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IOLU'E * NE ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, MUN-DAY, JANUARY -, 187-. NUMBER 10.
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rto ,stlu-hdi another
jurnal in New Orleans,
of tiet LouisIASLAN,
r . nressity which has
. i som timns painfully
ti In the transition state
in their struggling efforts
t 1o'itionl in the Body
h '. We (-ilvei' to be their
I 1:th much infor
- '., no(luragemient,
I r" f io je bee1n lost, in
~f the luck of a medium,
4 I Ih t dcetiiiencies might
We 'hall strive to make
r 'v a d".sidler,1'ozn in these
POLICY.
iotto indicates, the Loux
adll he " R.pdlic'n ,u till
cl'rall rircrnýumsrowa " We
ito the security and enjoy
r.,> 1 ,"p.l liberty, the abrso
1V'y 1 . .,11 n ,efor. the law,
u ;"1 1 l h r nhution of 11(11
r :ti n ý to .,11 who~ merit
..1 allaying aniumo iit i, of
I! th memory of the hitter
harmonuy ani union
1- I n :111betweten all in
11.111 advocate the iejoval
id h. isiailities , fo-ter kind
" ri tran'e, whore malignity
4 r: lit r'ign1,. and seek for
I juIiete W hire wrong and
51i,1l. Thus nuited in
1 jeets, we shall coinsirve
e ets, hvate our noble
4 il position anong
* by the ulevelopuent
'.LI resources, and secure
~f the mighlty vcialngesi
cIId monulition of the
I ' i'u tiv. ",'
t'iire tal he no true
tie suaprw1;u'y of law, ti
*ict tnul nudi-crim i
tr fii II of justi 't.
X.lTION. TI
art thle uloctrine of an A
* 'iof taixationi among
iia c( illetion of thu'
Ivd with the txigen- .4
~'. ir Country anti the
'.rrr ligitimate oliligai
Ar
In the 'arrying out of
* ''tbi act estalihshing
*** is.temi, uiid urge
duythe eduication of
I! [I cunnectel with At
* I leiit, and the seen
1 f Republhcan
IIIly, independent, rce
* h bt. ye shall strive pr
r, from an ephern- kis
'prirs e~isteuce, iun mi
a 1sit, that if we th
*nI' ahidl at all on
L 1.i EYRICHI, -Nfa
%IL or11 11nd( Stationev h
WC
L CAN L STREE'T' at
e OreansLouiions
POETRY.
A STh1ANGERA IN THE PEW.
at MALY B. ]JIXui$.
_ toor little Beehsic ! She t'>jse'd bLa.k her
curls.
And, thongh she is often the swoete st of
girl.,
's' This was something she couldn't and
wooldu't endure;
"l'sws the mnenest, most impolite .Let. sil
a~bs sure',
r* And a thing, she declared, that sh!e never
would do:
To go to a church where one didn't belong,
Uri Then walk down the aisle like the best in
ts the throng,
And seat one's self plumb in another
on011 pew.
Humph! Didn't her father own his out
and out.
And didn't they fill it up full, just about.
When numana and papa, and herself and
the boys,
Were seated? And didn't their boots make
a noise t
er In moving along to make room for a
Andstranger ?
And wasn't it cool, with the brazenest fa'e,
N, To expect at each hymn pa weuld find out
as the place
_ (If lien didn't, or Bob, but there wasn't 1
te much langer) ?
a With such feelings at heart, and their print I
on her face, c
List Sunday our Bessie hitched out of her e
r ''place' v
r- To make roow for a girl, very shabby and t
t, thin,
Who had 'tooid in the aisle till mamma
in asked he r in.
u, The poor little thing tried her best not e
it to crowd;
And Bessie, forgetting, soon had the mishap .
To slip from her drowsiness into a nap, i
e From which she awakened by crying
aloud.
d
l'oor lese;e sat upright, with checks all
afame c
Ill At sleeping in church, and we felt for her f
shame:
lint 'twas strange at the close of the service g
to see to
Our Bessie. now gentle as gentle could be.
