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heard most of it - Very good - Was about town some - Bed at 1 -

17 bills

Wednesday Feb 4

The same - Attended session - got 2 more bills to engross - Evening I engrossed them - Took 5 hours good work - One bill was Senate Bill No 59 "An Act Providing for the adoption of children" and the other Senate Bill No 57 - "An act to amend an Act entitled "An act to amend an Act entitled An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors and Protection of creditors" - This makes 17 bills engrossed by me - Shaw was on duty again today Bed at 2 -

Thursday Feb 5

Clear, warm, and the finest Spring day I have seen for years - Everybody enjoyed it - I worked hard most of the day at engrossing - Had one long one, Senate Bill No 21, "An Act to Reclaim the Arable Desert Lands, and Develop the Agri -

Big Engrossing job

cultural Resources of the State of Nevada." Senator Markus Bill - Made 12 pages - 5 pages is the longest I have had before - Also engrossed Senate Bill No 55, An Act to Provide for the payment of clerical hire in the State Library during the years 1883-4 - (Laughton's bill) Worked all evening and till 3 o'clock in morning and got both bills engrossed all right - Bed at 4 -

Friday Feb 6

Cloudy with heavy SW winds - Shower early this morning kept down the dust -