The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-25
SATURDAY, Feb. 23d, 1856.
biiis from the Senate were read and appropriate

| - SATURDAY, Feb. 23d, 1856.
!, siiis from the Senate were read and appropriate
| senate bill to incorporate the Hot Springs and
Miiiers' Mil Turnpike company.
BILL REPORTED.
io incorporate the Charleston and Sutton Turn
PIKE company.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
Aiter an hour passed in the discussion of the
SUBJECT, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved That on and after tonight the even
ing sessions shall be devoted to the consideration
OF engrossed bills of the House. Except bills ma
King appropriations, and the daily session shall
commence at 10 o'clock
Inc House took up the bill to separate the State
from the Banks by sale of the stocks therein,
ana tne application of the proceeds to the redemp-
tlon OF the public debt and after the adoption of
various amendments proposed by Mr.. GARNETT
was ordered to be engrossed
Inc other bills from the Finance Committee
were then considered and ordered to engrossment
Night Session.
SATURDAY, Feb. %.
Mr. EDMUNDs, from the Committee on Banks re-
ported bill authorizing branch of one of several
banks named at Charlottesville.
MIR. WRIGHT presented q petition from mer-
chants of Loudoun, asking a change in the tax
laws.
ELLIS PASSED.
A bill to amend the act amendatory of the act
uEt
rize the council of the said city to elect all the Off
GERS thereof, except Mayor Counemen, Clerk,
Treasurer, Aldermen, Sergeant Wharf Master,
Superintendent of the Water Works, and Street
Commissioner
A bill to revive and re-enact the act to incorpo
rate the Female Orphan Asylum of Fredericks-
burg.
A bill to incorporate the Norfolk and Chesapeake
Steamboat Company.
A bill incorporating the Hollywood Cemetery
Company.
A bill Incorporating the Fincastle Savings bank
A bill releasing the right of the Commonwealth
to certain houses and lots in the city Of Richmond
to Mrs Elizabeth Brooks
Explained and sustained by Mr. ELLYsoN-
Mrs. Brooks was the wife of the late Mr. Butter.
worth timer, in this city, who killed by fall
from house He was an Englishman aud natural.
lied citizen but dying without vi !, his property
descended to certain heirs in England who decl:.
ming to come forward and secure it. Mrs. Brooks
formerly Mrs. Butterworth, petitions the Com.
monwealth, to which the property has escheated
to surrender its title to her. 1t was proved that
she, by her industry, aided her husband greatly
in the accumulation of this property The vote on
the passage of the bill was 81 to four Mr. AN.
DERsoS, of Wyoming, led off gallantly for the bill
declaring one of his first acts this winter was a
struggle for the ladies' and he meant to continue to
fight for them to the end
A bill to incorporate the Blue Ridge SAVINGS
Bank.
A bill to authorize the trustees of Woodstock
in the county OF Shenandoah to organize a fire.
company; and
A bill to incorporate the Resolution fire comma
ny of the town of Portsmouth
THE KANAwHA RIVER.
On motion of Mr.. SMITH, (after much difficulty
and two defeats) the House took up the declarato-
ry resolutions, explaining the act providing for the
improvement of the Kanawha. (The resolutions
were reported by special committee this morn
ing) They were read and adopted without di
vision.
Mr.. BoNDURANT made an Intellectual effort to
get up the bill for the relief of WATSON r. CoBBs
once rejected and upon which there was motion
to reconsider.
During the night there being barely quorum
present. upon divisions it frequently occurred that
less than quorum voted Then followed count
OF the House, and a quorum being present, the
non n-voting members were requested to come out
from the recesses and show their hands. Once a
roll OF the House was commenced but abandoned
Finally after great deal of this SOFT of proceeding
and very little business, the House,
On motion of Mr. EGGBoRN, adjourned al
about L. O'Clock Saturdov nipht