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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-31

GOAL AND WOOD am now fur
u nishing the best GLOVER HILL LUMP
COAL at Sc and HAIL at $ al;2 SntI core coz:
market prices, and best ANTHRACITE COAL
always on hand.
Come and get supplied ut the lowest rates at the
corner of Nineteenth and Cary streets and Seventh
and Grace. ~
uu2l CHARLES IT. PAGE.
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A NTuRACITE AND BlTUMINOUS
N .COAL.-Dischargin cargocs Of Annie and
H. &. Ely. ofthe celebrated "LpHBERRl - RED
ASH ANTHRACITE freshly mnedl COAL.
Gives universal satisfaction.
ALSO.
CLOVER HILL COAL. for families CUM
BFRLAND CRATE. AVERAGE. and SMITHS
COAL, said TO be the best known for steam and
smiths use ;. L. LATIlROP,
and Seventeenth street, at Draw-BrIdge.
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DOVER COAL and CARBON HILL
~ SOFT COKE, now at lowest summer prices :
ANTHRACITE COAL; and WOOD. sawed and
f JONES & BROOKE,
Agents Dover Company and
Carbon Hill Soft Coke.
Word ON Sivth strnnt ncnr Canal au 10
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WOOD AND COAL.

GLOVER HILL HARD COAL.-I am
HARD COAL at the low price of =: per cart-lnad !;
also all grades of CLOVER HILL aud ANTliRA-
CITE COAL. OAK and PINE WOOD.
nm aim A. y. Woodbridge.
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1859
j. +. BOHEMIAN. President.
u. +. WILCOX, Secretary.

This company makes n specially Of Issuing
PARTiCIPATING POLICIES
on dwellings and furniture, whereby the !nhurGH
snares in the profits Of the company without IN
curing liability. ,,
Agents may be found ut nearly every prominent
p0int I'm this and the ucghbOriug states, 10 whom
applications for Insurance may be made .
Scrip dividend to holders OF participating poll
cics. TWENTY-FIVE per cent
The scrip of 1867 rs per cent? Is now receivable
as cash in payment Of premiums.
j. Ii. MONTAGUE. Agent Mt
my or an Richmond Va.
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CHEAPEST WOOD IN TIE CITY
~ would advise everybody to buy their win
tcr's fuel now whilst they can get 1t good and
cheap. would also advise them TO gel il from W.
j. MCDOWELL for he sells BETTER WOOD
city. am also prepared to furnish the best SOFT
and HARD COKE. ANTHRACITE, CLOVER
HILL. MIDLoTHIAN, and other GOALS, at
lowest market rates. W. j. MCDOWELL.
next to corner First and Broad streets
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ID s. DERBISU1RE
4 Is prepared to furnish ANTHRACITE AND
BITIyMiN0JTS GOALS SOFT COKE, OAK and
PINE WOOD. on the lowest terms. .=
Office and yard corner Ninth and Cary streets.
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40 BARRELS PURE RYE WHISkEI,
~ IS barrels s. n. Pixies Magnolia Whlskey
n barrels Soutlsidc Rye Whiskcy, 10 barrels
frandv and Gin, l quarter cask Otards pure
french Brandy, quarter casks pure Port Wine.
quarter casks Cosen's pure Sherry Wine. In store
f,r snIe by JOHN NJ. HIGGINS,
anon 1910 Franklin street.
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business CARDS PRINTED AT THE
ID DISPATCH PRINTING-HOUSE CHEAP
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vNuE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF NEW YORK.
IN 1919.

