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their official bonds, if they should tender their resignations and they were not accepted. And it would be unjust for the State to require or permit the patriotic acts of her citizens to involve them in heavy pecuniary losses, which, to some, may be the loss of their entire estates. I would therefore, respectfully and earnestly recommend that the State should indemnify them for whatever losses they may sustain by an act so honorable to themselves and indicative of such devotion to her. Wm. H. Gist. Pending the consideration of this Message Senator Garlington offered the following resolution: Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Assembly that the citizens of South Carolina, who have held offices under the General Government, should be indemnified against any pecuniary liability or loss they may incur in consequence of their resignation of such offices, on account of the election of the candidate for the Presidency of the Black Republican party. Senator Bryan