The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-15
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
EXTRA SESSION.
SENATE.

SENATE.
TUESDAY, March IA, 1865.
The Senate met at II o'clock.
House bill to provide for the appoint
ment of an agent to facilitate the settle,
ment of claims, and for the collection,
preservation and distribution of the eff
fects of deceased officers and soldiers
from Virginia against the Confederate
States, was taken up, twice read, and,
on motion Of Mr.. Hart, the rule requir-
ing the commitment of the same was
suspended.
Mr.. Garrison offered, as a substitute
for the said bill, Senate bill to establish
an agency to prosecute and settle claims
against the Confederate States and the
State of Virginia due the estates of de-
ceased soldiers and discharged and dis
abled soldiers.
Mr.. Garrison proposed several amend
ments to the bill, which were agreed to.
The bill was then passed and communi-
Gated to the House of Delegates.
A message was received from the
House of Delegates, informing the Senate
that the House had passed Senate bill
entitled an act to repeal the act of March
5, 1868, authorizing tiduciaries to invest
funds in their hands in certain cases, and
for other purposes; and that the House
had agreed to the joint resolutions of the
Senate requesting the Governor to con-
vene the General Assembly in extra SEES
sion.
Joint resolution in relation to the hire
Of the negroes Of J. N. Clarkson for the
year 1864, by the Board of Supervisors
of the Salt Works, being the unfin
ished business of last evening, was taken
up.
Mr.. Hart thought the question an i'm
portant one, and, as the Senate was very
thin, he moved that the bill be laid upon
the taole.
MIR. Armstrong opposed the motion to
lay on the table. The silence of the
Senate on the subject might be viewed
as acquiescing in the action of the Board
of Public Works, and they might go on
and make similar contract for the pres
sent'year.
Mr.. Neeson stated that Mr. Clarkson
had said that the Board of Public Works
could not make again any contracts with
him for the hire of his negroes.
Mr.. Guy thought the Senate should
take action in this matter without delay.
The people want salt, and this question
should not be put off until another ses-
sion.
The resolution was laid on the table
ayes, IA; noes, -.
A message was received from the
House of Delegates informing the Senate
that the House had agreed to the first
ten amendments of the Senate to the
tax bill, and disagreed to some eight or
ten others, and requested committee Of
conference on the subject.
The following committee of conference
was then appointed on the part OF the
Senate: Messrs. Brannon, Lynch and
Hart.
House bill to amend and re-enact an
act entitled an act to empower the Go.
vernon to have made out and filed in the
State Department complete lists of Vir-
GINA forces, passed February Z, 1852,
and to repeal an act to provide for
having an accurate list and record made
of the military forces Of Virginia, passed
March Is, 1854, was taken up on motion
of Mr., Garrison, and the question on the
passage Of the bill being taken, was de.
cided in the negative-ayes, %; noes.
4; not a constitutional majority.
House bill to increase the compensa-
ton of the Commonwealth Attorneys
for the city of Richmond and the county
of Henrico was taken up, and, after dis
cussion, passed,
Mr.. Hunter offered the following:
" ResDIred. That the injunction OF secresy be re-
moved ft0m all the proceedings and acts had and
done IN secret BY the Senate. during the present or
any preceding session, except far q may involve
breach Of special oonAdenos reposed in the Senate
g any q T.: eommittsss b the President orany
g fhe autAortties a the Coe$sdRa49 Ooyeynnenf.
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