The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-20
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
MONDAY, February 10, 1866.
SENATE.

SCNh i
Lieutenant Governor CowPER in the chair
PRAYER by DIR. Converse, of the Presbyterian
| Church.
Senate bill extending the time for rebuild,
| ing or repairing any mills, manufactures,
machines, or engines, destroyed or rendered
unfit for use during the war, came back from
the House with unimportant amendments,
which were agreed to, and the bill passed.
Mr.. KEEN, from the Committee on Roads
and Internal Navigation, reported bill 10
incorporate the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad Connection Company, and another to
incorporate the Coalfield and Underwater Rail
road Company.
PRIVATE BILL.
A bill for the relief of Henry Stevenson, OF
Frederick, was passed
STATE CONVENTION.
BY Mr.. MEADE:
!" Resolved, That the Committee of Courts
of Justice be instructed to inquire into and
report upon the necessity and expediency OF
calling State Convention for the purpose oil
amending the present or adopting new Con-
stitution, and to report by bill or otherwise"
The resolution was agreed to as a courtesy,
but it will be doubtless reported adversely by
the committee.
TAXES on DEEDS.
BY Mr.. TROUT:
" Resolued, That the Committee on Finance
inquire into the propriety of exempting
from State tax deeds made TO renew deeds the
records whereof have been destroyed or lost"
Agreed TO.
cases as the recent destruction of the records
of the clerks Office in Suffolk by fire, and the
county records destroyed during the war. Ii
seems unfair that man should have to pay
an additional tax for State calamity.
PILOTS.
On motion of Mr.. POWER, House bill to
amend, re-enact, and repeal certain sections
Of the Code Of Virginia in relation to pilots
was passed. 1t provides that
"The courtof Elizabeth county shall appoint
five persons, of whom three shall be pilots
qualified according TO law, to constitute
board of commissioners TO examine persons
applying for branches as pilots, who shall
meet at the town of Hampton, and the court
CT the corporation of the city of Norfolk shall
appoint an equal number, OF which three shall
board of Commissioners for the same purpose,
to meet ut the city Of Norfolk.
"The master OF every vessel (other than
coasting vessel having o pilot licensel inward
bound from sea shall take the first Virginia
pilot that offers his services, and any such
vessel outward bound shall take the first pilot
that offers his services at the port or place OF
departure Of said vessel; and any master re-
fusing To do so shall Immediately pay TO the
said pilot full pilotage from sea TO the port or
place Of destination OF the said vessel, or from
the port or place Of departure Of said vessel, as
the case may be. But no master Of q vessel
coming from sea shall be compelled to take q
pilot after arriving within the line at which
Cape Henry bears west Of south"
The bill also Axes the rates Of pilotage.
LEASE OF ARxoRY GROUNDS.
House bill authorizing the Governor 10 lease
OUT the Armory Grounds and to provide bar
RACKS TOT the Public Guard. The bill passed
CHOOSING or JUDGES.
A joint resolution was received from the
House $3.50
"Whereas II is OF vital Importance that the
Judiciary Of the Commonwealth should be
speedily organized; and whereas q difference