The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-01-06
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA,
SENATE

s THURsDAr, Jan. 5, 1854.
A communication from the House of Delegates
was read, aud the bills referred. ,e5s s .ss,
Mr.. STANDS, from fhe Committee On General
Laws. reported abhl allowing an additional commits
sioner Of the revenue for tie county of Sussex
Mr.. PARKER, from the sstae committee reported
several House bills !; one In relation to telegraph
companies j -a#a# a34f sfF4sF - = 2
| Mr. DouGLAs, from the Committee oh General
Laws. reported several bills.
Mr.. sTEENRnD. from the Committee on Roads
Ar., reported a bill to incorporate 6nAmelia and
cumberland Plank Road Company. 1t was read the
first time lse* 4; ttgla sssas 81 ts ~.
The bill to incorporate the Chesapeake Female
Collegiate Institute (in Elizabeth City county, re-
ceiyed from the House of Delegates this morning,
was taken up out of its order read three times and
passed., with an amendment; the Committee once
neral Laws having been previously discharged from
/ its consideration on motion OF Mr.. MCKINNEY s
RESOLUTIONS OF enquiry were proposed. Among
others the following y.s<a - 3ss s = 81.
| By Mr.. .THomPsoN-Alloyine premium annual
" out OF funds accruing from public works, which
haye been or may hereafter be completed to the Off
Gers OF the best conducted Railroad Company in the
SEste; said premium, If allowed, to be divided among
the officers engaged i'll running the train or trains
and in awarding it, particular regard to be paid to
the average schedule OF time made by each mail or
passenger train every road in the Cofninonw ealt
and their punctuality in making connection with
other railroads, to be ascertained by smean time
Tae premium 10 be awarded by the Board OF Public
Works
BY Mr.. Observation-Disclosures the different Rail
road Companies, on the line between the Potomac
and Roanoke rivers subscribe the stock of the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company.
BY MIR. RANDoLPH-That the Superintendent of
the Virginia Military Institute be required to furnish
the Senate with the amount of goods purchased by
him since the lst of January, 848 for the of the
Institute and of whom and at what markets he pur-
chased the same; and also, whether the printing for
the said Institute is done in the State of Virginia
BY Mr. WARD-I'hat the subject OF free schools
throughout the Commonwealth, be referred to a Sc
leet celnlnitteej
The Chair announced Messrs. Ward, Douglas Ir-
wing Layne, Old, Chapman and Parker as the com
mIttee a. -s
BILLS PASSED. ...t. .t+
To Incorporate the Virginia Exploring and Mining
Company, in the Valley and Eastern counties OF
Virginia.
Amending the 43d section of the e9th chapter Of
the Code OF Virginia, relative to the use of false
brands or marks.
To amend the act incorporating the town of South
Lowell, in the county of Fairfax. tt,
To incorporate the Virginia Aid Society. tIl
To incorporate the Farmers Milling Company, in
the county of Fairfax.
To incorporate the Harrisonburg Town Hall Com
pany.
10 incorporate a Widows Home and Orphan
Asylum for Boys in the city of Alexandria.
Amending the 9th section Of an act, entitled an
act for the Incorporation and regulation OF Tele
graph Companies passed May Goth, 1852.
Authorising the expenditure of vested funds OF
the Staunton Academy.
TO incorporate the Old Dominion Coal and Iron Mi
ming Company, in the county of kanawha.
On motion OF Mr.. Baldwin, the Senate ad
ourue1