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es to naval storekeepers. Mr. Johnson, of Missouri, offered a resolution, which was agreed to, instructing the Finance Committee to inquire into the expediency of allowing each government clerk and employee in the city of Richmond to purchase one ration from the Commissary of Subsistence. The Finance Committee were discharged from the further consideration of the resolution relative to old issue notes in the hands of prisoners, the subject being already provided for by bill. Mr. Semmes, from the Finance Committee, reported a bill declaring that the value of the tax in kind, in case of disagreement between the assessor and taxpayer, shall be determined by disinterested referees of the vicinage. The bill was ordered to be printed. Mr. Walker, of Alabama, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a substitute for the bill to prevent lawlessness and to punish lawlessness. The substitute, which was ordered to be printed, requires the President to strike from the rolls and