The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-30
General Assembly of Virginia.


General Assembly of Virginia.
| TUESDAY, March 70. 1870.
SENATE.
| The Senate met at 2. M.-Lieutenant-
| Governor MaRYE in the chair. Prayer by
Bishop Doggctt.
| COMMITTEE REPORT.
Mr.. WADDELL, from the Committee on
Finance, reported a hill filing the salaries
of the Judges Of the several coutts Of this
Commonwealth as follows:
81. Be it ordoined hy the General dS-
s.m5lv, That the compensation of the
Judges OF the several courts OF this Com
monwcalth shall be ~ follows:
":Suprcmc Co"rt Of -1pPeuls.
90. The Judges Of the Supreme Court Of
Appeals shall each receive the sum OF three
thousand dollars per annum, except the
president of said court, who shall receive
the sum of three thousand two hundred
dollars.
" Circuit Courts.
IS. The Judges Of the Circuit Courts
shall each receive the sum Of two thousand
dollars per annun, except the Judge OF
the Circuit Court for tie city Of Richmond,
| who shall receive the SUN Of two thousand
three hundred dollars Per arnu1n.
81. The several Judges Of the Supreme
Court of Appeals and Of the Circuit Courts
shall each be entitled IL mileage, As provided
BY law, for all necessary travel to ana from
their respective courts.
County Co"rtS.
"5. Judges Of the county courts OF
Amelia. Appomattox, Carroll, Clarke, Cam
bcrland. Essex, Floyd, Fiuvanna, Gooch-
land. Grayson, Isle OF Wight, King Viii
liam. Lee, Montgomery. Norfolk, Northamp-
ton, Nottoway, Orange, Patrick, P"whatan,
Princess Anne. Prince william. Rarpahan-
mock, Roanoke, Russell, Smyth, SpotSyl-
| vania, farewell, shall each receive the sum
Of 5000 per annum. Judges OF the county
courts Of Amherst, Botetourt, Brunswick,
Buckingham. Campbell, Charlotte, Chester
field, Culrepcr, Dnwiddie, Frederick, Hen
rico, Henry. Louisa, LnncnhurG, Aansc-
moul. Nelson. Prince Edward, Scott. She
nanioah, and southampton, shall each re-
ccivc the sum Of $500 per annum: and
| the Judges Of the districts of Allegheny and
Craig, Bland and Gales, Buchanan and
| Wise, Charles CITY and New Kent, Eliza
beth City and Warwick, Fairfax and
Alexandria county, Highland and Bath,
James City and York, King and Queen
and Middlescx, Northumberland and Lam
caster, Page and Warren, Prince George
and Surrv, Stafford and King George, and
Wcstmoreland and Richmond county, shall
each receive the sum of $500 per annum.
Judges of the county courts Of Accomac,
Caroline, Franklin, Hanover, Mecklen-
burg, Rockbridge, and Washington shall
each receive the sum of 81 1000 per annum ;
and Judges Of the districts of Gloucester
and Matthews, Madison ana Greene, Sus-
sex and Greensvillc, and Wythe and Pulas-
Xxi. shall each receive the sum of 81 600
per unnum. Judges of the county courts of
, Alhemarlc, Augusta, Bedford, Fauquier,
Halifax, Loudoun, and Rocking ham. shall
each receive the sum Of 81, 200 per annun.
Judge Of Pittsvlvania shall receive the sum
; of 81 600 per annum.
Corporation OF Hastings Courts.
&c. The Judges of the towns of Stauntor
D and Winchester shall each receive the sun
l of 500 per annum. The Judge of the city
Of Portsmouth shall receive the sum of $500
per annum. The judge of the town Of
Fredericksburg shall receive the sum Of
$500 per annum. Judges of the cities Of
Alexandria and Lynchburg shall each re-
ccive the sum of 81 900 per annum. Judg,
of the city of Petersburg shall receive the
sum OF 81, 800 per annuun and the judge
Of the city of Norfolk shall receive the sum
Of 1900 per annum.
-. This act shall be in force from it,
paFsage."
RESOLUTIONS, ETC.
| Mr.. pATTERsoS offered the following re-
solution, which was adopted
Whereas under the existing laws OF
Virginia many decedcnts' estates are placed
in the hands Of the shcriifs Of the different
counties of the Commonwealth and
whereas the said sheritfs are required to
wind up all said estates which may 30 be
: placed III their hands, whether in or out of
office, as such sheritls, thereby creating diff
Guilty in procuring proper sureties on said
sheriff. official bonds therefore lie it
EeS0lrcd, That the Committee for
; Courts OF Justice be instructed to inquire
into the expediency of SO amending the
present law as to require all sher ifs when
their terms of Office shall expire to settle
, up all iiduciary accounts and turn over all
balances in their hands as such fduciaries
to their successors in Office
BY Mr.. WADDELL.--keSolred, That the
Superintendent of Public Printing be au-
thorized and required to have printed psi
copies of the report of the Superintendent
Of Public instruction for the Use of the
Senate and the Superintendent of Public
instruction. Adopted.
STATE GAZETTE.
BY Mr.. PATTERsoS.-" Resolued, That
the Committee for Courts of Justice be in
structed to inquire into the expediency OF
establishing in the city of Richmond
under the SUPPLEMENTARY of the Superin-
tcudent of Public Printing, a State Gazette
in which shall be published all the acts OF
the General Assembly as they shall become
laws of Virginia, of q public nature; oil
orders of publication ordered by the courts
of the Commonwealth all notices OF sales
of real estate or personal property under
DEGREES of courts, and all chancery notices
requiring publication; said Gazette to be
published weekly, and two copies of each
issDa m ba fcr-ra nj al tn pseh Of the county