The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-01-29
IUgin,a Legislature.
HOUSE or DELEGATES.
MONDAY. January g

A Communicate from the Senate by their
Clerk THE Senate have passed the bill Z" Au
thorising the executors of James Brown, to re-
cover the amount of certain taxes and
officers fees which BEGAN due in Norfolk
s,unty."
They have also passed the bill Is Authorizing
the courts OF certain counties to allow a reward
For killing crows within the same % and
The bill Increasing the powers of the trus-
tees of The Town OF Portsmouth in the county
Of Norfolk" with amendments, to which they
request til. concurrence of the House Of Dele
gat' s.-The House concurred
Engrossed bills " Establishing several Towns"
---'' To explain and amend act, entitled an act
To appropriate certain eschests, penalties, confs-
cations and forfsi,ures, to the encoura cement of
tearning"-" Concerning the town of Beverley,
In the county ofRandolph"- were read a Sd time
and passed.
report from the Committee for Courts of
JaS''rs which lay on the table) was taken up
az 'r'.d ~ the following words:
The Committee for Courts of Justice have,
according to order, had under their oonsidera.
ton the petition of CHRISTOPHER Mcpherson, a
free man of colour, to them referred, and
have come to the following resolution there
upon:
Resotced. as the opinion Of this committee,
That the petition of Christopher Mcpherson,
complaining OF the operation of an Ordinance
passed by the common council of the City of
Richmond, whereby owners of registered and
licensed Hackney Coaches, and other pleasure
Carriages in the said city, are prohibited from
hiring them to persons of color; and praying
that an act OF assembly may pass, by which the
petitioner and bis family may be permitted to
uss such carriages, is re- sonabie.
I said resolution being read a second time,
was agreed 10 by the house.
repurt from the Committee for Courts of
Justice (Which lay on the table, was taken up &
read in the following words
tn. Committee Tor Courts of Justice have,
according to order, had under their considerati-
on tno petition of Adam Dickinson to the m re-
1srred' and have come to the following resolut-
ons thereupon
Resotced, as the opinion Of this committee,
ItSt such part of the said petition as prays that
the petitioner, upon payment of much of a
Judgment obtained on behalf of the common
wealth upon forfeited forthcoming bond enter
Cd INTO by him as security for John Brown and
others, as is equal to the vslue of certain pro.
PERI mentioned in the said bond, may be rclea-
SEQ from the payment of the balance of said
Judgment, or that he may be permitted to dis
charge the same in lands al their valuation, be
reje~'ed.
9. Resofvcd, That the residue OF the said
petition, praying that the petitioner may be
permitted to discharge by annual instruments
The amount of the Judgment aforesaid, is rea-
sunable
The said resolutions being read second time,
We're agreed to by the house.
The house, according to the order of the dav,
resolved itself into committee of the whole
house on the state of the common wealth, and
after some time spent therein, Mr.. Speaker re-
:,umed the chair, and Mr. Stanard (of Spott.
syivama) reported, that the committee had, &C.
Ncording to order, had under their consideration
a bill Establishing q bank at the town Of
Lynchburg," had gone through the said bill 8.
directed him to report it to the house without
amendment, which he handed in at the Clerks
table.
A motion was made to amend the said bill by
striking out the concluding clause, and inserting
An lieu of it the following:
Ind be 1t further enacted, That all the provis-
ops at this act shall be suspended, fiat a meeting
OF the stockholders of the Bank of Virgins,t to ne
cohvenrd by virtue of an act passed during the
present General Assembly, the said stockholders
shall assent to the provisions of the said act and
the establishment of brach box in the town
OF Lynchburg, during the present -.r: And in
the event that the SAID stockholders do not as
sent TO the said provisions, then, and in tha:
case, this act shall commence and be in force
from nd after the first day of next
Al d the question being put on the pre-, osed
am n,.ment, it passed in the neg atiye.-Ayes S.
--Noes los.
ON motion, Ordered, That the committee of
the whole house the safe Of the common
wealth, be diSchefged from further proceeding
on the bill 9 Incorporating the bank Of Win
CHESTER" and that the said bill be committed to
the committee tn whom is re-committed the bill
Establishing bank at the town of Lynch
burg" and that Messrs. Brent (of Frederick
and Newton, be added 70 that committee
TUESDAY,, January 20.
A communication from the Senate by their
Clerk-1he Senate have passed the bill To
raise sum of money b. lottery for the purpose
therein mention 10 AMI
TIE bill " Inco,p orating company to estab-
1sh turnpike from the termination of Hunting
creek, at DCge tun, to the wn of Occoquan,"
witt, amendments
They have also agreed to the preamble and
resolution nsfruc;ing the Ssna ors, and recon-
IN nding to the Repre- sertAtives from this state
IN Congress, to their best efforts in opposing
she renewal of the charter of the bank of the
United States, with amendments 10 the said
cues. the concurrence OF the III. of Delegates
other enrolled bills, which being fouRd truly en-
rolled, have been signed by the Speaker.
The House proceeded 10 consider the amend
men, proposed by the Senate TO tine said bills, &
to q e said preamble and resolution, & the same
beiag severally twice read were Agreed to by the
house.
On motion, Resoivcd, That his exceency the
Governor be, and lie is hereby requested to
transmit forthwith copy of The foregoing pre-
amble and resolution t. each Of The senators &
Representatives Of this state in the Congress Of
tie u S.
Engrossed bills e" Concerning the town OF Be-
very, in the county Of Randolph"--" Appoin-
ting commissioners to view, mark out and open
road from the North Carolina line across lay