The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-01-27
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
THURSDAY, Jan. 26, 1854.


A message from the Senate announced the pas.
sage of bill, which was appropriately retired.
The SPEAKER laid before the House two commu-
nications from the Governor, enclosing statements
from certain Banks, up to the Let inst which were
laid ON the table and ordered to be printed.
The SPEAKER laid before the House comnu-
nication from the End AUDITOR enclosing statements
OF the amount of banking capital in the State actu
ally subscribed, its distribution among the several
Banks, the portion thereof owned by the State, and
in what Banks, &C.; which, motion of Mr.. RUTH
ERFooRD was laid ON the table and ordered to be-
printed.
Committees made reports.
Petitions were presented and reterred-among
them:
By Mr. WHITE, CT citizens of Hanover, for
change in the location of their Court House.
By Mr. ELLYsoN, Of Lieut.. E. s. GAY in refer
ence to claim agt inst the Commonwealth and
BY Mr. KNOX, OF physicians OF Mecklenburg re-
monstrating against the independent charter OF the
Medical College OF Richmond.
Resolutions were offered and adopted-among
them
By Mr.. ELLYsoN-Referrng the report of the
Colonization Board, TO the Committee Of Finance
and instructng that Committee to inquire into the
expediency OF authorizing the Board 10 defray the
expenses of collecting together and shipment of
free negroes.
The bill to provide for the completion of the Co
yington and Ohio Railroad came up as the unhnlsh
ed Business of yesterday.
Mr.. BuFoRD moved that it be laid on the table
and made the order of the day for Wednesday next,
stating that ne and others were anxious before vot
ingupon the bill that the views and estimates of the
Board of Public Works should be communicated to
the Legislature. He understood that their report
would be ready on Wednesday next. He took &C.
cas;on to avow himself friend of improvement
and Of the bill, and asked its patrons to grant the
indulgence Of the delay he desired
Mr.. DEANE spoke il favor of the delay and of the
importance Of further information, before acting on
the bill.
Mr.. MCKENZIE also desired delay. He would
vote for the bill now, II the question upon its
passage; but he wished to crafty gentlemen. They
would have Mr. Fisk's report in few DAYS, and he
could assure the House that whatever that gentle
man might say, may be relied upon with the most
implicit confidence.
Mr.. Goss considered that the bill had been already
delayed sufficiently long, and imagining that no ad-
vantages could be gained in any manner by further
delay, he hoped the bill would now be submitted to
the vote.
After some further discussion, the motion of Mr..
BUFoRD prevailed by decided vote
The following engrossed bills were read a third
time and passed:
A bill to authorize the Trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in New Town. Frederick coun.
ty to cell the parsonage belonging to said church
A bill authorizing the appointment of Trustees in
certain cases.
bill to amend the 23d section of chapter 50 OF
the Code of Virginia. as to provide for the vaca-
ting of the Office OF Surveyor who shall remove
beyond the limits of the county
A number Of bills were read first time
On motion OF Mr.. WALLACE, the House ad.
journed