RESOLUTIONS PASSED SESSION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY. No. 1. RESOLUTION Relative to the Pay of the retiring Officers of the General Assembly. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the retiring officers of the last session of the general assembly, for ten days' service at the opening of the present session, and the usual mileage, including such officers as were paid by resolution or otherwise. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatires. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 2. RESOLUTION Relative to the pay of M. D. Witman. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealih of Pennsylvania, That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to pay to the legal representatives of Marks D. Witman, a member of this House, deceased, for the exclusive use and benefit of the wife and children of said Wilman, the sum of three hundred dollars. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatires. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The twelfth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 3. RESOLUTION Relative to the purchase of Purdon's Digest. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the clerks of the Senate and House be and they are hereby authorized to procure a copy of the last edition of Purdon's Digest for each member and clerk, and assistant clerk, and the trans. cribing clerks' room of the respective houses; and that the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to pay the same, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twelfth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 4. RESOLUTION Relative to the Legislative Manual. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, 'That the clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives be authorized to procure a copy of Sutherland's and Ziegler's Manual for each member and clerk, and assistant clerk, of the respective houses; and that the state treasurer be and he is hereby author. ized to pay for the same, out of any moneys in the treasury not. otherwise appropriated. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED— The thirteenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 5. RESOLUTION Relative to the Accounts of the late Clerk of the House of Representatives. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That the auditor general and state treasurer be and they are hereby authorized and required to settle and adjust all the accounts of Samuel J. Rea, late clerk of the House of Representatives, in the same manner as if he were still in office, and pay over to said Rea any balance that may be found due him on such settlement, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED- The seventeenth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 6. RESOLUTION Relative to the pay of Samuel M’Donald. WHEREAS, Samuel M'Donald, late assistant door.keeper of the House, was actually employed by the late clerk of the House, in attending to the furnaces in the basement of rotunda and House, for six days preceding the commencement of the present session; therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatires of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay Samuel M'Donald, the regular per diem as assistant door.keeper for six days. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fourth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 7. RESOLUTION Relative to the pay of Thomas W. Duffield. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealih of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay Thomas W. Duffield, seven dollars per day, from the organization of the House until the nineteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, inclusive, together with usual mileage. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The twenty-fifth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 8. RESOLUTION Relative to the pay of Samuel J. Rca, as Clerk to the Committee trying the Contested Election in the Sixteenth Legislative District of Phila. dulphia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the state treasurer be directed to pay to Samuel J. Rea, clerk to the committee to try the contested election case of the sixteenth legislative district of Philadelphia, the sum of three dollars per day, and the usual mileage, the number of days to be certified by the chairman of said committee. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED- The thirty.first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 9. RESOLUTION Relative to a copy of Geological Survey for the Chester County Academy of Natural Science. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the secretary of the commonwealth is hereby directed to deliver to the officers or agents of the Chester County Academy of Natural Science, one copy of Rogers's Geological Survey, with the accompanying maps, for the use of the said academy. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatites. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED—The seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. No. 10. RESOLUTION Relative to Rogers's Geological Survey. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the secretary of the commonwealth is hereby directed to furnish to each of the members of the general assembly who have not heretofore been supplied, and to the attorney general, and chief and assistant clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, one copy of Rogers’s Geological Survey of this state, with the accompanying maps: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent ex-members, entitled to copies of this report, from being first supplied : Provided, That no member or officer who has already received a copy, shall receive one under this resolution. W. C. A. LAWRENCE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The seventh day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty. WM. F. PACKER. |