The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-08
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

Senate adjourned until Monday morn-
ing ut 10 o'clock.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
A bill was reported from the commit
tee on Private Corporations for the in
corporation of Comstalk Lodge No. 2,
in the city of Wheeling, which bill was
subsequently read the first time. The
same committee reported a bill for the
incorporation of Lodge of Odd Fol
lows in st. George, Tucker county,
which was also read the first time.
The committee ou Printing, &c, re-
ported bill providing for the printing
of lUU0 copies of the road laws tor the
use of Surveyors of Roads in the several
parts of the State.
RESOLUTIONS OF INQUIRY.
By Mr.. RIDDLE-As to the e1pedien-
cy of amending the law so as to require
the State to pay Assessors for work done
for the State.
By Mr.. MAIION-Providing forms for
Recorders Ill the matter of admitting
Wills to Probate.
BY Mr.. NEWLIN-A resolution was
PSS VI
Sl0O TO the person who ser.ed the no
tice directed by the House on Judge
HiudmaD. Referred TO the Judiciary
committee.
BY Mr. PINNELL-As to the expedi-
ency of providing a mOrs etfectual mode
Of compelling settlements by sheritfS
with Recorders and Clerks.
/ BY M. notwithstanding that part
of the charter of the Covington & Ohio
Railroad which eXempts that road from
tax Cntii its profits amount to 10 per
cent. on the capital stock.
Bills PASSED.
Senate bill No. |, Incorporating the
( village of LeatnerwOOd, with an amend
meut which makes the authorities OF
the village liable TO damages for re-
moving anything as nuisance which
NAV not be nuisance, was passed
yeas, a; nays, S-Messrs. Parker, Mil
| Ter aud jacob voting in the negative.
/ Senate bill No. ., giving the City
Councils of Wheeling power to grant 10
manufacturers and others the right to
construct coal railways along streets
and alleys of the city, on such condi-
! tions rs they may prescribe, was passed,
! Mr.. Parker voting in the negative.
! Senate bill for tho Incorporation OF
Sir johns Run and Rock Gap Turnpike
Company was passed.
Senate bill No. 32, relating to the
competency of witnesses, passed, and IL
now law-yeas, AZ; nays, 4;-Nessrs
Hervey, Stewart, Riddle and Wood
ford voting in the negative.
The following bill, of local interest tC
the city of Wheeling, was unanimously
passed.
A bill to incorporate the Peninsula
Turnpike Company.
BE it enacted by the Legislature Of Hes
| Jnginia:
|. 1t shall be lawful to open books
for receiving subscriptions TO III
amount not exceeding one hundred
thousand dollars, to be divided int
shares of twenty-five dollars each, Il
constitute a joint capital stock for con
structing turnpike road from poln
at or near the east end of John street
in Wheeling, to point on TIT
National road at or near Lewis
Orth's in Fulton, by such route a.
the corporation hereinafter provided
may determine. Said book shall b'
opened under the direction of Andrew
J. Pannell, Michael Reilly, Oliver j
Crawford, Adam DOdson, David +
Donel, John Grey, q. w. Franzheim
Alex. M. Jacob, Curtis p. BrowR, Johs
g.. Gilchrist, Lewis Lunsford, or an,
two or more of them, and ut such plac,
or places and at such times as u major
ity of the above named commissioner
may appoint. Ten days notice thereO
being previously given in newspape
ublished in Wheeling.
2. When twenty thousand dollars o
the capital stock shall have been sub
scribed, then the subscribers, their ex
scutors, administrators and assigns
shall be incorporated by tho name oi
"The Peninsula Turnpike Company.
3. The said turnpike road shall b
opened not less than fifty feet wide, l
may be located at such grade as lh
company may deem most expedient ant
the road bed shall be MacadamiZed, bu
the said corporation shall be subject t
the provisions of the Code of Virginia
[. second edition, relating to turnpiE
companies.
4. The said corporation shall elect
Board of Directors for the management
: of the affairs of the road and make sucl
bylaws and regulations as may b
necessary for the government of tn
same.
5. The said corporation may erect
gate upon said road and collect toll
thereon not to exceed those allowed b.
8 law, aud said tolls shall first be apple,
, to keeping the said road in good repai
I before any dividend shall be paid t
, stockholders.
House bill No. 81, providing for
change in the time of holding elections
coming mp, Mr.. TOMLlNSON opposes
is passage on the ground of the impos
= sibility of the same set of election oftl
: GERS conducting the two elections IN th
> same day, without creating inextrica
|, |, BILE confusion and thus defeating til
1 true ends of popular elections. NI
PARKER objected, on the gronud
the unconstitutionality of the propose
, act, inasmuch as the constitution OF tn
State provides fcrannual elections, au
: this bill proposes to abolish the annua
election which should take place i
May next. Mr.. FERGUSON favored th
Z passage of the -bill--deeming it bot
'' convenient and constitutional. Passe(
o yeas, 43; nays, 10. The following is th
bill as it passed;
A bill providing for the election of towl
ship officers.
Il Be IL enacted BY the Legislature Of We
!, Virgiaia: . .s
!. The annual election of townshi