The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-23
General Assembly Of Virginia.
WEDNESDAY, June %, 1870.
SENATE.

| The Lieutenant-Governor in the chair
PRAYER by Rev. DR.. Chambli>s.
| ACTION on AMENDMENTS.
| Amendments proposed by the House to
! the following Senate ills We're agreed to 4:
To incorporate stony Run Turnpike
| Company.
| TO incorporate the Pamunky River Navi.
CATION Company.
Amending the charter of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad Company.
Fixing the pay of the Acknowledgement.
In relation to the appointment Of notaries
public.
Amendatory of section is of chapter 1s'
of the Code.
Amending and reinacting the act to in-
corporate the Norfolk City Railroad Com
panv.
HOUSE BILLS REFERRED.
Various bills received from the House
were appropriately referred.
BILLS REPORTED.
House bill to incorporate Greblc Lodge,
No. 1877, of Independent Order Of Odd Eel
lows of Hampton.
House bill for assessment OF taxes.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To incorporate the Fairfax County Mar
row Gauge Elevated Railroad Company.
To provide for the assessment OF taxes.
To amend and reGnact an act to lncOrpo-
rate the Virginia Historical and PhllosophI-
cal Society.
TO incorporate the Western Branch
Draw-BridSe Company.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
LegaliZing toll-bridge built by William +.
Hardy and Leslie 7. Hardy across james
river.
For the relief of the Merchants Bank Of
Lynchburg.
To incorporate the Richmond Educa-
tional Association.
To amend and recnact section y of chap
ter 100 Of Code.
TO amend and rc&nact section Is of chap
ter 144 of Code.
70 amend and reGnact an act to prescribe
and define the jurisdiction Of the county
and corporation courts.
In relation to payment Of money and de-
livery of property.
MAURY'S SURVEY.
Senate joint resolution inStructing the
Public Printer to have published for gene
raj distribution 10000 copies of Maury's Sc
cond volume of Physical Survey OF Virginia
Was taken up and passed.
WILLIAMSBURG ELECTION.
Senate bill legaliZing the election held in
the city of Williamsburg on the Goth of
May was ordered to its third reading and
engrossment.
IMMIGRATION.
The following report was passed:
"The Senate Committee on immigration
have carefully considered the memorial of
General q. Tochman to the General Assem-
bly,, praying for an appropriation Of $50, 900
to detray the expenses OF foreign and do
mestic agencies employed by him, and ask
ing for lien upon lands sold to immigrants
through the fundamentally of the agencies
under his control, and beg leave respect
fully to report:
81. That your committee consider it mex
pedient to authorize the appropriation
asked for by General Tochman.
"2 That they consider it impracticable to
create by legislative enactment the lien
upon lands as prayed for in said memorial"
BILLS PRESENTED.
BY Mr.. CoURTNEY.-A bill amending and
reEnacting several sections of the charter
OF the city of Richmond; which, after
first reading, was referred.
BY Mr.. SMITH, of Henrico.-A bill to
authorize the Alexandria and Fredericks-
burg Railway Company to consolidate with
connecting lines.
Bv Mr.. SNowDEN.-A petition Of real
estate owners of Alexandria praying that
luTlSulcGlOll LII UNLAWFUL bCttiuSl StsCo DS
conferred upon justices OF the peace.
POTOMAC FISHERIES.
Mr.. SNowpEN offered a joint resolution in
siructing the Auditor to order one OF the
steamers belonging to the State to cruise
upon the Potomac river and enforce the ex-
listing laws respecting the fisheries on said
river. Lies over.
NORFOLK BOARD OF TRADE.
The Committee on immigration present
ed Il report declaring the legislation prayed
for in the memorial Of the Norfolk Board
of Trade in behalf of immigration inexpe-
dent.
Four members were granted leave of alb
sence.
On motion, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The House met at 10 o'clock. Prayer by
Rev. DR.. j. l.. Burrows:
BILLS REPORTED.
House engrossed bill to provide artificial
limbs for citizens ofthe Commonwealth who
lost their limbs during the late war. Re-
ported back with an amendment in the ma
ture of u substitute.
House bill making an appropriation for
the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
House bill to authorize the Alexandria and
Fredericksburg Railroad Company to con-
solidate with or lease connecting lines.
House bill repeating certain acts in rela-
ton to the Virginia Canal Company, etc.
House bill to dispose of State interest in
the Potomac Bridge ut Point of Rocks.
House bill to amend the Code with re-
gard to pay of clerks Of Court of Appeals
and Of the circuit court of the city of Rich
mond.
House bill to amend the Code with re-
gard to clerk Of the Court Of Appeals.