REPORT FROM THE CLERK.
The principal Clerk (Mr. Nixon) reported to the House that upon the order of both Houses 7,000 copies of Governor Porter's message and Governor Gray's inaugural address were ordered printed; that the State Printer brought the copies here and placed them in the cloak room without notifying him (Nixon) of the fact, and a great many copies were carried away before he knew they were printed. The Clerk did not think the whole 7,000 copies, were printed, and under the circumstances he was not willing to give a receipt to the State Printer without instruction from the House. He recommended that the requisition be signed after affidavit is made to the effect that the required number of copies were printed.
Mr. NEFF moved that the Chief Clerk of the House be instructed to certify to the accounts of the State Printer for printing the Governor's message and Governor Gray's inaugural, whenever he may be satisfied by affidavit that the requisite number ordered by the House has been furnished.
The motion was agreed to.
