Mr. Vandeventer gave notice, that, although a surveyor had been appointed by the two Houses for Schuyler county, there had been no vacancy.2 Mr. Webb said, the last appointment, then, was a nullity. Mr. Lincoln said, “That if, as appeared to be the opinion of le[gal] gentlemen, there was no danger of the [new] surveyor’s ousting the old one so long as he persisted not to die—he would suggest the propriety of letting matters remain as they were, so that if the old surveyor should hereafter conclude to die, there would be a new one ready made without troubling the legislature.” Mr. Stuart offered an amendment to said resolution, striking out all after the word Resolved and inserting a provision requiring the House to rescind their nomination to that office, and requesting the Senate to rescind their appointment; said amendment was concurred in, and on motion of Mr. Thomas the resolution was laid on the table.3