The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-01
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
SENATE.
EVENING sEssroN-moNpAY

/ The following bills passed:
| To incorporate the Mouongahela and Ravens.
| don] Ayes %, noes 6.
year 1854 and 1856 Ayes 80, noes done.
incorporating the Raleigh Run Turnpike Com
pany. Ayes 26, noes H.
incorporating the United States Hotel Companv
To incorporate the Back Greek Valley Turnpife
Company. Ayes 26, noes 10:
To incorporate the Frankfort and Cherrytree
River Turnpike Company. Ayes 26, noes 9.
To provide for the payment OF the interest upon
bonds of companies or corporations guaranteed by
the State. Ayes 81, noes none.
Authorising the appointment of clerk to the
Banking Department in the treasury office. Ayes
%; noes, Mr.. Shackelford, l.
To incorporate the Lynchburg Female Collegiate
Institute.
To incorporate the Ohio and Preston Institute.
Incorporating the Virginia Locomotive and Car
Manufacturing Company Gn Alexandria)
Concerning the town OF Moorefed, in the county
of Hardy.
To increase the capital stock of the Norfolk City
Gas Light Company, and to authorise said company
to hold certain lands.
Authorising the Hempfeld railroad company to
acquire land in the city of Wheeling for depot pur-
poses, and to extend their road to the said land.
Incorporating the Norfolk and Fredericksburg
Steamboat Company.
Authorsing the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad
company to acquire land in the city of Wheeling for
the uses of said company.
To incorporate the Arpomattox and Staunton
River Railroad Company.
To incorporate the Kings Creek Mining and
Manufacturing Company.
To incorporate the Washington Insurance Com
pany of Norfolk.
To incorporate the Summersville Savings Bank
in the county of Nicholas.
To amend the act entitled an act to incorporate
the Leigh Greek Manufacturing Company, passed
April Dist, 1852 to authorise said COMPANY to
supply the city of Petersburg with water.
1ft, a. c.
days.
On motion of Mr. shackeford, the Senate ad-
journed.
TUESDAY, Feb. %, 1854
communication from the House of Delegates
was read. The following bills were considered
without reference, read three times and passed
Incorporating the Raleigh and Boone road COM
pany.
Increasing the capital stock of the Morgantown
Bridge Company and providing for further SUBJ
scription on the part OF the State.
To increase the capital stock of the Russell Old
Court House and Abingdon Turnpike.
To authorise the Incorporation of the Paris and
Piedmont Station Turnpike Company.
The House amendment to the bill concerning TIE
compensation and empannelling of jurors, were
concurred in.
The other bills from the House were read and
appropriately referred
The various standing and several select commit
tees made reports of bills.
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.
The bill providing for the completion of the bar
racks and the erection of Mess Hail. at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, came up the unfinished
business.
Mr.. STANDS addressed the Senate in favor of the
BILL until the expiration of the morning hour
ORDER OF THE DAY.
bill to increase the capital stock of the Freder
icksburg and Valley Pank.road company, and to
authorize the extension of said road to Stanards-
ville in Greene county, the first of the orders
of the day. 1t passed-ayes 81, noes T.
House bill making appropriation to the Uni
versity of Virginia for certain purposes the second
order. was taken up 1t passed-ayes 3S noes, MIR.
Wade, l.
House bill to provide for the construction of the
Middle Fork Turnpike, came up as the third order.
The vote on its passage was-ayes 26, noes l3.
A bill for the relief of William c. Lipscomb. of
Madison, was the next order. 1t passed-ayes 90,
noes 4.
BILLS PASSED
The following bills were taken up from the table,
or out of their order on the calendar ON motion of
several gentlemen, and passed:
Fort relief of John w. Moore. Sheriff of JET.
ferson county. Ayes 30, noes none.
To increase the capital stock of the Petersburg
and Jerusalem Plankroad Company. Ayes 2S,
noes 10.
In relation to militia returns &c [A bill had
been reported by the Committee on General Laws,
to which Mr.. STUART offered the House bill, accom-
panying the communication of this morning, which
was agreed to, and the title amended accordingly.
JAMES RIVER AND KANAwHA
Mr.. AMBLER moved that the Senate take up the
bill authorisng loan to the James River and Ka-
nawha Company, for the purpose of completing
the tidewater connection
long debate arose thereon, and without vote
on the proposition,
The Senate adjourned