CLAIMS.
Mr. SABIN, from the Committee on Claims, returned the claims of Dr. J. R. Tillman, Julius Boetticher,of the Volksblatt, and R. M. Smith, recommending that they be allowed and incoporated in the specific appropriation bill, which reports were concurred in.
He also returned the claims of James Buchanan for $185 50 for discount on exchange, and the claims af Julius Petty, for damages to his farm by the military, in 1862, 1863 and 1865, recommending that they be not allowed.
The reports were concurred in.
He also returned the claim of James R. Peelle, for $100 for attorneys' fees paid on the Beatty-Peelle contest; and the claim of Samuel Beatty for $161 expenses incurred by him in said contest, recommending that the same be allowed, &c.
After debate-these reports were laid on the table.
The SPEAKER laid before the House two communications from the Governor-the first transmitting a supplementary report of the Directors of the Northern Prison, embracing the report of Alf. Wood, Moral Instructor there-asking for an appropriation to replenish the library, &c.
They were laid on the table.
