Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-09

jects!
Adjournment Of the Legislature. The Rich
mond Enquirer says:
- 1t is impossible to say when the Legislature
will adjourn Not before the 18th of March
perhaps next Monday week. The House of De-
legates has nearly one hundred bills afoat, in
some shape or other-and several of them Of
much importance-several OF them creating JOINT
stock companies, for making roads, carrying on
manufactures Of cotton, iron, &c. working mines,
&c. Among these bills, is, the one for establish.
ing a company to connect the Eastern aud West
ern waters of Virginia, with capital of five mil
lions, and the privilege Of extending it-one au.
thorlzius the Board of Public Works to subscribe
to the stock Of the Lynchburg and New River
Rail Road-anolher, to authorize the same Com
PAW to extend their Rail Road from New River
10 Knoxville, or to any point west Of it--a fourth
10 authorize a subscription OF S75 600 Oh behalf
Of the State TO the Winchester aud Potomac Rail
Riad-a fifth, to authorize the Commissioners of
the Stanton and Potomac Rail Road Company
to keep open the books for the $4,000, 900. and
also TO extend the road to Covington, or to Pat
tonsburg--a sixth. bill To incorporate a compa-
ny To establish Rail Road from Portsmouth to
SOM point on the Roanoke River. with capital
Of 100000, 1.-THE Trustees Of Portsmouth being
authorized to borrow $780, 900 of the sum on the
credit of the town, Sc
MN Horship.-Mr. razewell most unhappi-
ly and even absurdly styled the homage paid to
the memory and virtues of Washington, " man
Worship" What will he think Of the portraits
Of ,he Cabinet, now in course of publication in
the Richmond Enquirer? We have read the
"portraits" Of Mr.. Livingston aud Mr.. Wood.
bury. and scarcely ever remember to have seen
more bald flatterv and sickening adulation. The
people Of Virginia must nauseate over such rank
and unsavory incense to power.
Mr., Thomas of Maryland. from the Commit
tee on the District of Columbia, on Wednesday
reported the following bill for the promotion of
learning within the District Of Columbia; which
was twice read and committed:
BE IL eaacted, &c. That there shalt be, and
hereby Is, granted to the several Corporations of
Washington CITY, Georgetown, and Alexandria.
eaCh, public lots in the CITY Of Washington of
the value Of - thousand dollars, to be select
Ell and valued by the Commissioner of the Pub.
u Buildings when requested Nv said corpora.
TONS And when said lots shall have been
selected and valued, the same shall be vested in
@'h corporations respectively, in fee simple, and
Dc BY them disposed of and sold as soon as prac-
neable, aud the proceeds Of such sales. when re-
ee~ed BY each Of sand corporations, shall be by
Mem invested in stocks Of the company incorpo-
ra'ed to make a turnpike road from the line Of
the District Of Columbia, through Montgomery
and Frederick counties, to Fredericktown, in
Maryland; and said stocks IN no event to be
sold' transferred, or in any way disposed of,
Slhout The consent of Congress, but the annual,
interest or dividends. derived therefrom, to hon
disposed OF. BY the said several corporations
Tue promotion Of education, within the limits fe
ae sand cities Of Washington. Georgetown, ar
Alexandria, respectively. !
Sec. I'd. .4ndbe Il further enacted. That when
We sand lots shall have been selected and valued
Aforesaid, the said Commissioner shall make
,e'urns OF the numbers and descriptions of the
o's' to be vested in the said several Corpora
nuns to the Clerk of the Circuit Courts, OF the
district OF Columbia. to be by him recorded
anons the land titles in the County of Wash.