The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-01-17
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

lDos
TUESDAY, January 10th.
a communication from the Senate by
their Clerk.
The Senate have passed the following
bills, to wit:
A bill {" Relative to the election of trustees
Of Lynhaven parish )"
! a bill " Renting certain damages and
interest to Samuel Ritchie:"
a bill Allowing persons arraigned of
~misdemeanors in certain cases the right of
challenge ;"
"A bill To supply the deficiencies in the
appropriations of last year - and
Abili Dissolving Il marriage solemnized
between West Alricks and Anne Peyton."
An engrossed bill " Incorporating a conf
parry to establish a turnpike from Frede-
Iricksburg to Swift Run Gap in the Blue
Ridge" (Which lay on the tabie) was taken
up, the remaining blanks therein filed up :;
and the said bill amended By AN engrossed
clause by way of ryder;
ReSoived, That the bill, with the ryder,
do pass, and that the title be . An act to in
corporate a company to establish a turnpike
from Fredericksburg to Swift Run Gap in
the Blue Ridge"
The report and resolution of the commit
tee appointed TO enquire into the condition of
the House, &c. set apart for the use of the
Governor (Which report lay on the table1
was taken up and the said resolution agreed
t, By the House.
Ordered, That a bill be brought in pursu-
ant to the said resolution, and that the COM
mittee who reported the said resolution, do
prepare and bring in the said bill.
A report from the committee for Courts of
Justice. They have, according TO order, hadun-
der their consideration several petitions to
Them referred, & have come to the following
resolutions thereupon:
/. ResoLUed, as the opinion of this COM
mittee, that the petition of George Pickett,
Robert Pollard, Charles Johnston and Natha-
MEL Sheppard, administrators of John Pen
dleton, decd, praying that provision may be
made by law for discharging certain public
certificates found among the papers of the |
intestate, or that they may be liquidated and
certificates granted in lieu thereof, to bear
legal interest, is reasonable.
Q. Rescued, as the opinion ofthis commit
tee, that SO much of the petition of the said
Henry J. Arnold, as pray5 that the right of
the commonwealth to a certain tenement or
part of a lot of land lying in the city of Rich |
mond, which hath escheated to the Common |
wealth by the death of William Frederick |
Asst, may be vested in the petitioner, who is |
represented to be'a nephew of, and the only
person OF kin to, the said Asst in the United
States, is reasonable.
3. >tesofved, as the opinion of this commit |
tee that the residue of the petition of the |
said Henry ]. Arnold praying, that in case the
commemorative right to the said tenement |
should not be- ested in him, that an act may
pass authorising a sale, after directing the
proceeds OF such sale, after deducting the
expenses thereof, to be paid TO the petitioner
as administrator OF the said Asst, he re-
jected.
The said resolutions Being read a second
time, were agreed to by the House.
bill :" Prescribing the manner of licen
cling persons to practice medicine and surge
ny within this commonwealth ;" and,
"A bill " Altering the name of Boswell's
warehouses; were severally read tie first
time
On motion, Ordered, That the further
consideration of the said bills be postponed to
the 31st day of March next.
A bill " Allowing a claim to David Moi
Ifet," (Which lay on the tabie) was taken up
and read the first time, and the question be-.
ING put on the second reading of the said bill
1t passed in the negative.-Rejected
A report from the committee for Courts
of Justice (Which lay on the tablet was taken
up and read in the following words
The Committee for Courts of Justice, have
according to order, had under their consjdc-
ration the petition of John Minor, to them
referred, and have come to the following re-
solution t~hereupon:
ReSoiucd. as ;he opinion of this committee,
that the petition of the said John Minor, pray
ing that the Auditor of Public Accounts may
be authorised to issue in favor of the petition
err, a duplicate of a warrant issued in The
name of John Syme, fOr three hundred & for
ty three dollars SO cents, upon a certificate
OF a registered debt, it appearing that the O.
riginal warrant hath been lost is reasonable.
The said resolution being read a second
time, was agreed to by tho House.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in {.
bill "To explain the act. entitled an act. for
reducing into one the several acts concerning
The Land OHce (; ascertaiaing the terms
and manner Of granting wrste and unappro.
priated lands ; for settling the titles and
bounds of lands, directing the node Of pro
cessioniDg, and prescribing the duties Of sur
veyors :" and Messrs. Writ, Walton, Wal
ker, Shelley, Otey, Sergeant and M'Henry,
do prepare aud bring in the same.