The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-23

was to be held next Monday. Accord
ing to the provision already adopted 1t
was necessary a registration should
take place. 1t was utterly impossible
under the registration law that regis
tration could be made in that time. He
again moved 10 table the bill; and the
motion was agreed to.
A number of House and Senate bills
were put through their first and second
readings.
State was taken up and made the order
of the day for Saturday next
Gen. Harris, from the Special Com
mittee on the Agricultural College, Of
tered joint resolution requesting our
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress to endeavor to secure the passage
OF an act donating to West Virginia for
the endowment of her Agricultural
College, an additional appropriation of
land eq ual to 60, 600 acres for each of our
Representatives and Senators in Con.
gress, and extending the time allowed
| for putting the college in operation TO
the LIST day of July, 1865. Adopted.
Mr.. Cooper, by leave, introduced a
| bill to prevent the appropriation OF
office property to private use. The bill
provides that all books, blanks and
| other property furnished any officer by
authority of law is the property of the
| Office and must be turned over by each
officer TO his successor. 1t also pro-
vides that in case of failure to dos the
| Prosecuting Attorney of the county is
to bring suit on the bond of the officer
and recover $50 with costs and fee of
$40.
Mr.. Fleming presented petitions
from 2Sj citizens of MOnOngalia coun-
ty, 500 citizens of WetZel, and l24 citi-
zens of Marion praying the erection of
new county out of parts of those
| counties, TO be called Union" Refer
red to Committee on Counties.
Mr.. McWhorter offered "a joint reso-
luton providing that copy of the Ad-
jutant Generals report for 1865 be fur
nished to each member of the Legisla-
| ture and each recorder; and that the
residue of the copies of that report and
of the report of the same officer for
1864 be placed at the disposal OF the
Governor. Adopted.
Mr.. Beeson presented petition of
Leonard Lamb asking to have S53l ex-
pended by him, out of his private
funds as Superintendent OF the North
western Turnpike, refunded. Referred
to Committee on Claims, &c.
Mr.. Cunningham presented petition
of the same character as those present
ed by Mr.. Fleming. Referred.
Mr.. Payne presented n petition of
citizens of Raleigh praying certain re-
lief. Referred.
Inc following resolutions OF inquiry
We're adopted:
BY Mr. Smith, of Brooke: Instruct
ing the Committee on Counties, &c, TO
inquire into the expediency of author
izing the closing of alleys between four
certain lots in WellSburg, purchased
by the Board of Education for school
purposes.
By Mr.. Boreman: Instructing the
Committee on Military Affairs 10 in
quire into the expediency of providing
for releasing all honorably discharged
Union soldiers from ordinary militia
duty.
By Mr.. Heermans: Directing the Ju-
dietary Committee to consider the ex-
pediency of amending section Is, OF
chap. lS4, of the code of Virginia, as
TO allow the Sheriff mileage in certain
cases.
By Mr.. Ballard: Directing the Com
mittee on Roads, &c. to inquire into
the expediency of apprOpriating $1,000
for the construction of road from the
house of Jasper Workman, in Boone
county, by the nearest route, TO the
mouth of Meigs creek, in Logan county
Adjourned.
I'VE stated yesterday that Mr.. Will
Hanson introduced bill repeating the
charter of the Sand Hill and Laurel
Fork Railroad. The object of the bill
Is TO amend that charter.