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The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates, (search)
l.--When Senate bill to "increase the pay of the Adjutant General for services rendered the State in the year 1858-59 " came up, Mr. Kemper asked that it be passed. Mr. Holloway hoped that it would be referred. Mr. Kemper said such a course was unnecessary, the Military Committee having reported a similar bill heretofore by unanimous vote. Mr. Gibson of Jefferson, denied the accuracy of the statement. He was a member of said committee, and had always been opposed to any such bill. Mr. Crane said the John Brown raid had initiated a system of solicitation for increased pay by a great many. The official duties of the Adjutant General had no doubt been much increased by Brown's inroad; for Gov. Wise, on his own responsibility, had given him nearly $1,000 additional pay. The committee then reported a bill making him a salaried officer, $2,000 per annum.) This bill proposes to pay him that salary for the years '58 and '59. It was a fact which alarmed him, that Virginia was fast b