The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1824-01-06

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s,cutiii.., or any other amendment u
,i,t .lI.c,, so thai IT ma. be laaful for ih'
t,prty injured 10 notify tue constable hnh
ht SECURITIES on failure 1T the SAID eonsta-
HE IN max. return pf hls execution n
therein directed, with leave Ia report, nc
A. Moore of Fairfax offered The tullo"
ing r.solyei !.
Resofr,d. That the {. for {. OF ). ne
he instructed To ,uquise into the expedieh
,.y of amending the act eutiiled AN as'
REDUCING into one the several acts Prov.
ding f,r the poo~, and declaring who shal
| b. deemed vagranls,n in such manner tha'
oycrseurs Of the poor may bc elected nj inc
same time aud place that delegates are
elected to'the General Assembly ana re-
ported 10y bill OF otherwise.
Mr.. Moore commented on tie present
objectionable mode OF appointing ihe over
scrrs of the poor. Aud, on Mr.. huthef-
r,rd,s motion, lhe resolution was laid on
| the table. -
! On Mr.. Prentiss's motion, the {. for L.
Of J. merernsiruclcd TO enquire info the ex-
prdieney uf amending the act tn reduce
+ into one act the several acts concerning
i Escheators.o
/ On Mr. Goggin's motion, the report oi
the T.. for G.. 81 J. rejecting the petition oil
Augustine Leftwich, praying that ms
marriage with hrs present vile, VINO
i. the sister of his former, and win
whom .he, bad intermarfIed without know
ing II was illegal, was iaken up. Mr.. u
moved that lie report be So amended rs
To declare the prayer OF the petitioner rea-
sonabie This motion called forth long
and animated debate aud was supported
by the mover, Messrs. Witcher, Chiffon
Patteson Of II. aud Briggs, and resisted by
AIessrs. Winston l. Blackburn. The debate
turned upon the extreme hardness of the
present case, the propfiety and justice oi
relaxing the rigor ofthe law, in favor Ut an
innocent nar and woman, who had igno-
rantly become obnoxious To IT'S penalties.
Mr. Briggs boldly called in question the
policy of the act of assembly and attenp-
ted 10 prove by references to Scriptures
that the inhibition it contained was not III
pursuance f any principle of religion, CT
lher under the old or the new dispensation.
Aud AS IL regarded the interests and happl-
ness of sopiety, he could not believe that
they were advanced by so arbitrary an IN
! friugcnIeut on The right ofindirlduals.
Mr.. Goggio's motion 10 amend the re.
i.port prevailed aud the report as amended
was cOncurred I'm
.if0pday December 2o.--On Mr. Spoon
crr's motun, il was
R.soired, That leave be grantedt0 bring
in "A bhl to amend the act entitled "an act
/ 10 reduce into one act the several acts con,
corning executors, and for the rshct of III
solvent debtors" SO as tO authorize the
imprisonment of any person living IN any
corporate town, and taken under amy mes
ne or final process, wherever there shall be
in such corporation no county jail
Mr.. s. explained the necessity for this
, amendment, aud particularly in rcgaId TO
the town of Petersburg; which being stu
ated III three countirs, its citizens, as the
law now stands, are liable to be imprisoned
in the Jail of either, according to the issuing
OF the process, &c.
On Mr. Colston's motion, it was
RcS0tred, That the committee of X. and
l. Navigation, To whom was referred the
mcmsrlal ofih committee appointed by
thrConvtntion nj Washington, on the 9th
Nov. 1923, on the subject of the Potomac
Navigation, have leave to report by bill OF
otherwise.
Mr. Goggin, from the committee to
whom il had been referred, reported the
bill To suspend the provisioning of land III
the county OF Bedford, with an amendment,
embracing several oth,r COUNTESS Several
members rose in their places aud pruposed
still further To amend the bill by the addl-
ton oftheir respective counties.
Mcfarland chen suggested that as there
seemed to be such disposition ON the par
Of gentlemen to extend the provisions o
the bill, it had perhaps Better DC recon-
mitt.d with the view of making the law
general one, and submitted that motlon.-
The bill was recommltted.
The Speaker laid before the House th'
! following letter from the Governor
CouScIL CHAMBHR,
| Goth Dec. 1898.
SIR have the honor to lay before thu
General Assembly, copies of the RETURN
made To this department, in conformit,
with theiaw on that subject, 10y the Nortl
Western Bank and Bank of the Valley ri
wing an account OF the state of those inst
buttons, and their several branches on thu
list DAY of Aug. and LIST of Dec. last, and "a
intermediate pepiods.
i | am, with great respect your oheden
servant, JAS. PLEASANTS, Jr.
, The Honorable The Speaker
Of The House Of Delegates.
Mr.. Kincheloc offered IA resolution in
straciing the Board of Public Works. I,
cause the Engineer to lay out road from
Ghrksburg Ia Point Pleasant. Mr.. X
made n statement showing the importanc,
of the road, and the great inconye nitnc-
encountered by the people from the wan
of IT,
Mr.. Coston suggested the proprety o
SO modifying the resolution, and all other
OF simiu naturo, us to refer tire sublec
either 10 the Board of uhllc Works, or th,
committee of X. and |. Navigation, tina
the expcdiency ofthe proposition may b,
r"qnirrd into. He remarked on the incon
veniences and expenses resulting from Civ
ing unqualified orders for surveys, which
in some eases, must prove useless. Ano
the resolution was so modified as 10 re.
quife the Board OF Public Works TO en-
qnire into the 'cypedieucy of laying out
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