Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-01
WEsTVIRGINIA legislature.
SENATE.

TUESDAY, Feb. %.
A message from the House announced
the appointment of Conference Commit.
tee on the bill relating to the sale of lands
for the school fund, end on the bill to rem
der more availI BILE timber, coal, ore and
mineral lands in this State. The Senate
appointed corresponding committees. The
Senate also appointed Conference Com.
mittOe on the MonongaheIR Railroad bill.
The general appropriation bill was re-
turned from the House amended, in which
the Senate concurred.
The Senate was also informed Of the
passage by the House, of the following
bills:
To allow the city of Wheeling to collect
Q tax on all personal property in the city !;
to empower certain Railroad Companies
to purchase and hold. real estate 10 the
city of Parkersburg and Wood county; to
amend the Charter of EliZabethtoWn, in
the county of Marshall; to facilitate the
organization of National Banking ASCOT
atiOns ; Prescribing how taxes on lands
in certain counties may be paid into the
Treasury; to amend the Charter of the
town Of Fairmont.
The Senate disagreed to all the amend
ments Of the House to the Wheeling School
bill, and agreed to the amendment to the
bill in relation to foreign corporations, and
passed the bill to prevent the prosecution
of suits and the sueing out OF process by
persons engaged in rebellion, and the bill
in relation to suits and other proceedings
| in Clay Nicholas aud Pocahontas counties.
The following resolutions were commu-
nicated from the House: Requesting the
Governor to take the necessary steps to
have the military sub districts OF the State
80 altered and arranged as to correspond
with the townships of the State; authoriz'
ing the collector of Cabell county to place
the uncollected revenue of that county into
the hands of the sheriff for collection ;
authorizing the Auditor elect to employ a
clerk to settle the books of his predecessor.
The first two of said resolutions were
adopted and the latter rejected.
| The bill to provide for recording in Kama
wha county, certain writings, was ordered
engrossed, and the bill to abolish the Office
of county treasurer was indefinitely post
poned.
Mr.. Maxwell reported back the bill 10
relation to the statute of limitations, re.
commencing its passage
Mr.. Brown reported back the bill allow
ing further time for the collection of GER
tain taxes in Randolph, recommending its
passage.
He also reported bill making an ap-
preparation for the payment of supplies
furnished the militia. and adversely upon
the petition of W. F. Peterson.
Mr.. Atkinson reported back. recon-.
mending its passage, the bill making an
appropriation of $4,000 to the West Vir-
GINA Hospital for the Insane.
MIR. Phelps reported back the bill to
prevent recruiting in this State by unau~
thorized persons. Amended and read the
second time.
The bill in relatfonHto county bounties
was read aRd ordered to be engrossed, the
rules suspended and the bill put upon its
passage, pending which the Senate took g
recess.
| AFTERNOON SESSION.
Several bills were ordered to thirG
reading and the following passed: amend
ing the charter of Fairmont; to authoriz.
the Council of Wheeling to assess tax or
personal property; to relinquish to the
Elk River Bridge Co., the States stock il
said company; prescribing how taxes If
certain counties may be paid into the
Treasury; in relation to the time of hold
ing courts in the 1st circuit; to amend the
charter of Elizabethtown in Marshall Co.
to facilitate the organization of Nationa
Banks, amending the charter of Point Pleas
ant; and making an appropriation to pay
for certain supplies furnished the militia
Mr.. Fsrnsworth had the clerk to read a
receipt from the Auditor to j., F. W. Holt,
OF Gllmer county, stating that said Holi
had paid the taxes of said county for
ls6l-2-3. Adjourned.