The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-02

MONDAY, March1.
bill was reported to incorporate the In
surance Company Of the Valley.
On motion Of Mr.. Sheaey, the Committee on
Finance, was instructed to inquire into the ex.
pediency OF making the certificates Of public
debt N all cases, payable thirty years after the
On motion of Mr.. Sweeney, it was reso,red
That select committee be appointed to en-.
quire into the expediency eff abolishing the
State Guafd. The President announced the
Committee as follows: Messrs. Sweeney
Layne, Martin, White, and Mason.
resolution offered by hIr. Shackleford,
proposing an adjournment Of the Legislature
from April to December, was laid upon the ia.
BILE.
On motion Of Mir. Douglas, Thursday next
was fixed upon, with the concurrence Of the
House, to go into the election of Brigadier
death Of BTigadier General Corbin Braxton.
Hsuse of Delegates.
A message wGs received from the Senate,
announcing the agreement by that body, TO a
resolution allowing bounty land to the heirs of
Ambrose Walden.
bill concerning the Blue Ridge Railroad
Company, from the Senate, was passed. The bill
repeats so much of the act of incorporation as
restricts said Company from borrowing and
contracting to pay in any one year more than
one hundred thousand dollars.
A bill was reported TO authorize the Virginia
Military Institute to admit additional students
and making an appropriation of FIVE thousand
dollars therefor.
On motion of Mr.. White, of Hanover, a pc.
tition on the table, from Mr.. Edmund Ruffin, of
Hanover, on the subject of Agriculture, was
taken up and ordered 10 be printed for the use
of the House.
On motion Of Mr.. Wheeler, the Committee
on the subject of free negroes, were instructed
to inquire into the expediency of amending the
law so as to provide, that the seal of Court,
shall not be attached to any Certificate of re.
gistration, unless il be proven that the party 10
whom the same is granted, is about to leave the
Commonwealth. And also, to inquire into the
expedIency OF requiring the registers of free
negroes TO be certified by the Court after the
same shall have been made by the Clerk.
On motion of MIR. Robertson, of Norfolk
city, the committee of Roads, &C.. were in.
structed to enquire into the expedieney of pro-
viding general law fixing limit for the or
ganizaton accompanies incorporated for inter-
nal Improvement purposes.
On motion of MIR. Boyd, the committee of
Courts of Justice were instructed to enquire
into the expediency of prohibiting the sale of
ardent spirits to paupers.
Mr.. Nicholson presented a petition, praying
that the fees of Sheriffs may not be reduced,
and that the Sherihs may be prohibited from
farming the Snerifaty. Also, petition, ask.
ing that an act imposing tax on dogs, in the
county of Middlesex, may be repealed.
The House, at IL o'clock, resumed in Com
mit;ee of the Whole, the bill defining what
property shall and shall not be subject to tax
ation-the following clause, amongst the ex-
empted articles, being under consideration =
"All Agricultural Productions and Provisions
with the amendment offered by Mr.. Pat
rick, necessary for household consumption
and the farther amendment offered by Mr..
Anderson, of Richmond City, "and all manu-
featured mechanical and mineral Productions,
the growth or product of this State, kept for
manufacturing purposes or for sale.''
On these propositions, Messrs. White, Of
Hanover. Robinson, of Richmond City. Bar.
bour, l.eake, and Goode, Of NJ, addressed the
Committee to-day. Mr.. Anderson withdrew
bis amendment, and the amendment of Mr..
Patrick was rejected when Mr.. Lewis offered
On amendment exempting fowls and all ami
mails, except horses, mules, and jennets. MIR.
L. was proceeding TO address the Committee
in support of his amendment-but gave way
to motion that the Committee rise. And then,
at 3 O'Clock, the House adjourned