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PASSMOEE, J. 0. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



ply to the doctrines of the Kenan school ; and 

 some works on the Liturgy. 



PASSMOEE, Rev. J. 0., D. D r , an Episcopal 

 clergyman and educator, born at Lancaster, Pa., 

 about 1826 ; lied at Eacine, Wis., August 12, 

 1866. He was a descendant of Eev. S. Cook, a 

 missionary of the " Venerable Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel," Shrewsbury, N. J., 

 in 1776, was educated at Dr. Muhlenberg's 

 school, Flushing, N. Y., studied law, and re- 

 moved to Vicksburg, Miss. At the age of 

 twenty-six, Dr. Passmore was elected to the 

 Professorship of Ehetoric and Philosophy in the 

 College of St. James, Maryland, where he re- 

 mained as professor and vice-rector for eighteen 

 years. A year after his election he was or- 

 dained priest, and assumed the charge of a 

 small parish, which he held while he remained 

 at the college. In 1862 he removed to Eacine, 

 where he discharged the duties of a similar pro- 

 fessorship, and likewise had the charge of the 

 parish of St. John, at Elkhorn. To a deep and 

 varied intellectual culture he added the orna- 

 ment of a singularly pure and modest life. He 

 made % from time to time, various contributions 

 to church periodicals, among which were trans- 

 lations of some of Keble's admirable " Prselec- 

 tiones," or Latin Lectures on Poetry, delivered 

 at Oxford. He published an edition of Bishop 

 Butler's Sermons, -to which he prefixed an ablo 

 and appreciative paper upon this, his favorite 

 author, with whose philosophy he was thorough- 

 ly conversant. 



PENNSYLVANIA. The Legislature of Penn- 

 sylvania met at Harrisburg, January 2d, and 

 continued in session until April 15th. Two 

 thousand and three bills were reported and 

 acted upon, and of these at least two-thirds 

 became laws. While the greater portion of 

 this legislation was of a local character, some 

 laws of a general nature placed upon the statute- 

 book were very important. Among these was 

 the bill repealing the tax of two and a half 

 mills upon real estate, designed to relieve the 

 laboring portion of th's people. To meet the 

 deh'cit in the revenue thus created, a tax was 

 levied upon railroad stock, bank capital, and 

 the gross receipts of railroad, canal, and trans- 

 portation companies, which is believed will add 

 more to the income of the treasury than the 

 tax on real 'estate. Another bill provided for 

 the restoration of the fisheries in the Susque- 

 hanna Eiver, which had been almost destroyed 

 by the operations of the Tide-Water Canal 

 Company, a corporation entirely in the interest 

 of the stockholders residing without the State. 

 In an economical view this bill was regarded as 

 one of the most important of the session, as it 

 not only gave practical effect to the interests of 

 the people, but promised, in a few years, to ' 

 create revenues by which the State will be 

 largely profited. Provision was made in an- 

 other enactment for the education of the sol- 

 diers' orphans at the public expense. The Le- 

 gislature also appropriated $500,000 for the 

 relief of the people of Chambersburg, whose 



property was burnt by the Confederates in 

 July, 1864. The bill, making this appropria- 

 tion, provided that three commissioners should 

 be appointed, who should make just and trua 

 appraisement of the damages to both real 

 and personal estate suffered by the people 

 of Chambersburg, and then award the losses 

 actually sustained. As soon as these duties 

 were finished the commissioners were required 

 to make return to the auditor-general of the 

 awards rendered, and when such return was 

 filed, the appropriation was to be apportioned 

 to the awards pro rata, by the auditor, and his 

 warrant drawn upon the treasurer, in favor of 

 the persons to whom the awards had been 

 made. 



On March 2d the following resolution was 

 adopted by a strictly party vote : 



Whereas, Hon. Edgar Cowan, Senator of the 

 United States from the State of Pennsylvania, has 

 not represented and does not now represent truly 

 the majority of the people of the patriotic State that 

 elected him, in the paramount national issues grow- 

 ing out of the recent rebellion ; therefore, 



Resolved, That the Hon. Edgar Cowan, Senator 

 of the United States from the State of Pennsylvania, 

 be and hereby is requested to resign. 



On March 26th the following resolution in 

 reference to the Civil Eights bill passed by the 

 Congress of the United States, was adopted in 

 the Senate : 



Resolved, By the Senate of Pennsylvania, that we 

 cordially indorse this great measure of justice to all 

 classes of the people of the South, which, carried 

 fully into effect, will give full protection and ample 

 security to all the rights of the citizen, and thus de- 

 monstrate that the national Government is not only 

 determined to maintain the Union unimpaired, but 

 to exert its power to do full and ample justice to 

 every freeman as " the ruling principle which should 

 guide the deliberations of every public body, whether 

 it be State or national." 



A bill was also passed disfranchising desert- 

 ers from the army. Its first section provides 

 " that in all elections hereafter to be held in 

 the Commonwealth, it shall be unlawful for the 

 judge or inspectors of any such election to re- 

 ceive any ballot from any person embraced in 

 the provisions, and subject to the disability im- 

 posed by the act of Congress of March 3, 1865." 

 Section two enacts, "that any judge or inspec- 

 tors of elections receiving such unlawful ballot 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 

 viction thereof, shall pay a tine of not less than 

 one hundred dollars, and undergo an imprison- 

 ment in the county jail for not less than sixty 

 days." 



It is made the duty of the Adjutant- General 

 of the State to procure from the proper officers 

 of the United States certified copies of all rolls 

 and records containing official evidence of the 

 fact of the desertion of all persons who were 

 citizens of Pennsylvania, and who were de- 

 prived of citizenship by the said act of Con- 

 gress, and to furnish true copies thereof to the 

 clerks of the several courts of Quarter Sessions. 

 A certified copy or extract of any such record 

 from the clerk of a court, shall be prima facit 



