Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-12-20
rUNAT1C ASYLUM, WILLIAMSBURG.

Tho remonsrance presented on the 10th ns the Board
of Directors for the Eastern Lunatc Asylum to the House
OF Delegates presents state OF things which we couo
hardly have supposed exist in any public institution under
the management and control of this commonwealth. The
Board Of eleven Wings last summer subjected to va
cancy By the election of of them to lucrative office IN
the institution There being then ten Wings in office and
vacancy the Democrats asked hu, the vacancy might be
filed from their ranks and against this request formal
protest by the President Of the Board
c Governor The people have pettoned that the directors
should DO eapponed at stated periods and should not heo
office for fe The directors protest against this, and insist
that their offices should DO held for life and that they should
not be subjected to the ordeal of periodical appointment
II seems the complexion of the Board all Wings until the
Governors action last summer purely accidental accor-
ding 10 one accoun,bu according to another was ow-
ing TO the fact that there Democrats in Wiams-
burg qualified for so exalted stationwe II the Peo-
pe think otherwise Of them have received high 9TH
ces from the people and their representatives. and we DOUBT
not the legislature will by their action show that they think
otherwise also.
INDIANA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.-This
convention as we learn from the Cincinnati Gazette has Ia
ken final action on the following sections Fixing the terms
of Secretary Treasurer and Auditor two years each and
rendering them ineligible after second eecton that there
shall be no imprisonment for debt except for fraud that The
right of trial by jury shall be nvolae that no mans SER
vice shall be demanded property taken without compen-
saon &c that there shall be public debt except to meet
deficits In tho revenues reasonable amount of property
shal be exempted from forced sales execuon that wo-
men shall have the property owned before or coming TO
them after marriage Except in fraud of the creditors OF their
husbands secured them by law; that clerks auditors
county surveyors and recorders shall each hold their office
four years and shall only eligible eight years any term
or twelve years. that The ahes coroners and ireasurers
shall hold their Offices years. and shall only be eligible
four years six justices of the peace shall DO elected to hold
their Offices for four years. the general assembly shall pro-
ydo BY law for uniform mode of doing county and town
ship business general assembly shall reduce county
10 less extent than four hundred square miles, money
shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence OF ap-
propraons made by law and accurate statement of
ceps and expenditures shall be published with the laws OF
each regular session of the General Assembly The Con.
vcnlon has adopted proposition that hall the State Sena-
tors shall be chosen for four years and half for two The
representatives. be chosen for years And another that
the session OF the Legislature shall be biennial commencing
On the 9th of January The leading women of Indiana
have issued circular proposing present service OF plate
to Robert token of gratitude for his services
in Convention TO secure certain rights Of property TO mar
ried women
We learn from the Sacramento Tribune that James T.
Ship Esq., late of Madison county Virginia, died In that
city on the 2sh of October of cholera Many Of our read