The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-06

TUESDAY, February 5, 1867.
SENATE.

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SENATE.
The Senate was called TO order at IL
O'Clock by Mr.. TROUT, of Augusta. Prayer
by the Rev. GEoRG. w. LANGBoRNE, OF the
Methodist church.
The CHAIR announced the following as
the Committee Of Conferences on the Dill
in relation to the printing Of the records OF
the Court Of Appeals and the District
Courts: Messrs. Boiling, Guild, Cabeli, Nc
Rae, Mitchell, Lee, and Below.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
By Mr.. KEEN, from the Committee on
Roads and Internal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
bill to incorporate the Norfolk ana
Great Western Railroad Company without
amendment.
Nv the same.-House bill for the con-
s,rnction of a railroad, or the improve
ment and navigation of New river from a
noint near Central depot to the mouth OF
Greenbrier river, with an amendment
changing the terminus Of the proposed
road from Central depot to the lead mines
in Wythe county.
By the same.-Senate bill to authorize
the transfer of the property, charter, and
franchises of the Manassas Gap Railroad
Company, and the stock shares in the same
TO the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Company.
BY Mr.. McRAE, from the Committee OF
Financc.-House bill making an appro'
p~riation to deiray the expenses OF inc
commissioners appointed to settle WIN
West Virginia, with an arrow
ing the commissioners ten dollars per DAY
80 -.:sl .ta ,ocaSzary nyDgnSCS NUllS
in the discharge of the duties assigned
them. Subsequently taken up andpassed-
ayes, "a nays, o.. .,o
'Rrtbc same.-Senate bill to repeal the
-, passed March 2, 1866, entitled IAN
act in regard TO commissioners OF the
revenue"
By Mr.. MITCHELL, from the Committee
-, i;ereral Laws.-HouSe bill to refund
John F. Lacy a license tax, without
amendment which sSSubsequehtiy taken
no on motion of Mr.. COLEMAN, read the
third time and paSsed-yeas, "a; nays ".
re- The same.-House bill 10 incorporate
Trinmphaut Tent, No. 10, Independent
Oder of Rechabites in Portsmouth, Va,
u,,h,ut amendment. Indefinitely post
poncd on motion of Mr.. ROBINSON.
By the same.-House bill to amend and
,e;;nact the first section of an act entitled
an act for procesSioning and settling the
boundaries of lands III this Commonwealth,
passed February 81, 1866, without amend
mcnt. subsequently taken up and passed.
By the same.-House bill TO amend and
resnact the I'd and 9th sections OF the 23d
chapter of the Code of 1860, altering the
briGadcs and divisions of the militia OF the
State. with a recommendation that the
substitute heretofore offered by Mr.. LAW
son be rejected. The bill passed.
By the same.-House bill 10 incorporate
the townof Stanardsville in Greene county.
Passed.
By the ssme.-House bill TO amend and
reTnact an act entitled an act TO lncorpo-
rate the Gowrie Coal, Iron, and Mining
Company, passed March, 1850, without
amendment. Passed.
Ry the ssme.-Senate bill to incorporate
the Laurel Fork Mining and Manuiactur-
Ing Company, without amendment.
Ry the same.-Seuate bill TO incorporate
the Seaboard Insurance Company of Viz
giuia.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The following bills were introduced by
leave:
By Mr.. STROTHER.-Senate bill to take
the sense of the people upon the call OF a
convention, and providing for organizing
the same which was read twice and Or
dered 10 be printed.
By Mr.. OULD.-Senate bill prescribing a
uniform rule for the measure of damage III
actions for the conversion Of slaves in GER
tain cases, which was referred to the Com
mittee for Courts of Justice.
RESOLUTIONS.
Bv Mr.. CRoCKETT.-Inquiring into the
expediency of selling or leasing so much OF
the public property containing the penl-
Tertiary spring (being the square lying be,
tween Main and Gary and Jefferson ana
Madison streets as may not be necessary
for the use of the penitentiary.
EXTENSION OF II CORPORATE LIMITS.
The Senate bill to define and extend the
corporate limits of the city of Richmond
came up as the unfinished business OF yes
terday. -,
Mr.. OULD took the floor and ~contenaeu
that the General Assembly had tne llsh.
to l~egislate upon the subject, anu ousnt =
not TO delegate it to the good PeopIo "
Screamersville, Butchertown' anu ION
Sink. rr rorro-
Mr.. COLEMAN, Of Hanover, who tepto-
sents the Henrico district III .no Nuni
insisted that the people oil hGhrlco SnTulu
be heard upon the snpJeS'. ~ a. on
amendment TO the ohn' y ia
question to the people OF the couhty; ahd
the vote being taken, the amendment was
rejected by q vote u yeas " 70 na3
nthe ist of July, 1885, as the Time "heh
the bill should go into effect.
And the bill as amended passed.
Subsequently, on motion OF Mr.. hEEN,
the vote by which the bill was passed was
r.considered, and Mr.. OULD offered the fol
lowing as an amendment in lieu OF the firs'
section of the bill, which had been pro.
nosed and recommended by the City Coun'
Gil OF Richmond
Z. II enacted by the General Assembly o.
Virainia, That the corporate limits OF the
city of Richmond shall be extended in &C.
cordance with the following described lines,
namely: Commencing on the sonth bank
of James river opposite Lock No. z, and
running thence to the head of Lock No.2
thence, in the same direction, TO the toll
gate thence, in the same direction, to
the intersection with Bacon Quarter
Branch thence, nearly due east to the in
tersection of Brook turnpike, at the toll
gate thence o little south of east to intersec.
ton with Central railroad thence southeast
TO intersection Of the Major Christian and
New Bridge roads; thence q little more
southerly tothe crossing of Gillie's creek,
near Ramsey's mill thence southwest to
a point on the north bank Of James river
at tho mouth Of Almond or Mayo's creek,
and thence in q direct line 10 the south
bank of James river, in accordance with