The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-27
General Assembly of Virginia.
RICHMOND, Jan. %.


SENATE.
President Cowper called the Senate to order
at IL o'clock. Prayer by Rev. DR.. Hopson.
ILLNESS OF A MEMBER.
Mr.. Robnsan announced that Senator Kello
was confined to his bed by illness.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
On motion of Mr.. Lemosy, Mr. MERCER
was granted leave of absence for few days.
BILLS PASSED.
House bill to amend the charter of the city
of Alexandria
Senate bill relative to rape and abduction.
Senate bill relative to registers of marriages,
and to legalize the marriages of colored per-
sons now cohabiting as husband and wife.
Senate bill relative to the admission of ne
gro evidence in the courts of the state, and for
other purposes. The ayes and noes being de-
manded, upon the passage of the bill, it
passed-ayes 20, noes Z.
Senate bill relative to witnesses
Senate bill relative to unlawful marriages.
Senate bill relative to masters and appren-
tees. The bill compels masters to teach their
apprentices reading, writing and arithmetic
black as we'll as white.
Mr.. Keen bitterly opposed the bill, and it
was passed by vote Of II to 10.
Senate bill amending the charter of the Ma
nassas Gap and Winchester and Potomac
Railroad Companies.
House bill to incorporate the White Lead
Paint and Oil Company.
Senate bill relative to oaths. The bill does
away with the necessity of oaths in cases pro-
vided as a war measure by act of the Alex
andria Legislature of 1864.
Senate bill to incorporate the National Mer-
camille Exchange Company.
RESOLUTION OF INQUIRY.
Mr.. Gait offered the following resolution,
which was adopted
Resolyed by the General assembly Of Vu-
ginia, That the Secretary of the Senate and
the Clerk of the House of Delegates give pub
lie notice, the said notice to be renewed at the
beginning of every session, that all applica-
lions made to the General Assembly for acts
Incorporating joint stock companies, that the
bill shall be printed at the expense of the APP
plicants, and a copy of the same be laid on
the desks of each member of both Houses
ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
Senate bill relative to illegitmate children,
which was under discussion when the Senate
adjourned, came up>as unfinished business.
Mr.. Keen remarked that he had on yester-
day said all he had to say against the bill, and
now called for the ayes and noes on its pas
sage, IN order that his name might appear on
the record against it. The ayes and noes
were called, with the following result;
Ayes-M essrs. Alexander, Below, Boyd, Ca
bell, Crockett, Davis, Gilmer, Gray, Lemosy
McRae, Power, Saunders and Trout-13.
Noes-Messrs. Boiling, Coleman, Gait, Han
nah, Keen, Lawson, Meade, Mitchell, Peck,
Richmond, Robinson, Strother, Taliaferro and
Westinghouse,
So the bill was defeated
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Mr.. Cabell was, on motion of Mr. Robinson,
added to the Committee on Public Institu-
tons.
INCREASE OF PAY.
Mr. Keen presented resolution of inquiry
into the propriety of increasing the salaries of
the clerks in the basement of the capitol
THE.oRANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD.
The Senate took up joint resolution of the
House, provi ling for a new election OF Presl-
dent and Directors of the Orange and Alexan-
dria railroad
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