Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-12
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
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communication was received from the Senate,
stating that they had passed the following bills
]. Incorporating the Sweet Springs and Salt Sui
phur Turnpike Company
= "Concerning Thomas Beasclcy, free man of CO.
lor
g. 'I'o incorporate the Tazewe White Sui phur
Springs Turnpike Company
L. ''Conccrnng the Water Works of the City of
Richmond.
And that they had also passed with amendments,
''an act to amend act entitled an act concerning
general elections in this Commonwealth.
And s.an act releasing TO Susan {. Butt and Eliza
Nblo the Commonwealth right to lot in the town of
Petersburg.
The House agreed to the amendments proposed by
the Senate 10 the last named bill.
The Election bill and amendments for the
present laid upon the table.
rThese amendments important Among them,
is provision .'that man shall not vote on account
or in right of any stock in any Joint stock company
whatever" And provision, ''that on payment by a
voter, in his person, when he shall offer TO vote,
of any tax which ought previously TO have
been paid, il shall be eiectua if it had been paid
as soon as 1t was by law due
Mr. WoRrnINGToS called up bill "concernng the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, together
with the amendment proposed By him on the 9th inst
GThe amendment authorizes the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road Company 10 establlsha like depot the IN
tesecton of the said road with the county road lead
ing from Charleston TO ShepardStown, either side of
SAID county road
Mr.. BYRD moved the indefinite postponement of the
whole bill.
This motion gave rise to some debatc-NIr Byrd sup.
porting his proposition and Messrs WoRrnISGroy and
kESNEDY opposing it.
Mr. POWELL called the previous question; which was
carried; and
Then the question was taken, on Mr.. BrRp's motion,
which was ost-Ayes 49, noes 40.
The amendment was adoptcd-and Mr.. BYRD moved
Al, . o,,t
the following words: ''Aso to establish like depot at
the intersection ofther railroad with the Smithfeld and
Shepardstown Turnpike
After disc ussion between Messrs WoRTHISG G.
and BYRD, his proposed amendment was rejected.
Mr. BYRD said he should offer the following amend
ment, conceving that it duty to his constituents,
might be whatever the fate of the proposition, las new
sccton):
"Bc Il further enacted, That if the said Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road Company shall accept the provI-
sions Of this act they shall be subj all the prov-
sons of the second and third sections Of the passed
March 18TH 1889, entitled IAN act to authorize the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company to construct
their works across the Potomac River above Harper $
Ferry.
On Mr.. GREGoRYs motion, the main question was
put, and Mr. Byrd's amendment rc,ected--ayes IS,
noes A. and then
Mr. MAY called the previous question, on the en-
rrossinc. of the bill which carried, and the bill
ordered TO be engrossed
Mr.. CEcTcHFlELp called up the engrosscd ''b i'm
posing taxes for the support of Government which
was passed.
He then called up the bill providing for temporary
On which, Mr. GREGORY called the ayes and noes.
The bill passed by the following vote:
.4ycs-Nlessrs. Cabell, McCuc, Stuart, LockrIdge,
Burwcll Of Bedford, Mitchell, Myers of Berkeley,
Hunter, Kyle, Flood, Thornburg, Toler, Fox, Cole
man, Cardwcll, Burwcll Of Clarke & Warren, Broad
US, Wilson, Whtworth, Craiiord, Roane, Scott Al
dcrson Payne, Hale, Wade of Franklin, Baker, Byrd,
Erskine White, Lee, Armstrong, McRae, Kennedy,
Reynolds, Tayloc Of X. George, Tayoe of L. & r.,
Beard, Ramey, Harrison, Clayton, Evans, Wade OF
Mont & Pulaski, Myers of Morgan, Watts, Eheridge,
VERIFY, Aeshre, Hiner, Tunsall, Keen, Tallman, no
bcrtson, Leyburn, Dorman, Shipman, Smith OF Rus
sell, Conn., Bare, Greevcr, Crutcheld, SPOTS, Good
son, Walker, Stanger-66.
.Noes-hlessrs. Bayly, Chopper, Wood, Hannah,
Jackson of B. and L., Meredith Haskins, Cox, Powell
Marshall, Howell King, Smith of G., Guerrant, Car
roll of G., Butts, Taylor of H. Clarke Of H., Gibson
Allen of H., Seymour Smith Of l. Of W., Gregory
y orlhingon, right, Fontaine Organ, Banks, lay
lor of NJ. and NJ, Allyn of Nor. Borough, Fitzgerald
Hiden, May Mchanx, Heath, Ratcl,tfe Snyder Gull
len Ridley, Fzhugh, Clarke of 5, Prince-43
Mr. SEYMOUR moved to modify the resolution about
the evening recess-but MIR MAYS motion, the
whole resolution rescInded.
MIR TAYLOR Of W. Il NJ asked leave to bring IN
bill to amend the charter OF the DfdBoh 1"oi'P So
pany in the county Of Mlddlesex, which was refused
MIR. TAy1oE of X G. called up the bills on the Sc
The bill making further provision for opening
tain road in the counties of Bath and Allegheny, was,
on motion of Mr. SMITH Of l. of W., indefinitely post
poned.
The bill ITO amend the several acts concerning the
Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Company, ION its
second reading) gave rise to much debate; and finally
It was laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
A bill to incorporate a Company to erect toll
bridge across James River, at Richmond" occasoned
much discussion The 18th section ofthe bill DIVIDES,
''tha if the proprietor Of Muyos Bridge her heirs or
assigns, shall within month after the passage OF
this act, file with the Board of Public Works, an IN
deraking in writing to construct that bridge accord
ing to the plan hereinbeore prescribed or such other
plan the said Board shall approve-and to keep the
same hereafter in good repair, to be judged of BY the
said Board; and shall within month Thereafter com
mence and within months thereafter complete
such reconstruction, then this act shall not be con-
srued to authorize the erection of another BRIDGE &C.
&c.
Messrs GREGORY, McRAE, RoRERTsoS, FosrAIsE,
and Cox participated in the debate in the course OF