Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-12
vIIlGINIA LEGISLATURE.
THURSDAY, July II, 1881


Mr.. PORTER, from the Committee on Fl
nance, reported bill to amend the $50
section OF chapter ~ of the Code of Nir-
ginia.
ed to be printed
Mr.. PoarBa offered the following reso-
luton:
rolled Bills inquire into the ezpediency oil
recording the acts OF the General Assem-
bly, in book instead of enrolling them on
parchment.
Adopted.
Mr. YAsce, the following:
RsEolrsd, Tint on Thursday this House
adjourn s;n. dee, unless il shall be deemed
expedieut to adjourn at an earlier day.
Objections being made, the resolution
was ordered to lie over.
Mr. RUTFSER offered the following:
Resofrsd, as the sense of this body, That
no measures be adopted by this body that
may not be necessary to carry forward the
government until the meeting of the regu-
lar session, on tbe first Monday in Decem-
Der next.
Adopted.
Mr.. RArcLrpPE offered tho following:
Resolved 6y the General 4sssnbiy Of Pn-
0ini1, That the Governor of this Common
wealth be, and be is hereby, authorized TO
place at the disposal of the several dele
gates of tue counties Of Wayne and Mason,
five hundred stands of arms, TO be by them
distributed among the loyal citizens o!
those counties for their defense.
Referred TO the Military Committee.
House bill No. 4, entitled an Act TO reg
ulate the volunteer militia force not mus
tered into the service of the United States
WAS taken up, read n second time, amended
and ordered to be eugrosscd.
House bill No. 8, prescribing the duties
and fixing the compensation of tue clerks
of the two Houses, was taken up but alter
wards laid on the table.
House bill No. I, abolishing the Board
of Public Works, and comforting its powers
ON the Goveruor,and council, was taken up,
read Il second time and ordered TO its en-
grossment.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration of engrossed bills.
House bill No. -, authorizing County
courts, corporations, Sc, to appropriate
money for the public defence, was taken
up, read third time and passed.
House bill No. }, authorizing the issue
of bank notes of less denomination than
FIVE dollars, was taken up read n third time
House bill No. 5, for the prevention of
! offences against the Commonwealth anil
| appointment of patrols during the war;
was taken mp and subsequently, laid on the
table.
Mr.. WEST moved to take up his resolu-
ton in reference toihe furnishing OF desks.
| He hoped that the matter would be con-
sidered. Gentlemen persisted in sitting at
| the table much to the annoyance OF the
House, and he thought that the desks
/ ought to be provided.
Mr.. PORTER opposed the propositinn.-
| He urged that it would be calculatedSto
embarrass the prosecution Of business
Many very important deliberative bodies
| did not use desks-the Two Houses OF Par
| lament did not.
Mr.. WEST replied mt some length, insist
! ing that, instead of embarrassing, II wonid
| facilitate the prosecution of business. He
did not care whether desks were provided
or not /; he intended, for his own part, to
have one. He did not expect that this was
to be the last Legislature that would ever
meet in Virginia.
The resolution was taken up.
The report of tue Sergeant-at-Arns was
read.
Mr.. wrsr did not insist on his resolu
ton, and it vns laid on the table.
4.
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance
iiRRseFFiitffss Of; Of the Commonwealth limited
time other than that now fixed by law, for
paying in to the State Treasury licenses
aud other dues.
Also, the following:
ReSolUei, That the Committee on the Ju-
dietary inquire into the cXPedicncy OF
amending the I'd section of the AID chap
rrov;Na for tho E1linCy of tho
offices Of the Circuit Court of Ohio coun-
ty.
Both of which were adopted.
Nr. CRoTHERs offered the following which
was adopted:
ResolUed, That the Committee on Printing
take into consideration the propriety OF
authorizing the publication OF the Ordi-
nances of the Convention aud the acts of
the General Assembly in the newspapers.
Mr.. SMITH offered the following, which
was also adopted:
Resolrcd, That the Committee on Banks
inquire into the expeiiency of legalizing
the passage of bank notes of other States
of less denomination than FIVE dollars.
Mr.. PonrER moved that the resolution
of the Senate on tue subject of printing be
taken up.
A message from the Senate announced
the passage nf the Resolutions of Instruc-
ton, adopted by the House yesterday.
Mr.. PoRTER, moved to substitute for the
resolution of the Senate the following:
| ResoiUsd, That this Honse will, with the
concurrence Of the Senate. proceed, on
Tuesday, the 10th inst, to the election OF
| public printer.
The recitation was amended by fixing
Friday the 18th and adopted:
| Mr. PORTER WAS requested to commune