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inal writ by the Clerk when he issues the same," reported it back, stating that they deemed it inexpedient to legislate on the subject, and asked to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. The House, after debate, refused to receive the report of the committee. Mr. Brooke, from the Military Committee, to whom were referred so much of the Governor's message as refers to the re-organization of a public guard, made the following report: "Resolved, That Captain E. S. Gay, who has heretofore been commandant of the Public Guard, be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ, until otherwise provided by law, a police force, to consist of one lieutenant and thirty privates, whose duty it shall be to guard the penitentiary and other public buildings; and the said officers shall have the same compensation that the officers of the Public Guard have heretofore received, and the privates two dollars per diem, without rations." The report was received; and, t