The Legislature.
In the
Senate, yesterday, the joint resolution of the
House in regard to the protection of sheep and the promotion of the growth of wool was referred to a committee.
A report from the joint committee on salt was ordered to be printed, and made the order of the day for next Friday.
A joint resolution of thanks to
Gen. Echols's brigade, for re-enlisting, lies over.
A joint resolution was presented for the appointment of a joint committee to confer with the
Secretary of War, to ascertain whether any and what abuses or inhumanity may have been practiced or tolerated at Camp Lee in the treatment of conscripts.
Lies over.
Another joint resolution was laid over, in regard to the failure of Congress to exempt certain officers indispensable to the proper administration of the
State Government, and requiring the
Governor to
demand of the
Confederate authorities the exemption from service of all who were exempted by the act passed October 1st, 1862, and in addition thereto one Deputy Clerk for each Circuit, County, and Corporation Court; as many Deputy Sheriffs in each county and corporation as there are
Commissioners of the Revenue in such county or corporation; the
Cashier and
Teller, and other officers, of any Bank of circulation and deposit; any bonded officer of any county for the supplying of indigent families of soldiers; the municipal authorities of any city or town having a Circuit, Hustings, and Corporation Court, and such other person as the
Governor, in his discretion, may think necessary for the proper administration of the
Government.
Adjourned.
In the
House, the bill for the relief of the securities of
R. P. Baker, late
Sheriff of
Grayson county, was passed.
In honor of the birthday of
Washington and of the
Confederate States.
On motion, the
House adjourned.