TIE WORLD.
Cash receipts for TIE year ending February y
1862. over Sl3, 900, 900.
Cash assets February /, 1862, Invested IN bonds
and mortgages worth in every case double tue
amount os!ned,) over So. 600, 900. ,.,o
Number Of policies in force February !, ls'''
g. lG6. 49,,
This Is an al-cash and = PURELY MUTUAL com
P.SY and Il conducted the only principle
which time and experience has proven = be W.
matey safe and trustworthy. All OF us prout'
are divided annually among the insured In the
most equitable manner, which can be tised 10 dc-
crease the premiums or to purchase more 'h'u-
rance mt the option Of the pollcy-holdcrs.
Application can be made To Nr. Lewis BooKer'
Mr. John T. Goddir, or the undersigned.
ID. y. WALKER CO, Agents,
No. 1914 Main street
DR.. j. b. MCCAw. Medical Examiner. my
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WINTER SUPPLIES.-COnsume who
w wouldayail ofthc lower rates Of summer, and
get their fuel stored for winter Will be supplied al
The lowest prices, and with the best quality OF
COKE, BITUMINOUS and Mt II y G r
COAL and OAK and PINE WOOD, sawed and
split. or long. Office I'LL Main street.
'iy 3l-lm j. Il. WATKINS.
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JOHN r. SEDGW1Ck.
Wholesale L i1uor Dealer, 2207 Cary stree

This WHISKEy IS warranted In every particu-
lar each barrel bearing my own brand and is not
snrnasscd In PURITY By any whiskey ever offered
In this market. -,-,.. A. ;, .. - IL
. ~ m oy Richmond. Va.
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ZINE SUMMER DRINK.-ZETELLE
n has n. fine CLARET ut the low price of $3.50
per gallon and fifty cents per bottle. BY the barrel
ut lower rates. E SIS
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A NTHRACITE COAL.-For sale to ar
n rive 200 tons best quality LORBERRI RED
ASH, EGG, and STOVE COAL. As coal Is daily
advancing in the Philadelphia market those wish
ing 10 layin their winters supply viii find IL TO
their interest to call at my Office and leave their
orders.
strncts Tiyoll WRIT ROBERTS.
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am now selling PURE RYE WHISKEY,
manufactured by myself. 1t can be had Mt the fol-
lowing houses u,D,yuv 200
JOHN III. HIGGINS, t'iAn SFT- r. Z IT sSS;,
WINSTON e POWERS, JOHN w. WILKES,
J, w. VERLANDER, a.E.
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This Is the oldest and one OF the most popular
religious papers in the southern States. 1t Is Il
Presbyterian Journal liberal in its spirit accept
able among AL denominations, ana cspeclall!
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wines AND ErQUORs.

GALL FOR THE xxx BRAND.
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''shaI be punished the following words "or who
secretes, OF with design to aid the prisoner in
assists such prisoner that has escaped at large
so that the section, as amended, shall read fol-
lows:
"SEcr. IA. Whoever forcibly rescues any prisoner
lawfully detained for any criminal offence; conveys
into any jail other place of confinement any dis
intended to aid, or in any way aids him to escape
though such escape is not effected or attempted;
whoever secretes OF with design to aid the prison
way assists such prisoner that has escaped, is at
large. shall be punished, if such prisoner in
tody for any felony by Imprisonment not less than
one year more than seven years; aud ii for any
other offence, by imprisonment less than one year
and by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.'
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved
Approved February Is, 1851
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Chapter 80.

