The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-22


House bill authorizing the Board of Public
Works to sell the interest Of the State IN this
work was passed.
HAMPTON STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
House bill to incorporate was passed.
NORTH CAROLINA TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.
House bill to incorporate was passed. The
company navigate the Albemarle and Chesa-
peake canal.
GREAT SOUTHERN INLAND NAVIGATION COMPANY.
House bill to incorporate was passed.
PLANTERS SAVING BANK, OF PARayILLE.
House bill to incorporate was passed.
TREDEaAR COMPANY.
Senate bill incorporating this company was
passed Joseph r. Anderson and others form
Several other bills Of local character were
passed; after which the Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Sneaker BALDWIN in the chair
sALAR1gs OF BASEMENT OFFICERS.
Messrs. GRATTAS, PESDLEToS, WATKINS,
GARRETT, and u. TURNER were ANNOUNCED as
House Committee of Conference in relation 10
the increase Of salaries of basement oncers.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
nv Mr. Observation-Disclosures of the rules
in regard to the reconsideration OF bills, Tor
the purpose of facilitating the dispatch OF
business coming before the House.
REPORT or COMMITTEE.
The Committee of Pro positions reported y
inexpedient to legislate upon the subject OF
NJ ling onctioneers responsible for the title Of
animals sold by them; and the committee on
Banks reported it inexpedient 10 legislate upon
| the subject of inquiring into the condltlon OF
| the savings banks of the State.
THE TAX BILL.
| This BILL imposing taxes for the support OF
| government, was taken up outoi It's olueh anu
| considered.
the tax on lands, lots, and improvements forty
| cents on the hundred dollars, instead OF four
| fee,, cents He said that the increase of twenty
six cents would be all required TO meet the
| January interest upon the State debt
Mr.. TURNER opposed the amendment on the
| ground that the people, in their present con
dition could not bear SO neaVy Duru ef ,h ~
taxation He referred to the example OF the
States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, LIMOS,
and others, under similar circumstances anu
contended that it was only reasonable In INA
Virginia should suspend all payment OF h'e-
| rest upon erpublic debt =,
Mr.. GRATTAy, in reply, expressed his will
| lingness to raise the tax to SUCH point as
wonld enable the State to save its financial
necessities of the home creditors, who had
already suffered so much. He concluded D.
saving that he did not wish, in his old age,
| that the State should have curses heaped upon
| her head on account of her want OF 1altn
| in failing to provide for her indebtedness.
| Mr. WHITE called the ayes and noes, and
on a division the amendment was lost-ayes,
| 8; noes, 81.
sales do not exceed one hundred and fifty dol
lars per annum were exempted from taxa
| ton.
Mr.. GRATTAS offered the following "No
part of the taxes herein before assessed being
intended to pay any portion of the United
States Direct Tax, which the General Assem-
bly has proposed TO assume, the persons who
have paid that tax shall not be entitled TO q
/ 4l,n nd mn
them or upon their property, by this act"
Adopted.
The bill was then passed to its engrossment
and third reading.
THE UsURY LAWS.
The Senate bill amending the existing usury
laws, which was lost in the House yesterday,
and was afterwards reconsidered, was taken
up. Upon n division, the Senate bill was again
lost-ayes, IL: noes, 81.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
House bill appropriating fifteen thousand
dollars for the support of the University OF
Virginia was passed-ayes, 30; noes, 81. some
discussion arose rs to whether this was con-
stitutional ma iority, which was decided by per-
mission being given Mr.. BRAXToE to change
his vote from no to aye
VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD.
House bill authorizing this railroad company
to increase their capital was passed.
BILLS PASSED.
House Dill prONlulnP puDllC ucpOsItdl leSj bnu
directing that one-fourth Of the moneys pald
into the public treasury shall be paid into each
of the four national banks now in operation in
Richmond;
House bill authorizing the sale, at not less
than one dollar per acre, of all unappropria-
ted lands on the bay of Chesapeake, on the
sea shore or the shores of rivers and creeks
House bill providing what articles OF pro-
perty and subsistence shall be exempt from
distress levy, or sale upon all contracts here
after made ;-[this bill was strongly opposed
by Messrs. DAVIS, DICKERsON, and GRATTAN,
and supported by Messrs. GARRETT, STRAUGHAS
and WHITE.
House bill in relation to attachments
House bill in relation 10 numbering the dis
trict of each commissioner Of the revenue;
House bill in relation to the compensation OF
clerks and sheriffs.
EASTERN LUNATIC ASYLUM.
House bill providing an appropriation for
the liabilities of this Asylum came up on its
second reading.
Mr.. KELLAM wished to inquire of the chair
man of the committee whether il was true that
the money belonging TO the Asylum had been
misappropriated by some Federal officer.
Mr.. SMITH explained that, since the eVacua-
ton of Richmond, the Asylum had been sup
ported by the Governor of Virginia and that
the sum asked for was principally due 10 the
former Secretary, who had spent his private
funds to find the inmates in the necessaries OF
life, and the balance was due to the citizens
around williamsburg. He also said that the
committee had not finished the investigation
of the disposition which had been made Of the
twelve thousand dollars appropriated to the
Asylum by the Governor. The bill was then
ordered to its third reading and engrossment.
The House then adjourned.