The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-28
West Virginia Legislature
SEN BIe.

Prayer by Rev Mr. Hervey
The Senate disagreed to the House
amendments to the bill to authorize
Adam Kuhn aud others to sink a coal
The following Joint resolutions were
adopted.
Providing for the printing OF certain
acts appointing new trustees for the
Berkely Springs; and authorizing the
Governor to print his annual message
and reports of State officers, so as to
have them completed at the time OF the
meeting Of the next Legislature
A resolution was adopted allowing
the assistant clerk five dollars per day,
the pages two dollars and a half, and
members mileage for the actual distance
travelled
The following bills were passed:
To charter a road in Gilmer. Ritchie
and Tyler counties.
Amending the charter of the town OF
Giaften.
To amend and re enact the 9th aud 9Th
sections of au act to- incorporate the
town of st. Mary aud South Wheeling.
To amend the law in relation TO the
duties of persons celebrating the rites
of matrimony.
Fixing the time of holding the Conrtss
in the several counties OF the lOth ana
18th iudioial districts.
Establishing and re-arranglng the 10Th
and Ilth judicial circuits OF this State
and providing for the appointment OF
Judge of the llth circuit.
To amend the law in relation to the
competency of witnesses-(to admit tes.
timony of colored persons, yeas Is; nays
Messrs, Burdett, Raymond and O'Brien.)
To increase the fees of fjailors
To authorize the trustees OF the Pres.
bvterian church in Buckhannon to sell
a lot.
To amend an act 10 Incorporate the
town of Piedmont.
r The Senate Bill to amend the charter
Of the West Virginia Central Railway
| Company, was taken up rs the special
order, and Mr Burley's substitute re-
| iected.
NIr Burley moved TO strike out the
| I'd section, but the motion was lost The
bill was then passed by
A Conference Committee was appoint
ed on the bill to transfer the States IN
terest in the roads and bridges Of the
State TO the counties.
AFTERNOON gESSIOE
Iue Bill to provide indexes to th,
journal of the Senate and House Of Dele
gates; the bill in relation to the statutes
of limitation the bill concerning cases
transferred from the Supreme Court o.
Appeals and district courts OF Virginia
to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Wes
Virginia a bill fixing the times vi hold
ing the courts in the several counties o
the 10th and 18th judicial circuits tht
bill establishing and re arranging thu
,, 10th and llth judicial circuits Of thi
State, and providing for the appoint
ment of Judge of the 18th judicial Cir
cult, and the bill to amend and re-enac'
the charter Of the town of Sistersvllle
in the county Of Tyler were passed
some of them with amendments.
The Senate insisted on its disagree
ment TO the substitute Of the House
locating the Agricultural College a
Charleston instead of Morgantown.-
Messrs. Price and Mahon we're appointed
the conference committee on the part o
The bill to submit the CONSTITUTIONS
amendment to the people was read anC
ordered to its second reading
The bill to amend the charter ol tn'
West Virginia Central Railway ComPa
nv was again taken up and VARIOUS
, amendments proposed. The dlsc9ssioL
occupied most Of the afternoon "nen j
was laid on the table.