes xlii, xliii, xliv, xlv and xlvi, 5 volumes; Public Laws of Illinois for 1869, 1 volume.

INDIANA.-Reports of cases determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Indiana, by Benjamin Harrison, volumes xxix and xx, 2 volumes.

KENTUCKY.-Reports of selected civil and criminal cases decided in the Court of Appeals, by W. P. D. Bush, volumes 1, 2 and 3, 3 volumes.

MICHIGAN.-Reports of cases heard and decided in the Supreme Court, 1868 and 69, volume 4, being volume xvii of the series, 1869, 1 volume; Laws of Michigan, 1869, 1 volume; 32d annual report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for 1868, 1 volume.

WISCONSIN.-General and Private Laws of the State for the year 1869, 1 volume; A Digest of Wisconsin Reports from the earliest period to the year 1868, comprising all the published decisions of the Supreme Court, by James Simmons, Albany, 1868, 1 volume; Reports of cases argued and determined in the supreme Court, by O. M. Conover, volume xxii. 1869, 1 volume; Governor's Message and accompanying documents, 1869, 2 volumes; Private and Local Laws for 1869, 1 volume; Public Laws for 1869, 1 volume; Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives for 1869, 2 volumes.

MINNESOTA.-Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, 10th and 11th Sessions, 4 volumes; Executive Documents ditto, 2 Minnesota Reports, Vol. XII and XIII, 2 volumes; General Statutes of the State, revised by commissioners appointed in 1866, 1 volume.

Iowa.-Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 12th General Assembly, 1868, 2 volumes; Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, determined in the Supreme Court. (By Edward R. Stiles, Vol. IV and V), Vol. XXV and XXVI, 1869, 1 volume.

MISSOURI.-Laws of the State, for the year 1869, 1 volume; Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the State, by Truman A. Post, Vols. XLII and XLIII, 2 vol

umes.

KANSAS.-Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court, by Elliot V. Banks, Vol. IV, 1 volume; The Genera Statutes of the State, revised 1868, 1 volume.

NEVADA. Reports of Cases determined in the Supreme Court, during 1868, by Alfred Helen, Vol. IV, 1 volume; Senate Journal, the Fourth Session, 1869, 1 volume; Journal of the Assembly, Fourth Session, 1869, 1 volume; Statutes of Nevada, passed 1869, 1 volume.

IDAHO TERRITORY.-Laws of Idaho Territory, 1st Session, 1864, 1 volume; Laws of Iaho Territory, 2d Session, 1864, 1 volume; Laws of Idaho Territory, 3rd Session, 1865–66, 2 volumes. OREGON.-Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court, from 1862 to 1869, Vol. II, 1 volume.

CALIFORNIA.-Reports of Cases determined in the Supreme Court, Vols. 34, 35 and 36. J. E. Hale, 1869, 3 volumes.

UNITED STATES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.-68 copies of the Laws of the S. S., passed at 2d Session of the 40th Congress, 68 copies; 68 copies of the Laws of the U. S., passed at the 3d Session of the 40th Congress, 68 copies; 68 copies of the Laws of the U. S., passed at the 1st Session of the 41st Congress, 68 copies.

UNITED STATES, NAVY DEPARTMENT.-Astronomical and Meteorological Observations, made at the U. S. Naval Observatory during 1866, quarto, 1 volume.

CANADA. Statutes of the Province of Quebec, for 1868 and 1869, 2 volumes.

The additions to the State Library, by purchase, have been limited 1 periodical publications, the whole cost of which has not eeded twenty dollars.

The Law Reports and Statutes of the various States, which are the most valuable of the books received, have been placed in the State. Bar Library; the remainder are arranged as well as the limited space will permit, in the room assigned for the State Library in the third story of this building.

The United States Statutes at Large, of which many copies are received from Washington, have been distributed to the several courts and towns in the State.

In return for this large amount of valuable books and documents, the State has nothing to send except its Schedules.

JOHN R. BARTLETT,

Secretary of State.