Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-08

Resolutions 10 give bounty Of lands sud negroes
70 soldiers. Reconsmitted to the judiciary com
utttee &. s-ss.- -,
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The Senate ooncurred in proposition from the
House to raise joint select committee m relation
to the guage sfthe Piedmont railroad. 1.-THE recon-
ice the widening Of the guage(
The Senate then voted for one Director OF the
Insane Asylum. Mr.. Russ received Is votes; Mr..
P. Murphy 16; Mr.. Bedsoe 8:
The Senate adjourned to O'Clock.
HOUSE OF COMMONS
The House was called to order at TO o'clock, A. NJ
journal Of yesterday read and approved.
Leaves Of absence for the remainder of the ses.
sion. were granted Messrs. Faison, Murphy and
Smith of CabaTrus.
On motion Of Mr.. Simmons, message was sent
to the Senate, proposing toee:t at O'Clock to-day
another director for the Insane Asylum.
on CALENDAR
A bill concerning the police Of the town Of Kim
ston. Passed I'd and Sd readings.
resolution in favor of D. +. Bastey, sheriff Of
Perquimans; resolution in favor Of ". B. Canp.
bell, sheriff Of Beaufort county; resolution in f..
vor of A. II. Sanders, former sheriff of Montgomery
> W. a.
sheriff OF Davie county; resolution in favor Of &.
D. Davis, Of Jackson county; bill to amend the
charter of the N. G. Express Company; q bill to
incorporate the Big Falls Toll Bridge Company
bill to amend the charter Of the Peterborough and
Haywood Plank Road Company a bill to ineorpo.
rate the Conservative Publishing Company and 3
bill to amend the charter of Yadkin College, passed
their I'd and Sd readings.
message was received from bis Excellency, Gov.
ernor Vance, transmitting communication from
the Secretary Of War, relative to proposed alter.
alton in the guage Of the Piedmont railroad
On motion Of MIR. Brown, the message and &C.
companylng documents were sent to the Senate,
with proposition to refer them to a jDint select
committee.
The Senate, by message, announced its concur.
renee in this proposition, also IN the proposition
| to 60 at one O'Clock, p. H., into an efestiea fos
another director Of the Insane Asylum.
| INTRoDucrIos BILLS
Mr.. Dargan, by leave, introduced bill to repeat
an act to repeal the Sd section of an act to divide
the State into ten Congressional Districts. Passed
its several readings under suspension Of tbs rules.
| Mr.. Patterson INTRODUCED bill explanatory Of
contracts, which read as follows:
BE 1t enacted by the General Assembly of the
STATE OF North Carolina, and 1t is hereby enacted
by the authority Of the same, That all contracts
made hereafter, during the continuance of the war
shall be held and deemed 10 be payable in Confed-
crate treasury Eotes, unless contrary intent there
in appear"
| SPECIAL ORDER.
The House proceeded to consider the special or.
der, VIZ Mr.. McAden's bill to amend an act to in.
crease the efficiency Of the Home Guard Organize.
tion and substitute therefore reported from the
Committee on Military Affairs
The Committees substitute was rejected after
discussion yeas Z, nays rs, and pending the que1-
ton upon the bill introduced by Mr. McAden, the
House took recess until O'Clock, P. NJ.
SENATE.
SATURDAY EVENING, 8 o'clock.
The committee to superintsnd the election for q
) director of the Insane Asylum reported that P.
Murphy, Esq, was elected.
The Senate then went into secret session.
Report Of Joint Select Committee upon Sinking
. Fund.-
The undersigned, to whom has been referred the
Report OF the Commissioners Of the Sinking Fund,
beg leave to submit that they have carefully ex
ahmed the accounts in that Office from the time at
d , which it was organized down to the close of the
last year. and find the statements and balances sci
forth in that Report to be entirely accurate They
have also counted the Bonds and Certificates which
J, constitute the Fund in the hands of the Com.
mlssoners, and find that these correspond precisely
with the documents appended to the account cur
rent
. The undersigned are of opinion that the moneys
which havebeen entrusted by the State to the Com
missioners Of the Sinking Fund have been invested
q and managed with great care and skill; and they
submit that North Carolina owes her acknowledge
ments to these distinguished and venerable gentle
men for their dsinteresed services during the pas
eight years. in establishing and advancing her policy
in regard to reduction Of the public debt
In accordance with valuable suggestion of obvi
GUS propriety contained in the report Of the Com
y missioners the undersigned submit the accompany
ing bill to amend the Revenue Act ratified on III,
ssd day Of December 1864
d S. F. PATTERSON, Chairman.
l. TIIOS. j. PITCHFORD,
0 P. MURPHY,
+ S. F. PHILLIPS.