The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-15

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.nittee recommended the following amend
ments to the House bill
81. Strike out the preamble.
80. In section !, line 5, after i insert
the words do declare myself citizen OF
the Commonwealth of Virginia.
SO. The committee propose to ada TO tue
bill provision requiring every omeea
elected or appointed within Twelve mon ~ .
nfter the passage of the act 10 take 'he
fourteenth amendment oath.
Mr., SSowpEx moved that the Senate non
concur in the report, in order that another
committee might be appointed ana the 1l.le
lie did not want 1t 10 GO lor.h
that these oaths were preScrtOeu ny Tue
General Assembly. The General Assembly
did not prescribe them.
His motion was lost.
Tho report was concurred in and COM
municatcd to the House.
TAX on OYSTERS.
The report of the Committee On Finance
asking to be discharged from the consldera-
ton OF tho subject Of the repeal OF the oys'
ter tex was taken up and concurred IN.
JANIS RIVER BRIDGE COMPANY.
Mr.. COURTNEY presented bill to incor-
norotc the James River Bridge Company
which was referred. The bill LOOKS 10 tue
formation Of company to build Tree
BRIDE between Richmond und Manchester
Referred.
BEER CASKS.
Mr.. ANDERSON, from the Committee on
Finance, presented bill in relation to tue
sale and disposition of butts, hogsheads,
barrels, casks, and kegs, used by the man
ufacturers of malt liquors; which was or
dered to be printed.
SICK MEMBERS.
Mr.. ANDERSON, of RockbridGe, by re-
quest, explained the absence OF Senators
Grimslcv and i. .imbler Smith Ivy reason
Of sickness.
EEGISTRATIoN or VOTERS.
Bill entitled "To provide for a general
registration of voters was taken up, READ
by sections, and amended.
Mr.. SMITH, of Henrico, proposed a sub
stitute for the first section; which was re-
icctcd.
Pending the discussion of the bill, the
Senate adjourned until j NJ. Tuesday.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The House met ut IL M.-IIon. ISAAC u.
Rrpp in the chair. Prayer by the Rev.
Dr.. Bethlehem, rabbi of the Eleventh
Street synagogue.
FROM THE EXECUTIVE.
The SPEAKER laid before the House q
communication from the Governor trans
hitting the report OF the commissioners ap-
pointed Ivy the General Assembly in 1866
81 IL adjust the boundary line between
This State and the State Of Maryland Il
paper from General Il. Z. Lee, president of
Washington College, on the southern boun-
Diary of the State; also, the report of the
Of the Virginia Military
Institute. These documents were referred
to appropriate committees.
BILL PASSED.
Senate bill authorizing the Board Of Pub
lie Works to examine oil claims for work,
&C., on the Covington and Ohio railroad,
and report to the General Assembly the
result Of such examination, was reported
from the Committee on Roads with amend
ments. Ii was afterwards passed with
and returned to the Senate.
JURISDICTION OF COURTS.
Senate bill No. 81, "To prescribe and de-
fine the jurisdiction Of the county and cor.
poratiUn courts of the Commonwealth, and
tie times and places of holding the same, y
was, on motion of Mr.. NELLY, of Smyth
ken up. and made the special continuing
order for Tomorrow 1T o'clock.
STATE BOUNDARIES.
Mr.. Tn.LER offered a resolution for the
appointment OF special committee Of
seven to consider what legislation is neccs-
gary to define with more accuracy the houn'
darier Of the State. Agreed to.
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Roads, &C., to whom
WIS referred the petition Of W. \. Wilkir-
son and others for the construction, al
State expense, of bridge across the James
river at Fallsburg. also the resolution to
inquire into the expediency of constructing
a free bridge across the James river from
the town of Manchester to the city of Rich
monl, report that, III their judgment, thu
Constitution prohibits the State from en-.
gagng in works of the character referred
to III said petition and resolution. Agreed
to.
oATH> or OFFICE.
The report of the committee of con-
ference on the bill prescribing oaths of
Office was agreed to. [See Senate pro-
cccdings.l
THE CALENDAR.
House bin No. 20, incorporating the Vir.
siuia Marble Company. Dismissed.
House bill No. %, incorporating the
Rockbridge County Fair. Ordered to be
sngrosSed for third reading.
House bill No. 20, providing for the pay
nent of 81 900 TO james Lyons for profess
,ionsl services. Ordered to be engrossed
for third reading.
House bill No. Is, to incorporate the Po-
.omac and Manassas Railroad Company.
Amended and ordered to be engrossed for O
third reading.
House bill No. 90, to pay the expenses
Of members of the Board of immigration
not resident in the city of Richmond. Dis
missed.
House bill No. so, amending ill act
making an appropriation to the University
IF Virginia, passed February Esd, 1866.
ordered to be cngrosscd for O third reading.
House bill No. 81, to incorporate the
Woodstock Manufacturing Company. Pass
Il by.
REFERRED.
The following bills, petitions, resolutions,
&C., wero presented and appropriately re-