Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-03-07
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURES.

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aid Manufacturing Company, in the county Of
Loudon-a bill to incorporate the town of Arraco.
ma in the County of Logan--a bill authorizing an
exchange of arms for the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues-a bill 10 extend the charter OF the Norfolk
Savings Institution for he further term of twenty
years. and 10 subject the said Institution 10 the
provisions of the 59th chapte: of the Code, and n
bill for the relief James McGreer, were passed.
The bill to authorize the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad Company to construct branch TO Cum
berlaud Gap, was taken up, considered and laid
over FIR o-day. - .r.rr
TuE House OF DELEoATEs. Friday night, ordered
some fifty odd bills TO be engroSSed-reec ed bill
to exempt millerS from working on roads-and pas
sed bill to amend sections Sd and 10th of an act
passed May 9th, 1886, establishing public free
school system. -. .rN -u
House OF DELEGATEs-Saturday, Feb 26-Bis |
from their respective committees were reported US
follows:-a bill Incorporating the town of Glen !
Vile in the County Of Gilmer; Senate bill exon
Grating the Flncastle and Covlngton Turnpike
Company from making portion OF their road; a
bill authorizing the extension of the Manassa Gap
Railroad from some point east of Thoroughfare to |
the City of Alexandria; bill to authorize the Po
tomac Coal Field Railroad Company to carry on the
business of mining and ma nufacturing the mineral
and other products of their own land; bill TO
construct Railroad from MartinSburg i'll Berky
county, to the Potomac River, at near the town
of Willamspor in the State Of Maryland; bill
to authorize Turnpike Road from Harrisonville 10
the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, in the
County of Cabell; bill to provide for the con-
OF EllZ. Deln ana Llllle han1wna
Turnpike; bill to appropriate the further sum of
seven hundred dollars to repair the Huntsville
Turnpike; bill to incorporate the Doddridge and
Preston Turnpike Company; bill to incorporate
the Hampshire Female Collegiate Institute; bill
TO incorporate the Potomac Flour Mill Company i'll
the City of Alexandria; bill to incorporate the
Wheeling Marine Company; bill to authorize the
Ohio Central Railroad Company to acquire depot
in the City of Wheeling, DEAD first tim, and or
dered to be read second time-on motion Of MI.
Hubbard:) bill to amend the charter of the town
of Fairfax, in thu county of Culpepper.
The unfinished business OF the previous day be-
ing the motion of Mr.. Barbour, to take up and con-
slider the bill amending the 10th section Of chapter
81 Of the Code of Virginia, the bill taken up on
motion of Mr.. Goode, of Bedford.
On mot on of Mr.. Echols, the bill was made the
order of the day for March It'll. The provisions of
the amended bills that Gin meeting of stock
holders, each stockholders may, in person or proxy,
give the following vote on whatever stock he may
hold in the same right, to wit:-one vote for each
share OF such stock not exceeding ten, and one vote
for every two shares exceeding ten. But when the
State is a stakeholder, anu the Company be one in
which portion of the directors is appointed on be-
half OF the State, no vote on behalf of the State
shall be cast in the election of directors. The proxy
of the State shall be appointed by the Governor,
cept in cases otherwise provided by law"
| On motion of NJ. Barbour, the rules were Sus-
pended to reconsider the vote by which the bill to
provide for the erection of bridge across rygartS
Valley River was rejected on Friday, and then the
bill laid on the table.
| The following bills were passed: \ Senate bill
| incorporating VIM. B. Caldwell and Others into a
Company, under the style of the White Sulphur
Springs Company, in the county OF Greenbrer, for
the purpose Of enlarging the accommodations and
increasing the benefits Of said Springs; bill to
| amend the charter of the Hazel River Turnpike
| with ryder proposed by Mr.. Barbour; aud the
amendments CT the Senate to the bill authorizing
the Board of Public Works to subscribe for two
ths af fifteen thousand dollars of the capital stock
of the Elk River Bridge Company, were agreed to.
The SENATE, passed bill TO appropriate an ad-
| ditlonal sum of money to extend the FLOYD Court.
| house and Hillsville Turnpike from Hillsville to
| the Raleigh and GraySon Road; bill 10 incorpor-
ate the Clarke and Warren Turnpike Company; q
bill to authorize Abel g. Burrell to erect Piers
| the Rappahannock river; a bill imposing a tax on
dogs in the county of Isle of Wight, bill TO in
corporate Berkeley and Maryland Bridge Turnpike
| Company; bill authorizing the Treasurer of the
State to receive from Banks any bonds guaranteed
by the State security for their issues bill 10
| Mcadamize the Staunton and ParkerSburgl Road
bill Incorporating the Browns Gap Turnpike
Company; and a bill to extend and complete the
tiuttonSville and HunterSvile TURNPIKE, and for
the erection of bridge across Greenbrier River.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES-Feb. 2S.-The House of
| Delegates receded from their amendments to the
Senate bill entitled an act to authorize the Courts
oil Equity to proceed TO final decree IN certain
suits without revival thereof MS TO parties who die
or marry, and agreed to the amendment proposed by
the Senate to an act TO mucadamise the Morgantown
kingwood and w est Union Turnpike.
Several bills were reported from the committees
| ana the following paSSed-a Senate bill incorpora-
ing Building Association. in near the City of
Richmond; bill cxtendin the charter of the liar
per'S Ferry Saving Institution; bill to increase
| the capital stock of the Morgantown and Bridge
port Turnpike, to on amount not exceeding twelve
thousand dollars, with three fifth subscription bv
the State; bill 20 increase the Wythe Turnpike
company; bill to change the location of the Bev-
| erley and Fairmont Turnpike; bill to extend the
Jacksonville and OUTSTANDING Turnpike; bill 10
extend the time for constructing the Abingdon nd
Pattonville Turnpike.
The act diStricting the State for Commissioner of
| the Board of Public Works, providing for their
election, compensation, &C., was taken up. The
provision for salary OF ttco hoSSand dollars year
was stricken out, and on motion Of Mr.. TowneS, an
amendment was added that no one of said Com
miSSlonerS Shall be interested or concerned either
directly or indirectly in any contract authorized by
any chartered company under the laws of Virginia,
nor Shall they be interested in any contract an
thorlzed by law as State work.
MT. VERIFY moved to fix the salary of each Com
| missioner at one thousand dollars per annum, and
TO provide or the payment of all necessary travelling
expenses, not exceeding two hundred and ffty dol
lars incurred in attending to the business of their
office. proposition then made to fix the
salary at twelve hundred and fifty dollars and be-
lore the subject was disposed Of the House procee-
ded with the further execution of the order of the
day. vz:-the bill to increase the capital stock OF
the Morgantown and Bridgeport Turnplke, (the
same as reported above in the list of bills passed)
The bill TO authorize the Board of p ubllc Works
to subscribe to the increased capital stock OF the
Mechanlcsourg and Wythe Turnpike was voted up
on, and not receiving but rs ayes, it was rejected
Tor want of a constitutional majority. The rules
were suspended to reconsider the vote on this bill,
and 1t was then laid on the table. ..a"
SPANISH Misunderstanding to the Spanish
law, daughters inherit titles OF nobility and pre-
serve them not only while they retain their family
name, but transmit them, in marrying to their hus.
| bands. Thus Napoleon Sd will receive the title of
| nooility from the head of Nile AIontijos family.
If he accepts it, it will become his duty, in terms
OF the law to make declaration of his accent ance
TO the chief of the Spanish nobility who is now Inc