The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-02

gini8, to take effect 1mmedlateIyJ ano
request your acceptance of it.
Yours Respectfully,
n. HARRISON.
Received and accepted at lot o'clock,
March lst 1870.
WE STEVENSON, Govern6fi.
Mr.. DAVIS move to lay the whole
matter on the table. Lost.
After considerable parliamentary skir'
mishing the Senate ordered the printing
of Mr.. Harrison's letter and accompany
ing documents by the following vote:
Those voting in the affirmative were
Messrs. Boremap, Gather of Taylor,
Doolittle, Gold, Harman, Humphreys,
Koouce, Leonard, Ramsdell, Werninger,
Young and Mr.. President Farnsworth
-12.
Those voting in the negative were
Messrs. Applegste, Brown, Gather oi
Gilmer, Cook, Crane, Davis, Dayton,
Patrick, Phelps and Wilson-lO.
By Mr.. DAVIS-Seuate Joint Resolu
tion No. 26, raising joint committee Of
Two on the part of the Senate and three
on the part of the House to confer with
the commissioners appointed by the
State of Virginia in relation to the pu b.
lie debt of that State.
Ou motion of Mr.. DAVIS, the rules
were suspended and the resolution was
passed, and Messrs. Davis and Boreman
were appointed as the committee on the
part of the Senate.
Senate Joint Resolution No. %, in re-
gard to extending the session of the
Legislature, came up III regular order
Mr.. KOONCE moved to lay on the
table. Lost-yeas, 10; nays, l2.
The question being on the passage OF
the resolution, Mr.. PHELPS moved
that it be printed.
Mr.. DAVIS moved to make the reso.
luton the special order for II O'Clock
to o-morrow. Carried.
BILLS PASSED, &C.
House Bill No. %, to regulate the pay.
ment of teachers in the State Normal
School.
House Bill No. so, to incorporate the
West Virginia Historical Society.
House Bill No. 60, to provide for free
schools in Ravenswood, Jackson county.
House Bill No. 6S, to allow the United
Brethren Church of Parkersbarg to bor'
row money.
House Bill No. 20, to amend the law
in regard to bills of acceptance.
House Bill No. 70, amending section
7 of chapter 118 of the Code in relation
to the probate of wills.
House Bill No. "a, to amend the Code
in relation to registers Of births and
deaths.
House Bill No. 76, providing for the
payment of claim due Peter A. Snow.
den, of Hancock county, for services
performed as drummer for 1st regiment
West Virginia militia.
House Bill No. 79, to amend an act
creating a school district in the town OF
Phillippi.
House Bill No. 81, to permit the trus.
tees of Zion P. Z. Church of Charleston
to sell their parsonage property.
House Bill No. "a, to amend chapter
80 of the Code in relation to allowances
to certain county officers.
House Bill No. 9s, requiring the Ger
man language to be taught in the free
schools of MartiDsville.
House Bill No. 100, for the relief OF
Thomas Farrell, late sheriff of Roane
county and his deputies.
House Bill No. 1O6, for the relief OF
A. j. Hull, treasurer of Union township,
Monroe conuty.
House Bill No. 100, to grant relief to
Besjamin s. Benson, of Writ county
from erroneous assessments made III
1865 aud 1866.
House Bill No. 10, to permit consta'
bIes to recsive fee bills for collection,
and collect the same by distress.
Hous. Bill No l45, to incorporate the
Roney's Point and West Union turnpike
company.
House Bill No. 12O, to enable the
Sheriff of Berkeley county to collect
the uupaid taxes ofle57 1858, 1859, 156L
and 1861, was laid upon the table.
House Bill No. l27, to authorize the
city of Wheeling to borrow money for
the purpose of buying the Wheeling Gas
Works.
On motion the Senate took recess
until half.past three o'clock p. N.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr.. BRANNON appeared at the bar oI
the Senate and announced that the
House of Delegates had passed House
Joint Resolution No. AZ, appointing two
additional members of the committed
appointed to confer with the comnio
sioners appointed on the part of the
State of Virginia in regard to her State
debt, and asked the concurrence of the
Senate.
The resolution was adopted, and Mr.
Ramsdell appointed the member of the
committee on the part of the Senate.
SECOND READING.
House Bill No. 1919, providing that
sheriffs shall collect all public taxes ex
cept municipal taxes within their re
spective counties, was read second
time, aud passed under a suspension oi
the rules.
Mr.. GATHER, of Taylor, moved that
the rules be suspended for the purpose
of reconsidering the vors by which
House Joint Resolution No. %, to in
struct the Attorney General to institute
proceeding in the nature of a quo udr.
rdnto against the corporation known as
the Moorefield and South Branch Turn
pike Company, because of their failure
to keep their road in order. Carried.
The question being on reconsidering
the vote by which the resolution was
rejected, it was so reconsidered, and the
resolution adopted.
Mr.. PHELPS, under a suspension Of
the rules, offered resolution allowing
the pages a per diem of fifty cents in
addition to that allowed by law. Passed
House Bill No 200, for the relief OF
Isaac A. Wade, Sheriff of Putnam coun,
ty, was laid on the table.
House Bill No. 124, to incorporate the
Charleston Bridge Company was, uRdeI
q suspension of rules, read third time
and passed.
House Bill No. $50, to incorporate the
Shenandoah River Company, was laid
upon the table.
House Bill No. ia, to establish q
Branch Normal School at West Liberty,
in Ohio county, was passed under q sus,
pension of rules.
Senate Bill No. 80, to establish q
branch of the State Normal School, at
Martinsburg, Berkeley county, was laid
on the table.
Senate Bill No. .35. TO change the time
of holding court in the Sixth Judicial
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