Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-30
HOUSE.

The House bill 10 repeal the charter of
| Mount Pleasant sassd third reading.
The Senate bill forhidding the brand OF
saw.logs to be oblitsrated passed third read
log.
The Senate bill to change the time of hold
isg the Chancery Court at Dyersburg passed.
REPORT OF THE FUNDING BOARD COMMITTEE
Mr.. Thompson, of the committee appointed
to investigate as to the settlement Of the
Funding Board of the ty.three'four-fve-
| snd-six act, submitted the report of said
COMMITTEES. He also offered House joint
resolution asking permission for the special
| committee to setlle with the Funding Board
to sit after adjournment. The following is
the report:
| Mr.. sPEAKER-The Joint Select Committee ap-
pointed under House joint resolution No 10 to
! sundred-and-three and sixty-and-six acts beg
leave to report that they have endeavored to COM
ply with the requirements of said reso ution but
committee has felt 10 rest upon him to attend up
on the sittings of the General Assembly and 10 act
upon the important questions presented for de ID
| GRAFTON and discussion. and TO comply fully with
the letter and spirit of the resolution under which
| they were acting, together with the absence fiom
the city for a viii Of the secretary of State aud
| for amo the entire time of the excomptroller,
both members of said Funding Boards the prog ress
made in said investigation, compared with that
yet to be done. is small; The committee have
gone far enough to be able merely to say that it
appears that said Funding Board, under the act of
May 10, 1857, known the sixty-and-six act, have
kept the register ofnew bonds issued and the num-
beIs, the amounts and dates OF bonds and coupons
Cancelled, and the numbers and amounts of bonds
and coupons Issued in the compromise of said can
| celed bonds; and there in the comptroller.
office a largo number of bonds and coupons which
they report to have been cancelled under said six
ty-and SIX act which have been opened for the in
Spection OF the committee. The committee par
tally examined said books, and the particular in
| tn found no difficulty in tracing the bonds and
coupons funded under said sixty and-six act mol
sued, when and in what amount, nor in tracing
the bonds so funded by letter. color and series
the one-hundred' three act. said act hayine
been passed on the - day of -, 1881, and enioined
s 6 d. on If 5ae Msy Ssy o. l
1851, by the supreme Court Of Tennessee
penses claimed to have been incurred
BY the Funding Board under the one-huAdred.
bond. $3.50 Ar 60. The Costs for engraving bond,
were incurred by contract made by me one
Frsnsiin Bank Note Company of New YORK, d.Iec
April q. 1881, approved BY the governor May
1881 and paid on the certificate OF the governor
dated May u, 1882. Copies of said contract snC
certificate are flied with the report Of the Join
Committee made to the Senate The expense
claimed TO have been incurred by the Funding
Board under the siIyy-snd six act, passed May Is
1882 are: To A B. Tavel, SIC, 800: A. B. Tavsl
, FTanElin Bank Note Company, $50 $50; Funding
Board, Sill 904; total SS5S 942, all OF which hav
been paid except the $l1l ,90f claimed 10 be du
to the members of said Funding Board. Itemizet
accounts for said amount. are also flet
/, with the Senate report; Inc eommlItee as ye
or the claims under the one-hunored- and tire
J act The bonds engraved and prepared under tn
one-hundred andthree act were TO be delivered II
, New YORK City. They have never been actuall
| delivered. An additional expense must be IN
|, CURED for the delivery of said bonds either her
. or in the city of New YorE. Said bonds and cou
pens and plates ought to be dsfaced and destreye
at once. These are the three Per cent. eouponi
| aud nf
| urer engraved thereon. The plates of the one
), | hundred aud three bonds remain in the hands o
Il the Franklin Bank Note Company OF New York
, | and will be destroyed or defaced upon being d
rected by proper authority to do so. The committe
!, Semand Tec .i and deface said bites and
. destroy the said one hundred -and-three ponds an
= | coupons, after being brought to Nashville. Sal
, Funding Board, under the sixty,sn six act, hsv
heretofore made report to this General AsseInbl,
a in which it is claimed that some $500 bono
2 and 800 0G0 of coHpous were Cancelled VI
q der said act, and that some 5000 new bond
/. were issued hereunder. and thai there are o
hand not used Nos 72s5 TO 729s OF $1,000 EACH Hgns
a b. the governor and secretary of Safe; ais
q Nos. 300 to $3.50, of the $500 which have neve
l. been signed. This committee have not had tn
" lime or opportunity to examine each of sal
bonds or coupons and verify said report. 1t wi
be seen that sach investigation will requil
some three TO four weeks of continuous labo
- The committee recommend that the comm tie
= present General Assembly to continue said inve
tigstion, send for receive, inspect. count aud d.
q stroy the bonds issued under The one-hundre'
n the plates etc OF the sixty-and sx-sct, and TO
r | Whatever may be necessary and proper TO effe
| the purposes for which said committee are q
/ pointed, with power to report to the governor
o VaestoI, and to the next General Assembl
# Respectfully submit ted
e JN0. G. keith,
% II AGEE,
I r THOMAsoN,
l JNO P ROGERS,
re LYTl ON J. tAYLOR-
" On part u the House.
D. TIE REDIsTRICTISG BILL.
to The Senate Bill to reds rIci the STATE 50
20 correct the mistake made by the last &c
al eral Assembly was called up by Mr.. Cas
and passed third reading.
ID TIE POLK SETTLEMENT.
i. Mr.. L0oney NOV, d 10 take up the Sens
20 resolution in regard to a settlement with
I'd T. Polk. Carried.
i'd The resolution accepting the propositi,
lie N sde by Poke attorneys was then taken u
and ''ten days" WAS stricken cut and "thir
d, days" Inserted.
10 On motion of Mr.. Head, il was also amen
n ed 80 ss to provide that the portion OF I
'e, payment to be made in notes Of the Torb,
e. issue shall not include post poteI or frs
tioRal currency.
K RAILROAD CONTRACTORS LIEE.
The S-nate bill 30 give contractors
in vorS upon railroads a lien ptsssd thi
es reading.
"a CoRIFYING TIE LAWS
OF The Ssaats joint resolution s1thoTizi
ga Thomas D. Mslone and w. A. MIlliken
to revise snd coaify for publication the lave