'T.eke the hand of the shabby young girl
in th.' p, w.
iAne'c itflk w ith Ie r out of the church with
ct a tnaile' I
That shone through the tear, in her eyes IC
,4 Cl flee whlil' ,
.':e brigstoned her tiec with a raiiance'
u l i
S*'(; -,. whistered 1.'eie at :earting, h0
''antI nie l ti
Our pea's forty-tive, with apillarbehind." t
T't'hen she stole he hter mother: ''Oh. mother, N
c I drea.med C'
ca eurious dream' 'Twas no wonder flt
I screamed.
I thought I was sitting in church in this tie
t drosS. th
With a girl like a beggar-child right in our Ca
Pew te'
We were sitting alone on the seat, just.we in
two in
t And I felt more slshaued lthan you ever m'
could guess;
er
''When, all in a moment, the music grew pr
lone,
And on it cane floating a beautiful crowd; be
The. wes r angels, I knew, for they joeined tel
icl the song, tlti
tAnl all of them s'emned in the cherch to be
I belong. tr
Slowly and brightly they sailed through eel
the air; de
'fThe rays from the window streamed crim- est
Set and blue.
And lit thteti in turn as their forms elideti
throtugh; Zn;
I ceulti feel thuir soft robes passing over ris
my hair. tie;
"One' camne to my sitle. Very sadly she tiet
saitl'en'
The're's a stranger in here.' I lifted my
head,
AntI looked at the poor, shabby girl with of
disdain. tia
' Tis not she,' said the angel; 'the haughty fiof
anti vain o
Are the strangers at church. She is ou
hetiblei and true.''f
Then I cried out aloud, and the minister of
spoke, of
And just ase they floated away I awoke, fo
And there sat that dear little girl in our the
(IHaqcer' M'i1gaziane for Jaauiar'y a
era
FOR MOTHER~S.- Send yOur child- sus
rcu to bed happy. Whatever cares to
press, give it a warm good night ins
kiss as it goes to its pillow. Thete
memory of this in the stormy years put
that may be in store for the little 6,50
one, will be like Bethlehepa's star to
the bewildered shepherds. ,,IMy *
father, my mother, loved me."
Nothing can take away that blessed e1
heart-balm. Lips parched with the fun
world'. fever will become dewy again sal
at the thrill of youthful memories. of
Kiss your little child before it goes
to sleep.
THE GOVERNOI'g ANNUAL IBSSAGE.
TArsTE O LoUISIANA,
Executive Department,
New Orleans, January 1, 1872.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Be
or presentatives of the State of Louisiana :
In compliance with my duty, under the
of Constitution, I have the honor to lay be
fore you the following information respect
ad ing the general condition of affairs in the
State, with the recommendation of such
;a measures as I have deemed of sufficient
importance to merit your especial con
ei sideration
PUBIJC DEBT.
ag' The State Auditor persists in publish
In ing to the world that our debt is $41,194,
473,91, which he makes up by adding to i
ar the actual debt of the State, which is
$22,295,790 58, an amount which he calls
ut a '"contingent debt" of $18,898,683 33.
This last is indeed contingent. It is con
t, tingent in that its becoming actual debt is i
ad entirely dependent-first, upon the con
struction of certain railroads, for which
ke the State has agreed to indorse second
mortgage bonds for $12,500 per mile, the
a companies having the right to issue his c
first mortgage bonds for the same amount; c
, and, second, upon the foolish presump- I
ut lion that these roads, with all their fran- t
chises, rolling stock, fixtures, trade, etc.,
at will not be worth $2.5,000 per mile, the
aggregate of the first and second mort
gage bonds. This is no more a debt, to e
nt be employed as such at the expense of c
our State credit, than is the indorsement t
er of a promissory note by an individual a
who is secured for the liability lie assumes, 1p
id by a pledge of five-twenty bonds or real ta
estate, in the proportion of four dollars to tl
1a one. ;u
In the tirst place, there is not the slight- tl
of est probability that any of these roads, a
except the New Orleans, Mobile and tl
ap Texas railroad will be constructed ; and, b
in the second plaee, if every one of them fh
t should be built, the State would be amply a
seeurd from ever having to pay the in- (1
11 dor,,'ment, for the reason that the roads ca
chartered, if constructed, would be worth f
feamr times the anmount guaranteed. It
This unwise course of the Auditor has ce
tended to depreciate our securities, and has lii
given the enemies of reconstruction capi
tal from which to misrepresent our gov- Ia
ernment and to throw discredit upon us pI
abroad. le
In 1861 our debt was $10.157,873 12. In aU
1a415, when the present administration tr
ai came into power, it was $14,347,051 02, bi
a and it is now about-$23,045,79t) 58. This. pi
increase consists in three million dollars, hb
employed for the repair of levees; thee aail- , .u
lion to take up the floating debt which to
had been incurred prior to the inalagura- tL
tion of the present government; two anda a 1
hala millions subscribed for stock of the
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad si
Company, and seven hundred and filly A
r thousand dollars subsidy granted to the ri
same company. The present administra- th
tion i. not properly chargeable with the or
three million dollars for floating debt, be- tit
r cause it was mostly, if not entirely, crea- th
ted before its incoming. So that the real to
increase of the debt by the present gove-u- ex
inept has been only about six and a half
r millions of dollars; and the wisdom of the 15
several acts involving the increase is gen
erally conceded and almost universally ap- r
proved. W
The bonded debt on which interest is at
being paid is $10,858,300, the annual in. cl'
terest on which amounts to $1,403,820. Of au
this debt, $1,357,000 in state bonds have to
been purchased, and are held by certain wa
trust funds in the treasury, which, if can- sC
celed, would reduce our interest-paying ha
debt to $18,501,300, and the annual inter- he
est to $1.322,400. ha
FINANCES.
