The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-12-12

amendment was adopted, and Che bill, a.
amended. passed. sEf glTg4
DANvILLE REAL ESTATE MANUFACTURING
COMPANY.
The bill incorporating the Danville Real
Estate Manufacturing Company was taken
mp and ordered to Its engrossment.
RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions Of inquiry
were introduced and appropriately re-
ferred: ese .t4 xas !.
BY Mr.. Power.--Into the expediency Of
amending an act entitled can act imposing
a tax on oysters" passed March Sd, 1856.
By Mr.. Power.--Into the expediency of
amending sections % and q of an act en-
titled " an act amending sections 81, %, %,
25, q, 80, SO, SO, and AZ, chapter l0l, of
the Code, edition 1902 concerning the
taking and planting Of oysters.
BY Mr.. Robinson.--Into the propriety of
requesting the Governor to pardon certain
convicts in the penitentiary.
BY Mr.. Lee.-Into the propriety of
reporting a bill exempting the property, real
and personal, of the Polish emigrapts lately
settled in Spotsylvania county from tax
alton for period of not more than five
years.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr.. Strother, by leave, introduced a
bill to amend and reenact an act to pro-
vide more effectually for the punishment
Of horse-stealing.
Mr.. Strother also, by leave, introduced
bill to repeal an act entitled Gan act to
prohibit attachments in certain cases."
passed March 3, 1866.
Both bills were referred to the Commit
tee for Courts Of Justice.
Leave of absence was granted to Mr..
Kelo for few days.
Mr.. Keen called up the Stay Law bill ;
when, on motion, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Prayer by the Rev. DIR. Burrows.
Committees made reports, which took
their places on the calendar.
A joint resolution from the Senate au-
thorizing the Secretary of the Common
wealth to furnish clerks Of counties and
corporations with sessions acts, etc, to
supply missing volumes, was read, and con-
Cured in by the House.
Other business reported from the Senate
was referred.
The report of the Committee of Claims
adverse to the petition of Charles Wright
for the payment of Jail fees for lS6l-'62
was concurred in.
BILLS PASSED.
The following bills were read third
time and passed:
A bill changing the times Of holding
some of the courts of the fifteenth judi
cial circuit.
A bill changing the times of holding
some of the courts Of the fourteenth judi
cial circuit; and
A Senate bill to legalize the action of
the county court of Amherst county in
funding the interest due on the bonds of
said county to the Orange and Alexandria
Railroad Company.
REPUTATION.
Mr.. Evans offered the following resolu-
tons, which were read and referred to the
Committee on Resolutions:
Whereas the public credit of the State
of Virginia and the credit of our citizens
have been injured and are now being injured
by the apprehension in the minds of some
persons that this General Assembly will
repudiate the debt of the State, and au-
thorizc the Reputation of the debts of her
citizens; and whereas we deem it impOr-
tant to remove this apprehension from the
minds of all persons, and so to remove it
at once, in order to prevent any further in
jury to our credit, therefore
/. RESOLVED, That this General Assembly
will pass no such acts of reputation.
2. Resolved, That such legislation would
be no less destructive of our future prospe-
rity than of our credit, our integrity, and
our honor.
3. RESOLVED, That the concurrence of the
Senate in these resolutions be respectfully
asked.
RESOLUTIONS
were introduced and referred to appro-
pirate committees:
BY Mr.. Smith.-InquiriDg into the eXpe-
diency of special appropriation to dis
charge the outstanding liabilities OF the
Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
BY Mr.. Bentley.-Into the expediency of
requiring juries now summoned in civil
cases to perform the duties of criminal ju-
ries, with per diem allowance for every
days necessary absence from home.
By Mr.. Peed .-Inquiring what legisla-
ton is necessary to bring the counties of
Accomac and Northampton and the city
of Norfolk within the benefits Of the act
passed March 2, 1866, entitled "an act to
stay the collection Of debts for limited
period"
BY Mr.. Riggs.-Into the expediency of
changing the time of holding the county
courts of Buchanan to the first Thursday
after the first Monday in each month.
By Mr.. Rixey.-Into the expediency of
repeating an act passed March 3, 1866, en-
titled an act to prohibit attachments in
certain cases.
BILLS.
Bills were introduced and referred:
BY Mr.. Wilson.-A bill suspending the
4th and 9Th sections of an act passed
March 2, 1866, entitled can act to stay
the collection of debts for limited Pc
Rod"
By Mr.. WilsOn.--A bill to amend and re-
enact ninth section of the act entitled "an
act to stay the collection of debts for
limited PERIOD" passed March 2, 1866.
BY Mr.. Straughan.-A bill establishing
an election precinct at the house of j. V.
Garland, in Northumberland.
BY Mr.. Wilson.-To amend section
chapter l64 of the Code of 1860, imposing
a fine of any counsellor or conveyancer for
not taking the prescribed oaths.
BY Mr.. English.-A bill to incorporate
the Farmers and Mechanics Cotton and
Wooden ManufactOry of Alexandria