The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-04
OF 1880 10 relation to the Judgment liens.
On motion Of MIR. MAssEY, adjourned. M
HOUSE OF DELEGATES. Il
House met at noon--Mr. HANGER IN the
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The following bills were passed:
House bill in relation to the disposition
Of the funds paid into the State Treasury
for the hire Of convicts.
House bill to establish the Port Warden's
line for that part of Portsmouth city front
ing on Elizabeth river on the north.
House bill to amend the charter and
change the name of the Virginia Insurance
Company.
Senate bill in relation to working the
roads in Loudoun county, with an amend.
ment.
DISMISSED.
House bill to amend and reenact chapter
1872 of the Code, in relation to offences
against property, reported from the Com
mittee for Courts Of Justice, with recon-
mendation that 1t do not pass. was, on mo-
ton of Mr.. WALLER, Of Westmoreland,
dismissed.
BILLS, ETC, PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
By Mr.. Guy Bill TO amend the Code 10
relation to granting licenses to attorneys al
law, and to render valid all licenses by any
Judge Of the Court of Appeals OF Virginia
Bill to amend the Code in relation TO the
discontinuance of causes not prosecuted.
Petition of the sheriff and bar Of Buck
ingham county in regard to the terms Of
the courts Of the Buckingham circuit.
BY Mr.. MATTHEW Bill to authorize the
township Of Leesburg, Loudoun county,
| to subscribe to certain turnpikes.
Bill to incorporate the Virginia Society
| for the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals.
By Mr.. JACKSON Bill to establish State
Board of immigration and local Boards 10
connection Herewith.
Bill to provide for the equalization of the
assessment of the value OF the lands IN the
State.
Bill in relation to grand juries.
| Bill to amend the act In relation 10 erano
juries.
By Mr.. BUCHANAN: Bill fixing the, time
within which an action shall be brought on
the bond of a constable.
| By Mr.. WooDsoN Joint resolution e8-
tending the time for certain county ofncers
| to qualify to their office.
| House bill to amend the act to authorize
subscription to incorporated companies ny
certain counties and towns was taken up.
| The bill provide s that the town Of Staunton
and county of Augusta shall vote sep
arately on the question or the subscriptions
referred to. -,
Mr.. CooHRANE moved to amend by striking
out the county of Augusta. He said that
the people of that county had refused TO
| subscribe to the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, and had twice refused to vote sub
scription to the Valley railroad, and now
| il was intended to separate the town OF
Staunton from the county of Augusta, and
| again impose upon them the trouble and
expense of another vote to subscription
to the Valley railroad.
Mr.. BELL, of Augusta, opposed the
amendment. He thought that majority
of the people of Augusta was In favor of a
subscription to the Valley railroad, and
that they desired to have anotheryo on
the question. .,
Messrs. PoPHAM and WooDsoN sided with
Mr.. BELL, and the discussion continued at
considerable length.
The amendment was agreed to-yeas, 30 ;
nays, %.
Mr.. WooD stated that in order to give the
friends of the bill further opportunity to
discuss the question, he desired q recon-
sideration Of the vote just taken.
Before the question was put, on motion
of Dir. WALKER, Of Westmoreland, the
House adjourned.