Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-01-26
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
ton
IuesGaN, Jan. "a, l-I3.


A massage from the Senate by their Clerk that they
had passed the bill entitled, 10 provide for the
payment of the ntereat upon certain bonds guaranteed
By the Commonwealth, aud The annuity due 10 the Ole
James River Company.
The Senate have also passed the bill entitled, an &C
authorizing additional Trustees 10 the North Western
Virginia Academy, with an amendment The House
agreed 10 said amendment.
Petitions were presented and referred, viz BY Mr
MILrs of the School Commissioners of Hardy, for
law authorizing the Superintendent of the Literary
Fund 10 allow the Treasurer Of said School Commits
sioners credit for the amount Of claims paid By him ou
Of the School quota Of 1912, account of tuition III
1871, and disallowed by said Superintendent BY Mr.
CARTER, OF Isaac Nicholas and others Of Loudoun
and petition Of citizens Of Jefferson county, fos the
repeal Of oil laws denying right Of residences TO peo-
pie born wil!iin hnrdrrs, and pho have not been
convicted Of crime BY Mr.. BoILISG, of citizens Of
Petersburg, for the passage OF an act Incorporating
1.-THE Po@ells Hotel Company in said town BY
Mr.. DAVIS, Of King and Queen, the remonslrance OF
sundrv of King and Queen county, against the
petition Of Joseph Mann, for the privilege OF erecting
Mill Dam across the Dragon Swamp.
I The following resolutions were adopted
! By MIR. MILLER, of Mason and Jackson, that the
Committee fer Courts Of Justice enquire into the expe
dency Of prohibiting by law suits 10 be brought in any
County Court Of this Commonwealth on Penal bills, oil
notes when The amount Of debt is less than twenty
dollars
By Mr. Moonr, OF Cabell and Wayne, tha, the Com
itlee the Militia Laws enquire INTO the expediency
of releasing the Minla Of Wayne county from the
PAYNE n, OF muster fines imposed them for The year
1912 Tor not mastering in The county OF Cabe af;el
the formation of said county OF Wayne.
! MIR Cowas called mp the bill to complete the Pound
! Gap and Cumberland Gap Rord. The question beng
upon its eDgrossment, Mr.. GARNETT moved lis ndch
mite posiponement.
/ Mr. CowAS maintained that this appropriation 70,
only twelve miles should be made; as ii mporian,
have this road finished for the benefit Of The people
OF Clincb Valley who b. the aid of THE road, could
get their salt from Kentucky at fair rae, instead oil
pa ring 81, as at Kings Works. We ask only the
piiful of 81 800 to the IS miles Of the road
completed and the 5000 appropriated by the State
We ask to be relieved from the hands of the most OPP
pressiye monopoly in the world
Mr. GARSETT opposed the bill on the ground that we
had no money to appropriate.
Mr.. EpMrSDa would not oppose this bill, if il we're
the only of the kind; hut thin is entering wedge
10 force way for many other bills appropra,ns large
sums Of money, at time when We have no money and
find il so difficult. 10 rGise enough for the expenses OF
Government. He hoped this would be d test question
Mr.. GooDsoX thought il would be economy TO make
this appropriateness otherwise the road would GO
down.
Mr. Enucsps This is the case with all the i'm.
proyements in the Slnle-the james River K Kama ha
Company-Porlsnouth Railroad, &c !, and it will take
an enormous sum 10 keep them all in repair.
Mr. BRows of p hoped this little bill would not be
weighed down by those big works.
The bill indefinitely postponed BY the following
vote:
.7yss-slessrs Hoileman, tspeaker,) Ailwor:h, Gus
It's, Lcake Of Aibcmare, Cooke, Powell of Amherst
Newkrk Suodgrnss, Stanton, Meredith, Blck, tIu
bard, B,cock, Nowlin, Samuel, Lacy, Dennis, Han
cock Bruadus, Good Yyn, Brown Of Elizabeth City Md
Warwick, Ga7net Powell! of Fairfax. Smith Of Eau
quer Rust, Payne. Mnse, Wood, Robins, Leake Of
Goochand Jones, Edmunds Of Halifax, s,oyall, Blue.
McRae, King Bowden, Gallaher, Davis Of King and
Queen, Wallace, Edmonds Of Lancaster and Richmond
/ na-1x H.
and Jackson, Jigsits, Northngton, Tanzey, Dyche,
Smith Of Nansemond, Csbell, Tatem, Rice, Oliver,
Davis of Onnge and Greene, Critz, Boiling, Keen,
Bennett, Hopkins, Anderson, Dey, Daniel Of Prince
George Brawner. Dsneale, CoO,es, Hsdgman, Warren,
Walker, and Lewis-72.
! fcss-Msssrs Hollemsn, lspeaksr,l Mann, Ffazeri