Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-01-14
aeaeral assembly Of .lrslaia.
TUESDAY, january 10, l55l
SENATE.

TUESDAY, January w. ioo''
SENATE.
Mr.. snAcKEIFoRp, from the Committee ON Cen
eral Laws, reported House bill in relation to
schools in kanawha county, without amendment.
Resolutions of inquiry were proposed; among
them the following:
BY Mr.. JOHNSON: To amend the Code III rela-
ton TO the education of INDECENT children, so as
to allow the establishment of public schools IN
Bedford county.
BY Mr.. GRANTHAM: For Railroad eonnec-
ton by Railroad of Martin-burg with Wlnehes-
ter, and with the Virginia and Tennessee Road,
at or near Salem. #.#=#H
Mr. AmBLrR presented the remonstrance of
Edward W. Morris and 10 others, citizens OF
Hanover aud Louisa, against clriniering an in
dependent Company to construct n Railroad ON
the straight line between Richmond and Char
ottesyille.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr.. TAzEwELL proposed the following resoiu-
ton
Resolred, That the Committee on Roads and
Internal navigation be instructed to report TO the
Senate what amount of appropriation can be judi
ciously made at this session of the Legislature,
and to what schemes of Improvement 1t would be
most judicious to devote said appropriations.
Without coming TO vote thereon the hour of
| o'clock having arrived, the Senate proceeded
to the consideration of
THE VALLEY RAILROAD BILL,
Which was the order for that hour.
The question was on ordering the bill to be en-
crossed
Mr.. THOMAS proposed to amend by adding after
of the sections the following:
''And he it further provided, That should the
Mnna-s G up Railroad ompany fail to amalga-
mate with the Company hereby Incorporated
that then, and in the event neither the Valley
hailroad Co npany nor the Virginia and Central
sbp mt - nj a.
Railroad Company, shall have the power to con-
struct said road from the sad Virginia Central
Railroad to lIarrisonburg."
Mcssrs. HARRIS, DENEALE, WTcHER, and
PAXTON opposed, and Mr. THOMAS advocated the
amendment.
Mr.. PAXTON requiring the ayes and noes, it
was lost-ayes L. noes 90.
The original bill proposes the incorporation of
a Company to construct a Railroad from 'Harr-
sonburg, in the county of Rockingham" by Lex
ington, Buchanan and Fincastle as near as prac-
ticable, consistently with the publ interests of
the Improvement TO suitable point of connec-
ton with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad,
at or near Salem, in the county of Roanoke, and
providing everything necessary for convenient
transportation on the same.
Mr.. SnACKELFoRD proposed to amend by stri-
king out the words within quotation marks, in
the above paragraph, and insert, ''the Western
terminus Of the Blue Ridge Railroad" in lieu
thereof.
This amendment was advocated by Messrs.
SHACkIFoRD and AMBLER, and opposed by
Mcssrs. DENEALE, PAXTON and HARRIS, and lost
--lG, noes II.
On motion of Mr. SHAcKELFoRp, the Senate
then adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEG ATES.
Mr. Dunn, from the Committee of Roads re-
ported
"A bill to incorporate the Virginia and North
Carolina Railroad Company"
BY Mr. Downing from the Committee ON Agri-
culture and Manufactures,
"A bill to authorize the expectation of -four and
corn meale in sacks bags, and repeating 50
much of the osth chapter of the Code of Virginia,
as rcqurers ilonr or meal exported from this Com
monwealth 10 be insgectcd.'
Resolutions were offered, adopted and referred.
A number of Senate bills were read third
time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Epps, the report of the Com
mlttee OF Courts of Justice adverse to n proposed
amendment to the Code so rs to declare all per
sons to be negroes who have negro blood in them
was amended so to declare the amendment ex-
pedient, and the committee was accordingly in
structed to report bill. Mr. E.s motion was
sustained at some length by himself, and secon-
ded by Mr.. Weaver.
On motion of Mr. Edmunds, the House adj
journed.