The following members were absent with leave— Messrs. Pendleton, Roberts, and Spencer-4. The House adjourned until Monday next, at 9 o'clock A. M. The House met. MONDAY, 9 O'CLOCK, A. M., The reading of the Journal was dispensed with. A nessage from the Senate, by Mr. Vawter, their Secretary: MR. SPEAKER: I am directed by the Senate to inform the House that the Senate has passed the following concurrent resolution, in which the concurrence of the House is respectfully requested: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein, That there shall be appointed a committee, consisting of 'two members on the part of the Senate, and three on the part of the House of Representatives, to be denominated an Auditing Committee, whose duty it shall be to meet at Indianapolis monthly, and examine and audit the accounts of the Commissary General and Quartermaster General, and all other accounts, either for the pay of men, or material of any kind purchased and designed to be paid for out of appropriations heretofore made, or which may hereafter be made, for military purposes, including payment of the Indiana Legion, if an appropriation has been or shall be made therefor, and that the Auditor of State be expressly prohibited from paying any claim of the description aforesaid, until said claim has been audited and certified by said Auditing Committee, or a majority of it. 2. Resolved, That said committee shall make out a regular balance sheet each month, which, together with the proper vouchers, shall be carefully preserved. They shall have power to direct the proper forms to be used for accounts and vouchers, and require all to be made in accordance with such forms. 3. Resolved, That said committee shall each receive the sum of three dollars for each day they may be necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties, and five cents per mile for the distance travelled going to and returning from their attendance upon such duties, the same to be paid out of the money appropriated for the payment of the legislative expenses of the present General Assembly, and that the Auditor is hereby directed to audit the accounts for the services of such committee, upon the certificate of a majority of the committee. 4. Resolved, That said committee shall examine and determine all claims presented to them for allowance without delay; and that said committee shall only be entitled to receive pay for the time during which they shall have been actually employed. 5. Resolved, That a majority of said committee shall constitute a quorum for business, but no allowance of such majority of any claim or account shall be valid, so as to authorize its payment, unless such allowance be made by a number of said committee equal to a majority of the whole. 6. Resolved, That said committee shall only be authorized to sit so long as the duties herein imposed upon them may demand, and whenever said claims and accounts shall be fully examined and audited, said committee shall be and is hereby discharged. (Mr. Donaldson in the chair.) Mr. Buskirk moved to take up the message just received from the Senate. Agreed to. Mr. Anderson moved to concur in the resolution of the Senate, with the following amendment: Insert after the words "military purpose," the following words: "excepting the Governor's Military Contingent Fund." Agreed to. Mr. Brown moved that Messrs. Niblack, Kilgore, and Buskirk, be appointed said committee. Agreed to. Mr. Howell made the following report from the Committee on Claims: MR. SPEAKER: The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the claim of Bowen, Stewart & Co., for stationery, have had the same under consideration, and would respectfully report the same correct, and recommend that the bill making specific appropriations amended as to make an allowance for the same. The report was concurred in. be so Mr. Packard offered the following amendment to the specific appropriation bill: Sec. That W. H. Drapier be allowed the sum of $600 for 600 copies of the Brevier Legislative Reports of the present session, as per contract with the Doorkeeper of the House, in pursuance of a resolution. The amendment was adopted. Mr. Griffith offered the following resolution: Resolved, That notwithstanding the acrimony of partizan warfare which has unfortunately characterized the present legislation, the remembrance of which causes no pleasurable emotion, yet justice demands that the thanks of this House be tendered to the Hon. SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, Speaker of this House, for the impartiality and ability with which he presided over its deliberations, and that we hereby tender to him this evidence of our respectful regard for the faithful performance of his duty. Mr. Lasselle offered the following amendment: Resolved, That the thanks of this House are hereby tendered to the Hon. SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, for the able and impartial manner in which he has discharged the duties of Speaker of the House during the present session thereof. Adopted. The resolution, as amended, was adopted. Mr. Buskirk offered the following resolution: Resolved, That A. T. Whitlessy, principal Clerk, and Joseph J. Davis, assistant Clerk of the House, be each allowed sixty-one dollars for extra services as such Clerks, to be paid out of the Legisla tive fund already appropriated by this General Assembly, and that this allowance shall include all sums heretofore voted to said principal and assistant Clerks, except for indexing the Journals, and making an index of the titles of bills introduced, and their per diem of three dollars, which excepted allowance are not to be effected by this resolution. And be it further Resolved, That the assistants of the principal and assistant Clerks of this House be each allowed a sum not exceeding the sum of sixty-one dollars each, for extra services as such assistants, the amount to be certified by said principal and assistant Clerks respectively, and attested by the Speaker of the House, and that the said allowances be in addition to the three dollars per diem appropriated and provided by the Legislative appropriation act passed by this General Assembly, and that the same be paid out of the fund raised by said act. And be it further Resolved, That Benedict Burns, Doorkeeper, and Michael Griffin, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, be allowed the sum of thirty dollars and fifty cents each, for extra services, and that their employees be each allowed not exceeding the sum of thirty dollars and fifty cents, for extra services; said extra services of said employees to be certified by said Doorkeeper and Sergeantat-Arms, respectively, and attested by the Speaker of the House, and that this allowance shall be in lieu of all allowances made to them heretofore for such services, except their per diem, as provided by the Legislative appropriation act passed by this session of the General Assembly, and that said allowances be paid out of the fund raised by said act. And be it further Resolved, That Michael Griffin, Sergeant-atArms of the House of Representatives, be allowed at the rate of - cents per mile for every mile actually traveled, and fifty cents each for every process served, and every process returned, on persons summoned as witnesses by the Committee on Arbitrary Arrests of the House, upon the certificate of the Auditor of State that his accounts are just and proper, according to said basis of computation, as extra services, and that the same be paid out of the fund appro priated by the Legislative appropriation act passed by the present session of the General Assembly. The following amendment was offered: That the Clerks of the Committees of Ways and Means, on the Judiciary, and on Arbitrary Arrests, and the stationery Clerks be included in the above resolution. Adopted. The resolution, as amended, was adopted. A message from the Governor, by Mr. Holloway, his Private Secretary: MR. SPEAKER: I am directed by the Governor to inform your honorable body that he has signed and approved House bill No. 139, "an act to raise a revenue for State purposes for the years 1863 and 1864.” Also, House bill No. 75. "An act to provide for the inspection of petroleum oils, for illuminating purposes, making and branding the same, prescribing penalty for selling without inspection, or for falsely branding the cask, package or barrel containing the same, or for violating any of the provisions of this act, for the appointment of Inspectors and deputies, prescribing duties and terms of office, and imposing penalties for Inspectors or deputies trading in any article they are appointed to inspect." Also, House bill No. 69. "An act regulating the duties of the State Librarian, and providing penalties for a violation of the provisions of this act." Also, House bill No. 29. "An act to provide that the laws of this State, regulating the salaries of officers, shall not be so construed as to permit public officers thereof to receive their salaries in advance, and to repeal all laws inconsistent therewith." Also, House Bill No. 117. "An act to authorize the transfer and payment of Congressional township school funds, which accrued from the sale of school lands within the territory now forming the county of Newton to said county, from the county of Jasper, to |