The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-14
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The House met at 10 A. NJ.
PRAYER by the Rev. ID. s. Pinnell.


Prayer by the Rev. ID. S. Pinnell.
Chapter 43 of the Code on its second
reading.
Mr.. PINNELL moved to amend sec
tion II, which required "every male
person between the ages of 21 and 80
years to work roads," by striking out 2l
and inserting Is.
Mr.. HERVEY objected, because per-
sons under 81 were not voters, and were
under many other disabilities. The
amendment was lost.
Mr.. FLEMING, of Harrison moved to
amend the section by striking out 5O
and inserting 60.
Mr.. FURGUSON, Of Cabell, objected
because he could see no reason why
young men between 1S and 2l years
should be exempt, and old men over 90
asked to work.
Mr.. HERYEY said that there were
peculiar reasons why this amendment,
and not the other, should pass; that
men between so and 60 had boys under
81 that they could send, when unable to
work, to fill their places on the road.
Mr.. FERGUSON, of Cabell-Suppose
their boys turned out to be girlsf
Mr.. CHAMBERS - The suppOsition
seems to be that every old man is rich
man, and able to hire q substitute: if
this is true / shall vote for the amend
ment.
Mr.. FLEMING, of Harrison, said that
the Board of Supervisors had power to
exempt any one physically unable to
work; that the old men were generally
the land holders, and had the teams and
material to work roads, and conld send
horses and scrapers, or hire some one to
work the road in their places when un-
able to work themselves.
Mr.. PINNELL said that he was not
sure that some of the members present
were not disqualified to vote; that the
men here between fifty and sixty years
were directly interested in the question
before the House. He said that the
gentleman from Brooke had said "that
males under 21 years old were not men,
but he knew that males at Il were lia-
BILE to military duty, and at 45 they
were free from such duty; that at 5U
men were struck with a aphysical lnabli-
ity that rendered them unfit for duty.
Mr.. TOMLINSON said that in his Sec
tion of country, in nine cases out of ten,
the young men were seen riding about
on the roads, while the old men were
staying at home-that in his section the
old men were poor generally.
Mr.. FURGUSON, of Cabell, said that
the gentleman from Brooke claimed
that males under 81 should be exempt,
because they can't vote. He thought,
il that was reason for exemptlng II
would apply as reasonablyto to many Of
those over, as well as those under Il
that the law of the old State made
young men work on the roads at 10, and
/, now the gentleman from Harrison
wanted to make that class OF men who
began their road work at 10 under the
old law, to hang on under the new la"
till they were 60, while the new law ex
empted young men under 81.
Mr.. FLEMING, of Harrison, said
that the old law required them to hang
on till 60.
Mr.. BOUGHNER proposed to COM
promise by making it 55.
Mr.. FURGUSON, of Marshall, opposed
: the whole system of paying road take:
4 IN labor; he thought that the broad
@ acres and those who owned them ough
to make the roads.
Mr.. FURGUSON, of Cabell, said tha
II II 1t were possible to get an amendment