The condition of our State finances de- ern
muands your most serious attention. The ba
report o~f the State Auditor will show a an
deficit for the past year of nearly two mil
lions of dollars. This has been caused by or
the inefficiency of tax collictors and the te
enormous appropriaations made at the last to
session of the General Assembly in excess of
of the revenue. To meet this deficiency, o
two things are necessary: First, a redtuc- un
tion of the minimum of all the expenses usa
of the government; and, second, a vigor- Co
ous and efficient collection of the revenue, we
This is practicable, and the best solution am
of the problean I have been able to devise- cot
The amount necessary to pay salaries
of officers need not execeed $320,000; that sag
for mileage and per diem of members and the
the contingent expenses of the General cre
Assembly need not exceed $125,000; while tial
all other expenses. payable from the gen" pri
eral fund, including those necessary for aiW
support of the militia, of public institu- the
tions of a charitable character, such as car
institutions for the dealf dumb and blind, tio:
the Insane Asylum and the Charity H~oe- to I
pital of New Orleans, and for the rent of cax
public buildings, etc., not exceed $420,- the
650. m
The interest on our State debt amounts a
to $1,403,820 per annum. It requires the
$400,000 to maintain our public school wh
system. Ao
The four uaills smaesed for the general
fund is believed to be mumceient to pay the
salaries of offioesand the current expenses18
of the macbinery of govenmemt It is U
doubtleso emough to do so with seonomy,
but it should met be expeoted to beat the
draft of four millimn of doleg ia appo- in
E. priations, as was assumed by the legisla
tion of the last session.
I would, therefore, recommend that du
ring the present session of your honorable
body an act be passed making a general s
te- appropriation for payment of salaries of
a : officers, interest on the public debt, ex- I
he peases of public education and the public 1
charities, which act shall be a general law, t
t- and remain in operation until modified or 1
he repealed by the General Assembly. Should t
ch this be done, we shall avoid the evil which
nt has heretofore prevailed, of crowding into
this bill a large number of obnoxious ap- a
propriations and coercing unwilling mem- I
bers to vote for its passage under the m
threat of defeating the necessary appropri- <
h- ations for the year. I
1,- I desire to call your particular attention 1
to to the decision of the Supreme Court in s
is the case of '* The State ex reL Solomon i
is and Simpson vs. James Graham, State
3. Auditor," in which the doctrine relative to I
n- appropriations is laid down in the follow. I
is ing language: t
a- "But it is contended by the relators that
:h the appropriation does not create a debt u
id 'because the money is presumed to be in p
1e the treasury.' This raises the very serious tJ
is question, whether or not the Legislature p
can make appropriations unless there be v
money to mett the warrants authorized If
1- thereby, either actually in the treasury or $
provided for by the revenue bill. The
power of appropriation is the right to zip- 4
t- ply to public purposes money in the treaes
. ury. Article 101 of the Constitution de
)f clares, 'No money shall be drawn from $
Lt the treasury but in pursuance of specific
al appropriations made by law.' An appro
. priation is an authorization to the Auditor h
dl to check upon the treasury for money. b
o there deposited. If, therefore, the reven- b
ues he inadequate to meet the interest of
the public debt and the current eyplcses1c
of the necessary State agencies to preserve
1 the government, an appropriation (where- f
1, by the liablities of the State are increased) T
L for any other purpose than for the support
y and maintenance of the machinery of gov- to
- ernment, is a debt within the meaning of the m
4 constitutional amendment, which declares
"that prior to the first day of January. d4
1890, the debt of the State shall not be in- a
creased so as to exceed twenty-five mil
lions of dollars." im
From this it will be seen that the Legis- Ps
lature has no power to make any appro
