The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-27
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.


message was received from the Senate, an.
rlouncing the passage of sundry bills-anlong them
the House bill ito incorporate the medical College
OF Virginia, with an amendment This amendment
was simply to give to the Governor the pow er to fill
vacancies in the Board of Trustees and was con.
| CURED in by the House. So the bill became law
The remaining bills were, some of them, ordered
to their engrossment, and others referred
Committees made reports:
The Senate bill forming special Bourt of Ap-
peais, to try cases remaining on the docket of the
Court of Appeals, when the Judges ceased to hold
their offices under the old Constitution, and to try
causes in respect to which maj jority of the judges
OF the Supreme Court may be situated, as TO
make it improper for them to sit on the hearing
thereof, came up as the unfinished business of yes
terday the question being upon the substitute offer
ed for it. by Mr.. WHITE.
Mr.. WALLACE opposed the substitute, and Mr.
WHITE sustained it-after which the substitute was
rejected, and with some slight amendments pro-
posed by Mr.. RAYMOND, the bill was engrosst and
| subsequently passed-100 TO 90; and Mr. WALLACE
| was deputed to inform the Senate thereof
Senate bill providing for taking the sense of the
voters of Hanover. upon the propriety of changing
the location of their Court House, was ordered to
its third reading. 40
On motion OF Mr. JACKSON the bill to incorporate
company to construct a Railroad between Alex
andria and Washington city, upon the principle OF
James S. French, was taken up.
Mr.. MCKENZIE made an Intellectual effort to in.
corporate in the bill, amendment Withholding
the privilege to construct said road provided the
Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad com.
pany, should commence the construction OF the
same within twelve months; and
Mr.. ToMLIN made an Intellectual motion to amend
the BILL to give the right to the people of AL.
exandria city and county, or to any of the Railroads
terminating there, to construct said road within
- wears.
The bill was then amended in some inmaterial
points, and carried through its different stages and
passed
On motion of Mr.. PRICE, the Senate bill on its Sd
reading, incorporating the West Union Turnpike
Company" laid on the table some days since. was
taken up lit authorises subscription of $4,000
on the two and three ftths principle, to construcs
the road.
Mr. PRICE having explained the bill the question
was put and the bill passed-ayes &c, noes 80.
message from the Senate by Mr.. FCNsrEN, an
nounced the passage OF act to amend the charter
of the town of Winchester.
message from the Senate, by Mr. MULLEN in.
formed the House of the passage of bill amending
the charter of the Hampshire coal and Iron com
pany. go
by order of the House,) granting the right of way
for railroad from Salem TO Harrisonburg, was ta-
ken up. -
ground that If the bill considered Il would lead
to great deal of debate, and waste the tme Of the
House. when 1t had but few daysto sit fe
Mr. BASS replied, arguing that the bill was one of
the first Introduced and entitled to receive the
consideration of the House. The House determin.
ed tulay It on the tahle-A to 50.
Mr. ANDERsoN moved to take up the Central
Railroad BILL but the House rejected the motion.
MIR. MEEM moved to take up bill about Militia
fines, pending which
On motion Of Mr.. BAaRErr, the House adjourn.