The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-12-08

ing this tax rscounmend alae that Tree negro %
q real ss Il sei sssa si nub q sers for
small homestead and ne house or 4bt in 4 city or
MONEY on iniaiest white psrson 1t all; and from
The legislature has not As yet passed tho law, ne
ceassry 10 carry into effect the 18th and 10Th sections
OF the 4th article Of the constitution, and great doubt
exrls, nn. snen rs w ~ sa,a,,a 70 M
free negroes to remain 10 the commonwealth under
the Code and existing statutes The nth section. I
the adoption Of the constitution, and as to future
csses OF emancipation.
Land Office
recommend that the general assembly shall pass
decisive law, TO prevent the further complica
ton Of titles 10 what called tcdste and undppro
,rsafed" lands In the commonwealth The western
portion of the rfate ia and ever has been .sluoied
ote' with conflicting claims. and the state has been
retarded in her population and progress and dimin-
neut DOM in from the costs Of litigation and the
clouds about her public land titles doubt wheth-
unappropriated acres. now subject TO location, sur.
vey and entry, for which land warrants contin-
ha. Inns y no sas oi the register lie
acre and the fees, and swear to what in most in
stances he cannot know, he may take out a warrant
tent subject to better title. but with chance of
conf nation of his title by time and payment of
taxes. And during the past two years system Of
the grosses frauds has been practiced which ought
TO be exposed and punished. number of warrants
Tor M. ana Others have been enauired about from
time to time, which have besn sold to ignorant per
sons in the northern states at from 50 TO 100 cents
per acre. They have obviously been bought by per-
sons who never intended to locate them, but who
Z ok them where they would not be known or dis
tinguisbed from Virginia military land bounty
rants with which they were mingled IN the market
and sold at the same rates And The worst of is that
rand o DC o of any
what they ought to purport and the price paid for
them here; but thes have been palmed of upon the
ignorant and the egrant, perhaps, as virginia land
warrants issued by the general government,
recommend that in future no more land warrants
and unappropriated lands if any and until returns
be made Of the places where they lie and OF the num-
try This is due to the whole state and to the west
erD portion Of it particularly, whence emigration is
nowing because OF the uncertainty of titles stIin
actual settlers. specuatons to disturb people
in their homes and to deprive them of their honest
pointed by every possible and moral mode of egisla.
ton.
Inspection Of Tobacco, dc.
I recommend that the present system of iuspec-
tons be continued The number of hogsheads OF to-
bscco inspected during the year 1856 65 oo be-
sides the tobacco in packages. The quantity has
been LEGS for the year 1887 but the additional price
until tue late crisis came, more than made up in
value for the reduction in quantity The system of
ducts of the planter. aud reduces the cost and com
missioners of storage and sales, but makes for him
q competition of bidders in the market. Another
warehouse is needed in Richmond and to effect the
construction Of one, recommend recurrence to tho
JUS and proper means proyIced in the law of the
The law for the inspection of vessels, to guard
against the stealing and carrying away our slaves,
ought to be amended to regulate the yes.
sells sailing up the Chesapeake bay and our own YES
sells, we'll rs the vessels from other states and
those bound out of the capes The law now ap-
plies only to vessels owned in whole or in mart by
citizens or residents of other states OF to those
departing from any place in this state to any place
Baiimors is north Of but not beyond or out of the
ccapes; and Philadelphia is north of and beyond
Al
through he Chesapeake and Delawa. canal. And
by the latter route and by vessels doubtless.
many of our slaves carried off Inspectors are re,
quired for other places than the Rappahannock and
for the sea side of the Eastern shore for the Tank
tank river for Moblack bay and its waters and for
the York and James rivers. And the chief inspector
might be allowed to reside at Hampton or Old Point
rs well as at Norfolk.
Public Buildings.
