EXPENSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Mr. NEWCOMB, from the Committee on Ways and Means, returned the General Assembly appropriation bill [S. 26] with an amendment making a distinction between the pay of elective and employed officers, the latter $4 a day, the pages $2 a day; and appropriating $40,000 for the expenses of the Benevolent Institutions; for the Hospital for the Insane $15,000; for the Institution for the Blind $12,500; for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum $12,500.
The bill takes its place in the calendar.
Mr. MILLER, from the Committee on Ways and Means, returned the petition of sundry citizens of Allen county praying for the repeal of the act legalizing the issueing of county bonds, &c., approved March 3, 1865, reporting "that, inasmuch as these bonds were issued for the purpose of procuring volunteers for the army during the rebellion, and whereas many of these bonds may now be held by those who took them in good faith and went into the service of their country, thereby relieving many drafted men who would otherwise have had to go; and we believe the inducements then offered to those who did go and assist in putting down the rebellion should be held inviolate; and as we believe it would be doing injustice to those who have already paid their taxes, we therefore recommend the refusal of the prayer of the petitioners, and ask to be discharged from further consideration of the subject."
The report was concurred in.
Mr. SABIN, from the Committee on Fees and Salaries, returned Mr. Montgomery's Commissioner Fees bill [H. R. 11] with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The bill goes to the calendar.
