Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-01-27


and accessories 10 feloDies and receivers Of stolen
Goods, read Sd time, certain blanks filled, and
] passed.
The Speaker laid before the House commun-
cation from the Board Of Public Works, in relation
/ to the Manchester and Petersburg Turnpike
Company. ,,
Mr. Gordon called mp the Convention Bill.
Mr. Goggin moved to reconsider the vote Or
asring the bill to be engrossed. He did at tire
particular RI quest Of his colleague, MIR. Menns,
Who had been absent for some days. This propo-
lion gave rise 10 protracted conversation, which
involved 10 extentthe merits OF the bill, aud
in which Messrs. Menns, Doddridgo, Gordon,
Braxton, Goode, Gregory, Duncan, Mason of X.
George Christian of Charles City, Parker of Caro-
line, linn, Parker oil Northampton, Mcmillan oil
Lee, Allen, Wallace, Terrii;, Everett, Miller
1 Of Botetourt, Witcher, Nelson, Davis of Orange,
1 and Eppes took part
4 The question then taken, and the motion
] to reconsider. negatived-Ayes 81, Noes no.
The blanks in the bill were then filled, the most
important of which was, that which designates
4 the first Monday in June as the period Tor the
/ meeting of the Convention; the election taking
place at tae ordinary spring elections.
On the passage Of the bill, Mr.. Watts called for
the ayes and noes.
Mr.. Voolfolk offered a Ryder, which required
that the Auditor should not issue warrant to pay
more than member from each county, I'M
less the counties sending more should first deposit
the necessary sum in the Treasury. Those he
said, who claimed power and obtained an unequal
representation should pay for it, or at any rate
pay the expenses oil their extra delegates She
nandoah which paid but small sum in the Trea-
sury more than Orange had four delegates.
Mr. Gordon remarked that Albenarle paid a.
bout SlU.0 600, some OF which he hoped would go TO
nay the Shenandoah delegation.
Mr.. Keller called for the Ayes and Noes
The Ryder rejected, Ayes Az, Noes l55.
The ayes are,
Mlessrs Booker of Amelia, Parker of Caroline,
.,fG Tx,t., of Richar isOn
of Charlotte, w ynn OF Dnwiddie, Booker of City,
Upshaw of Esse Smith OF Glou ,Bilups, Spencer of
Greensvie, Tiiiar, Scott, Atkinson, OIL of w.
Pollard of X s. Q. Upshaw Of X. s. O., Oldham
Cohoon, Murdaugh, Christian of N Kent, Warden,
Parker of Northampton, Basye, Harding, Ander-
son of Nottoway, Davis, Voolfolk, Anderson Of
Prince Edward, Woodhouse, Ward, Temple,
Rives of Prince George, Goodwin, Griffin OF
Southampton, Ford, Crump, Ruiiin, billiard,
Brown of Warwick, Presson, Grigsby and Moody.
10
The ether members present, voted in the mega
tive.
The question required on the passage OF the
bill.
Messrs. Christian of c. City, opposed the bill as
unequal-and such as he could not vote tor-Mr.
Mennis took the same ground.
Messrs. Grigsby and Parker of Northampton,
explained the ground OH which they should vote
for the bill. The bill pas.ed-Ayes 1913, Noes 81.
Those who voted in the affirmative are
Messrs. Bailey Gordon, Nelson, Persinger, Ter
rill, Je,er, Ellis, Duncan, Clarke, Tapp, Sitting
ION, Goggin, Boyd, Ward, Miller of Boietourt,
Anderson of Botetourt, Doddridge, Edgington,
Thornburg, Everett, Rives Of Campbell, Hunter,
Hill, Turner, Miller Of Cumherland, Moss, Fitz-
hugh Of Fairfax, Chiffon, Wallace, Stillman, Winn
of Fiuvanna, Holland, Galloway, Castlcman, Ma
son of Frederick, Pack, Pearls, Guerrant, Bryce,
Hail, Blair, Mclaughlin of Greenbrier, Smith Of
Greenbrier, Atkinson of Halifax, Kercheval, Cars
kadon, Goodail, Seymour, Mullen, Brown of
Harrison, Williams, Mayo, Harvie Dyer, Morgan,
Willis, Smith of anawha, Dunbar, Allen of Lee,
MMillan, Bland, Camden, Dingess, STATION, Ell!
sey, Powell OF Loudoun, Kimbrough, johnson of
Louisa, Street, M'Farland Of Lunenburg, M'Cul-
loch, Strbling, Watts, Wilson, Caperton, Vass,
Craig, Kent, Cross O,Fclrall, Rives Of Nelson
Megginson, Kelly, Mclaughlin OF Nicholas, Par
ker of Northampton, Read, PARROT, Fitzhugh of
Ohio, Tatum, Adams, Jones of Pendeton, Dice,
Witcher, Walton, Arbogast, Gilliland, Allen of
Preston, linn, Macrae, Tyler of p. William
Alexander of Russell, M'Farlane of Russell,
Martin, Morrison, Carson, Lowell George, Deskins,
MCoy, Inghram, Cummings, Keller, Spencer of
Wood, Tavener, Saunders of Wythe, Stanger,
Grigsby, May and Rutherfoord---l23.
Those who voted IN the negative are
Messrs Banks (the Speaker) Booker of Anne
Tia, Mennis Beasley, Trotter, Yancey, Par
ker of Caroline, Christian of Charles City, Tyler
of c. City, Gaines, Richardson Of Charlotte,
johnson of Chesterfield, Burfoot, Fitzgerald,
Wynn of Dinwidde, Bosseau, wray, Booker of
Elizabeth City, Upshaw of Essex, Pitts, Smith Of
Gloucester, Billups, Spencer of Greensvie, Tar,
Scott, White OF Hanover, Atkinson of I. of Wight,
Cole, Richardson of Jas. City, Pollard of K. and
Queen, Upshaw of and Queen, Mason Of x.
George, Oldham, Pollard of King William, Gre
CORY, Leland, Hall, Finks, Hudgins, Braxten, Al
exander of Mecklenburg, Goode, Segar, Booth,
Cohoon, Murdaugh, Christian of New Kent, War
den, Manning, Basye, ardng, Anderson of MOTTO
way, Davis, Voolfolk, Old, Miller OF Powhatan,
Dupuy, Anderson of p. Edward, Woodhouse
Ward, Temple, Rives of p. George Carter, Barnes
Of Spottsyivania. Cook, Ford, Crump of Surry,
Ruffip of Surry, billiard, Eppes, Brown of War
wick, Presson, Newton, HungerfoTd, Shield,
Griffin of York, and Moody-sl.
The House then went into the execution Of the
joint order of the day, and re-appointed Thomas
Samuel p. Parsons, superintendent Of the Peni-
tertiary, both without oppostion-and then the
House adjourned.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.
We lay before reader, interesting Report from
Board Of Public Works, submiusdto the General Assembly
on Saturday last:
THIRTEEJVT,H .4.T.NL.aL REPORT
or THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS
Of the Board Of Public Works, to the General
assembly Of pUgfnia--Jdn. Z, 1929.
The President and Directors of the Board of Pub
lie Works, in obedience TO the act, entitled
" An act to create Fund for Internal Improve
ment," beg leave to submit the following Re-
port to the General Assembly:
The fund consists of the aforementioned per-
Hanent and disposabe stocks, viz:
Permanent Fund.
125 I-2 Shares of Stock in the
Little River 'pke Co. 1850
$50 do James River Co. $4,000
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