Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1861-03-26
vIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.

In the Senate on Saturday, House amend
nent to Senate bill transferring the Cacapon
and North Branch Turnpike to the County
Court of Hampshire county was concurred
IN.
House amendment to Senate bill to estab-
iish an inspection of leather in the county of
Hampshire were cOncurred In.
Mr.. August, from the Committee on Banks
reported bill to amend the charter of the
Southwestern Bank Of Virginia.
On motion of Mr.. II. W. Thomas. Senate
hill releasing the States claim to the fine in,-
nosed on the schooner Virginia, for an al
fsoad violation Of the inspection laws, was
passed.
Mr.. August moved to take up the House
hill amending certain laws concerning the
militia Of the commonwealth. The question
being Oh the Senate receding from an amend
nent of theirs, the Senate receded, and then
the propositions of the Committee OF Confer
ence ,7ere concurred in.
The Auditor of Public Accounts sent in a
communication responding to resolution
asking information as to any increase OF tax
A. necessary to carry ON the Government,
and 10 liquidate present and prospective liza
hiIities Of the State, in which he recommends
an increased rate of taxation equal to ~ cents
IN every hundred dollars value OF property,
and on every other subject in the same pro-
portion.
over, under the rules, declaring first that 1t
is inexpedient and unnecessary Tor the Unit
"a States to make any addition to It's military
or naval forces in this State ct the present
time: second, that such addition can only
he regarded as menace or threat to Virgin
ia third, authorizing the Governor, IN order
10 carry out the provisions of existing laws,
70 contract with one or more persons tor the
manufacture aud repair of arms at the AR
mory fourth, suspending all loans or sub
scriutions to works of internal improvement
until the General Assembly shall otherwise
order.
4 bill "relative to the limitation of suits,
so as to limit the right to make an entry, or
bring an action to recover land west OF the
Allegheny Mountains" was passed.
In the House of Delegates, on motion of
MIR. Phelps, O substitute authorizing the Au-
ditor of Public Accounts to release the sure
ties of defaulting Sherifs from the payment
of damages in certain cases." WAS taken up
and ordered to its engrossment, and passed
ayes 81, noes 3. The following is the bill:
]. Be it enacted by the General Assembly,
That il all cases in which the Commonwealth
has obtained or may hereafter obtain Judg-
mept against the suretes of any sheriff or
their personal representatives. upon satisfac-
tory proof that such sheriff is insolvent and
unable to pay the whole or any part OF such
r. D,hlia
may and he is authorized to release, IN be-
half of the sureties or their personal repre-
ssntatives, the damages included In the Judg-
mant, or the damages on SO much OF the mo-
MY as they may have paid: provided, howev-
er, that in cases in which judgment has been
obtained before the passage OF this act, the
DAMAGES aforesaid shall not be released, un-
less the residue of the judgment be paid and
discharged on or before the first day of DC
tober next And in cases in which judgment
NAV be hereafter obtained, the damages shall
not be released unless the residue of the
Judgment be paid within three months
from the date of the Judgment: provided
further, that in no case shall the judgment
against the sheriff be affected by this act, nor
shall any deputy sheriff, whether he be sure
~ for such sheriff or not, be released from
.he payment Of any damages which may be
recovered against him.
.. This act shall be in force from its pus-
sage.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. MoCue,
and adopted declaring the Penitentisry to
have been an incubus on the State Treasury
for several years past, and directing specl-
III committee to inquire into the expectancy
of hiring out the labor Of the convlctS to some
contractor, who shall employ them in dres-
sing granite for the erection of Il new Peni-
tertiary house and State Capitol and also Of
the expediency of dispensing of the fabrics in
the Penitentinry now on hand, and OF rent
ing ont that institution.
1851. a l. ID il N &C. 1851