The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-25
General Assembly of Virginia.
FRIDAY, June "a, 1870.
SENATE.

SEN T..
The Senate met at II A. M.-Lieutcnant
Governor MARYE in the chair. Prayer by
Rev. DIR. ChambliSS. ..
AMENDMENTS CONQUERED IN.
House amendments to the following Senate
bills were concurred in. They now go to
the Governor for his consideration
To amend and reenact section of an act
approved April 2, 1870, in relation to terms
of county courts.
For the relief of the late sheriffs Of the
Commonwealth.
BILLS REPORTED. ...."
Senate bill to authorize the organization
of chain-gangs in the cities, towns, or coun'
tics of the State.
House bin for allowing compensation to
the.late clerk Of the Hastings Court OF
Richmond.
Senate bill to regulate judicial sales and
prevent the sacrifice Of personal property,
with House amendments. = . !!
House bill to charter the New River White
Sulphur Springs Company.
House bill to incorporate the Augusta
Fire Company.
Senate bin to amend second section Of an
act to authorize the Richmond and Danville
Railroad Company to lease, hold, and ope-
rate the Piedmont railroad, passed Febru-
airy 18th, 1866.
House bill to incorporate company to
construct turnpike from Sydner's Springs
to Front Royal.
House bill authorizing the Rivanna Navi-
cation Company to borrow money.
House bill to incorporate the Clay Bank
Wharf Company. ."
House bin to incorporate the Potomac
and Manassas Railroad Company, with a
recommendation that the Senate insist on
its amendments, to which the House dis
agreed.
House bin to incorporate Lynchburg and
Green Hill Plank-road Company.
Senate bill to incorporate the Staunton
Female Seminary. .-...- a.. "a r,
Senate bill to provide for the appoint
ment of reyisors to revise the statutes of the
State.
BILLS PRESENTED. .
By Mr.. ANDERSON, of Rockbridge.-A
bill directing the Board of Public Works to
sell to the Richmond and Danville railroad
company the stock Of the State in said COM
pany amounting to 81 ,200, 0G0) at dollar tor
dollar in State bonds. Referred. ~.
By MIR. TAYLOR, of Loudoun.-A bill to
amend and reenact an act passed December
-, 1866, to incorporate the "Loudoun
Savings Banks" Referred. .t.. -
.s,lr THE ASSISTANT CLERK,
A resolution by Mr.. LEWIS increasing the
pay of the assistant clerk OF the Senate o.
D.Pendleton) to eight dollars per day was
adopted. .- ,.... -:
BILLS PASSED. ~ &. s. '-
Senate bill amending the Code in relation
to juries.
House bill amending the charter of the
town of Harrisonburg.
House bill establishing district free schools
in the county of King George.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
Senate bill creating an insurance depart
ment was taken up, amended, and discuss.
ed until adjournment.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The House met at 10 O'Clock. Prayer by
Rev. DR.. j. L. Burrows: l
A number of bills were reported, among
them Incorporating the Richmond Educa
tional Association Incorporating the Vir'
ginia and Northwestern Railroad Company
&c, &c. .s.. ..~.. r. .,..s.y -..I
A communication was read from John II
Pein on the subject Of immigration.
A letter was read from the commissioners
appointed under the act to provide artificial
limbs for Virginia soldiers of the late wal
needing the same.
Among the bills passed were the follow.
ing: Incorporating the town of Gordons-
vile; Staunton Female Seminary; charter.
ing the Virginia Cane-Fibre Company in
cooperating the Richmond Educational As.
ISOLATION b.
A. number of bills were dismissed, all for
the same reason that they had been fore
stalled by the passage of Senate bills of like