The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-30

Board Of Supervisors of Morgan coun-
" to exempt citizens from performing
road labor BY paying tax not exceed
ing 81 so per head.
BY Mr.. CraDe-In regard to the town
ship school leVies, SO as to apportion
three-hlths of the same according to the
number OF scholars and two-fifths ac-
cordlng TO the number of schools in q
townahip.
By Mr.. GoR-Amending or repeal.
Ing section Is, chapter 7s, acts of 1858,
in regard to taxing dogs.
BY the same-Amending the law rel.
alive to the sale of real estate returned
de1hquent for taxes.
BY Mr.. EVans-PFoVidtng that the
county Superintendent of Schools, the
Boards OF Supervisors, and the three
Commissioners Of each township, shall
constitute the Board OF Education oil
each county.
>~By Mr.. Pinnell-InquIrtng into the
expedieucy of paying Lorenzo Bidwell
and George HeGkaFt for work done on
the Staunton and ParkeTsburg pike.
By Mr.. TOmlinson-Calling on the
Auditor for information as to the
amount OF taxes collected In the year
1885, and the amount of commissions
/ allowed.
BY Mr.. Jacob-Compslling township
CleTkst 70 publish annually q complete
expose of the amount of school leYies
collected and disbuFsed by them, and
to publish the same In the newspapers,
and to post five copies at pnblic places.
The Speaker announced hefolIoWIng
special committees:
ON TRMPERANcK.-Mes Fleming,
OF Harrison, Armstrong, Howes and
ON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Blair. AL
lisOn, Gold, Crane and Stewart.
The tkN1NNHITf1nr hfN1a NEraVsa de
To authorize John g. Cockerell to
make certain repairs to locks In the
Shenandoah river.
The bill excepting debts for rent of
real and personal property, and also
physicians accounts, from the opera
tons of the exemption law.
The following bill was read second
time, and referred to the Judiciary
COMMITTEES:
WHEREAS During the late rebellion,
several statutes were passed author
tzing suits to be brought and prosecuted
in counties other thar, those prescribed
by the one hundred and sixty.ninth
section of the Code of Virginia. second
edition; and whereas, the necessity for
all such laws have now ceased, there
fore, a
BE Il enacted by tie Legislature of
Vest HiT0ini0: That all acts and parts
of acts passed since the 18th day of
April, 1851, authorizing suits and other
Judicial proceedings to be brought and
prosecuted In counties other than those
prescribed in chapter one hundred and
sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, seq
ond edition, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
Shortly after IL o'clock the special or
der OF the day. viz: the joint resolution
offered by Mr.. Jacob, OF this county,
proposing to instruct our Senators in
Congress In regard to what was desired
Of them as a financial policy, was
taken up, whereupon Mr.. Armstrong
offered the following Substitutes:
RESOLVED, That all questions inYolv-
ing the national currency and paying
the public debt are financial, aud not
political, In their character, and 1t Is
the duty of Congress to mature and
furnish such solution of the same as
will promote the best interests OF the
nation at large.
On the question of adopting this SUBJ
sutute, Mr.. Steere demanded the pre-
vious question, and the demand was
sustained.
Mr.. Newlin moved to lay the resolu-
ton. and substitute on the table. On
this motion Mr.. Armstrong demanded
the yeas and nays, and they were
taken, and the motion lost.
The House then adopted the substi-
n Ae
Newlln, adjourned.
BILL To REDUCE TAXES.
The following is a bill reported by
the Committee on Taxation and Finance
in regard to taxes:
Be It e1lGcted by the Legislature of
West Virginia The taxes on the per-
sons and subjects required by law TO be
listed or assessed shall be yearly as fol-
lows:
On tracts of land and lots with the
improvements not exempted from tax
alton, twenty cents ON every one hun
dred dollars thereof.
On all the personal property, money
and credits required by law to be listed
and not exempt from taxation, twenty
cents on every hundred dollars value
thereof.
There shall also be levied yearly on
the assessed valuation of real and per-
sonaI property, ten cents on every hum
dred dollars, for the purpose OF free
schools, being the tax mentioned In the
thirty-seventh section OF the act passed
December tenth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-three, entitled IAN act providing
for the establishment OF system OF
Free Schools"
On every white male inhabltant who
has attained the age of tWenty-one
years, one dollar. n.
On every male free negro who has at
tanned the age of twenty-ons years, one
dollar.