Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1849-07-13

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the Senate to take no subjects foreign to til Code
was thought to be tested by a vote to adjourn
pending a motion to take up bill for t he ex-
tension of the Beverly and Paramount road
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Mr.. Laidley obtained leave of absence on ccount
of cholera in Kanawha.
MARRIED WOMEN
Mr.. Laidley offered resolution instruct mo the
Revision Committee to enquire into the exp ediency
of providing more eectually for the security of the
separate estate of married women
After some debate, motion to postpone the reso-
luton indefinitely was lost, so to 3d. and motion
to lay on the table was lost, a. to 49,
Mr.. Laidley's was modified so as to appoint Sc
lect committee, and was carried
Leave ofabsence was granted to Mr. Moore, after
that venerable gentleman had made gallant stand
for the rights of wives.
FREE NEGROES.
Upon point made by Mr. Watson, it was agreed
that the bill follows the present law, in allowing the
children of enancipated slaves, permitted to re-
main in the State, 10 remain without farther permis-
sion.
Mr.. Irving proposed to allow free negroes enjoy
ing such permission from one county court to re-
main anywhere nthe State; but the House voted no,
by a large majority.
The Revisors' bill requires all the justices to be
summoned and a majority to be present and concur
ring, in order to permit an eancipated negro to re-
main in the State The reported bill only requires all
to be summoned. Mr.. Pannill moved to restore the
Revisors provision, in order to throw every obsta-
Gle IN the way OF allowing free negroes to reside in
the State. Mr. Harrison, of P. W., agreed, how
ever that it was better with that object to facilitate
the hearing before the county courts rather than the
| Legislature. The motion was lost.
MIR. Rves moved to prohibit all free negroes from
| removing from one county TO another without the
permission ofthe court OF the latter Mr.. Moncure ex
planedtha this already sufficiently provided for
as to all negroes en'ancipated since 1906 and their
descendants. Motion lost Mr.. R. then moved to
authorize justices ofthe peace to apprehend regis
tered free negroes coming into county and if
they have no honest employment, to treat them as
vagrants The vagrant laws applying fully to free
negroes, this motion was lost, 90 to so.
| MARRIAGE LICENSES.
| Mr. Ferguson moved to amend, so as to reouire
license for marriage to be issued by the clerk of
the county, &c, where the marriage is to be cele-
brated, instead of sin which the female usually re-
sides" Lost, after some joking about the love af-
fairs ofmembers
! DIVORCES.
! Mr.. Moncure of S., explained the action of the
cor aorTp
thought wise and iudcious-the Revisors thought
! differently. The committee had declared all mar
riages within the degrees of consanguinity to be
null and vod--this had been done in England and
some of the States. The report of the Revisors
would be in the hands of the House in few DAVIS
until then he thought the subject should be passed
by
The chapters on Divorces, Marriage, Dover and
Jonture were passed by, after amendments had been
suggested, by Mr.. Ladley, providing that a divorce
shall not be granted if it appear that the parties yo
UNFAIRLY eohabited after knowledge of the fact OF
adultery or that occurred more than five years be-
fore the institution of the suit, If aohia that period
the parties haze lined together, &C.; by Mr.. Fergu-
son, making hobttal drunkenness cause of divorce
a ~aepsa 81 ktoro; and by M pferrow, (Which Was
carriedD striking out section progfag that if e.
male between - and IA years of age marry without
the consent of her father and guardian. or if she
have none, of her mother her next of kin may enter
upon and take possession of all her real estatebut
after the determination of the coverture the real es
tate shall Immediately revert in the woman and he,
heirs, other than her husband
i sURvEYoRs-4TH OF JULY
The House got through the chapter on ,Sugveuors
their appointments and Duties when Mr.. Cook
moved to adjourn over to Thursday, the 18th: Mr.
Snother saying that the 4th was national sabbath
bpt the motion was rejected.
WEDNESDAY, July 4th
SENATE
The Senate passed a bill for removing the cour
house OF Wayne county, and adjourned
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
/ MARRIED WOMEN
The House met at 9, and the Speaker announced
the following as the special committee on the rights
of married women, the ladies may desire to see theil
names:] Messrs. Faulkner Ferguson, Sheffey
Harvey, Lacy, Burwell, Strother, Worthington
kiby, Watson Irving of Cumberland Irvine Of
Campbell, and Wood
| SUITS FOR FREEDOM
Mr.. Perrow offered an amendment, which he had
before offered and withdrawn providing that the Pc
titioner in suit for freedom may be hired out un
til the iudgment-he hire to be received by the pc.
titoner, if he be Judged be Free and by the mas
ter if he be Judged not to be free The amendment
was adopted, being modified as to say that s'the
petitioner may in the mean time be hired out if the
court so ORDER and the hire shall be disposed of as
the court may direct"
motion to adjourn Ito keep the national sabbath)
was here lost, 81 to 81.
! LAND GRANTS.
Section 80 OF the reported bill, prohibits the re-
| Of t,o md a.