The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-14

TuEspAr, April -.
Housc Of D Delegates.

H1usc Of DeIe8ntess
The Speaker laid before the House a COM
muiIcation from the Secretary Of the Board
Of Public Works, transmitting copies OF the
proceedings OF the Board relative to the State
loans coupon bondsI negotiated by them with
Selden, Niihers s. Co., being the documents
called for by resolution Of the House. Laid
ON the table and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Rives, of Albemarle, presented petition
nj citizens and merchants of the county Of Al
bemarIe, praying that their license tax should
he uroporiioned 10 the invoices of purchases
rather than TO the annual sales as proposed by
the license law now before the House, which
was, on his motion, laid on the table.
The preamble and resolutions relative to
the coinage of silver. and against the circnla-
ton ofsmall notes, which was under consider
alton when the House adjourned yesterday,
was taken up, the amendment TO the preamble,
submitted by SIR. Speed, agreed to, and the
preamble and resolutions passed.
BILLS PASSED.
A bill to exempt millers of manufacturing
-four mills from grinding corn or other grain,
except heat;
A bill concerning suits against persons and
corporations who represent the Commonwealth
and
A bill appropriating the entire copitation
tax to education in primary and free schools.
By Mr.. Yerby- Into the expediency of p ro-
viding by law that no Sheriff or Clerk of any
county, city, or town in this Commonwealth,
shall receive for his services more than a GER
tain sum per annum; the fees of any such
Sheriff or Clerk amounting in any year to
more than that sum, to be paid over 10 the
County Court for county purposes.
By Mr.. Brow ne, of Stafford-Of incorpora-
ting the Fredericksburg and Lowell Manufac-
turing Company and also the Mitchell Man
uiacturing and Mining Company.
By Mr.. Wiley-Ofproviding by law that in
all cases, where the greatest number of votes
| are equal for two or more persons, the election
shall be remanded TO tne people.
Mr.. Robinson, of r. City, reported from the
Committee ofCourts of Justice, the following
bills
A bill concerning the officers of the Su.
preme Court of Appeals, and of the District
| Courts;
A bill concerning the bonds of Clerks Of
| Courts;
A bill authorizing notices for taking depo.
| sitions 10 be served upon counsel;
| A bill concerning the power of County and
| Corporation Courts to change the time foi
| holding their quarterly terms-and
| A bill concerning the plan for the execution
| of sentence of death, and the persons to be
present at such execution. THE execution to
take place in the Jail yard, in the presence o.
| the officers of the court which sentenced the
criminal, and twelve respectable citizens, in
GLIDING q physician or surgeon also, the
convict's counsel, Ministers of the Gospel, and
| the relatives of the convict.]
bill was also reported, changing the mode
of appointing tobacco inspectors. [Gives tc
the Governor the power TO appoint the first and
second inspectors.
MIR. Taliafero, from the Select Committed
on a house to be erected on the Public
Square for Houdon's Statue Of Washington
made report in favor of the erection OF {
| house, accompanied by resolution providing
for the procurement of plans for the proposed
building, which resolution was adopted.
And then the House adjourned.
THE ELECTORAL VoTEs.-Some doubts having