OVERSEERS BILL PASSES.

The State Senate yesterday concurred in the amendment recently added by the House of Representatives to the bill on the franchise for electing Harvard Overseers. The bill will now be engrossed on parchment and will be brought before the House and Senate for enactment. It will then be taken to the Governor for his signature.

The bill with the amendment now reads as follows:

"Section 1. The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Board of Overseers of said College, acting separately at meetings called for that purpose, may, after the expiration of three years from the date of the acceptance of this act as provided in section 2, determine from time to time by concurrent vote whether any, and, if any, what degrees issued by said College other than those mentioned in section 1 of chapter 173, of the acts of the year 1865, shall entitle the recipients thereof to vote for overseers to the same extent and under the same restrictions to and under which recipients of the degree of bachelor of arts from said College may now so vote.

"Section 2. This act shall be in force when the Board of Overseers and the President and Fellows of Harvard College respectively at meetings held for that purpose, shall by vote have assented to the same."