chancery office, twenty-eight dollars and sixteen cents,

55. David Clark, for stationery furnished chancery office, thirty-six dollars and twenty-one cents, 56. Charles Scott, for stationery furnished supreme court, eighty-one dollars and seven cents,

57. Murphy & Bechtel, for blanks furnished for executive chamber, court of pardons, and secretary of state, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents,

58. Upton & Miller, for twenty-six ink stands for use of senate, ninety-one dollars,

59. David Clark, for stationery furnished secretary of senate, four hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-eight cents,

60. John P. Lansing, for services rendered the committee on incidental accounts, ten dollars,

61. R. M. Smith, treasurer, for expenses attending the inauguration of Governor Parker, as per bills rendered, by order of committee, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eleven cents,

62. S. M. Dickinson, salary as private secretary to governor, three hundred dollars,

63. John Lafoucherie, for services rendered in executive chamber, seventy dollars and fifty cents,

64. D. S. Anderson, for services rendered in repairs of state house, fifty-two dollars and eightyseven cents,

65. L. Scoby, clerk of assembly, for stationery furnished, as per bills rendered, sixteen hundred and one dollars and forty-two cents,

66. James McGuire, per order of committee on stationery, seventy-two dollars,

67. David Clark, for stationery for house of assembly, per order of Jacob Sharp, forty-three dollars and eighty-three and a half cents,

$28 16

36 21

81 07

248 37

91 00

443 68

10 00

257 11

300 00

70 50

52 87

1,601 42

72.00

43 821

68. David Clark, for stationery furnished secretary of state, twenty-six dollars,

26 00

69. David Clark, for stationery furnished state library, five dollars and sixty-five cents,

5 65

70. David Clark, for stationery furnished secretary of senate, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents,

149 50

71. Charles Scott, for stationery furnished ex

ecutive chamber, twenty-three dollars and thirty cents,

72. Charles Scott, for stationery furnished A. Boyd, engrossing clerk of senate, one hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-nine cents,

73. Charles Scott, for stationery furnished William A. Carr, engrossing clerk of assembly, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents,

74. Charles Scott, for stationery furnished J. M. Hamilton, secretary of senate, six hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-six cents,

75. B. W. Titus, for goods furnished executive chamber, ten dollars,

76. Conrad Hollinger, for translating and printing governor's inaugural address, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents,

$23 30

120 29

167 50

692 26

10 00

127 95

77. C. J. Errickson, doorkeeper of assembly, for extra page, one hundred dollars,

100 00

78. Doorkeeper of the ladies' gallery of the senate, two hundred and sixteen dollars,

216 00

79. Doorkeeper of the ladies' gallery in the house of assembly, two hundred and sixteen dollars,

80. D. Christopher, eleven dollars and fifty cents, 81. Mechanics and Manufacturers Bank, at Trenton, for discount on governor's warrant, to supply deficiencies of cash on hand, 1862 and 1863, two hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty cents,

82. Joseph G. Brearley, for cutlery furnished senate, and omitted in incidental bill of 1862, sixtysix dollars,

83. Isaac D. James, for mucilage and brushes furnished senate and house of assembly in 1861, 1862 and 1863, omitted, twenty-six dollars and fortyseven cents,

84. Hutchinson & Lodor, for plumbing done at state house, ten dollars and thirty-five cents,

216 00

11 50

216 80

66 00

26 47

10 35

issued by trea

2. And be it enacted, That no allowance shall be made by orders to be the incidental committee for stationery furnished to the legis- surer. lative, judicial and military departments of this state, or the officers thereof, unless the same is procured by the order of the treasurer of the state, and that said orders shall specify for what particular department the said stationery is intended, and the said treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to

issue such orders at his discretion, unless otherwise specially directed by law or the resolution of the legislative depart

ment.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 25, 1863.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

NUMBER I.

Relative to the relief of Joseph I. Thompson, late sheriff of
Monmouth county.

WHEREAS, Joseph I. Thompson, late sheriff of Monmouth Preamble. county, in this state, having presented his petition, under oath, to the senate and general assembly of this state, setting forth that he hath lately been arrested and held to bail in the city of New York, in the sum of twelve thousand dollars, in three suits brought against him in the superior court of said city, one by John Whitman, another by Charles Ruland, and the other by the said Charles Ruland, Selah S. Abbott, Jarvis Whitman, Platt Vail and Selah Thurber, to recover damages by reason of the seizure by the said Joseph I. Thompson, as sheriff of the county of Monmouth, on the twenty-sixth day of September, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, of certain vessels, in the waters of New Jersey, in that part of Raritan Bay westward of the middle thereof, and in the cove between. the main shore of Monmouth county and Sandy Hook, upon which vessels the said John Whitman and Charles Ruland, respectively, with others, all of whom were nonresidents of this state, were and had been there engaged, with dredges and other implements, raking and gathering clams, contrary to the act of this state entitled "An act for the preservation of clams and oysters," which seizure was made by said sheriff in the performance of a duty required of him by said act, and from which he could not escape without a violation of such duty, and also setting forth that the said Joseph I. Thompson hath taken the necessary proceedings to remove the said suits into the circuit court of the United States for the southern district

Governor may employ coun

Proviso.

of New York, and praying relief in the premises-therefore,

1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of sel to defend the State of New Jersey, That his excellency the governor of this state be and he is hereby authorized to employ sufficient and suitable counsel learned in the law, and to adopt such other means as he may deem proper for the defence of the said Joseph I. Thompson, in the said suits, at the expense of the state of New Jersey; provided however, that this state shall not pay the costs and damages which may be recovered in said actions, or any of them, against the said Joseph I. Thompson, unless the counsel which shall be employed by the governor to defend said actions shall certify that the said Joseph I. Thompson, in the doing of the acts complained of in said actions, respectively, acted within the power and authority conferred upon him by the laws of this state, and did not exceed the power and authority conferred upon him. by said laws.

Approved March 18, 1863.

New Jersey confided in the profes

President.

NUMBER II.

Relative to National Affairs.

1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That this state, in promptly answersions of the ing the calls made by the President of the United States, at and since the inauguration of the war, for troops and means to assist in maintaining the power and dignity of the federal government, believed and confided in the professions and declarations of the President of the United States, in his inaugural address, and in the resolutions passed by Congress on the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, in which, among other things, it was declared "that the war is not waged for conquest or subjugation, or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the states, but to maintain and defend the supremacy of the constitution, with the rights and equality under it unimpaired, and that as soon as these objects shall be accomplished the war ought to cease;" and