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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], President's message.--General Grant's report. (search)
Railroad Company to borrow money was passed almost unanimously. The Senate adjourned. House of Delegates. The House met at the usual hour. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Taylor. Public arms. Senate bill authorizing the collection of public arms was read a first and second times. Subsequently taken up and passed. State specie. Mr. Joynes, from the Committee on Courts of Justice, to whom was referred House resolution relative to the report made to the Governor by. J. M. Bennett, late Auditor of Public Accounts, made a report concerning the specie ($21,000) borrowed by the State from the Bank of the Commonwealth in March, 1865.--The facts connected with the money in question and its subsequent disposal have already been laid before the public.] The Committee gave as their opinion that this money cannot be recovered by the State because the State has no title to it. The bonds upon which the money was borrowed cannot be constitutionally paid, and the bank wou