The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-16
General Assembly Of Virginia.
SATURDAY, Jan. IA, 1871.
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SATURDAY, Jan. II, 1871.
SENATE.
The Senate met at II O'Clock M.-Lleut'
Gov. MAyRE in the chair. Prayer by KEY.
J. c. CRANBERRY, D. D.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Mr.. HERNDoN, from the Committee Tor
Courts of Justice, reported the following
bills, &c.
A bill to provide for reporter TO the
Court of Appeals.
A report declaring it ineXpedient to legis-
late upon the subject of resolution in
structing the committee to inquire into the
propriety of anording the relief prayed for
In petition of Benjamin Brown and Sarah
Brown, presented to the Senate at the last
session.
Senate bill to confer upon married women
the right to continue to hold all property
held by them previous to marriage, and all
property acquired by them during cover
ture, as their own separate property, with
q recommendation that it do not pass.
Senate bill providing for the payment OF
costs before executions are issued in civil
actions, with the recommendation that 1t
do not pass.
Senate bill to amend and reenact sections
and s of chapter 18th of the Code of Vir-
ginia QS60) in relation to the Judgment
liens.
A report askingto be discharged from the
consideration of Senate bill to authorize the
Governor to appoint a temporary clerk, and
requesting that it be referred to the Commit
| tee on Finance.
MIR. PENN, from the Committee for Courts
| of Justice. presented the following report in
response to a resolution Of inquiry in refer
ence to the acts of county judge, elected
for a county containing less than eight thou
sand inhabitants: .,
| "Your committee are satisfied that it
ciples ofpublic policy, and with settled law,
to hold that the acts and proceedings OF
Judge elected by the Legislature under the
belief that the county for which he was
chosen contained the requisite population,
wonld be illegal and void if it should turn
out that such was not in fact the case, ana
they beg leave to report that in their Judg-
ment the acts and proceedings of such q
Judge, otherwise legal and valid, would not
| be inValidated by the fact that he was cho'
sen by the General Assembly upon the mis-
taken assumption that the county for when
he was elected contained not less than eight
thousand inhabitants. In this conviction
YOUR committee are sustained by the uni
form course of decisions in this country and
in England"
Mr.. TAYLOR, of Loudoun, from the Com
mittee on General Laws, presented the iol-
lowing reports:
Senate bill providing a charter for the city
| of Norfolk.
A bill providing for charter for the
town of Fredericksburg, with amendments.
Mr.. TAYLOR, of Norfolk. city, from the
Committee on Roads and Internal NavIga-
ton, reported, with amendments, Senate
| bill to incorporate the Petersburg and
Brunswick Railroad Company.
BILLS, &C., INTRODUCED.
The following bills, &C., were introduced,
and appropriately referred:
By Mr.. TAYLOR, Of Loudoun A bill for
the protection of butter and cheese manu-
facturerS.
Bv Mr.. ROLLER. of Rockingham A bill
in relation to lands of persons under dlsa-
bility.
By Mr.. PENN: A resolution instructing
the Committee for Courts of Justice to re-
port bill amending the "homeStead law"
so that a widow, whether her husband died
before or after the present constitution,
may be entitled to the benefit Of same as to
the debts and liabilities of such husband.
I'd. That an absconding debtor shall not be
entitled to the same. Sd. TO provide for
the payment of the officer and commission
er whose duty it is to appraise the property
under certain circumstances.
By Mr.. MARTIN /: 4 resolution of inquiry
instructing the Committee on Finance to
examine the eXpediency of increasing the
compensation of the judge of the second
judicial circuit.
By MIR. HARRIS: A bill in relation to the
Commissioners of the Revenue.
THE BOUNDARY LINE QUESTION.
Senate bill authorizing the Governor to
send an agent to England and obtain from
thence documentary evidence in relation to
the boundary lines between the State of
Virginia and the States of Maryland, North
Carolina, and Tennessee, and making. an
appropriation to effect the same, was taken
up, and sundry amendments proposed
and after protracted discussion, the bill,
with amendments, was recommltted TO the
Finance Committee.
BILLS PASSED.
Senate bill to incorporate the Conference
of st. Mary's Of the Society of st. Vincent
of Paul, in the town Of Alexandria.
Senate bill with House amendnentS) in
regard to the jurisdiction of the Judges of
the Commonwealth to award iniunctions,
and to confer similar jurisdiction upon the
Chancery Court Of the city Of Richmond.
A bill for the protection Of persons at
tending State and county fairs, and to pre-
vent gambling at the said fairs.
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