Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-02-27
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
U.,anesdau, Feb. 81.

| Mr. BoYp reported, without amendment, bill Il
amend the act entitled an act TO revise and amend al
act Incorporating the town Of GAINESVILLE in the county
of Mccklenburg.
Mr. CaRrEyTrn, according 10 order, presented bill
to change the time of holding the quarterly terms Of h
Courts of the county of Allegheny.
On motion of MIR. CARPENTER, ordered that leave be
eiyen to Elisha b. Williams and Jane Pi,zer 10 with
draw their petition and remonslrancc presented to the
General Assembly at their session in ISIS
Mr. CmapMaS presented n remonstrance OF citizen:
Of the county of Kanawha, in opposition to the esta
bshment of an additional ferry across Elk river nea
its mouth
Mr. STEPHENSON ofTyer presented petition o.
the President Of the Middle Island Turnpike Company
praying subscription behalf OF the State, tor two
fflhs OF the stock Of said Company.
| BILLS PASSED.
| An cngrossed bill authorizing the President and Dr.
rccors of the Northwestern Turnpike Road 10 neso
| tiate certain loans
And bill changing the existing laws relative to Lu.
nate hsylums
A bin providing for the enlargement of the Lunatic
HOSPITALS of the Commonwealth was taken up on mo
lion of Mr. CRurcurELn, and alter some debate reao
| a second time and ordered 10 he engrosscd
On motion of Mr.. LEyErES, the Committee OF School:
and Coleaes was discharged from the consideration Of
resolutions and proceedings OF public meeting oil Gilt
gems of The county of Loudoun at SnckersSlr on The
subject Of the fund arising from the sale OF the Glebt
| Lands of Shelburne parish IN sad county.
Mr. IRVING, of Cumberland, presented petition o.
James Powell OF the county of Amherst, asking re
vision of the law relative to the nomination and ap
pointmens OF SherIf1s'
hill entitled an act concerning the Baltimore ant
Ohio Railroad Company, with amendments proposed
| nv the Senate was taken up, on motion OF Mr. VII
,,,vs and The second amendment being amended, was
ax amended agreed to-Messrs CoSN and SMITH o
Rockbrdrc opposed the increase OF tolls along the line
on Flour Salt, &c but the House sustained Inc IN
crease. ,, A., CT.
/ Gala
al n,sscd The bill entitled san act reducing into one
ITO several acts prescribing the mode OF ascertaning
thp arable property within the Commonwealth, and
collecting the public revenue, adherng 10 but thre'
| amendments.
On motion of Mr. CErrcmrIELD the House passed
| the bill nm
MIR LEE presented a petition Of Elisha Hall ant
others for the establishment Of separate election
the county Of Ilarrson
| Mr. VAUGHAN presented petition oil Maria oas
sell a free OF colour, asking perhssio" " -
main in the Commonwealth.
The bill authorisng additional compensation LOT INT
teaching of poor children was recommItted.
VIRGINIA AND NEW YORK:
The Bill 10 prevent citizens Of New \ ork from car
rv;np slaves out of this Commonwealth, and TO proven
the escape Of persons charged with the commission
my crime again came up for consideration IN Comit
Zoo If the whole House. Mr. RoBERrsoS in the CHAR
when after some remarks, MIR. ScoTT moved that III,
Committee rise and report the bill TO the House, whici
motion was carred-Ayes A. noes -.
The SPEAKER having taken the Cha'r' ran,
MIR. Scorr rose and sad that ne felt under no i'. ~.
embarrassment in rising address the House on tnt
ubiect of the measure which he held IN ms mana, AM
nothing but an mperous of duty would conslrniI
him, under the circumstances in which ne was piaceo
n trespass upon their attention for one moment, WINS
he delivered crude as he knew they must pc 'ne con
Illusions to which the short reflections he mad peer
able to give to the subject, had brought nus m'h no
AZ a member of the committee from whom TINS OIL
emanated, dissenting he did, from 1t atoge'he!
he could not consistently with his ideas OF duty 81
there and give silent vote on the questlon-wh'lst
the representative of portion of the people OF tn
commonwealth having interest IN the present 40
orhnp question not second to the interest OF the peo
ME of anv other portion of the State, he also felt boun
r, r. nortcipate in the discussion of the question IL
vas an ardent friend the union of these States an
b was an ardent and devoted friend to the rights OF tn
several States: and it was because ne regarded an
would cherish the right of the individual States an
above ALL the rights Of his own State, that he ente'
,oined that abiding love for and attachment to- IN
nnon of all the States; and because he was lnpresse
deeply and thoroughly with the conviction that u
rights of the several States and the happiness
the citizens of the several States were s,akea upo
RI the uermaneuce of the union of all the States ano "
cause he thought he saw in this measure, the eose