The first capitol of virginia, at jamestown, WAS
burnt, and ctobet 1908 4th Anne the act was CONT
nucd directing the bailding of the capitol and the CT
ty Of williamsburg, at the Middle pj.ptation' Nav
1879 the act was parsed removing the capita1 fron,
vii msburg to Richmond and directing the nrpsent
building to be erected 1t was finished thnb about
the year 1890. 1t was built after beautiful model
which was much marred by being actually inverfed
end of very bad materials, which are very much de,
co.tIy repairs and is entirely too small for tn accom-
mods,ion OF both thu legislative snd executive de-
partments. very great Improvement has been made
II the hTary room, but it is Of wood, and much ex
posed to fire. And the executive offices ana ,h ar
chiyes and the library lake up the portion Of
all the building besides the chamber of the senate ana
the hall of the honse of delegates so thar there Are
not rooms for onethrd of the legislative committees
The most important labor of legislation has to b.
done IN the committc" room, and every important
committee requires a commodious room for at least
p Tee Il urs M re each day. Each committee now
fnd room TO sit in, f just division oftime
ne hous daI This retards and utterly olsri;c &
the business Of both houses NJ r.r,l T:i;, lI,aP
the sr+s { t- rer tss7t b. g. ,,,.iql ana
~ ,.ir.i ''i e. - ,.'ys s'rl ,. a l., $
! no ~ hill
CAPT oil was burnt the second burnt since the re-
III wal of the seat Of government, and this is in dan
r,verS winter, risk ng the archives AMI the libra
Ty and the sta ne of Washington, worth far mora
th-n the building itself Ih ref recon- nd the
than $4,000 to contain the archives and tatne and
tn Henry to lsoecuped by..the executive officers
and that the capitol be rerai.td fer thu sole use and
occupation OF the general assembly and its clerks and
officers.
l was obliged TO order the bonds belonging TO the
state took banks, and the money ceived into the
trea.ury to be remov from the capitol building be-
they were there entirely unsafe | refer 10 the
accomTan{ng report by the superintendent Of the
a'o call your attention to the proceedings of the
conn issonets of the Monument fund. The eouestr-
an statue of Washington has arrived here. and is
waiting to be raised to its plynth. The eminent ar
fist who modeedit is no more. lie did his work we'll
and the commission rs have engaged another artist
equally eminent to take up his chisel and complete
what his br Their of the arts left uniDished-the Lew
IL, the Nelson, tie Marshall the eInblems for the
lower pedestals and the bas reliefs and the shields
And ask your approval of the accompanying pro-
Sramme OF ceremonies adopted by the commissioners
for the 22d of February next when it is prorosed to
hold solemn festival IN memory of Washington.
BIRTH AID to pronounce his statue placed npon.the
mo- ument erected by Virginia. ask also for libe
raj appropriation and that you will take orders and
appoint committee for tat occasion.
recommend that asp2cial appropriation be made
for collecting arranging and preserving the ancient
archives and records OF the commonwealth.
Light House.
The light house board of the federal government re-
quests to ask for the cesson of so much land near
the mouth of Pungoteasue creek IN the county of Ac
camack as Will be necessary for the erection of q
light house near the place of the so lately de-
sroyed by the ice IN storm the 18th of January
last. That was placed iron piles in the water at
the bar of the creek But finding that a house will
not stand there must he constructed on the land of
the opposite Shore and the cesson is required which
l recommend.
Public Officers, and their Salaries
We take just pride in state dignity, and are pro-
verbally jealous of state rights.
If the dignity and the rig hts of the state to be
maintained with strength and power we must tempt
the ablest men among us to take places under the
honor and interest Nothing is more CONSOLIDATING
in the federal government than the higher honors
and emouments which it offers TO talents and ambi-
ton aud with which IL draws them away from state
service. The state officers of Virginia have grown
immensely in msgnitudein the last ten years. Any
gentleman, for example, could state account Of
debit and credit, and who competent to make
commissioner report. was qualified some years ra-t
70 oe an anaieor OF our PUBIC accounts not SO now
are required The public debt has Increased to
twenty seven millions of dollars and the questions
of wass and means to carry on the government 10
ali its departments, are increasing in magnitude
| every day. Bat, If the duies and qualifications
were the same, the salaries allowed are wholly
Inadequate. No chief fficer with a wife and four
children. say, 1--we in Richmond and pay the alb
solutey necessary expenses of living with salary
of 500 per annum. Yet the highest salary OF exec
utive ffcars prov ided by statute is but 5000. The
most excellent and eminent secretary of the com
monwealth, forexampe does all the duties of his of
flee proper with unequal ID punctuaty, promptness
and precision, and has imposed on him besides the
duties OF commissioner of the Board of the sink
ing fund. of n commissioner of the monument fund
of commissioner of the colonization board and of H.
b. arian and of sal, smsn of the books bought and
sold by the 1tate and from all these Offices occurring
greet activity and contin ed annlcail4n ha reaIzas