tridge (Smith and Wesson) carbines; together with belts, plates and all other necessary appendages.

The arms remaining on hand are in good order, in store at the United States Arsenal, near the city limits.

There is due the State of Indiana from the General Goverment, under the law of April 23, 1808, For arming and equipping the militia," her quota of arms for the years 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1872, amounting in value to the sum of about $28,480; and as the quantity of arms upon hand is getting low, I have to recommend that a requisition be made during the coming year for several thousand stand of the new breech-loading arm adopted by the Government for the use of the regular army.

A quantity of ammunition on hand at date of last report was found upon examination to be nearly worthless, and it was therefore offered for sale and disposed of; the sum received for it, $212.00, after deducting a small amount incurred as expenses of the sale, was deposited in the State treasury to the credit of the military fund.

PAY DEPARTMENT.

Under the act of the General Assembly approved March 11th, 1867, making it the duty of the Adjutant General to pay the claims for service rendered in the Indiana Legion and other organizations in the State service during the late war, warrants have been drawn upon the Auditor of State in payment of ninety-four claims, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $1,054 81. Proper vouchers and receipts for these payments are upon file in this office.

SOLDIERS' CLAIMS.

Upon assuming the duties of Adjutant General, April 1, 1870, the State Military Claim Agency, under Dr. William Hannaman, was discontinued by your order, and the records, books, etc, and unfinished business transferred to this office. The business of collecting soldiers' claims gratuitously was also continued, in compliance with your order at the time, and I have to submit the following statement of business connected with this line of my duty: In addition to some four hundred (400) claims pending at the date of transfer, I have since placed upon file five hundred and seventeen (517) new claims, making in all nine hundred and seven

teen (917) claims that have had my attention. Of this number two hundred and fifty-eight (258) claims for arrears of pay, bounty, etc., have been collected, amounting in value to the sum of twentynine thousand and seventy-one dollars and thirty cents ($29,962 30), and one hundred and eighty-three (183) pension certificates obtained, the value of which, estimating one year's payment upon each, was twenty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars ($23,920 00), making the total value of claims collected gratuitously for claimants amount to the sum of fifty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty cents ($52,991 30) from April 1, 1870, to December 31, 1872.

Fifty-two claims of various kinds have been rejected, leaving upon file at this date about four hundred and twenty-four claims, many of them of considerable importance to the claimants, generally widows, orphans, children or other heirs of deceased soldiers.

CONCLUSION.

The routine office work has had my constant attention, and the daily business of the office promptly attended to, and in this connection I may be allowed to suggest that the salary of the Adjutant General of State should be adequate to the responsibility resting upon him and commensurate for the duties he is obliged to perform.

The constant time and attention of the Adjutant General is required for the proper transaction of his official duties. Soldiers look upon the office as a "Military Intelligence office", and the Adjutant General is expected to inform himself fully upon the subject of all laws effecting the interest of soldiers or their heirs and dependant relatives. He is daily called upon to decide the legality of various decisions of the different accounting officers of the Government by claimants and Attorneys who do not think justice has been done in settlements made or where claims have been rejected, and he is moreover responsible (morally at least) for a correct interpretation of the laws and decisions referred to. He is charged with the care and proper preservation of records among the most valuable of the States archives, with the care of the ordinance of the State and the issue of arms with payments to members of the Legion for servises rendered and is expected to keep a correct record of all business transacted, and as there are no fees or perquisites of any descrip

tion attending the office, the salary should be such as to reasonably compensate a man capable and competent to fill the position.

Thanking you for the aid and counsel given me in the dischargeof my duties, I have to respectfully submit the foregoing report:

Your obedient servant,

J. G. GREENAWALT,

Adj't Gen'l of Indiana.

On motion, the message of the Governor just received, was taken up and referred to the committee of the whole House on Wednesday next for consideration with the Governor's message.

Mr. Given introduced House bill No. 283-an act to amend section twenty-seven of an act to provide for a general system of common schools, the officers thereof and their respective duties and powers, and matters properly connected therewith, and prescribing the fees for certain officers therein named, and for the establishment and regulation of township libraries, and to repeal all laws inconsistent therewith, providing penalties therein prescribed, approved 6, 1865.

Which was read a first time and referred to the Committee on Education.

Mr. Troutman offered the following resolution :

WHEREAS, Under the provisions of an act passed by the late special session of the Legislature entitled, "An act to provide for a uniform assessment of property, and for the collection and return of taxes thereon," taxes the work of assessing the personal property from the parties elected to perform the same and gives it to the real estate appraisers, and

WHEREAS, Said real estate appraisers are authorized to appoint deputies; therefore,

Resolved, That said real estate appraisers be and they are hereby requested, where the same is practicable, to appoint as said deputies the persons elected as township assessor without regard to party.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Mellett offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That any person who shall spit on or upon any register of this Hall shall be deemed guilty of contempt, and pages and employees are hereby required to report such offender to this House.

Which was adopted.

On motion by Mr. Kimball, the House adjourned until two o'clock, p. m.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The House met pursuant to adjournment, with the Speaker in the chair.

Mr. Peed, chairman of the special committee appointed by the House to wait upon Gov. Hendricks, submitted the following report:

MR. SPEAKER:

The committee appointed to wait on the Hon. T. A. Hendricks, Governor elect, and the Hon. Leonidas Sexton, Lieutenant-Governor, and ascertain when it would be the pleasure of Mr. Hendricks to meet the House and Senate in joint convention for the purpose of being inaugurated and delivering his address, have complied with that duty, and have directed me to report that the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks will meet the House and Senate in joint convention at 2:30 o'clock this day for the purpose of being inaugurated and delivering his address. The committee were unable to find Mr. Sexton.

Which was concurred in.

Mr. Tulley offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That a committee of two be appointed to inform the Senate that the House is ready to receive them in convention for the inaugural ceremonies and to receive the message of the Governor elect, and that said committee escort the Senate to this Hall at the hour mentioned for the inaugural.

Which was adopted, and the Speaker appointed Messrs. Tulley and Kirkpatrick as such committee.

Mr. Hoyer was granted an indefinite leave of absence.

The Senate then in pursuance to the invitation of the House came into the Hall of the House preceeded by the President of the Senate, when the Joint Convention was called to order by the President of the Senate.

Mr. Cauthorn, Representative from the county of Knox, moved that a committee of one on the part of the Senate, and two on the part of the House, be appointed to wait upon the Governor elect, Governor Baker and the Lieutenant-Governor elect, and conduct them to the Hall of the House of Representatives.

Which motion prevailed and the President appointed as such committee on the part of the Senate, Senator Williams, and the Speaker appointed as such committee on the part of the House, Messrs. Cauthorn and Glasgow.

The President of the Senate then said: The returns of the elec. tion for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, having hetofore been opened and published by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the presence of both Houses of the General Assembly and it appearing that the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks received the highest number of votes for Governor, and the Hon. Leonidas Sexton, the highest number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor, and they having been declared duly elected to such offices respectively, we have now assembled in Joint Convention to have the oath of office administered to, and hear the inaugural address of the Governor elect.

I am impowered by the Joint Committee to wait upon the Governor and the Governor elect, and that the Governor elect is now present and ready to take the oath of office.

Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. H. Bayliss of Roberts Park Church, of Indianapolis.

The Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Governor elect, was then sworn into office by Hon. Samuel H. Buskirk one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana.