On January 13, when the board of inquiry was appointed, the "clerk _pro tem._" of the lower house, by order of Bullock countersigned by Terry, had declared the house adjourned till January 17, to await the decision of the board.[230] On the 17th the house met and listened to the reading of two orders from Bullock indorsed by Terry; the one directing the state treasurer to issue fifty dollars to each member of the house, the other ordering the house to adjourn till January 19.[231] On the 19th the house met, and after one man had been sworn in was adjourned in the same manner till the 24th.[232] On the 24th it met and after two men had been sworn in was again adjourned by order of the governor.[233] On the morning of the 25th it met and was adjourned till afternoon. In the afternoon it was adjourned as soon as it had met till the next day. To the countersignature of Terry in this case was added the promise that this was the last adjournment of the series, since the board had now rendered so much of its decision as related to members of the lower house. The house was therefore ordered to swear in, on the next day, all the remaining members elect except those found or confessed ineligible, and to elect its permanent officers.[234] On January 26 this order was complied with; the Radical candidate for chairman was elected by a large majority, and the redoubtable "clerk _pro tem._," having presided for the last time, retired.[235] The reorganized legislature on February 2 complied with the remaining requirements of the Reorganization Act by ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment. On the advice of Bullock it also repassed the resolutions of July, 1868, required by the Omnibus Act. This was not necessary to re-admission. It is true, the requirements of the Omnibus Act had, by the hypothesis of the Reorganization Act, never been "duly" fulfilled. But the Omnibus Act had been superseded by other legislation, which made new requirements and did not renew the old. The renewal of the unfulfilled requirements had been discussed in Congress and rejected.[236] Nevertheless, the resolutions were passed gratuitously.[237]