SOLDIERS' ORPHAN HOME.
Mr. BEARDSLEY, from the Committee on Benevolent Institutions, returned the bill [S. 48] to amend sections 1 and 8 of the Soldiers' Home act of March 11, 1867, and section 2 of the act of May 14, 1869, supplemental thereto, with an amendment that any county on whose application orphans were received be liable for their maintenance, recommending its passage.
The report was concurred in.