Enrolled Act No. 60, House of Representatives.
AN ACT making additional appropriations for the years 1861 and 1862, and defining the funds from who they are to be paid, and providing for action to audit claims upon said appropriation, and providing for the expense thereof.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the sum of one million of dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses growing out of the insurrectionary condition of a por- page: 263[View Page 263] tion of the United States, and in enlisting, maintaining and subsisting troops and providing munitions of war, including, also, the expense of this session of the General Assembly.
SEC. 2. That the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, payable out of the appropriation made in the first section of this act, to defray the expenses of printing, including the expense of translating such matter as is required to be printed in the German language.
SEC. 3. That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated to pay the expense of the present session of the General Assembly, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, provided that both the present and former appropriations shall be paid out of the one million of dollars appropriated in section one of this act.
SEC. 4 That the sum of one thousand dollars be appropriated to pay the incidental expenses of the Adjutant General's office, which sum is to include the amount already expended for that purpose; said sum to be paid out of the sum appropriated by the first section of this act.
SEC. 5. That there shall be appointed a committee consisting of two members of the House and one of the Senate, to be denominated an Auditing Committee, whose duty it shall be to meet at Indianapolis monthly and examine and audit the accounts of the Commissary General and Quarter Master General, and all other accounts, either for pay of men or materials of any kind purchased and designed to be paid for out of the appropriation made in the first section of this act, and the Auditor of State is expressly prohibited from paying any claims of any description whatever, except for legislative expenses, out of the appropriation made in the first section of this act, until said claim has been audited and certified by said committee, or a majority of them.
SEC. 6. Said committee shall have power to employ a clerk; they shall make out a regular balance sheet each month, which, together with the proper vouchers, shall be carefully preserved. They shall have power to direct the proper forms to be used for accounts and vouchers, and require all to be made in accordance with such forms.
SEC. 7. They shall each receive the sum of three dollars per day for each day they may be necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties, and five cents per mile for the distance traveled in going to and returning from their attendance upon such duties, which, together with the clerk hire, shall be paid out of the money appropriated in the first, section of this act.
SEC. 8. That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, in addition to the sums appropriated at the regular session, to defray the general expenses of the State, and payable out of the general fund, to-wit:
For incidental expenses of the Treasurer's office, eight hundred and fifty dollars. For lights, fuel, repairs of State House and fences, nine hundred dollars.
For binding laws, journals, Brevier Reports, census returns and laws of the United States, three thousand dollars; provided the laws of the regular session and this special session shall be bound in one volume.
For Supreme Court Reports for the year 1861, one thousand dollars, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated.
SEC. 9. That there be appropriated for incidental expenses of the Governor's office, in addition to former appropriations, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, payable out of the sum appropriated in the first section of this act.
SEC. 10. The unsettled accounts for State Printing, executed according to law, previous to the year 1861, when ascertained and certified to be correct by the Secretary of State, shall be allowed and paid out of the money appropriated for printing, for the years 1861 and 1862.
SEC. 11. That the Governor, Adjutant General and Treasurer of State shall report to the General Assembly at its next session, the amount of money expended, and the specific items for which expended under the specific appropriations made to their respective offices in this act, and the librarian shall make a like report of the money expended by him. under the appropriations made in this act.
SEC. 12. It is declared that an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, therefore it shall be in force from and after its passage.
[Approved May 31, 1861. For legislative action thereon, see pages 206, 207, 208, 209, 215 and 228 of these Reports.]
