Wyoming Constitutional Convention.

Final Report of Temporary Committee on Ways and Means. Cheyenne, Wyoming, Sept. 10, 1889.

To the President of the Wyoming Constitutional Convention, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Sir: — Your committee having had under consideration the questions which were referred to them, viz: The compensation of the employees of the convention, the advisability of employing a stenographer, and the ways and means of raising the funds to meet the necessary cash expenditures of the convention, beg leave to submit the following final report:

As already suggested your committee recommends that the compensation of the employees of the convention, be fixed as nearly as possible at the same rates as those paid for similar service to the employees of the Tenth Legislative Assembly of Wyoming. And that the president and secretary of the convention be authorized to issue to the said employees certificates showing the amount of service rendered and the amount due them, said certificates to be accepted by the employees subject to any action that the legislature of Wyoming or the congress of the United States, may take in reference to paying the expenses of this convention. We find that the rates of compensation as suggested above applied to the employees of this convention, would be as follows, to-wit:

Two assistant secretaries at five dollars per day each.

One Sergeant-at-Arms, at five dollars per day.

One doorkeeper or watchman at four dollars per day.

One chaplain at one dollar and fifty cents per day.

Two pages or messengers at two dollars per day.

A contract has been made with the Cheyenne Daily Sun, by another committee, by which it is provided that no cash payment shall be made, and we therefore suggest that certificates, similar to those mentioned, be issued to the editor of the Cheyenne Sun.

The convention has already taken action in reference to stenographer.

Your committee estimates that there will be required not to exceed $700.00 in cash for the payment of stenographic report, for the tables, stationery and supplies provided by the secretary of the territory, previous to the meeting of the convention. To meet this demand a loan has been made, by subscription, from certain citizens of Cheyenne, on condition that certificates be issued to them showing the amount subscribed.

A form of certificate is submitted herewith, and it is recommended that authority for their issue be given, on receipt by the secretary of the convention, of their par value from the subscribers and that the funds so received be paid by the secretary of the convention to the secretary of Wyoming territory, who shall be requested to pay the same out on the properly audited vouchers of the convention.

Your committee having completed the labors assigned to it to the best of its ability, now ask to be discharged, and that the matter of carrying out the details of the plan proposed, be referred to the proper standing committee.

Very Respectfully,

HENRY G. HAY, Chairman.

H. G. NICKERSON, Secretary.

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