to the state house, thirteen dollars and ninety-five cents, ($13.95.) 95. To John C. Grant, for stone furnished and for work done at the state house, one hundred and nine dollars and fifty-eight cents, ($109.58). 96. To George Henry Dean, for nine days' work as page of Governor Newell, thirteen dollars and fifty-cents, ($13.50.) 97. To Charles Scott & Company, for stationery furnished for the use of the engrossing clerk of the senate, ninety-four dollars and two cents, ($94.02). 98. To Joseph McPherson, for thumb stalls, &c., for the arsenal, four dollars and seventy-five cents, ($4.75). 99. To Isaac D. James, for articles furnished to the clerk of the house of assembly, five dollars and forty-eight cents, ($5.48). 100. To Titus & Scudder, for oil cloth furnished to assembly room and state house, ten dollars and sixty-three cents, ($10.63). 101. To William Ashmore, for services rendered as page to Governor Olden, ninety-nine dollars, ($99.00). 102. To Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, for freight and cartage for Lippincott's Gazetteer, three dollars and eight cents, ($3.08). 103. To Brewer & Ott, for carriages for prison committee in eighteen hundred and sixty, twenty dollars, ($20.00). 104. To Brewer & Ott, for carriages to convey militia committee to arsenal, fourteen dollars, ($14.00). 105. To William A. Benjamin, for envelopes and stamps furnished to the senate for the clergy, sixty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents, ($69.96). 106. To Isaac D. James, for paste and other articles furnished to the house of assembly, two dollars and sixty-five cents, ($2.65). 107. To the "Gazette and Republican," for advertising thanksgiving proclamation, printing circulars for governor, and other printing, amounting to sixty-five dollars and sixty eents, ($65.60). 108. To the "True Democrat," for advertising governor's proclamation, proposals for coal for state house, and other printing, amounting to thirty dollars and fifty-cents, ($30.50). 109. To Brewer & Ott, for horse and carriage for Governor Olden, to go to the state prison, one dollar, ($1.00). 110. To Brewer & Ott, for carriage to asylum, five dollars, ($5.00). 111. To David Clark, for one satchel furnished to the assistant secretary of the senate, five dollars, ($5.00). 112. To Rev. David W. Bartine, for delivering an address on Washington's birth-day, fifty-dollars, ($50.00). 113. To Charles Scott & Co., for stationery furnished to order of the committee on stationery for the house of assembly twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, ($27.75). 114. To William H. Rhodes, for services as assistant clerk of the house of assembly for the year eighteen hundred and sixty, five hundred dollars, ($500.00). 115. To the Mechanics' and Manufacturers' Bank, for interest on warrant of the governor for thirteen hundred dollars, on the treasurer, in favor of the Normal School, sixteen dollars and twenty-four cents, ($16.24.); interest on warrant of the governor for twelve hundred dollars, on the treasurer, in favor of the Normal School, thirty-seven dollars and thirtyone cents, ($37.31); interest on warrant of the governor for fifteen hundred dollars, on the treasurer, in favor of the Normal School, fourteen dollars and ninety-one cents, ($14.91); amounting to sixty-eight dollars and forty-six cents, ($68.46). 116. To the Trenton Banking Company, for interest on warrant of the governor for twelve hundred dollars, on the treasurer, in favor of the Normal School, fifty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents, ($59.29); interest on warrant of the governor for eighteen hundred dollars, on the treasurer, in favor of the Normal School, forty-six dollars and forty-one cents, ($46.41); interest on warrant of the governor for fifteen hundred dollars, on the treasurer, in favor of the Normal School, seventy-one dollars and eighty-eight cents, ($71.88), Treasurer and quarter-mas settle certain amounting to one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents, ($177.58). 117. To J. H. Duffield, member of assembly, for mileage and services as member of the house of assembly, sixty-eight dollars, ($68.00). 118. To Charles Scott & Company, for stationery furnished for the house of assembly, twenty dollars, ($20.00). 119. To the Daily Newark Mercury, for advertising thanksgiving proclamation one month, ten dollars, ($10.00). 120. To Charles J. Ihrie, for brackets and lamps for state library, and other articles, one hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty-eight cents, ($141.88). 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer and the quarterter-general to master general of this state, are hereby authorized and diaccounts. rected to settle and adjust the account between Hitchcock & Company, of the city of New York, and S. R. Hamilton, late quarter-master general, for the alteration, exchange and sales of arms, and that the balance, if any, be paid by the treasurer of this state. Approved March 23, 1860. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. NUMBER I. Relative to the case of Charles E. Fleming, late a lieutenant in the WHEREAS, Charles E. Fleming, a native of this state, and late a lieutenant of the United States navy, by reason of the finding of a court martial and the confirmation of the same by the then president of the United States, was in February, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, dismissed the service; and whereas, upon an examination of an official copy of the evidence in this case it is made apparent that the finding of the court was not warranted by the testimony, the weight of the evidence leaning strongly to a perfect exculpation of the accused from all the specifications, and more particularly from the second and fifth, upon which alone he was found guilty; and whereas, in the opinion of the first legal talent of this state, who have carefully weighed and sifted the entire testimony in the case, that testimony is declared to "to have been vague, full of Preamble. Reinstate C. E. Fleming. contradictions, and a great part of it unsatisfactory, so that the cause of truth and justice would have been more certainly subserved by a different finding on the part of the court;" and we, the representatives of the people, being unwilling that one who is by birth a Jerseyman, and who, in his own person, during twenty years' connection with the navy, maintained a high character and distinguished himself in the Florida and Mexican wars, should be thus stricken down in the midst of his usefulness, and his hitherto fair fame tarnished by what we conceive to have been a most unwarranted and harsh sentence-therefore, 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of ment of Lieut. the State of New Jersey, That our senators and representatives in congress be and they are hereby requested to use their utmost efforts to induce the president of the United States to review the case of the said Charles E. Fleming, or if he should decide that he has not the power to go behind the record, so as to enable him to order a re-hearing, then and in such case he be respectfully urged to send his name into the senate for a lieutenancy in the navy, to fill one of the vacancies now existing, and that has occurred by reason of the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and fortytwo; and we do not hesitate to say, that such nomination would receive the unanimous and cordial approbation of every citizen of this state familiar with the peculiar hardships of the case, and would be hailed with gratification by all his former brother officers, whose exertions in his behalf have been unremitting, and whose heartfelt sympathies have been with him since that unfortunate hour when he was deprived of his rank, and his good name given to reproach by the finding and sentence of a court martial. Governor to transmilt copies. 2. And be it resolved, That the governor of this state be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to the president of the United States, and to each of our senators and representatives in congress. Approved February 2, 1860. |