The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-01-14
"a, gini0 Legislature.
ExTRAc rs FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE
House or DELEGATES.
EnvpAy lam

and others the commemorative right to tract oil
land, concerning Neson, man OF colour,
. -" concerning Jingo, inau Of cocur,'-'' con
eeruing Lucy, woman ~ coiour, '--'' changing
the name OF the Washington .4eattemy, and ut the
Rector thereof" ---were successyely read a third
time & passed.
On motion OF MIR Cartmin, --.Ordercd, tina;
leave be given to bring biii'' adding the counties
Of Monroe, Gr-cnbrier, Kanawha, Mason and Ca.
bell to the ehaneery district for which chanoery
court is held At Wythe courthouse, and changing
the place OF holding said court
q Report from the c,m,nitiee for courts OF JUS
tiec was read as follows:
The coIH mttee for Courts of Justice, has accord.
ing to order, had under considerations, the petition
of Mary Tucker, alias Mary Goshen, To it refer
red, and has sgreed upon report ana come to a
resolution thereupon, 40 follows:
IL appears 10 your committee, from evidence ex.
hibted before 1t, ON the part OF the petitioner in
the presence OF James Goshen the husband, that
the petitioner was some time ago, in due form aud
within this commonwealth, married To- the said Cos
den, and that he hal been previously thereto mar
ried in the state Of Mmyisnd to another woman,
who was, at the time Of the snlcmuza;ion OF the
marriage between him ai.i the petitioner, and is
still living, but whether the Grst marriage oil the
SAID Gosden, above mentioned, WAS lawful not,
the committee has means pt determirin, with
certainty neither is il with references To
the rot OF Assembly the subject, that this poui,
should he now determined.
1t appears also to your comrf tee, that although
the sad Gooien has been for time past resi-.
ding in this commonwealth, and arncnale to the
laws theyco and although the rumor, and indeed
the evidence, puputng to him the said crime of BIZ
gamy, have BEEN for some time puhlieky known,
yet 40 criminal prosecution has been instituted
agaiust him that account.
Your committee, is Or opinion, that in matter of
this deltoate kind. the hest evidence which the ma.
ture of the admits or s. nuli ia general be re-
Guired as hc groGnd of Legislative interference
that in the present case. t.e best evidence OF the
tact ailccged ny the petitioner against her husband
would he tie verdict OF Jury and sentence oil 4
court OF competent iurslioti O., enu,ictog him Of
ire CRIME OK MgAmN imputed - ann, under the act
OF Assembly IN th7t .se made and provided and
that any Legislative proceeding the subject, in
the present state of things might tend to pro-
duce = pre-iudsucrt Of tic ease, should it ever
he brouy, before court Of cri'nlaai urjs lie
ton.
Your committee is flr these rcapns Of opinion,
that NJ this tine, the PRAYER ~ ti pcIOner ought
not to a. granted Resolved therefore, rs the o.
pinion OF ih;s eonmitee, thu the petition of the
said Mary, nrayinG he divorced from the said
James GoSden. ne rejected, Agreed TO by the
RGusc.
be given 60 ''+ns ~ bill, 60 rehquishing the title
OF the comm ska, and Of the President and DE-
rectors ot'ae LtarrY Fund, II lands subject to es-
ei'ea' ny reason Of the aensse Of those claiming
title thereto, in certain cases
SATURDAY., Jan. ..
communication from the Senate by their
Clerk ;--Fhe Senate Ia, c passed the bill, 90 in
eogporap's S''s BG;alo' Creek Farmers Library
have @!s" passed the following bills, entitleh--'' IN
act giving !nrthor time to the owners C
iraTs,n county ~ return their Pats and certificates
into the land office ;'--anl {" IA act incnrpora-
ting a company N the city Of Richmond ror marina
assurances, ard for other purposes -; with amend
Inents in which they request the CONCURRENCE of the
Fous@ pi - -iegates They nave agreed to the res
oiutson, requesting the Executive to cause 10 be
placed, on tle pedestal OF the statue of George
Washington, the inscription heretofore directed =
n nd they adhere their 81 am endm ent pr ,posed
10 the resolutions relative to the gallant coaluct OF
Commodore Decatur. his officers and crew, in the
yctory lately obtained by them in the figate Uni
tel States, the British fIIgate the Macedo
nan.
Tn motion of Mr. Lee, (of Norfolk borough) the
house recedel from insisting on its disagreement
to the second amendment proposed by the Senate,
to the resolutions the subject Of the late gallant
victory obtained by Commodore Ste2hea Decatur,
his officers and crew, in the r'Sate United States
over the British frgate the Macedonian 49,. 4nd
then the question, being pu: on agreeing to the said
amendment, determined in The Affirmative
On motion of Mr.. Leigh, (of Dnwiddie, Or
dered, That leave be given to- bring in bin, to
repeal the act, " concerning the Farmers Bank OF
Virginia passed the 9ib day OF February, 1912"
report tron the committee appointed to exa-
mine the Registers Office, taken up, and read,
as follows
Tie committee appointed to examine the state
of the Land-Oifice, have, according to order,
performed that duty, prepared report, and
cOue 10 resolution thereupon.-----it appears
TO your committee, that the grants have issued
on all surveys having no legal defects in them
which have remained III the Office the time pre-
sctibed by law, and wherein previous step
WAS necessary to be taken on the part of the
claimant: and all the grants issued recorded.
j. alsp appears Ia your committee that the patsand
certificates OF surveys, which remained To be re-
corded, reported bv the committee last year.
have been record d and fled away in neat and rel-
lar order also the greater part of those on whic,
grants have Issued during the present year and the
baipce, as stated by the Register, viii be recorded
Ia q short time after the rsD If the Legislature.
All the bboks and papers in the Office appear TO be
IN their usual good order, and the business OF the Of
flee generally seems TO have been duly attended to.
the committee here so into certain stGtements
20 show dat ;he fees Of The Office for the last year
amount 20 The srr4 oi sj2j05 -
Resolved, therefore, as the opinion Of this com.
mi.tGc, THAI the Register Of the Land Office hatl
dig snty and faithfully discharged duties OF hi,
Office.
The said resolution, being twice REID, was on The
question pat th>Teupon, agreed to BY the horse.
A resolution from the Committee Of Ga ms
Heretofore laid the table, voting reasonable the
petition OF sundry ci,izeus Of Augusta county pray
ing the aid Of hc legislature in support OF the Ac
DENY erected III the town Of Stanton, and that, il
al ibis tIjce, otheT fluid may, with propliciY, bt
appropriated 20 that object, the fines, penalties con
fscations, escheats aud forieiuires arising wIir
that county, may be so appropriated, was, on mo
ton of MIR Anderson, (of Augnsia,) taken MP -
motion was then made by MIR Thompson, end So
eonded by Mr.. Pope, to amend the said resolution
ly striking ont the words " is reasonable" aud in
upoa the said iuotcn vs.; determined in Tie aGigna
i've.
MONDAY, Jan. ..
4 communication from tie Senate bv heir Clcrl