Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-02-07
1905
NUMBER Xxx.
Virginia Legislature.

| SENATE Saturday, Jan. 2Sth.-Senate bills
amending and re-enacting sections ! and Is of
chapter 1S4 of the Code, in relation to the
fees of sheriff, sergeant, coroner and constable,
was taken up, read several times, and after
number of amendments were proposed increas-
ing the rate for board of prisoners in Jail be-
| yond 40 cents per day were defeated, the bill
was ordered to engrossment.
HoUsE.-The following bills were passed:
Senate bill to amend the act authorizing the
city of Portsmouth to issue coupon bonds to
amend the act authorizing the formation of the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Com
pany: to amend the act iu relation to working
the roads IN Loudoun county modifying the
charter of Washington College, and changing
its name to the Washington and Lee Universi-
ty. 1
SENATE, Monday, JAM 3Oth.-Senate bill
amending and re-enactiug sections 13 and Is of
chapter l84 OF the Code, relating to the fees
OF sheriff, sergeant, coroner and constable was
taken up, read the third time, and the oues-
ton on the passage thereof being put, was de-
termlned (for want of constitutional majorityl
In the negative-ayes IA noes, l3; after
wards MIR. Smith, of Henrico moved recon-
sideration, which was agreed to-ayes, l3;
noes, II.
Senate bill to amend and re-euact an act en-
titled an act to protect the oyster beds in the
waters OF the Commonwealth, approved July
II, 1870, was discussed until the hour of adj
journment al r.-s.t4.s sa. =. ~ ri
HoUsE.-On motion of Mr.. Bell, of Angus
ia. Senate joint resolution rendering to West
Virginia an arbitration of the public debt, was
taken up. 9059 ll34 adastC aoiula1-. 90 n
On motion of the same gentleman, the reso-
luton was amended by striking out that part
OF the preamble alludlng to the repeated eff
forts which had been made to procure a set
tlement, all of which have proved unavailing.
and that part of the resolution which required
the arbltrament to be ratified by the Legisla-
lures OF the two States. The resolution as
amended was then unanimously passed, there
being ninety votes cast in the affirmative.
SENATE. Tuesday, JAM lst-The Senate
having received from the House the Senate
joint resolution providing for the adjustment of
the public debt with West Virginia by arbitra-
ton, which the House SO amended as to make
the award of the arbitration final, after discus
sion, participated In by Messrs Pendletop.
Waddell, Snowdon, Greene, Penn, Herndon
and Anderson, from Rockbridge, the Senate
declined to adopt the amendment by vote of
% nays, to IA ayes
Mr.. Waddell favored the adoption of the
House amendment, and declared that the only
feasible and practical mode by which settle
ment could be had must be by arbitration, and
that sufficient power and confidence must be
repOSee III the arDltrat0rS to make the awards
final and conclusive. He objected to going in
to professed arbitration, which was not to be
binding upon either party and without entering
into the discussion of the legal merits of the
case, maintained that if the law compelled re-
vision of the arbitrators work, it was not neces-
necessary to declare that power withheld In the
resolution.
The oyster bill was amended in some partic-
ulars to meet the views of the Tidewater Sena-
tors, and ordered to engrossment. The Sem
ate bill authorizing the county of Augusta to
subscribe to the stock of the Valley and Shen-
andoah Valley railroad companies was passed
as were the bills authorizing the corporation
of Farmville to issue bonds to raise funds for
the erection OF a courthouse, jail and clerks
office, In the event that the voters of Prince
Edward county decide to remove their county
seat thither, and allowing the people of Shen-
andoah county to vote upon the question of re-
moving their county seat to Edinburg.
HOUSE.-A bill to incorporate the Amherst
and Iynchburg Bridge company was passed.
bill amending the act In relation to the du-
ties and compensation of county officers was
dismissed. Senate bill amending the Code as
to grand juries was discussed and amended,
and would have been put upon its passage, but,
the clerk discovering that one of the pages of
the engrossed bill was missing, further action
thereon was passed by. Bills were introduced
to incorporate the town of Luray; to amend
the Road Law, and to extend the time for
the qualification of the clerk elect of the coun-
ty Of SOUTHAMPTON.