Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-12-18

: company TO cut additional outlets, TO construct
hasiuS aud reservoirs. of sufficient extent 10
supply the locks aud afford safe har5ors tn the
boats lying in them to prescribe the number
| the places and the manner of constructing:
bridges across the canal, TO restrain persons
Rom depOsitin@ their timber and lumber upon
tie roads Of the canal-n tiue, 10 make such
other regulations aud bylaws shall be tonnd
necessary To correct abuses, and preserve
peace and good order among those Who pass
On tiiat public highway. Referred 10 the
committee Of roads and internal navigation.
MONDAY. Bee. l5.-A report was read from
the ComIaitie Tor courts of Justice, in faN or OF
diVorcing Nancy Anderson from her husband
agreed TO.
further report from the same committee
was read re jecting the petition from Isle o I
Wight county. tor alterations in the slave law ;
>. permitting John alker Of Botetoust 10 re-
tam certain slave ia this state (; 5, rejecting
tbS petition of Andrew Woods aud 4. rer.
hitting G.. Whitlork To bring back slave from
kentucky. The ;isst resolution was. on Mr..
Laarcnces Motion, changed from " rejected
10 = reasonable. The three last were atlopted
4 resolution, proposed by the committee of
propositions and grievances, was adopted, for
appointing commissioners tomark o!fthe diyid-
Jug line between Grayson and Patrick counties
a resolution from the committee for court,
oil justice was also agreed TO, declaring reasoy-
d6fc the petitions of Suudry Inhabitants of tL,.
counties of Frederick and Loudouu. prayin..
that provision be made by law more ctretnaHy
20 preteRt tie oDsnce Of drunkenness. same
commIitee Is to report q bill
The committee"f propositions and grievan
ces reported resolutionS-in favor of establish.
Jug town, on the land of Henry HairstoM-
oireViving the inspection of Brook Neale-of
extending the limits ei the the town of Lurav
agreed To by the House.
Mr.. Blackburn, from the Committee of
Claims, reported III favor of Increasing. tht.
pension of john Wilson-and of placing Da-
mel Hyden on the pension liSt-both OF them
Invalid soldiers of the revolutionary war.
Fro.
revised hiil concerning grand juries, petit
luries, and venrc.men.
On Mr.. Bowers motion, the resolutions oc
the committee of privileges and elections
respecting Isaac Estill, were taken up
a motion was made by Mr.. Robertson, of
Richmond. that a resolution be adopted, bv
way of substitute for the said three rcsolu-
tons which resolution, being amended by
the Honse, was as follows; viz :-ResOiUcd,
as the opinion of this committee, that the
said Isaac Estlll, by his removal from the
state since his election, and his express YER
bal declaration, (Which has been satisfactori-
~ proven) that he should not sit as a member
OF the House of Delegates during the session
of the present G,neral Assembly, hath vaca-
ted his seat in the said House. aud that writ
OF election ought TO issue to the said County
o' a MGp ,hs to supply the said vacancy.
to the said substitute. was determined in the
negatiVe.-Ayes Is, Noes o.
A petition was presented of Robert Porter
Hela ana john watts, IN behalf of themselves
and the other surviving officers and soldiers
OF The Virginia line on continental establish
ment in the Revolutionary War. that measures
De adopted Tor the purpose of having surveys
more conveniently made of the lands allotted
TO the said officers aud soldiers, and now re
manning unappropriated, between the head
waters of the SciOto and Little Miami Rivers
northwest of the Ohio Referred to the COM
mlttee for cour's OF Justice
Petitions were present ed--from John Scott
OF Albemarie, for The establishment of a town
on his land-trom sundry inhabitants of
Wythe, Washington and GraysOn, for new
county to be laid off, including parts of the said
couDties-trom sundry Inhabitants of Buck
ingham, Cumberland and Prince Edward. for
the establishment OF town at the head of the
navigation of Williss river-frOm James Mer-
ry, for town and inspection on his land on
Jackson's River-And petitions OF the Stock
holders ofthe Bank Of The Valley in Virginia,
praying that the capital stock of the said
Bank be augmented to one million of dollars,
and Offering to pay 10 the State a bonus on the
sum to be added to the said Stock-Refcrred.
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