The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-01-19
EXTRACTS FROM This JOURNAL OrTHE
HOUSE OF LELEG All Us.
d IanlarY 1lth

clerk.
The Senate have passedthe following bills,
| to wit:
A bill Concerning David Cstleman and
William Stubbaefeld and for cher purFo-
sesj"
a bin Per removing certain causes from
the court of Amherst county Ia That of Mel
son county :.
A bin Releasing to the widow and heirs
Of Richard Lewis. the right Of the Com s,ol-
wealth TO a certain lot of land therein
III mentioned"
A bin Making provision hr opening
a road from bo,tctourt court house to the
Sweet Springs /; and
A bin ITO establish an academy in the
county Of Caroline :" with amendments 20
each OF the said bills, to which they request
the concurrence OF the House OF Delegates.
The House proceeded to consider the a.
amendments proposed by the Senate to the
said bills, and the same being twice read,
were agreed TO by the House.
Engrossed bills :. Making provision for
opening aud improving a wagg2n road f.nss
the Hot-Springs to'the confluence bf the
Cow Pasture and Jackscn's river. also,
for repairing the main road from the
Warm Springs across the handspring
Mountain,"--" Authorizing the remission
OF damages in Certain cases, "--were read a
third time and passed. e~a
The house according to the. order oft day,
re solved itself into Il con anttee OF the Whole
house OH the bill Giving further time
to the James river company to COM
lplete the upper navigation of James ri
Yer ;" and after some time spent therein,
Mr.. Speaker resumed the hair, and Mr..
Cheatham reported, that tie committee
had, according to order. has the said bill
tln6Pr cODSi1.tn tinn ts.i cpne throurl the
same, and directed him to r.port it TO the
House without amendment, Which he hand
ed in at the clerks table, there the same
was further amended. & AS amended, order
edfto be ensrossed& read a third time
Ayes 136-Nocs4
Mr.. Robertson lof Anelial from the
committee for Courts OF J~lsticc, made the
following report {:
The committee for Gurts of Justicc,.
have, according to order lad under their
consideration the petition bf the President
and Common Council of tie City Of Rich
mo1d, TO them referred, tud have come TO
the following resolution thireupon:
Resolved, * the opinioitoF the committee,
that the said petition, setting forth, that by
virtue of an act passed a tine Nav session of
tie year 1850 the dirccprs 'of the public
buildings, caused the streets on Shockoe Hill
in the said city to be enlarged to a breadth rot
less than eighty, nor mire than one hun
idred and twenty feet. by reducing the adj
Joining squares of lots add praying that an
act may pass, reducing he said streets TO
their original width, except certain streets
in the said petition particularly mentioned,
is reasonable.
The said resolution helng reed . second
time, was agreed 10 by the House.
The Speaker laid before the House a let
ifA,. ftyn,t, rho ED,.a,,nA -n,r.-.,,tr n l.+t.,
from the honorable Thomas Ne ton, a mem
Der of the House of Representative in Con-
gress, from this state, which letters were
read, and on motion, referred to MeSsrs
Yer5y. Archer, L. X pbinson, Moseiey, Holt,
Murdangh, Rfddick, DashiclI, w. Parker,
S.eed. Joyncs. OK, Mallory and S. Watts.
A bill " Concerning Pilots" was read a
second time:
On motion Ordered, that the further con-
sideration ofthe said bill be postponed to the
31st day of March next.
THURSDAY, January 10.
An engrossed bill Giving further time to
the James river company to complete the
upper navigation ofJatnes river" was read a
third time and passed.
Mr.. Writ, from the Committee tc whom
was referred the petition Of Sarah dc Pass,
made the following report;
The special committee to whom was re-
ferred the petition of Sarah De Pass, have
had the same under consideration, and
having examined a witness touching the al
Legations Of the petition, have agreed to a
report, and come to sundry resolutions there
upon, as follows:
1t appears 10 your committee that Sarah
De Pass, the petitioner, is the daughter of
Hill aud of Abigail Judah, Of the City of
Richmond that her father has been dead
for several years thar in the year1798, the
petitioner intermarried with Raiph De
Pass, Charleston in Soulh-C %arciina, at which
place she resided with her hlsD4ad until the
fall Of 1897, when tine SAID Ralph De Pass,
being in a dangerous State of health, was
advised BY his physician to make a voyage TO
the West Indies !;
/ 1t also appears to yonr committee that the
said Sarah De Pass, being DESTROYS Of spend
ing the tire OF her husbands absence, with
her mother, brothers, sisters and ether re-
%lations in Richmond, arrived in this place
abont the latter end Of December, 1907
bringing with her a.negro gil slave, about
Is years of age, named Eliza, TO witt on
her. 1t appears toyOur COMMITTEES that the
said Sarah De Pass came to Richmond
with no intention or expectation ofresiding
here permanently ; on the Contrary, tliat ne
intended it only asa visit, a waiting merely toe
! restoration OF hsr husbands health, and nj
return to Char,estou, az the Signalfor her
own return ; that not having heard froui him
! cr- na,s.,.I r,up,h,c SI,c iC In a efz.o Og f,soI