Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-22
Letters from Richmond.

| CORRESPONDENT of the Alexandria Gazette.
RICHMOND June 20.-lhe Senate was not
in session today In the House OF delegates,
the following bills were reported: 10 estab-
lish and maintain uniform system OF public
free schools amending the act incorporating
the trustees of Randolph Macon College, pass
cd February Sd, 1880, and ratitying tho re-
moyal of said college from Boydton to Ash
land incorporating tho Potomac and Man.
assas railroad company, with recommends,
ton that the House agree to the hrst and
third amendments and disagree to the second
amendment proposed by the Senate; moor
poratiDg the Harrisonburg and CoVlngton
railroad company amending the act TO pres |
cr;be and define the jurisdiction OF the coun-
ty and corporation courts OF the Common
wealth. and the TINES and places of holding |
the same prohibiting the taking OF tsh tor
the purpose Of manufacturing oil or manure
amending section +, chapter l0l, OF The code
of 1860 in relation to fish.
A bill TO authorize the Alexandria and
Fredericksburg railroad company to merge
and consolidate with or to lease, Or to lease
to, connecting lines. was referred.
Bills for raising the pay of the Attorney
General or Virginia to $4,000 per year IN
creasing the pay OF the Secretary OF the
| Commonwealth to $4,000 per year incor-
porating the Potomac ard Manassas railroad
company were passed.
| House bill to protect the Virginia oyster
beds, beinga special order, was taken up:
1t provides that no citizen of the State shall
be interested with any non. resident IN the
oyster fishery; that no non resident shall en-
| gage in the fishery and that oysters shall
not be taken but with ordinary tongs, except
in the waters Of the sounds of Tangier and
| Pokomokc, and i'll the waters adjacent TO
| the counties of Accomac and Southampton:
| The bill was slightly amended and ordered
to a third reading.
Senate bill TO authorize the sheritfs and their
deputies to collect airearages Of taxes for the
years 1866 G7, was taken up. The committee
of hnancc proposed to amend by adding the
years lS59-'60, and the years lSGS-'69, and
the amendment VAS passed.
Senate bill to amend the Code it relation to
marriages within certain degrees OF relation
ship, was rejected.
Senate bill to regulate the settlement Of
iduciary accounts and for the appointment Of
commissioners in chancery was ordered to It's
third reading.
Senate bill amending the Code with regard
to the levy Of executions tor recovery OF debts
due the State was ordered to its third reading.
| Correspondence of the Alexandria Gl:ettc
RICHMOND, June ol.-To.day, was, by re,
solution, the day for the reassembling Of the
Senate, but rs only Il few Of the members as
semblea and the majority did not, after lew
House bills had been reported by the clerk and
referred, motion to adjourn prevailed, and
the state mulcted for $3.50 besides the pay Of
clerks NC
In the House of Delegates bills we're reported
| ~
Railroad Company, aud for the payment Of
the salary of Richard j Parker, late judge of
the thirteenth judicial circuit.
The House bill providing for reassessmcnt
of the lands Of the Commonwealth was ordered
TO be engrossed aud the following passed -
House bill to protect the oyster beds OF the
Commonwealth
J Senate bill to amend the Code 10 regard to
the settlement OF 6duciary accounts and for the
anpo1tmeut of commissioners in chancery.
Senate bill for the relief of the late Shcriffs
OF the Commonwealth.
Senate bill to regulate judicial sales and
the S Gsn sSdins certain sections of the
Code in relation to the working, etc., OF roads,
was taken up and discussed.
During its consideration, Owen, colored, OF
which the bill could be poked under the table.
He moved that such be the disposition made
OF the bill. This was lost.
Pending the further consideration OF the
bill the House adjourned
a large number OF invitations have been
issued for the reception at the Governors
Mansion to. morrow night, and it is expected,
that the affair will be on grand scale. Prep
aralions for tue occasion are in progress
especially among the ladies who will vie with
each other in their elegance Of costume &C.
Richmond has become, even more than before
| the war, political centre and NANNY Of the
manners and customs of other capitals further
north have been introduced here
| II SONG ol those who once directed affairs Of
State in the old Commonwealth, and madeVir
| gina what she was, could he recalled, with
what astonisEmrnt would they look upon the
| present aspect Of GttalIS.
Mayor Ellys0n'a salary as mayor, Tor the
present quarter, will not pay half his city taxes.
The contested election case was before Judge
Guig0n this morning when there was some
preliminary Skirmishing on the part OF counsel,
| those representing the conservative side argu
ing that the Judge must decide the case upon
its merits and not merely upon the conduct OF
the commissioners. They claimed to be able
to prove that upwards of one thousand
fraudulent Radical votes were poed and only
asked u full and fair investigation in order to
establish the claims Of the conservative candi
dates to tho oificas.
The Counsel Oh the Radical side were dis
posed to confne the trial to tho question Of the
legality OF tho conduct of the commissioners.