The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-05


Senate Bill No. 102. autbor;z;no cer.
tain trustees to sell certain church prop
erty In mercer county, was passed.
that that body had passed
Senate Bill ll9, supplementary to
and amendatory Of, an act entitled an
act to incorporate the Moorefield and
south Branch Railroad Company, was
taken up and passed.
Senate Bill No. lis, for the relief Of
John G. Way, Sheriff of Tyler county
was passed.
Senate Bill No. 80, to explain and
amend the law relative to the sale OF
real estate for the non-payment and
non-assessment of taxes and the trans
fer OF the title vested in the State, was
passed.
Senate Bill No. 100, amending and re-
ensctiag Chapter 81 of the acts of 1867,
was passed.
House Bill No. "a, to refund to Brady
IL Armstrong certain taxes enormously
assessed to them, was passed.
House Bill No. 165, amending the act
passed December 90, 1868, entitled an
act establishing code of laws for this
otaIe, was passed.
House Bill No. 36, to protect produc-
4 ers of oil, was passed.
A message from the Senate announced
that that body had passed House Bill
No. as, relating to the election and du-
ties the uperintendent of the Peni-
tentiary.
Mr.. SMITH, of Kauawha, msved to
reconsider the vote by which the House
refused to suspend the rules for the pur-
pose of taking up Senate Joint Resolu-
tion No. Is, creating Board to settle
with the B. & o. K. K. Co. for back
taxes, pending which the House took a
recess until o'clock P. NJ.
EVENING SESSION.
A message from the. Senate, by Mr..
DOOLITTLE, announced that that body
had adopted the report of the commit
tee of Conference on the disagreeing
votes between the two Houses on Sem
ate Bill No. ll2, appropriating the pub
lie revenue for the fiscal year 1869.
A message from the Senate announced
that that body had passed
House Bill No. 55, repeating 80 much
of Chapter As of the Code of West Vir-
ginia as provides for q Model School at
Marshall College;
House Bill No. 81, for the relief of
Samuel J. Hiner, of Upshur county;
House Bill No. 65, authorizing per-
sonal services on nonresident defend
ants;
House Bill No. II, providing for the
distribution of the school fund of the
year 1865;
House Bill No. 75, creating a school
district within the town of Phillippi;
H,use Bill No. 90, releasing Zsbedee
Brown, Treasurer of Clay township, in
Braxton county, and his sureties, from
the payment of certain money;
House Bill No. los, changing the
bousdary lines of the school district of
Weston, in the county of Lewis;
House Bill No 1913, exempting George
T. Wilson from the provisions of section
b of Chapter 90 of the acts of 1867;
House Bill No. l2i, relating TO road
tax aud labor of John Wylie and w. w.
! Wylie, of Hancock county;
| House Bill No. l3I, legalizing mill
dam across Buffalo, at the town of Man
nington.
f.; House Bill No. So, to incorporate the
, Randolph, Tucker and Preston Turn
pike company, with amendments.
The same message announced that
that body had passed:
Senate Joint Resolution No. II, rails
| inc a committee To investigate the at
fairs of the West Virginia Penitentiary,
and that it had appointed as such cou-
mittee on its part Messrs. Phelps and
Price. The resolution was subsequent
lv adopted and Messrs. Dis, Rollins and
! Harrison, of Jefferson, were appointed
on part of the House.
Mr. SCOFIELD, from the committee
on Enrolled Bll-, made report, the
reading of which was dispensed with,
and the report OF the committee was
adopted.
The House resumed consideration of
the motion pending, at the hour OF re-
cess, it being the motion to reconsider
the vote by which the House refused
to suspend the rules for the purpose OF,
this day, taking up
Senate Joint Resolution No. 10, Great
ing board to settle with the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company for back
taxes.
On that motion, after much debate,
Mr.. SCOFIELD demanded the previous
question, ana the demand was sustain
| dd.
! The motion was reconsidered.
| The Speaker pro tenn. Mr.. MANN in
the chair) decided that a motion TO sus-
pend was not necessary.
The resolution was adopted.
Senate Joint Resolution 40. l6, pro-
viding for the payment of the expenses
of the investigating committee to the
Penitentiary, was adopted.
House Bill No. Ii, to prevent the
working of manufactures and other
machinery on the Sabbath day, was
passed.
On motion of Mr.. SMITH, of Kama
wha, a call of the House was made and
several officers of that body found to be
absent.
On motion of Mr.. JACOB, of Hamp-
shire, further proceedings were dispens-
ed with.
House Bill No. 45, relating to the
election and duties of the Snperintend-
ent of the Penetentiary, came up, the
amendments proposed by the Senate
were agreed to.
Senate Joint Resolution No. Ia, re-
questing Congress to aid Captain Fred
erick Ford, of Mason county, was
adopted.
On motion of Mr.. JACOB, of Hamp-
shire, it was
Resolred, That the thanks of the House
be rendered to the Speaker for the
faithfulness, efficiency and impartiality
with which he has discharged the du-
ties of his office, and also to the Clerk
and his assistants, to the Sergeant-at-
Arms and Doorkeeper for the prompt
and unremitting attention to the busi-
ness of their respective offices.
THE sPEAKER's vALEDICToRY.
GENTLEMEN:-The lsbors of the ses-
sion have terminated and We are about
to separate aud return to our homes.
Maay exciting and perplexing questions
have been discussed and determined in
which the people of the State are vital
ly interested. 6You have at all times
shown a commendable zeal, devotion
and faithfulness for the interests of
those whom You represent. 1t is graft
tying to me to be able to say that l feel
sure that no i'll feeling in the bosom of