AN ACT additional to IAN Act concerning the mill
tia"
SECT 1. There shall be organized, under the di
rection of the governor of this state, number of
teer militia of the organization prescribed in section
twenty-five of act entitled act concerning the
militia, approved February twenty third one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-ve the to be I'M
der the government of the present laws and regua-
lions concerning the militia.
SECT. 2. These companies shall be selected from
the volunteer companies making application for or
ganization under this act which shall have conform
ed to the requirements under existing military laws
and shall be selected from such locations as in the
Judgment of the governor of this state are most in
need of military companies for safety and ORDER and
best calculated for the support and maintenance of
military organizations.
SECT. 8. These companies shall be armed uni
formed and equipped at the expense of the state &C.
cording to the existing regulations of the United
States army, under which clothing is issued to the
enlisted of the United States army, with the fol-
cap, overcoat and pantaloons to each soldier, but
each company shall have liberty to choose and pro-
vide its own uniform with the consent and approval
of the governor, and in such the price of the
United States army uniform not issued, shall be COM
muted to the soldier in money such communication to
be paid by the paymaster-general and receipted for
upon the company rolls" The above enumerated
shall be supplied once in three years.
SECT. 4. There shall be not less than four annual
inspections of said companies such inspections to be
preceded by review and such drill in the tactics as
may by directed by the inspecting officer.
SECT. s. The existing regulations and provisions
drill payment, muster and encampment, shall be APP
plicable to the uniformed volunteer militia.
SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved
[Approved February %, 1851
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AN ACT to amend sections sixteen and eighteen of
chapter five of the Revised Statutes relating to the
Public Lands.
SECT. l. Section sixteen of chapter five of the re-
vsed statutes is hereby amended by striking out the
words "of the county" in the seventh line of said
section, that said section amended shall read
follows
"SEcT. 16 When in the grant of townships or parts
thereof, there certain proportions of them re-
uses and they have not been lawfully located in sew
crafty by the grantee for the purposes expressed in
the grant, the supreme judicial court in the county
where the land lies on application of the land agent
may appoint three disinterested persons and issue
their warrant under the seal of the court to Them
rate lots the proportions reserved for such
and to designate the use for which each lot is SO re-
served and located such lots to be of an quail
ity with the residue of the lands therein"
SECT. 2. Section eighteen of said chapter is here
by amended by inserting after the word "town," in
the firth line, the words eff so ordered by the court
SO that said section, as amended shall read as follows
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AN ACT providing for reviews in criminal cases.
Justice may grant reviews in criminal as we'll as civil
cases, upon the discovery of new and important evil
dence, and when in the opinion of said court there
vcted and sentenced in any judicial tribunal, pro-
vided q petition therefor is presented within six
years after such conviction and sentence.
SECT. 2. Such petition may be presented in any
county. and notice be there ordered returnable in
the county where such person was convicted. Such
reasonable notice shall be given to the state attorney
for said county or to the Encouragement, or both,
as the court orders.
SECT. g. Whenever review is granted in Grim.
nal case, if in the opinion of the court there may be
difficulty in obtaining jury of ability and impair.
tiaity in the county where the was previously
tried by reason of prejudice, the formation or ex-
preston Of opinion in relation to the guilt or inno
cence or the accused or for any other reason, the
court may order a change of venue to such other
change of so ordered the cas- shall be trans
ferred to such other county and shall be there
and tried in the same manner if the offence charged
had been committed in said county, but the expen Sc
incurred by such county shall be refunded BY the
county from which the case is transferred.
shall have power to issue any process necessary to
bring such convicted person into court for trial. and
if the jury shall by their verdict acquit the prisoner,
such verdict shall render null and void the former
conviction and sentence and the accused shall be dis
charged from custody; but if the jury shall convict
the prisoner, upon final judgment sentence shall be
awarded anew according to the requirements of the
law and with due regard to any penalty partial
punishment suffered by the convict under the former
sentences ana the jury shall fail to agree upon the
first trial such further trial or trials as the court
shall order the convict shall be returned to prison to
serve out or suffer the sentence awarded under the
former conviction.
SECT. s. Whenever review is granted in any
case where the offence charged is punishable with
DEATH it shall be the duty of the chief justice to pre-
side at the trial if thereto requested by the accused
or his counsel fourteen days prior to the time appoint
ed for said trial
SECT g. Whenever it shall appear on the trial of
any review in criminal case that any witness who
testified in the former trial has deceased the tes-
mony of such deceased Witness given at the former
tia may be proved by either party, and shall be
competent evidence.
SECT. T. This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved March 8, 1861
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may be taken for payment of his debts by an execu
ton issued judgment recovered against his ex.
ecutor administrator, and levied on sold and re.
deemed if taken in his lifetime unless the estate
of such deceased person shall have been represented
insolvent, and commission of insolvency issued
thereon before such levy shall have been made"
. SECT. 2. In all cases commission of insolvency,
issued by the probate court the estate of deceased
persons before levy or satisfaction of execution,
shall vacate attachments.
SECT. 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed.
[Approved March 2, 1851
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'SEcT. Is. They shall also give notice oftheir ap-
pointment, and of the time and place of their meet
ing to execute it, by pubshingit in some newspaper
posting up written notifications in two or more pub
lie places in the same plantation town, if so or
dered by the court at least thirty days next prior
their meeting.'
SECT. 8. Any locations already made shall be held
valid the same as If these amendments had formed
part of the original statutes
SECT. 4. This act shall take effect when approved.
(Approved February 26, 1881
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AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred twenty-five
OF the public laws of eighteen hundred sixtyeght,
debts.
SECT. l. That the fourth section of chapter two
hundred Twenty-Five of the public laws of the year
eighteen hundred sixty-eight is hereby amended by
striking out the word "Apr in the second sentence,
and inserting the word October so that said sem
tence as amended shall read said bonds to be dated
October first in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred sixty-nine, reimbursable in twenty
years from that date and bearing interest at the rate
of six per cent a year payable roth principal and
the option of the hoder and the treasurer is hereby
authorized to issue bonds therefor in sums not less
than hundred dollars each, with coupons for the
interest payable semi-annually."
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved
[Approved March 3, 1851
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Chapter %.
AN ACT to amend chapter six of the Revised Sta
utps relating tn taxafion

