Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-14
vIRGINIA I.t.e4IsLArURE.
sENATE.


isfaciendam on judgments for money.
By Mr. WOoding, to Incorporate the Danville
Female College.
{, By Mr.. Whit, Il 50 amending the Code as to
require Sheriffs and other officers to return BIZ
mail all process issuing from the Courts of the
Commonwealth (other than in their own county,
and pay the postage thereon in the same man.
/ ner as clerks are required and to allow the sher
IFS the same compensation as clerks are allowed
therefor.
By Mr.. Steenrod- Instrueting Senator'S and
Representatives in Congress to procure the pas
soge of an Act establishing u Marine Hospital in
W hee.ing.
i The bill for Railroad from the Montgomery
White Sulphur Springs to the Virginia & Ten
nessee Railroad, was taken up, on motion of Mr..
Deneale, ordered to be engroSSed n read third
time.
On motion Of Mr.. Douglass, the bill providing
for re-assessment of the lands throughout the
Commonwealth, was taken up, and after a long
discussion on one of the provisions of the bill,
III relation to the time IN which an appeal could
be taken from the decision ofthc commissioners,
and the mode Of appeal, which was participated
in by MeSsrs. Turner, Douglass, Amber, De-
.neate, Roger, Thomas, Welch, and Taliaferro,
was ordered to be engrosscft and then read third
time.
On motion of Mr.. McElhenny, a communities
message containing bill, which had passed the
House, for the relief of Robert Cox and others,
] WAS taken IN, and after a discusi n in which
| Messrs Amber, Thomas, McElhenney, Saun-
iders and Douglass participated, as to the com
potency of the Senate to comply with the re-
quest of the House, the message was ordered to
be returned
On motion of Mr. Saunders, the Senate adj
Ijourned
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
MONDAY, Jan. z, 1856,
A message from the Sc late announced the
passage Of sllndry bills alread noticed in their
proceedings.
Committees were called for reports anda num-
Der were presented.
FREE PERSONS or COLOR.
On motion 10 OF Mr.. Floyd,
hss2tred, That the Committee on Courts OF
Justice inquire into the expectancy OF approprl-
tatlng hike sums OF money to the use of free peo-
pie OF color who shall emlgrate to any OF the
Notwithstanding States and settle permanently
therein, that arc now appropriated for the reno
val of such persons to Liberia.
On motion of Mr.. Eggborn, the Committee on
Courts Of Justice was instructed to inquire into
the expediency of reporting bill providing for
the voluntary cnslayencnt of Thomas Grayson,
q free man of color of the county of Culpepper
On motion of Mr.. Doyle, the Committee on
diency of general law for the voluntary enslave-
mont of free negroes and niulattoes.
GoNAERcE WITH OTHER STATES.
On motion of Mr.. De%ne,
Resoiced, That the Committee on Agriculture
and Manufactures be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of providing by law for the as
.eertainment of the extent and value of the COM
smerce both export and import, of this Common
wealth with the several States of the Union.
1 nI1.s
One motion of Mr. Deane,
Res0lrel, That the Committee on Agriculture
and Manufactures be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of so amending the law prescri-
bing the duties of the Commissioners Of the
Revenue as to require them to ascertain the
number of acres OF land cultivated in corn,
wheat and tobacco, in the several counties this
Commonwealth; the quantity of each of these
staple crops produced; and the lumber of labor
ers employed in their cultivation.
pIsTIILERIEs.
On motion of Mr.. Kemper, the Committee on
Finance was instructed to inquire into the expo
idiency of changing the existing license tax OH
Distileries into an adcnioreHp tax
The Speaker presented letter from tho Cash
iers of the Branch of the Exchange Bank of Nir-
;inia at Richmond, and the Bank of Commerce,
fredericksburg, covering information relative to
he dscounting of notes payable out of the
/; state, asked for by the liOuse. Referred to the
Committee on Banks.
On motion of Mr.. Mallory,
RssoErai, by the Senate and House of Dele
:ateS, That the Auditor of Public Accounts be
ERECTED to extend the time for the payment of
he taxes for the year 1855 for the city Of Nor-l
ok and town of Portsmouth, for ninety days
'eyond the period fixed by law.
IMPROVEMENT OF NEW RIVER.
On motion of Draper the committee of Roads