Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-27
YIRGTNIA LEoIsLATURE.


ported the passage, without amenulleHu''
Of the following bills:
House substitute for bill No. l. enRetng
Stay Law; also House bills Nos 90 20
and 2s.
Also, the concurrence of the Senate IN
tie resolution declaring vacant tie ot1ees
OF officers engaged in the rebellion.
Also, reporting back House Dill no. ~
eppropriating money for military pnrpos-
=, vith amendment, which was agreed TO.
Mr.. Smith; from the Committee on
Courts Of Jnstice, reported bill PToTid-
ing for appeals from proceedings for con-
tempt in equity cases &c. also n bulcoR-
ierring upon she Judge Of the Supreme
Court of Appeals the power to perform the
duties Of a Circuit Judge Ut chamoeFs,
when the ofice Of the latter shall be va
cant. The bills were read tirst time by
their titles.
Mr.. CRoTaEAs offered the following joint
Resoirsd, BY the General A,,s'stiy, That
the Board Of Public Works he and they
hereby are authorized to employ a clerk
ut n compensation not exceeding $50 per
month.
went upon the table.
Mr.. LooAS offered the following;
Re5olved, By the General -4ssem6ty, Tnat
in view OF the relations now sustained by
Northwestern Virginia to the Government
Of the United States, and in view OF the
danger which still imperils the n'aintHin-
ance Of our political rights and the well
fare of our citizens, in the existence OF en-
emies 10 our midst, and hostile forces
around us, II is of the utmost Importance
that our citizens should be encouraged to
enlist in the army of the GATED States
which is now pledged to our defence
Rssoired, That we will make u our
business to urge upon the people OF our
respective counties, the Propriety and i'm
nortAuce OF entering the service, and that
We will spare no eiFOrta to induce our pec-
pie to rai-a aud equip at least ten regt-
meuts in Virginia.
Mr.. LooAS read letter from General
Mcclellan to Governor Peirpoint, urging
tue Importance of thorough military or
gini.Atiou of the Northwest, and suggest
ing that some measures bC adopted To for
ward thu. object. He said it WAS in FUR
therauce of that end that he bad offered
the resolutions.
The resolutions we're adopted and COM
municated to tue Senate.
Sir WEST moved TO go into the consid-
GRAFTON Of the subject Of division OF tue
State.
The bill and substitutes were taken mp
snd the question being tnEeu upon the sub
stitute offered by Mr.. Farnsworth, it was
rejected.
The question secerred on the substitute
of Mr.. West aud = vote being taken II WAS
also voted down.
The question then required Ou the orig
innl bill.
Ir. SXrru offered substitute which
provided for holding an election next No.
vcmber 10 seni delegates TO convention
tue people to vote at the same time wheth-
er they would have II division OF the State,
ard whether the convention should meet.
Il is AS follows:
Whereas, Il is represented to the Gen
er.,l Assembly, that II portion OF the good
people OF this Commonwealth are desirOus
Of dividing the State of Virginin. aud of
forming new State in the Western part OF
the came.
Be il therefore tmaeled, That it shall DO
the duty of the oficers authorized to con-
duet the elections held on the 23d day of
May last. for the Delegates TO the General
Assembly, to open polls on the ETst Non
day of November next in all the counties
West of the Allegheny Mountains. and in
such counties OF the Valley of Virginia,
aud on the Eastern side Of the Blue Ridge
bordering upon the river Potomac, as may
he DESTROYS of entering into the new State,
for the purpose of taking the sense OF the
people upon the question whether they de-
sire tic said division, and also upon the
question whether they desire II Convention
| tor tue purpose OF laying oil the metes And
! bounds of the proposed new State and OF
{ rrnirga Consultation for the same, TO be
SUBMITTED to the good people thereof at
some day which shall be designated by the
said Convention. The poll books to be
opened 10y the aforesaid officers shall con
tain four columns, and shall be headed
thus: ,.Shall there he division of the
State and Convention for the formation
OF IL new State z" "DiviSion--nO diviBioni
Couvention-no Convention" The Off
GERS conducting the election shall take
the votS on the questions aforesaid, OF
every person qualified according TO the
existing laws Of the Commonwealth
To vote for delegates TO the General
Assembly, and il shall lie the duty OF the
officers before they commence taking the
POLL provided for in this act to take and
subscribe to, before sume justice OF the
peace for their city or county, tue follow
| ing oath ar affirmation:
"I,--Sulemnly will
support the Constitution of the United
States, and the laws made in pursuance
thereof, as the supreme law OF the land,
anything in the Constitution aud Laws OF
the State of Virginia, or in the Ordinances
ofthe Convention which assembled at Rich
moud ON the l2th day of February, 1851,
TO the contrary Notwithstanding: and that
will uphold and defend the government
Of Virginia as viudicrted and restored by
the Convention which assembled at Wheel.
ing on the eleventh day of June, 1851"
The Justice administering said oath or
affirmation, Shall return the same 50 taken
and subscribed to the Clerk, to whom the
the polls for delegates to the General As
So nbly. are made returnnble hy law and
the officers conducting the election shall
receive the same pay, compensation. and
be governed by the SAINT law now in force
as fout in the code of 1851, for the gov
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