AN ACT to amend chapter six of the Revised Stat
utes relating to taxation
SECT. l. The second specification of the sixth
section of chapter six of the revised statutes here
by amended by striking out all after the word "sec-
ond' to and including the word constitutions" in
the fourth line, and inserting the following words
exempted from taxation; the and personal prop
erty of all literary institutions that said speci-
cation as amended shall read as follows: "Second
All property which by the articles of separation is
exempted from taxation; the real and personal
property of all literary institutions and the real and
personal property of all benevolent, charitable and
scientific Institutions Incorporated by this state''
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved
(Approyed February %, 1861
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Chanfer n.

AN ACT relating to licenses granted by Judge of
Probate for sale of real estate.
When the time in license to sell real estate which
has been granted by judge of probate, on petition
and after public notice, has expired a new license
for the sale of the whole part of the same real
estate Tor the purposes may lie granted with or
without notice, at the discretion of the judge on
filing new bond, in the case of the original Ii
cense lApproved February g. 1869
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Chapter 33.

AN ACT to amend section thirteen of chapter one
hundred and forty-three of the revised statutes.
SECT. 1. Section thirteen of chapter one hundred
and forty-three of the revised statutes is hereby
amended in the sixth line thereof by adding after
the words zone dollar" the words and fifty cents
so that said section as amended, shall read follows
The officers ordering the commitment of person
unable to pay for his support may certify in writing
to the superintendent that fact and that he has
and if the superintendent is satisfied that such certi
icae Is true the treasurer of the hospital may charge
to the state one dollar and fifty cents per week for his
board and deduct it from the charge made to the pa
tient or town for his support
SECT 2. This act shall take effect when approyed
tApproved February 26, 1851
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Chapter 80.

AN ACT relating to school district taxes assessed
and collected without authority of law.
All the provisions of section ninety-eight of the
sixth chapter of the revised statutes and any and all
other statutes relating to the subject shall ap-
ply to the case of taxes assessed by for school dis
tricts, far as the same are applicable; provided
that the school district and not the town shall be Ii
able in the herein specified.
[Approyed March 8, 1861
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Clnapfer Rs.

