SOLDIERS' EXTRA BACK PAY.
Mr. GREER introduced a joint resolution [H. R. 20] instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to use their influence for the passage of a law allowing soldiers who have been confined as prisoners of war in the South, extra pay for the time they were held as prisoners.
It was read the first time and passed to the second reading.
Mr. HOPKlNS introduced a bill [H. R. 321] for an act to provide for refunding to Alvah Johnson a sum of money equal to the judgment in the case of the State against John W. Johnson and others. It was read the first time and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. CORY introduced a bill, [H. R. 322] to amend the 24th and 100th sections of the Common School law. [Fifty dollars penalty against trustees failing to qualify schools to be closed when institutes are in session.] It was read the first time and referred to the Committee on Education.
