The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-17
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SATURDAY MORNING 3 sDrr, =
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, or ylRcrNIa
SEWATE.
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Iae Senate was called 70 order at II o'clock.
- communication was received from the
Board Of Public Works, tread by the PRrsI-
phsT.l "a. stating that II the work on the Coving-
ton And Ohio Railroad Was to he continued, 4
necessity existed for some temporary provis-
ION being made for its prosecution by the Gen.
eral Assembly in tho interval which may
eiapse before the subject is definitely disposed
OF. The appropriation TO the work will be
used up by let February, and in view OF that
fact the Beard had given netice to contractors
70 stopoperation by that time. The Commit
tee on Roads took charge of the subject.
Increase of Compessafioa.--On motion, the
Committee on General Laws had referred to
y "a memorial from the Judge OF the Circuit
Court OF the city Of Richmond, and the mem
hers OF the bar, asking for an increase Of COM
pensation Of the Attorney for the Common
wealth in said Court
Bias Reported. The following was reported !:
a Dill concerning insane persons confined in
.ne state Penitentiary and prescribing their
Laid on the Tabie--The bill authorizing the
Board Of Public Works to purchase of the
city OF Wheeling 1000 shares Of Baltimore and
the table.
Biiis Passed. - The following bills were
passed, viz: A bill paying $500 TO Andrew
Hnnter for pyesec John Brown and other
ing so 70 = aon rcr TWO hol.ss S, pss iost
in attempting TO convey Morris Hart, con-
vict, from Grayson county Jail to the Peni-
zen tiafy. tNOTE--BotA the horses ana CONVEX
were drowned in Dry river, in the county Of
Wythe.] A bill to amend the charter of the
Preston Coal and Iron Company; bill to
amend an act entitled ian act to amend an act
amending the seth section of chapter IS4 Of the
Code OF Virginia, concerning the Sergeant of
the city Of Richmond and Clerk of Hastings
Court Of said city, so as TO allow the County
Court OF Nottoway county to increase the
compensation TO its Clerk" the title being
amended so as to read-"and to authorize the
County and Corporation Courts to increase
the compensation to their Clerks;'' bill to in
corporate the Danyiile Insurance Company
money (s6oo) to j. Davis Day, assignee of
Emmet ]. O'Brien, for building a bridge; q
bill for the relief of John A. Guseman and
/ Abraham Gnsernan; bill to amend the act
passed January 30th, 1855, entitled San act for
the relief of the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues"
Resolutions of Inquiry and Expsdiency.--The
following resoiuI tons Were adopted, % viz: or in
in the county of Norfolk Of instructing the
Joint Committee of the General Assembly on
the Harper's Ferry outrage to report to the
two Houses of Assembly all laws enacted by
the non -slaveholdingS States of the Union since
the passage of the fugitive slave law hostile 70
the slaveholding interest of the State Of vir-
ginia, days over one day;) of reporting bill
amending and re-enacting the 27th section of
chapter 81 of the Code; of referring to the FL
nance Committee so much of the report of the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund as relates
to the duties OF the Secretary OF said CommiS-
sioners; of reporting a bill authorizing the Coal
River Navigation Company to condemn lands
overfiowed by reason Of their dams; of paying
G.. Buckingham Il Co. the amouaA of cou-
pons due npon a bond of the State of Virginia,
which has been lost; of amending and extend
ing the provisions Of the act passed March 4,
1856, entitled san act for additional protection
to slave property;'' of amending chap. I2s of the
Code, SO as to provide for procuring releases of
the dover of insane married women; of refund-
ing to John A. Smith, late sheriff of Franklin
county, certain fines recovered against him in
the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond; of
providing that administration of decedants'
estates shall not be granted to females; of re-
porting a bill to increase the capital stock
of the Raleigh and North Carolina Turn
pike Road, and to authorize the location
thereof in the county of Grayson of amend
ing chap. 49, sec. 4, of the Code, so as to
provide that certified copies of entries or sur
yeys from the books of the county surveyor
shall be evidence in courts of justice; of es-
tablishing an election precinct at the dwelling
house of James Wright, in the county of
Grayson; of amending the act passed March
9th, 1855, authorizing the issuing of a coupon
bond to G.. Buckingham & Co, in place of one
lost, so as to provide that the parties may give
personal security instead of deed upon real
estate
On motion of Mr.. BRUCE, the Senate ad-