The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-03
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

49,. HOUSE OF ULTIMA Eo.
The House met at II A. NJ. Speaker
Shelley in the chair. ..
The House took up and concurred in
the material amendments Of the Senate
to the bill amending the law creating
commercial agency for tho State of Vir-
cinia for the manufacture and distribu
ton of cotton cloth, cotton cards, etc,
and defining the duties of tho agent.
A resolution of thanks to Lieutenant
Jesse G. Mcneil and his command for
their gallant capture, in their fortified
camp in Maryland, Of Generals Crook
and Kelly, now prisoners Of war at the
Libby Prison, Richmond, was unani-
mously adopted.
Mr.. Bouldin, from the Finance Com
mittcc, reported bill for the relief of
William f. IIcrndon, late member of the
House of Delegates, now in the lunatic
ASYLUM. the result of a wound received
in battle.
Mr.. Buford, from a special committee,
reported bill to incorporate the Lynch
burg and Danville Railroad Company.
The bill to appropriate the sum of Sc
venty- five thousand dollars to the Vir
GINA Military Institute, as fund for the
education Of wounded and disabled SOL
diers by an increase of the salaries of
the corps Of professors whose duties are
to be augmented, was passed-ayes, IS {;
noes, Is.
Senate bill amending and re-enacting
sections of the Code exempting the pre-
perty of persons in the military service
OF the State or Confederate States from
distress for rent payable in money was
passed.
Bill ordering the sale of certain bonds
and stocks Of the Confederate States and
State corporations, held by the State, to
meet the expenses Of the State Govern
ment, was taken up, and rejected by a
vote Of sevelfty-two ayes to thirty seven
noes-nct constituti onal majority.
Nearly all hour was consumed in the
efforts of members, patrons of certain
bills, to take them from the calendar
Among them was the bill to confer upon
the next Legislature conventional pow
| els; the bill concerning the repeal of the
| LIQUOR license law, and the bill concern
| ing the employment of slaves on fortifica-
tons, and providing for their impress
ment among the counties of not more
than ten thousand under one call.
The slave impressment bill was finally
taken up as it came from the Senate,
with amendments, and passed.
Mr.. Hunter, Of Berkeley, submitted a
preamble and resolutions expressing in
dignation at the murder OF Captain John
| Y. Beall of jefferson county, Virginia, a
regularly commissioned officer of the
Confederate States navy, and requesting
the Virginia representatives in Congress
to urge upon the Executive the adopt on
of some retaliatory measure for the said
murder.
The preamble and resolutions were
adopted unanimously after some strong
remarks from the author of the resolu-
ton. He said he died as only true
Southron could die, and his noble old
mother, Virginia, would enshrine his
name among the martyrs of this war, as
one she will not willingly let die.
Mr.. Staples, Of Patrick, called up
House bill No. lola bill comforting
upon the General Assembly the. power
Of convention.
The hour of 3 F. NJ. having arrived
the Speakers hammer fell, and the
House took recess until half-past P. NJ