priation for any purpose whatever, "un- a
less there be money to meet the warrants m
authorized thereby, either actually in the
f treasury or provided for by the revenue es
bill." In other words, when an appro- in
priation is made, its payment must also `y
be provided for by the assessment of an co
Sadditional tax or the act will be obnoxious
to the constitutional amendment limiting
- the State debt to $25,000,000 prior to N1
1890. 0c
Nor do I believe that under this deci- wH
I sion of the Supreme Court the State ms
Auditor has authority to issue any war- ab
" rent upon the general fund for other than aI
- the necessary current expenses of the gov- in
" ernment, until is ascertained that the por- o4
tion of the revenue, which is set apart for thi
the general fund, will be in excess of the an
I total amount required for such legitimate rev
expenses of government. In
The credit of our State abroad has sus- of
tained, not without great loss, however, a cir
severe shock during the past year. The an,
reckless manner in which appropriations east
were made for the improvement of real of
and imaginary bayous, real and fictitious tio
claims against the State, private charitable of
associations and enormous compensation hai
to officials, the manner in which $750,000 cut
was squandered by the House of Repre
sentatives, together with other incidents, for
have told heavily upon our credit both at the
home and abroad. While the government sto
has been extravagant, almost criminally an
so, in its expenditures, productive in it- the
self of the most mischievous effects on our rea
Credit, another interest, thinking to comn- Mir
bat extremes by others quite an insane tro
and disreputable took upon itself, at the ind
suggestion of some ambitious politician to
or server of some opposition railroad in- for
terest, to commit a number of gentlemenI
to the silly attempt to forestall the action mo
of the Supreme Court ;to pass judgment oul
on questions then before it-do declare the Doi
uneonstitutionality of laws subsequently als<
decided constitutional by our Supreme Vez
Court, and to affirm that such debts as Sha
were contracted in excess of a certainI
amount in aid of railroads, etc., were un- in i
constitutior a1 and would not be paid. as I
The gentlemen who were deceived into adz
signing this circular now see that while ach
they have only temporarily affected the I al
credit of the State, and delayed the nego- the
tiation of our bonds abroad, they, in their con
private interests, have not escaped, but are mei
already experiencing the evil effects of aus
their carelessness. rhey delayed, and on
came near defeating entirely, the construc- the
tion of a railroad the importance of which aga
to the city ofNew Orleans and tothe4Htate lati
cannot now be fully estimated. Mlany of
these gentlemen inform me that they were Bai
misled, and that it was farthest from their taii
wish to cause the embarrassments which hi6
the originators of the paper intended, and fers
which it did actually produce. har
A coi.Laz I TEx fls arzasft o1 saOUrcTVrZrn
AND TZ mXcNanxc sArls. ro4s
By act of Congress, approved July 2,
1862, and the amendments thereto, the
United 8tates donated to the 8tate of
Louisiana land scrip amounting to 20,000
-ses anec mebmber the State had them 1al
in the saionem Couple.. gui
Ia- The grant was conditioned on its formal
acceptance by the State, and in compliance
u- with the terms on which it was made.
ile The State accepted the donation by act
al of the Legislature, approved March 5,
of 1809. This act designated the Governor,
x- the Chief Justice and a commissioner, to
tic be appointed by them, to act in behalf of
w, the State. Senator John Lynch was ap
or pointed commissioner, and the commission
Id thus formed received from the Secretary
-h of the Interior scrip for 209,920 acres.
to The State should have received 210,000
p- acres, but there is a provision in the act
n- making the grant which provides that the
ic scrip shall be issued in denominations of
i- one hundred and sixty acres. The com
missioner of the general land office in
in Washington therefore refused to issue
in scrip for the eighty odd acres due Louis- 1
in iana.
