The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-22


to vacancies In township offices.
To amend the net to provide charter for
the town of Front Royal.
For the protection OF religious meetings
and the preservation of order at the same.
To amend the Code concerning warrants
and small claims.
To amend an act to incorporate the town
Of Orange.
To amend the Code regulating the Poto-
mac fisheries.
To authorize the repairing and painting
of the Capitol. .a
To amend the act prescribing the duties
and compensation of county officers.
To amend the acts of 1S69-'70 in relation
to overseers of roads, &c.
To amend the Code in relation to incor.
poratlon by circuit courts, &c.
To amend the Code authorizing the
draining Of lands through the lands Oh
others.
To amend the Code in relation to the col
lection of fee bills.
To amend the act amending the Code In
relation to insane persons, so far as relates
| to the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
For the relief of VIM. 3. Taliaferro.
For the relief of the slreties of Samuel
Trenary, late sheriff of Frederick.
REJECTED. ...
House bill to pay Richard Parker, late
Judge of the thirteenth circuit, for services
| from 1st January, 1863, to LIST April, 1860,
was rejected for want of a constitutional
majority, the vote being 30 yeas to 30 nays.
A motion to reconsider was agreed 10,
and the bill passed by.
House bill appropriating S12, 900 for heat
ing the Eastern Lunatic Asy lum by steam,
was also rejected from similar cause.-The
vote being Al yeas to 81 nays.
The consideration Of motion to recon-
slider was passed by.
DISMISSED.
The following House bills were dismiss
ed 81: To amend the act in regard to pruning
acts of private interpretations to amend
the act to extend the time for certain civil
rights and remedies to amend the Code IN
regard to articles exempt from sale for
debt Joint resolution in II lation to the re-
turn of the portrait Of Lord Chatham to
the county of Westmorcand ; in relation to
the inspection of illuminating oil.
PLACED ON THE CALENDAR.
Bv unanimous consent, on motion of Mr..
BELL, of Augusta, House bill to amend the
school law reported from the Committee
on Schools, &c.,) was placed On the calen-
dar.
PUBLIC REPOSITORIES.
House bill to amend the Code of 1860 as
amended by an act making certain banks in
the city of Richmond repositories of public
money was taken up out OF It's order,
amended, and ordered to cngrossment.
Asp NJ. the chair was vacated until 8
Pm.
Night Session.
Speaker Re TURNER resumed the chair at s
The following members failed to respond
at roll-call: Messrs. Andrews, Atee, II. NJ.
Bell, Boiling, Bowen, Bradley, L. II. Bry-
ant, Burkholder, Clark, Coles, Cox, Cren-
shaw, Davis, Edwards, Frayser, Gilmer,
George Graham, G. w. Graham, G.. E..
Hodges, 20. Hodges, jackson, Johnson,
B. F. Jones, ?. K. Jones, Lipscomb, Loven-
stein, Mahood Mason, Massie, McCracken,
j. B. Miller, Jr., F. S. Norton, 4. Norton,
Patton, Popham, Read, Segar, Stewart,
Strother, Stubbs, S. Turner, Wentworth,
Wilson, and Woodson-44. Nlnety-three
were present.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION BY Mr.. WOOD.
Immediately after the call of the roll,
Mr.. WooD, of Halifax, rose to question
of personal privilege. He read an extract
from the Evening State Journal attrbuting
to him remark in the course of a speech
this morning to the effect that he was con-
WINGED that no bill to dispose of the States
interest in any railroad would pass this Le-
gislature. MIR. WooD denied having said
any such matter, Or anything that would
bear that construction. He had argued
that there was a possibility that no bill
would pass, and had charged it several days
ago that it was to the interest of the
"nine d" that no bill should pass. AS for
!, nd ,1yith
no effort would be spared to pass proper
bill.
DISMISSED.
The following House bills were dismiss
ed: TO confer the powers Of constables on
the police detectives of the city Of Rich
mond to amend the act of 1S69-'70 in re-
lation to grand juries; to incorporate the
Fairfax Manufacturing and Milling Cons
pany; to amend the Code in relation to
transfers ofState' sinterest in turnpikes ; for
the relief of DR.. j. B. Gardin, of Bucking-
ham county; to amend the act in rela-
ton to grand juries; to establish an
insurance department; to repeal laws
providing for punishment by stripes
to aid the Virginia immigration So
ciety to prevent the adulteration
of liquors to amend the Code with regard
to discharge of accused from confinement
j uOG luulCUCu Ill q SCl talh OlLhC " aulCuu
the road-law; to amend the acts in relation
to the public roads to authorize boards of
supervisors to increase the salaries of coun-
ty judges in certain cases to incorporate
the Allegheny Female Seminary; to amend
the act authorizing John Lynch, ST., to
build toll-bridge across james river at the
town of Lynchburg; to incorporate the
Virginia Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals to amend acts of 49,
'67 in relation to tiduciaries !; to extend
the time for qualification of Little
ton R. Edwards, clerk elect of South
ampton; to Incorporate the Virginia
Reed and Fibre Company to extend the
time for the assessor of Roanoke county to
make his returns to extend and complete
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad; to
amend an act to provide for the completion
of line of railroad from the waters of the
Chesapeake to the Ohio river; to prevent
the sale IF shoes and boots with soles made
of wood, &c.
A number of House bills were read a
second time and ordered to engrossment
and third reading.
Adjourned at 1915 p. N.
GENERAL LEE.-The movement some time
since inaugurated by General Roger A.
Pryor, Colonel Thomas L. Snead, and sew
eral prominent gentlemen of Northern
birth for the Dur0osc of DreSentinp q huSt