Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-10-13

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be REGARDED State expenses, and which are stated
Comnnnication 80693 "a
$156950 AZ
An Abstract stating the character of these expenditures
what more detail accompanies this Communication to which
reference is respectfully made
have the pleasure to refer you the report of John Howe Jr
ESQ accompanying this Communication which gives the details
of the expenditures involved the dispensing of State ard to the
families Of soldiers
respectfully suggest that committee be appointed to audit
the accns and vouchers the Executive Department on which
the above named expenditures based and desired the Sec
reary Of Civil and Military Affairs will be in attendance to
hibit Ken to such committee.
Tie advances made by the State to the General Government
mentioned in the foregoing 3D. classification together with like
advances mentioned in the 4h classification of similar state
men made my annual Message last year have during the
year 1863 been presented in due form to the authorities
Washington Tor allowance and probably the State will be
mbursed therefor by the T. s. Treasury Department. to
amount somewhere between oryfve and fifty thousand dollars
The action OF the State authorities under the provisions of the
Act entitled An Act relating the organization regulation
and government Of the Militia Of this State approved Dec 3D.
1862 will fully appear in the Annual Report of the Aduan and
Inspector General which Report reference respectful made
Agreeaby to the provisions of the Act entitled Act to
provide for enrolling the Militia in the several cores and
ganized towns In this State approved Dec 1862 appointed
persons make the required eroments in such cores and
organized towns
The agents appointed by the Act entitled An Act providing
for the appointment of agents to receive and dispose OF the Land
Scrip to which this State may be entitled under the act of Con-
gres approved July 1862 approved Dec 1862 executed
their respective bonds in full compliance with the requirements
Of said Act and the bonds approved by and deposited
with the Secretary of State Section s. of said Act authorizes
the Governor to receive proposals for donations of land buildings
and funds from any part of the State from any person per-
sons for the purpose of establishing college, according to the
provisions OF the of Congress heretofore mentioned but
such proposals have been received
In compliance with the Act entitled An Act authorizing the
Governor to appoint Listers and Collectors of for the
era cores In this State approved Dec 1862 appointed
Commissioner and Collector for every County which there
any cores or unorganzed towns
In obedience the Act entitled An Act to authorize repairs
of the roof of the State House. approved Nov a. 1862 APP
pointed Mr. Epstus Hubbard of Montpelier to provide for and
superntend the necessary repairs of said roof report of his
dongs will doubtless be made to my successor.
Agreeaby to the Act entitled An Act authorizing the Gov
enor to loan arms &c. Norwich University" approved Nov
g. 1856 eighty muskets and eighty sets of equipments
procured by the Quartermaer General by equton upon TIN
United States and loaned to that University.
In compliance with the Act entitled An Act authorize tn
Governor to furnish Tomnques for the of the soldiers ap
proved Nov D. 1862 directed the Quartermaster General
purchase twenty-five hundred ounques and distribute them
Just proportions to the Vermont regiments which duty he
cordngy performed Five hundred ournques donate
by the inventor Dr. Lambert and distributed along wit
those purchased.
The Joint Resolutions passed by the General Assembly at
last session. relating the appointment of Commissioners Wis
sick soldiers from Vermont the United States SERVICE mil
lister their comfort and recovery and procure the expen
of the State the removal Of such of them Vermont on flu
ouph might thereby the estimation of the Commissioner
be more speedily restored to health could not be fully carried
in practice nasmuch they conced in respects with
rules and regulations governing the service The system
granting uroughs had been extensively paciced until the
Department finding by experience that large numbers Of the
thus INDUCED did return to the service and that the
was being depleted rapid and alarming rate, felt compel
to issue stringent orders disseminating the practice The auth
tiles at Washington therefore declined to allow disabled
to be sent to Vermont urough but expressed wngn
to fill the Hospitals then in the Sate-keepng the Hospitals
men, however strictly under the control of the Government
subject to the army rules.
After considering the matter in its various bearings
the conclusion that the best thing practicable be done for
benefit OF our sick and wounded soldiers arrange for Il
transfer to Hospitals in Vermont There were then two Hop
in the State Burlington superior edfce, capable of
commodang about hundred men, and Bratteboo
about equal capacity. But these accommodations
Gent for the treatment of all our soldiers who would be pr,
subjects for transfer the State. An effort therefore
to induce the authorities Washington order the nrgen
Of these two Hospitals to the requisite capacity but this
cned on the ground that the Government had already ncu
the expense of providing the war; all the hos
accommodations which the army required
1t was then proposed the Secretary of War; that witt
permission and the cheapest available means the State
increasing its hospital accommodations the State author
would connect sufficient number Of the Government bar
buildings at Bratteboro, with the United States Hospital air
there to make the establishment whole large enough
the treatment of from four hundred five hundred men, an
the buildings up suitably for hospital purposes at the expen
the State provided the authorities at Washington would {
the transfer Of the sick and wounded Vermont soldiers to
State Tor further Hospital treatment adding the rel
that 1t was thought that the change to our pure mou
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