to The scrip was sold at eighty-seven cents
to per acre, as high, if not the highest price,
r- I believe, received by any State at that i
time for scrip thus issued.
it The 209,920 acres sold at this rate gave
>t net, after deducting $317 37 commission
n paid in New York for delivering the scrip e
's there, $132,313 03. Thisamount, in com
'e pliance with the act of Congress, was in
.e vested in Louisiana State bonds, as fol
d lows :
or $350,000 Louisiana State six a
e per cent bonds at 64 cents.. $160,000 00 t
$36,000 Louisiana State six v
per cent bonds at 61 cents.. 21,960 00 t
-- )b
L $286,000 bonds for........... $181,960 00
c This leaves a balance to the credit of the b
r commission in bank of $253 03. It is n
hoped that this amount will be increased 0
by interest falling duo next month, on 0
bonds already bought, to an amount suffi- h
cient to enable the commission to buy a
$14,000 more bonds, and thus swell the N
- fund to $300,000 in six per cent bonds. q
This will give an annual income of si
t $18,000 to be used in sustaining a college i2
in the interest of agriculture and the Si
mechanic arts. tc
The commission will make a full and A
detailed report to your honorable body at m
an early day. ti
_The State is to be congratulated on the h+
manner in which the scrip has been disn bn
posed of and the proceeds invested. It is a'
to be hoped the Legislature will be equally di
wise in devising a plan for the establish- p
ment of the college. As this subject is one to
fraught with such interest to the State, mu
especially as it furnishes an important aid w
in giving completeness to the educational to
system, I bespeak for it your most careful 5
consideration. fe
RAILRO Ds. m
I am encouraged that your faith in the a
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad fe
Company is about to be most liberally re- St
warded, and that, notwithstanding the to
most violent opposition at home and he
ab.ioad, we are to have speedily construct- or
a railroad from New Orleans to Houston, r
in Texas, and another to Shreveport, in p4
our own State. At one time it was feared to
that the enterprise would prove a failure, fr
and that we should lose the large sums al. "I
ready advanced in aid of the company. th
In Europe and in all the money centres sy
of our own country, the appearance of a g
circular, numerously signed by the friends wl
and partisans of opposition railroad inter- pe
ests, having for its object the depreciation
of our credit in order to defeat the negotia- 24
tion of the bonds given by the State in aid Ei
of the company, caused a temporary ern- of
barrnssment, and came near defeating the hr
enterprise. p1
The company, for this reason, was foroed, &
for a time, to suspend work and, indeed, no
the payment of its employes. The
stockholders have, however, recently met
and subscribed for the bonds among
themselves, the whole amount being
readily taken. In addition to this, de
Mr. (Charles Morgan, owning and con- t
tr -lliug the rival railroad interest, has been an
induced to compromise his opposition and tfi
to unite with the company by subscribing l
for a large part of its stock and securities.
By this combination, we shall secure nri
more speedily than was anticipated, not t
only the road to Huston, Texas, via cli
Donaldsonville and Vermillionville, but be
also a road from Berwick's Bay, via co
Vermillionville and Alexandria. to
Shreveport.
I deem this the moat important epoch ze
in the history of our State, and if wecan, d
as I believe we shall, at the close of our
administration, be able to point at the B
achievement of these two great enterprises,
I shall feel that we have done mos-efor
the material interests of the people than dii
could have been expected at the comn- wi
mencement, even under the most favorable
auspices. The wisdom of your legislation '3
on the subject will be fully vindicsted, and
the aid, at one time believed to be extrav- -e
agant, will be approved by our whole popu- We
lation. 15
The New Orleans and Northeastern mu
Railroad Company, the New Orleans Me- fIn
tairie and Lake Railroad Compairy, the Nc
Right Bank Railroad and Frieght Trans- th
ferring Company, the Louisiana and Ar. of
km.sa Railroad Company, the New Or- _
leans, Baton Rouge sad Vlcksbnrg Rail- ho
road Company, the Alexandria, Homner and
Fulton Railroad Company and die Arkan- no
eass and Delta Railroad Company have all Sip
fsiledsohfr to do anything. Ithsrefore, do
recmmead the pnmage of eacst pmovid- Us
lag that salm week cm tbmsr eabbs se. all
sal sected the charters be repealed. They
toe stand in the way of -capitalists who can
and would do the work, and should be re
Let moved.
