[323] Passed by the Senate Feb. 16. Sen. Jour., 131; by the House, Feb. 18, House Jour., 157. [324] Sen. Jour., 220; House Jour., 222. Passed by both houses Mar. 2. [325] Even during this session fourteen new parishes were proposed. [326] House Jour., 68. [327] The governor asserted that there was not the slightest possibility that those roads would be built, and that if every one were built, the State would be amply secured from ever having to pay the indorsement, as the road would be worth four times the amount guaranteed. Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, Pt. i, 197. [328] _Ibid._, 193. The governor’s figures vary slightly in different statements, 194. [329] The following total compiled by Secretary Bragdon for the governor is suggestive: Public debt for 1860 $10,099,074.32 1868 14,347,051.02 1870 23,427,952.29 1871 22,357,999.05 1872 23,045,790.00 _Ibid._, 200. [330] Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, Pt. i., 205. $3,658,879 is quoted by Scott from the _Financial Chronicle_, _see_ Scott, _Repudiation of State Debts_, 110. [331] Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, Pt. i., 205. _Cf._ Scott, _Repudiation of State Debts_, 100. [332] Sen. Jour., 1871, 27, House Jour., 87. [333] Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, Pt. i., 358. [334] _National Republican_, Jan. 2, 1872. [335] Testimony of Eustis, House Misc. Doc., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 534. [336] Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, Pt. i., 205. The _National Republican_ reported September 22, “The regular broker shuns all dealings with it--city paper--and capitalists scorn it, it is hawked around by its unfortunate owners--clerks and laborers--and sold to the first man who offers to buy it.” [337] $493,324. Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, Pt. i., 358. [338] Note Herbert’s table comparing the cost in 1871 with that under the Democrats before the war, 403. [339] Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, 360. Tax Collector Sheridan said that he cleared about $32,000 in 1871 and $14,000 in 1872. _Ibid._, 42 Cong., 3 Sess., No. 457, 707. Warmoth defended those figures as the usual receipts for the office. _Ibid._, 713-14. [340] House Misc. Doc., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 396. [341] Sen. Repts., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 41, Pt. i., 359. [342] Governor’s Message, 1872. _Annual Cyclop._, 1871, 471. [343] Some committees were authorized to continue during the recess, some thirty, some sixty days, some longer. [344] The Enrollment Committee had over eighty clerks at $8 a day, when not more than ten could be required, according to the governor’s statement. [345] The printing bill for the House journals was $68,000, exclusive of New Orleans. House Misc. Doc., 42 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 211, 38.