The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-08
uOCsE OF DELEGATES
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.


Nr. SMITH from the committee on
Elections, &c, submitted report de
claring Mr.. NEELY, of Doddridge, enti.
tied to bis seat, the Committee having
been furnished no evidence that Mr.. N.
had failed to account for any money col
lected for either State or county. Ga
motion of Mr.. FLICK the report was ia
bled.
Mr.. LAMB frem the judiciary, sub
mitted number of adverse reports on
resolutions ofinquiry, among hers that
It was not expedient to abolish capital
punishment; or to lsgislate in regard to
the sale and investment OF the bank
stock held for the school fund, provision
being already made in tie Code, chap
ter a.. sections GS and 73; or to legis
late to prohibits a person being at once
gurdian, aud administrator or executor
of an estate, the committee
deemed it best to leave it to the
discretion of the court; or for the COM
mittee To pass upon the constitutional
ity of section %, chapter 30 of the Code;
or to legislate 10 prevent citizens OF
other counties from digging sang" IN
POcahontas. He also reported back
House bills 81 and 80, each with a sub
stitute. He also reported a bill to re-
lieve fsreigH insurance companies from
the requirement TO make a cash deposit
with the State Treasurer, remarklng
that while the committee had agreed to
report this bill they made no Tecommen-
dation in regard 10 it. He also reported
that as directed the committee had in
vestigated into what had been done by
the citizens of Charleston in accordance
with the agreement in consideration OF
which the bill was passed last winter
locating the capital there. As an an
swer to the inquiry he submitted three
papers.
The first recites the proceedings of q
public melting in Charleston in January,
1869, directing the delegates from Ka.
nawhs TO pledge the town of Charlt ston
to grant the State, without charge or
com pensation, 10 acres Of land in the
cooperate limits, and SUM of money
to build a capitol thereon at cost not
exceeding 100000; aud to provide the
State during the interval before the
erection of this building suitable capi-
tol buildings free of cost. All this on
the condition that the capitol be per
manently located on the site donated;
that the act being passed, steps were
taken TO carry out these pledges, but in
the progress of these efforts it became
known that no one had been empowered
by the Legislature to receive these do
nations, and further efforts were sus.
pended until this should be done; and
that all the pledges first made are re-
newed by the parties signing the paper.
This document is signed by Edward B..
Knight and some 80 Others.
The second reCites that at a meeting
of the board of directors of the Charles
ten Capitol Company, held February l.,
1870, it was unanimously resolved that
the Company offer the use of the State
House, now in course of erection there,
free of rent or charge so long as the
State shall see fit to occupy it as cap
itol.
The third is a statement from the deli
egates from Kanawba, who recite the
steps that had been taken by the people
of Charleston to provide q site and
building in accordance with their
pledges. A company had been formed
who had begun the erection Of q build
ing upon site of four acres within the
town. The plans for the building had
cost them $500, and the contract price
of the building was S47, 200. 1t describes
the building IN detail, and states that
work on the masonry will be resumed
early the present month; that it is be-
lieved that offices and vaults for the
accommodation of the executive officers
and records will be finished by the first
of April or very soon thereafter; that
the contract is absolute, and the citi-
xens muas pay for the buifding whether
= IL is aecepted by the State oE not; end