51 THE L3VEEi.
' On this most important subject I have
muchto say. Upon these works depends
of the prosperity of our State in her agricul
ture and &ilroad interests. Possibly New
n Orleans might exid upon the commerce
r' passing between the great Northwest and a
the outer world, because of her position i
on the Mississippi river ; but the wealth
of the State is dependent upon the com
pleteness and safety of our levee system,
and it deserves and should have, as it has
a heretofore, your most earnest considera
tion. For the first time in the history of
re Louisiana, one comprehensive plan has
s- been adopted, and let hs hope it will be ef
fective.
Lt The various laws passed since the settle- I
e, ment of Louisiana to 1871 have all proved a
at ineffectual to stop crevasses, and occasion
ally vast destruction of property; and if it
ye were then even proper to trust to the old
a riparian proprietor plan, all such ideas
P are now obsolete, trom the change of the
1- labor system; and the only way to compass
1- the object was decided to be either by a
l- constitutional amendment making the le
vee tax perpetual, or by contract with
a private company or corporation for a
N) term of years, that some plan could be de
veloped for permanent security, instead of
b the vacilitating policy that has heretofore
- been followed.
b The first contract proposed and passed
e by the Legislature of 1870 was subject to
a many constitutional objections, and I was
d compelled to veto it. The next act, No. 4
n of 1871, for the same purpose, had and
1_ has several objectionable features, and the
y additional act or contract, known as act
e No. 27. approved Februaiy 28, was re
L quired to obviate these objections, and
f still the two bills do not properly harmonC
e ize. You may, therefore, during this ses
e sion, be asked for supplemental legislation
to make the system complete and effective.
j Act. No. 4 provided for the issue of one
t million of dollars in State bonds, but as
the constitutional limit of indebtedness
e has been reached, this assistance could not
- be given to the company. They were also
e authorized to issue live hundred thousand
dollars of their own bonds, on the antici.
- pated estimates. This was nof permitted
a to be done, and the company were either
unable or indisposed to commence the
I work of building the levees until since Oc
1 tober 1. While probably without my a
I sphere of duty,' strictly construed, yet I bi
felt compelled to take an interest in the ha
management of the affairs of the Louiai- m
ana Levee Company and I hope my inter- of
fereu o has inured to the benefit of the P
State as well as the company, for their in- 'I'
terests are now identical, and it is to be
hoped that under the present management cc
our alluvial lands will be protecled, our cc
railroad communications preserved, and -
our State resources developed, according 12
to the prophecies of the most sanguine
friends of the present levee system. The -
'outlet" and the "cut-of' advocates are
the most bitter opponents of the present
system, and I have directed the State En
gineer to prepare papers on these subjects,
which will be embodied in his annual re
port.
In Act No. 7, approved February
24,1871, creating the Board of State N
Engineers and abolishing the Board
of Public Works, you allowed one
hundred thousand cubic yards to com
plete the existing contracts of the
Board of Public Works. This was
not suffielent, as appears from the re
port of the State engineers, and you
are asked for an appropriation of $53,
584 76 to pay the certificates of in- I
debtedness issued by the Auditor for
the one hundred thousand cubic yards,
and $57,853 79 in payment of the cer
tificates of indebtedness issued by the
State engineers to complete the works.
During the high water last spring a
number of crevasses occurred, and as
the Levee company had not taken a
charge of the works, and there had
been no legal provision for such a
contingency, I was compelled to pro
vide means to close or attempt to close
the breaks. For this purpose the Citi
zens' Bank advanced sixty thousand
dollars, and the Louisiana National
Bank twenty thousand dollars, which
money was expended by the State En
gineers, assisted by Senator Lynch as
disbursing agent, with the result you
will read in the State Engineer's re
potand tes~ report of Mr. o
That promptitude of action and the o
assistance given by these banks pre
vented a vast destuction of prp aty
is evident, and I would ask you to
make the proper appropriation to re
fund the money as early as practicable.
No special appropriation was made at *-
the last session to defray the expenses
of the engineer corps, and much in- g7
convenience was the result. It is A ]
hoped that this imaportant matter willg
not be ovroked at this semein, for Ioi
upon the activity and effiiency of this 4
deportment dependb the protection of
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