Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-28
FROM RICHMOND.
4AMS.

FROM RICHMOND.
LAWS.
RICHMOND, DC 26.-Among the bills and
Joint resolutions passed at the present session
of the Legislature which have become laws by
the approval Of the Governor Or by limitation
are the following :-Declaring elections Of
Judges to Fill vacancies to be for the unexplred
terms of their predecessors authorizing the
trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church
and congregation at Harrisonburg, to execute
deeds of trust; to prevent the conversion of
moneys received by the collecting officers ofthe
Commonwealth into coupons and for other pur-
poses: authorizing the formation of a sub-School
district in Mt Gilead and Jefferson Township, in
the county of Loudoun, aud to provide for the
erection of school buildings 10 the same !;
to Incorporate the town Of New Mar.
ket % the county of Shenandoah; to re-
peal am act authorz the supervisors OF
certain counties to impose a tax on dogs
to amend aud rc-enact the Goth and 2lst
sections of chapter POI of the code Of Virginia,
edition of 1860, relative to the appointment of
conservators of the peace TOR watering. places,
for the University OF Virgihhand for iuc0rpo-
rated colleges; to repeal an ACE entitled an act
to provide for the payment of interest bh the
public debt; declaring valid the assessment Of
real estate and the collection Of taxes on the
same, under the act in force January "a, 1872;
authorizing the Old Dominion Coal Company
to construct railroad from their coal mines in
Powhatan county, to James river; to amend and
re-enact section 3, +, and of chapter IA of
the code of Virginia (lS60) in reference to the
protest of notes; to incorporate the Alexandra
in6rmary; and for the relief Of VIM. NJ Buck.
STATE DEBT.
The Governor has approved the bill passed
BY the General Assembly, repeating the act of
last wiuter, paying four per cent. upon the pub
lie debt the person receiving the four per
Ct, if the holder of coupon bond, being
obliged to renquish his coupon rs fully salts
fed. The decision Of the Court of Appeals de-
cIared that the condition attached to the recep-
ton Of the four per ct. was unconstitutional.
1t is understood that the Governor signed the
bin because he considers that when the creditor
agreed to give up one-third OF his debt, he ex-
pected, and under the provisions of the Funding
act was entitled to receive six per Ct, and that
the act passed last winter, agreeing to pay four
per cent. was therefore illegal, and an infring
ment of the contract as entered into between
the State and the party funding. The repeal
of the law Of last winter agreeing to pay
four Der Ct, could not effect the holders of cou
pom bouds, because they could use their cou
pons in the payment of State taxes-dollar tor
dollar, that the persons who held registered
bonds could exchange them for coupon bonds,
and 50 have the like privileges, and the prob
abilities were, that as there were, no conditions
attached to the reception OF the four per Ct ~
tcrest BY the holders Of registered bonds that
they had no doubt, long before this, received
that amount of interest The on y parties that
could be effected were the small number of per-
sons who had not funded, and as they were not
to be reached by the provisions of the Funding
bill, in any event special provision would have
to be made for them by subsequent legislation.
REPUTATION.
The regulators in the Legislature and it is
with regret that it has to be admitted that
there are any, have, tits said, determined to
resist the passage of any bill that seeks to pay
any interest upon the State debt, and to oppose
the passage of any tax bill, their object be-
ing to, keep all the money in the Treasury,
which they calculate will run the State govern
ment for over year, and to leave the matter
of the debt to the next Legislature, which they
claim will be elected upon the issue ofrepudia-
ton, or anti-repudlatlon.
REMOVAL OF STATE DEPOSITS.
A short time before the Legislature adjourn
cd 1Or tue CnTlSlmdS uOliOdysi d oH was Az
troduced by Senator Greene, of Petersburg,
which provided that instead of the money in
the Treasury Of the State being deposited ex-
clusively in the Richmond Banks; por.
ton Of it should be deposited in the cities of
Norfolk, Petersburg, Lynchburg and Alexau-
dria. There is no reason why the city of Rich
mond should have the exclusive benefit Of all
of the States money, and the other cities of
the State be left out in the cold The banks Of
the cities named will, it is understood, COM
bne together and employ gentlemen to proper
" present their claims before the Legislature
soon after the re-assembling.
A COMPUTATION OF SENTENCE.
Governor Walker has commuted the sentence
of John Appleby, colored, convicted in Prince
William county, of arson, from hanging to i'm
prisonment in the peniteutiary for ten years.
Appleby is aged about eleven years. The jury
in rendering their verdict Of guilty recommend
ed him to the mercy of the Governor, and that
his sentence be committed to seven years in
the penitentiary. The Judge of the County
Court sentenced him to be hanged on the It'll
day of February, 1878. His crime was that of
setting fire to dwelling house in the night
time Judge Nicol, who passed sentence, the
Commonwealth Attorney, who prosecuted,
the Sheriff Of the county, the clerk of the Court