And there's dinner, so we'll just adjourn to the messroom and hear what you can tell us.

The police authorities committed themselves to no definite theory at that stage, and at their request the inquiry was adjourned for a month.

" "And you compelled the class to adjourn without attending to Jetson's case.

It is adjourned until a better day.'

Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may provide.

After supper he accordingly went for his "look in," and arriving at half-past eleven, was in time for dinner, which did not take place till half-past twelve, the court having adjourned at 12.15.

This convention proceeded to frame a constitution for Kansas, and finally adjourned on the 7th day of November.

" The Senate had adjourned in triumph; without a dissenting voice Venice had rallied to the support of her prince.

Jan. 27.] removed; the commissioners adjourned into a neighbouring apartment, and almost an hour was spent in private and animated debate.

It enabled Congress to adjourn with that dignity and deliberation so becoming to the representatives of this great Republic, without having crowded into general appropriation bills provisions foreign to their nature and of doubtful constitutionality and expediency.

So nearly simultaneous is the discontinuance of the songs of this species, that it might seem as if their silence were preconcerted, and that by a vote they had, on a certain day, adjourned over to another year.

I suppose you know that ill health has obliged us to give up housekeeping; but we have an asylum at the very next dooronly twenty-four inches further from town, which is not material in a country expeditionwhere a table d'hôte is kept for us, without trouble on our parts, and we adjourn after dinner, when one of the old world (old friends) drops casually down among us.

" Mr. Jones's motion was carried, and before the meeting finally adjourned under the genial influence of good-fellowship and pleasant converse Mr. Peters's second book sale was voted to have been of the best quality.

After the inauguration, the Commons adjourned during six months, that time might be allowed for the formation of the "other house.

If the president keeps a bill longer than ten days (Sundays excepted) without signing it, it becomes a law without his signature; unless Congress adjourns before the expiration of the ten days, in which case it fails to become a law, just as if it had been vetoed.