The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-05-29
TO .the Editor efthe ENouInEn.


Having this Iaoment perused parasrsp ir your
paper of this uiornins, headed, :" The Virgins, lie.
g,'iature which is calculated. though not supposed
to DC tesded, to give erroneous NEW vs one oi
the acts ot the House ut Delegates, and vie OF the
laws Ut the OF the General Assembly winch
has just expired, rely upon your Justice, to insert III
your next number, tue following vApaiat.on OF
! them.
The argument in the Senate against &c the bill
a,nendatoiy =. III the T;x am" ret conRaeJ "a
% inaccuracies IN ITS expvcssOns, 1t ioGeed ANY such
were refereed To- One ct the objects OF the bill wa
to .. the on those whs sell drugs ne,i-
cinea lin retail sonS with other goods" but this
not the principal object ot the tilL IL d.. ,nsushed
Between wholesale and rr'aii apo.hecaris ami
druggists in conformity with the merchants tax, u
I required bat license to sch either by wholesale
or rstaii both medicines and merchandise. The
latter provision was intended mereiy to explain tue
tax-is@ which hes beeu Incorrectly INTERPRETED
veral cpunties Ot the state the turner To amend IL
30 as to relieve the apotecares and druggists OF the
smaller towns and Of the country from burttiensome
iTa position. ... 80
| On the question whether the hill should pass in
the Senate, the division III or IL to against it.
The House OF Delegates dill not believe the bill to
be defective either in substance, form OF express
sion. The motion made, on the last day ut The
sion, FOR leave to bring in auothrr bill supported
by of the most active friends Ot the former, on
the ground that bill couhi mt become law without
the sanction OF the Senate, which had been refused
to that already sent to them, and well grounded
hsIef, that another bill, which would attro the ends
| ofthe former, and which already prepared,
would meet with the appreciation OF the Senate.
The motion for leave to bring i'll this bill failed ia
the House of Delegates, because IL made in the
| hour Of expected adjourn ment for the session.
A law has been passed, authorizing the Auditor
| and Treasurer to return to the Bank of Virginia,
3 900 600, OF the sum, which those officers were
empowered, by former iaav, to borrow on account
| Of the Commonwealth; and THAR iaY has been
farther amended by allowing them re-borrow the
whole such part of the which they may
turn hall hereafier he deemed by the Governor
aud Council of State indispensable, requisite To- meet
any unforeseen exigency of the Com uonweath.
The Executive was empowered by - law of the
preceding session which passed February 18th 1914
to borrow, it necessary, sun not exceeding
350000 dollars. The particular sections OF this laws
which conferred this power, power which was ne
rcSercsed, were repealed hy the act 2of the
late session, which took from the Executive,
the authority to raise regiment OF regular troops
The Executive of Virginia never has born ed enc
dollar, on the public account.
Over the loan Of the Bank of Virginia effected by
the Treasurer X Auditor the 2sth Of March last,
the Governor and Council had of eou-
troll. go. -
The f1ss authorizing this loan did rot even re- |
Qure, in order its execution that the Executive
should be appraised of the fact that loan peso-
cisting.
IL inbcriousty required tine Treasurer s. Auditor
TO borrow the svhoie of S5O0Oo dollars the
terms which IL prescrib d and appropriated that
sum drfray any e,eoerses authorised BY laz,.
For this reason, the whole sam borroNSh
when the deficiency IN the treasury did not exceed
forty thousand doil%rs. Hence the necessity, or pO
LEY ofthe provision to return part of the bor-
rowed, to the Bank.
Il MEMBER 81 The House Of Delegates.