The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-15

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sessment Of taxes;
House Bill No. 81, exempting Low
johnson from the provisions Of Chapter
80 of the Acts of 1866; -J y :
House Bill No. 90; changing the time
of holding the Courts in the Fourth q
dicial Circuit;
House Bill No. 80, for the relief of w
A. M. Reed.
Mr.. SMITH, of Kanawha, from the
same committee, to which was referred
the petition of S. N. Orr and others, OF
Brooke county, asking that Joshua
Wright be relieved from the payment
of certain fine, reported the following
resolution: : :.
Resolred, That the petition of s. n
Orr and others, eitizsns OF Brooke
county, asking for the relief of Joshua
Wright, of said county, and presented
TO tie House at the present session, be
recommended to the Governor with the
recommendation that he favorably con-
slider the same. Adopted.
Mr.. GIBSON, Of Preston, from the
committee on Education, reported
House Bill No. 100, creating q schosl
district within the town of Brandon-
vile.
Mr.. HOWES, from the committee on
Humane and Criminal Institutions, to
which was referred the petition of j.
M. Herndon and others, asking the pass
age of an act to prevent drunkenness
and the adulteration ofliquors, reported
it inexpedient to legislate for that pur-
pose. The report was adopted. -
Messages from the Senate announced
that that body had adopted:
Senate joint Resolution No. Z, re.
auesting the officers of the Hospital for
the Insane and Penitentiary to make a
certain reports and that it had passed;
Senate Bill No. 50, authorizing the
trustees of the German Reformed
Church, in the town of Shepherdstewn,
in Jefferson county, to sell and convey
their parsonage property;
A substitute for HoSse Bill No. 2, to
provide for the publication and distri-
button of the Code of West Virginia.
That it had passed: r
House Bill No. %, authorizing the
trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church on Phillip Circuit, in Barbour
county, to sell and convey part OF
their parsonage property; ~. ~
House Bill No. 30, authorizing the
trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Frankford, Greenbrier cOun.
ty, to sell their parsonage property;
House Bill No. 81, authorizing the
| trustees of st. John's Protestant Epis-
copal Church. in the city of Whee ling,
to borrow money; and
House Bill No. a. extending he time
of the county and township officers; in
Braxton county, to qualify and file
! bonds.
Senate Joint Resolution MOI, was
adopted.
House Bill No. ,, to provide for the
publication and distribution of the Code
of West Virginia. was, on motion of Mr..
MAHON, referred to the committee on
the Judiciary.
Mr.. SCOFIELD presented petition
signed by Lewis Shepperd and p Others,
citizens of Writ county, and a letter
from A. J. Oft, asking that said OFT be
relieved from the provisions of Chapter
90 of the Acts of 1867. Referred to the
committee on The Judiciary.
Nr. SMITH, of Kanawha, presented
petition signed by James +. Hatcher
and 46I others, citizens of Raleigh, Wy
oming and Mercer counties, asking the
formation of new county within the
boundaries of said counties. Referred
to the committee on Counties, Township
and Municipal Corporations.
He also presented a petition signed
! by Henry PeiIrepont and forty-one 9th
ers, landowners on or near the Great
Kanawha river, asking an amendment
to the Acts of February q, 1867, and
February 81, 1868, for improving the
navigation of the Great Kanawha river.
Referred to the committee on the Judi
ciary.
On motion of Mr.. PUTNAM, it was or
dered that the committee on the Judi
ciary inquire into the expediency of re-
arranging the times of holding the
courts in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.
On motion of Mr. PINNELL, it was
ordered that the cOMmittee on the Judi
ciary inquire into the expediency of
providing a law for the sale by town
Ship treasurers or collectors of lands as.
sessed with taxes for school or building
purposes.
On motion of Mr.. MARTIN, it was Or
dered that the committee on the Judi-
ciary inquire into the cXpedicnCy of so
changing the time Of holding the courts
in ROane and Logan counties, that the
time for helding the same will not CON
ll!ct with the courts OF Raleigh, fayettc
and Wyoming counties.
Mr.. HARRISON, of Lewis, presented
petition signed by j. NJ. Corly and
| tweuty-four others, citizens of Lewis
county, and letter signed by Jonathan
+. Hall, asking that said Hall be exempt
ed from the provisions of Chapter % of
the Acts of 1867 Referred to the COM
mittee on the Judiciary.
Mr.. RAYMOND presented a petition
signed by Lot Bowen aud 65 others,
citizens of Harrison county, asking the
relief of Peter B. RICHTER, of Marion
county, from the provisions Of the act
requiring the suitors' test oath. Re-
ferred to the committee on the Judi
ciary
Mr.. GIBSON, of Preston, presented a
petition signed by W. Shahon and 81
others, citizens of Preston county, ask
ing for the enactment ofs more stringent
prohibitory liquor law. Referred TO
the committee on the Judiciary.
Mr.. HARRISON, of Lewis, under
leave, introduced House Bill No. l0l, to
provide that certain causes heretofore
discontinued may be reinstated.
Mr., FRENCH, under leave, intro
duced House Bill No. l02, refunding
certain taxes enormously assessed
against the estate of David Hall, OF
Mercer county, in the year 1866.
Mr.. SCOFIELD offered the following,
which Mr.. PlNNELL objected to, and
its immediate consideration was laid
over under the rules:
WHEREAS, The Legislature of West
Virginia did, on the Sd day of Febru-
ary, 1869, in the exercise of its consti.
tutional prerogatiye, declare that john
McCraw, delegate elect from the dis
trict represented by the counties of
Raleigh. Wyoming aud Mcdowell, was
not entitled, under the laws and Con
stitution of the State, to hold the posi-
tion of a member of the House of Dele
gates of this State; therefore be it
ResOlr,d, That the seat of the said
John McCraw is hereby declared Va
/ cant.
Mr.. SMITH, OF Morgan, unsuccessfully