The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-13
ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
EXTRA SESSION.
TUESDAY, March IL, 1867.

SENATE.
The Senate was called to order at IL
o'clock by Mr.. PECK.
Prayer by the Rev. 7. V. Moore, of the
First Presbyterian church.
The usual communication from the
House of Delegates was read by the clerk.
| The roll was then called, and 1t was as
certained that no quorum was present ;
when, on motion of Mr.. ALEXANDER, the
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Prayer by the Rev. DR.. Moore, Of the
Presbyterian Church.
| The Journal of the House was read, and
a number of bills reported by committees
were placed on the calendar.
FLOUR INSPECTIONS.
The Senate bill to provide for the in
spection of -four, reported from the Com
mittee on Agriculture and Mining with an
amendment, which was agreed to; and the
bill, as amended, was passed.
The bill prescribes that all flour brought
into the State and offered for sale shall be
reviewed and have the Virginia inspection
marked thereon, and penalty Of five dol
lars per barrel is to be imposed on all per-
sons violating the law
ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The Committee on Rules requested to
be discharged from the consideration of
the resolution proposing that the Legisla-
ture shall adjourn sine die on Saturday ;
which request was granted by the House.
Mr.. HARRIS introduced a resolution that
the House meet at half-past 10 o'clock ;
which was referred.
Mr.. WORD moved that when the House
adjourn, it adjourn to meet at ii o'clock.
Rejected.
Leave of absence was granted to Mr..
SCOTT for two days, Mr.. GARRETT for three
days, and Mr.. BRAxToN for four days.
RICHMOND HAT COMPANY.
The Senate bill to incorporate the Rich
mond Hat Company was, on motion OF
Mr.. ATKINSON, dismissed, on the ground
that the Circuit Court had the power to
grant the incorporation.
NATIoNh WINE COMPANY.
A Senate bill incorporating the National
Wine Company was dismissed for SINH
| lar reason.
TO PREVENT DRUNKENNESS AT ELECTIONS
On motion of Mr.. MERRITT, the House
took up the bill "to prevent drunkenness
and disorder at elections"
| Several immaterial amendments were
agreed to.
| Mr.. WATKINS moved to amend by in
sorting the following:
"That all commissioners Of elections
shall, pending an election conducted by
them, be conservators of the peace, with
all the powers Of other conservators of the
peace and they shall moreover have au-
thority to appoint aad organize such force
as to them may seem necessary to pre-
serve order and to protect each voter in
the exercise of the right of suffrage"
| This amendment was rejected; and the
bill was ordered to third reading.
| BILLS PASSED.
The following Senate bills were read O
third time and passed:
A bill to incorporate the Piedmont Con,
federate Cemetery.
A bill in relation to examining courts.
A bill to reenact the 10th section of ar
act passed January IL, 1867, entitled ar
act to incorporate the Southern Mutual
Life Insurance Company. Passed with an
unimportant amendment.
A bill to incorporate the Old Dominion
Oil, Coal, Iron, Plaster and Gold Mining
and Manufacturing Company, with an
amendment subjecting the charter to
amendment, alteration, &C., by the Gene
raj Assembly,.
The following House bills were read a
third time and passed:
A bill imposing tax on oysters.
A bill to repeal section %, chapter "a,
of the Code, in regard to the officers of
the Virginia Military Institute.
A bill in relation to the Alexandria canal
and railroad. Es
A bill for the relief of the Mutual Life
and Fire Insurance Company of Loudoun.
IMMIGRATION.
A Senate bill to amend the act entitled
an act to promote and encourage immi-
grafton into the State of Virginia." came up
in order.
III appropriates $4,000 to be used by
the State Board in promoting immigration,
authorizing a commission upon sales of
lands by the Board to immigrants, which
is to be paid into the treasury to reimburse
this STATED
Mr.. CLARK, of Pittsylvania, moved that
it be dismissed.
Mr.. CRUMP sustained the bill. Virginia
was the only State which had no law en-
couraging immigration in any efficient
manner. The Board appointed last year
uau no means TO carry out their objects.
~ oraer that proper means should be pro-
,n ca LOT encouraging the better class of
~. this bill was framed. We had
ana roe.. ape only TO bring In the riff-raff
unit Sor ' n. immigrants, which were utterly
Mr.. O. aim, I pa purposes, as had been proved.
the timss and =. 20 the political exigences of
migration. What had built nm ,ha Kun lii.
out immigrationi Our own c;s;~sr mess
the apprehension of evils In the Sss., N
mao been leaving our State, and III. ii