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Senate Committee on Contingent Expenses, Select - 13th R.S. (1873)

Committee Members
Thomas Jefferson Word, Chair
Andrew J. Ball
Samuel Evans
A.J. Fountain
George T. Ruby
Charges
• Investigate and report upon the accounts approved by the Committee on Contingent Expenses, of the Senate.*
• Investigate and report such claims and certificates for per diem as were approved by the Committee on Contingent Expenses, and issued by the secretary of the Senate of the Twelfth Legislature and are now unaudited and unpaid.*

Note:
Appointed 3/21/1873, pursuant to resolution by Finlay; message received from House that House adopted concurrent resolution concerning contingent expenses of this Legislature and had appointed like committee on the part of the House; committee report 3/31/1873 lists Word as Chairman (Senate Journal, 13th R.S., pp. 325-326, 360, 394-396).

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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