Mr. STEVENS. One portion of this para graph reads as follows: and every person making cigars shall keep an accurateaccount in abook of all thocigars madeby ihfimmaodrehfeorr. afonrywohthoemr.paenrdstohne.isrhkailnldstoartqeuianlitsya;idanaed. count the nameof the person or personsfor whom the some were made and his or their place of business, and shall on the 1st Monday of every month. deliver to the asstassessorof the districts. copy of such account.verified by oath or aflirmation that the sameis true and correct. I move to amend by inserting, at the close of the sentence I have read, the followmg proviso:. Provided. That journeymen cigar makers and apprciiticcs whowor for others shall not be considered as included within this proviso. I will state briefly the object of this amendment. By the law as it now stands, and as it has been construed, asman may have 20 journeymen employed at making cigars. Not only the employer and his book keeperare required to make out every night a fu return of all the work done in the shop, but every journeyman and everyap rentice working there must. kee his book on make out his nightly return to e handed to the assessor. Now. I suppose that construction of this provision was never intended; but it is a construction which has been put. upon it. I know it may be said that this is a sort of check upon the employer: the workmen are all made spies upon the employer. It may have that effect in some instances, but it is so entirely perplexing that very few workmen will be found who are willing to work under this provision if so construed. I know that in my town last year the workmen refused to work, and turned out and paraded the streets until the assessors agreed to take the returns of the employeis and book keepers, and dispense witht e returns of the workmen. Now. I do not know anything more irritating than this very provision requiring every journeyman when he goes home at night to set down in his book and make out an account of his days work to be returned to the assessor. This provision is very stringent upon the 0amers, employers and book keepers, and it should not, I tiink, impose this tas upon the laboring classes.