Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-02-17
VIRGINIA. LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Wednesday, Fe6ruarv /

~%''-oNI|yr Il tO| NA' " IT.
a Communication from the Senate, stating that
thy had passeda Bill, Concerning the Dismal
Swamp Canal Company y" incorporating a Com
pany Tor the purpose Of improving toe Navigation of
James River :" g Authorizing sale If n no tioa of
t'sct oflsnd belonging 10 the orphans of Levi
iSyior deceased !" and =" Authnrsing the sale of
tract If land belonging to the heirs of DR. David
Dick with srncndments, in ail OF which the Ii
OF d. ccncurrec, with the exception Of those propo.
sed to the bill respecting the NAVIGATION of jam s
River The Senate rejected the bills, Authoris-
my the sale of Rct OF land belonging to the h. irs
OF DE- John Weems dec'd."--' Authorizing the
sale q atrsct OF land belonging to the heirs OF Ste
phen l. Compton dcccssed"--fs Exoneratiap Lewis
H. Coleman from she payment Of certain militia
fines Authorizing the sale of certain raj es-
tate belonging TO Elizabeth Fnzhugh, an infant -
and " Concerning the widow and children OF Spen-
Ger Bowmer decd"
Efgros'ed bills, Giving effect to the last wiz
and testament of Samuel Gist deceased late of the
city OF London;" 81 Concerning overseers of the
poor, and for Other PURPOSES" we're respectively
read Sd tim" and passed.
variety OF bills were advanced one stage thro'
the House
A further Report was received from the Com
mittee OF Finance, TIE petition OF the Inanufac-
tare OF SAT- Ia henawha county, praying the re-
peal OF the Act of last session, imposing a tax on
domestic manufactured salt, and release ofthe
Commonwealth right TO the collection Of so much
ct the said tax AS is in arrear--rhe Comm ttee re-
Ter to their annual Report providing for the frat
part OF the prayer 81 the petition. an recognTn ead ing
adseoninUsnce ofthe tax ssimposed on re ST. beois
since TIE commencement ofthc late war--T hcv enter
into long course of statement on the lasr PRAYER
Of the petition, which finally winds up with Reso.
luton, that "t expedient to release innetv 9th
tax imposed by law on the salt manufactured on the
hanswhs river between the 10th ofFebruary, SIS
aud the 10Th OF February, 1916"
This resolution agreed 10 by the Hsuse
The House proceeded to the appointmen M of the
Directors oftlie Board Of Public Works---during TIA
progress of the ballot the following resolution was
proposed by Mr.. DoidrIse, and agreed to by the
House Resolved, that the d6bOint,nenl of a D-
rector Of the board of public works is not civil Of
fee comprchendcd within the provisions of the Act
OF 1874"
Thursday, February IS.
A Communication from the Senate, sta
ting that they had receded from their a
mendmf ut proposed to the resolution in
honor of captan Warrington and Henley.
An engrJssed bill " to amend tie Act,
entitled, " An Act TO amend and explain
the Act concerning taxes on Land" was
read and passed.
A Report of the Committee of PROPOSE
tons and Grievances, (on a subject which
has excited so much feeling in certain sec
tons Of the Strte,) was taken up OH the
motion OF Mr.. King of Norfolk, and read
as IOllOWS
The Committee Of Propositions and
Grievances to whom was committed the
Resolution on the petition Of sundly Stock
holders of the Bank Of Virginia, and the
citizens residing in the Borough Of Norfolk
have had the same under consideration,
and submit the following report and reso-
lutons, as a substitute to the original reso-
luton
It appears to your committee that the
imputations upon the conduct of the Presi-
dent, Directors, Officers and other Stock
holders OF the Bank Of Virginia. charged in
The said memorial, are unsupported by any
evidence whatever.
Resoiued, as the opinion Of this commit
tee, that so much Of the said memorial as
prays that the vote Of the commonwealth
as stockholdcr may be so given AS to mo-
dity the existing regulation Of the Bank Of
Virginia. requiring the monthly commune
cation Of the accounts Of the dealers at the
several oihCesto the Bank at Richmond, so
as to limit the monthly communication to
the names of such dealers, without their
accounts, unless in the case Of dealers who
may have accounts or be uOdcr responsi.
bility at two or more Of such Offices, and
| the Bank at Richmond, and 20 require al