The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-05
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.


MONDAY, Feb. 2, 1872.
House of Delegates.
House met at IL o'clock.
Journal of Saturday read.
BILLS, &C., REPORTED.
.Senate.-Bill respecting special meetings
Of the Board of Directors of the Valley
railroad company, and to make valid cer-
tain acts of said company.
House Bills.-To exempt from taxation
David Romanus' site for keeping a bakery
with an adverse recommendation to
amend the law authorizing circuit courts to
grant charters of incorporation for con-
struction of a narrow-gauge railroad from
West Virginia line, in Pendeton county,
through Highland, Bath and Allegheny
counties, in Virginia, to the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE III
was granted Messrs. Bryant, Freeman,
Griffith, Elliott, Graves, Keyser, Hamilton,
Rufus S. Jones, and j. G. Brown.
BOUNDARY QUESTION.
On motion of Mr.. Bagwell, the Commit
tee on Resolutions was instructed to report
as soon as practicable on a resolution (of-
fered by him) providing for the appointment
of special committee to take into consid-
Grafton the report of the commissioners on
the boundary lines of the State, and to in
quire whether further appropriation is
necessary.
BILLS PASSED. @
Senate bill respecting special meetings of
the Valley railroad and to make valid GER
tain contracts made by said company
bill to establish State Board of
Health; an act to extend the time within
which James Fields, late sheriff of WASH
ington county, may collect taxes for tho
years 1869 and 1870; to change the title
and amend the act to incorporate the Farm
vile, Charlottesville and Stanardsyille
Narrow-Gauge railroad to amend and re-
enact section 20 of an act to provide sys-
the Commonwealth, and to repeal section
66 of an act to establish and maintain a
uniform system of free schools to amend
and resnact the act in relation to chain
gangs; bill for the relief of Caroline
Lindsey; bill in relation to the DISPOSE
tion of the interest of the State in the
James River and Kanawha Canal COM
pany. 5
To suspend sale of property claimed as
exempt under Homestead provision of the
constitution, until question of constitution
ality is decided by the Court of Appeals
ordered to its engrossment and third read
ing. =
BILLS, &C., PASSED.
A bill for the relief of G. Burgess, Jr.,
OF King William county; bill for the re-
lief of Isaac Jones and others, of Gloucester
county; bill to consolidate the indebt-
edness Of Alexandria in one uniform issue
of stocks; bill exempting fire COM
panies of Lynchburg from jury SER
vice; bill to amendthe act in
cooperating the town of Ashland
bill to incorporate the Amherst Turnpike
Company; bill appropriating sum of
money to heat the Eastern Lunatic Asy-
lum by steam.
House adjourned.
Mr.. Quesenberry in the chair.
BILLS REPORTED.
Senate bill to incorporate the Valley
Live Stock Insurance company.
The Committee on General Laws pre-
sented report, asking to be discharged
from the further consideration of Senate
bill to extend the charter of the Sweet
Springs and White Sulphur Turnpike
company, and that it be referred to the
Committee on Roads and Internal Naviga-
ton.
A report declaring it inexpedient to legis-
late on the subject of resolution in refer
encs to the immediate printing and forward
ing to the clerks of the county courts of
copies Of all laws of general nature.
A report declaring it inexpedent to legis-
late on the subject of resolution inquiring
into the expediency of repeating or amend
ing chapter 81, acts Of Assembly, 1S69-'7O,
in regard to printing acts of private incor-
poration.
BILLS REPORTED.
Senate bill, with q substitute therefor, to
amend and reenact an act continuing the
payments of interest and dividends to in
corporated colleges or other seminaries of
learning in the State.
House bill, with an amendment, entitled
IAN act to amend the 1st section of an act
entitled an act to prescribe the duties and
fix the compensation of officers of cities and
towns, with reference to the salary of the
Commonwealth's attorney for the city of
Richmond.
PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
A bill to amend and reenact section 10 of
chapter ID of code, with regard to pay of
clerks Of Court of Appeals and of the
Circuit court of the city of Richmond as
amended by chapter $50 of the acts of
lS69-'70; referred to Committee on FL
nance.
A bill to amend the charter of the city of
Lynchburg, ordered to q second reading
and referred to the Committee on General
Laws.
COMMUNICATIONS.
A message was received from the House
Of Delegates informing the Senate that the
House had passed bill entitled ian act
in relation to the disposition of the in