Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1865-12-12

Virginia Legisture.

SENATE.-zhesday, December 5.-Alr. Trout
was granted leave to report bill to incorporate
Virginia Insurance Company.
A message from the House requesting the con-
currence Of the Senate in the passage Of o bill
refusing the consent Of the State Of Virginia to
the transfer of Jefferson and Berkeley counties
to the State of West Virginia-also, enacting
further-that all consent, in any manner here
tofore given, by the General Assembly of Vir-
ginia, to the transfer from its jurisdiction to
the jurisdiction of the State of West Virginia,
of any of the counties mentioned in either OF
the above recited acts, be, and the same is
hereby withdrawn, and all acts, ordinances and
resolutions, heretofore passed, purporting to
give such, are hereby repealed. This act shall
be in force from and after its passage.
The Senate passed the bill unanimously.
HoUsE.-Mr. Woodson, from Special Commit
tee on the petition of citizens from Jefferson
and Berkeley, introduced bill repeating the
act giving consent of Virg mia to the transfer
Of these counties. He wished the bill to be
passed at once. His reason for pressing it to
an immediate vote was that as Congress has
not ratified yet, the cession Of these two coun-
ties to West Virginia, that effort will be made
to get that body to do 30 at the earliest day. The
friends Of the bill desire to forestal such action,
and prevent legal consumption of the act.
The rules were accordingly suspended, when,
after second and third reading, the bill passed.
SENATE Wednesday, December 6--The bill
amending the third section of the Constitu-
ton, which DISTINGUISHES the exotcers Of the late
Confederate Government, having been engrossed,
was read the third time and unanimously passed.
HOUSE, Speaker Baldwin announced the Stand
ing Committees. Mr.. Waddell on Schools and
Colleges, on Finance, and on the Library. Mr..
Baylor, on the Militia, and on Lunatic Asylums.
SENATE Friday, December 8.-Standng Com
mittees annouced. Mr.. Trout on Courts of JUS
tice, and on Federal Relations, and on public In
stitutions.
Senator Trout prepared memorial from Geo.
Siple and others of the county of Pendleton, pro-
testing against that county being considered q
part of West Virginia, and in the event of it's be-
ing considered, praying that the top of the Ale
ghany Mountain may be the dividing line between
the two States.
ResoIped, That the Committee on Courts Of JUS
tice report upon the expediency of amending or
repeating an act of the General Assembly, emit
tied ssAn Act to amend and re-enact the Act pre-
scribing oaths in certain cases, and providing for
the registration Of the same," passed May 4th,
1862 and an act entitled ssAn Act prescribing an
oath in certain cases." passed May 10Th, 1862.
HoUsE.-Mr. Waddell introduced bill to in
corporate the Virginia Insurance Company.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Mr.. Joynes, Chairman Of the Committee Of
Courts Of Justice, to whom had been referred the
subject of amending the third article Of the Con-
stitution, recommends the following amendment
to the bill passed by the Senate few days since
Strike out after the preamble and insert the
following:
l. Be it enacted by the General assembly, That
the first section of the said third article of the
Constitution be amended by striking therfrom the
following words ssNo person shall hold any office
under this Constitution who shall not have taken
and subscribed the oath aforesaid. But no per-
son shall vote or hold Office under this Constit u
ton who has held office under the so-called
Confederate Government, under any rebellious
State Government, or who has been of the So
called Confederate Congress, .or member of
any State Legislature in rebellion against the
authority of the United States, excepting there
from county officers"
2. The General Assembly retains to itself the
power to alter or to amend all the provisions of
the third article.
8. This act shall be from it's passage
The amendment proposed was unanimously u
greed to, and the rules having been suspended
the bill was passed.
By request of the Speaker, Mr.. Grattan COM
municated the passage OF the bill to the Senate,
and that body subsequently agreed to it,