AN ACT to amend section forty-three of chapter
seventysiX of the revised statutes relating the
levy of execution against the estates of deceased
persons.
SECT. 1. Section fortv-three of the seventy-sixth
chapter of the revised statutes is hereby amended by
inserting after the word lifetime the following
words, to wit: unless the estate of such deceased
person shall have been represented nsOlvent. and
commission of insolvency issued thereon before such
levy shall have been made" So that as amended the
first period of said section shall read: -'
SECT. 49, The real estate of deceased persons
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Chapter 81.

AN ACT to continue in force chapter one hundred
and seventy, public laws eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight entitled can Act authorizing pensions
for disabled soldiers and seamen."
SECT. l. The provisions of chapter one hundred
and seventy, public laws eighteen hundred sixty
eight, are hereby continued in force for year
from the twenty-thrd day of February, eighteen
hundred and sixty nine.
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.
GApproved February "a, 1861
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Chapter 35.

AN ACT to increase the bounty for killing Bears
SECT. 1. A bounty of five dollars for every baa,
killed in any town in this state shall be paid by the
treasurer thereof to the person killing it, on his COM
plying with the provisions set forth in chapter thirty
section six of the revised statutes
SECT. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with the foregoing section of this are hereby re-
pealed lApproved February 26, 1861
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Chapter 81.


AN ACT to regulate the taking of Porgies or Mem
haden in the waters of Maine
SECT. l. No person shall set or use any seine
within three miles of the Shore any waters of this
state for the purpose of taking menhaden or porges
under penalty of not less than one hundred nor
more than five hundred dollars and the forfeiture of
all vessels boats craft and apparatus employed in
such unlawful fishing, for each offence; but net of
no more than one hundred and forty meshes deen
shall not be deemed SEINE P'
SECT 2 Any person who shall cast or deposit. or
cause to be thrown deposited into any of the nav
igable waters of this state. any pumice scraps or
othe: offa arising from the making of oil or sivers
Tor bait from menhaden or herring shall nav ine
of not less than fifty, more than one thonsand
dollars for each offence. "n"
SECT; 3 All vessels, boats crafts and apparatus
of any kind employed in violation of snv Of fh @
visions OF this act shall be liable for anv fines and
cost and 1t shall be lawful for any person or nernn
to seize and detain said property not exceedip fbi
ty-slA hours that the same may be attached hv dno
process OF law to satisfy any Judgment that NAV be
a., SECT :. All penalties and forfeitures named in
s act may De recovered in an action of debt in the
name ana to the use of the county or in the name of
any person sueng Therefore one half of such fine and
toiet9re TO pc paid to the person prosecuting and
committed. o 'e 0ie"0o 40
SECT 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
WIN Il tnls act are hereby repealed.
SECT o. This act shall take effect when approved.
lApproved February 81 1861
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CHAPTER 36.

AN ACT to amend chapter twelve, section seventeen
of the revised statutes.
SECT. l. Section seventeen, chapter twelve of the
revised statutes is hereby amended by inserting after
the word church., in the first line the words, the
the said section, amended, shall read as follows:
SECT. II. The church wardens of episcopal
churches, the stewards of the methodist episcopal
churches are so far corporations to take in
sion, all grants and donations of real and personal
successors; and if the minister's elders or yesry are
Joined with them in such grants or donations. the
two classes of officers shall be corporations for that
purpose
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approyed.
fApproved February 20, 1861
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Chapter Al.

AN ACT to amend section thirty.nine of chapter
eieven OF the revised statutes relating to the as
sessment OF taxes for school districts therein. If
cEcr. l. Section thirty.nine of chapter ELEVEN VI
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Cbauter ~.

AN ACT to amend chapter twenty-six of the Revised
Statutes, relating to the prevention of fires
SECT. 1. The provisions of sections nineteen
twenty, twenty twenty-five and twenty three ~
chapter twentysix of the revised statutes, are OK.
tended to include petroleum, coal oils, burning finds
narhtha, benzine and all explosive or illuminatinr
substances which the municipal officers of towns and
cities shall adjudge dangerous to the lives or safety
Of citizens. " e'
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.
(Approved March 8, 1857