The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-22
General Assembly of Virginia.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH DAY
THURSDAY. March 81. 1877.
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SENATE.
The Licutenant-G Governor in the Chair. No
PRAYER.
The following House bills. this day commu-
niGlted from the House of Delegates, were
having been suSpendeO:
To amend the 9th section of chapter l03 OF
the Code, in relation to divorces.
TO incorporate the Piedmont Wire Com
rany, in Nelson county.
Declaring the Rapidan river from its june
ton with the Robertson river to point
known as Willis and llansboroush ford
lawful fence.
70 permit the people of Northumberland
county to vote on The disposition of the Glcbe
fund.
TO incorporate the Norfolk and Scwclfs
Point Railroad Company.
TO authorize the City Council Of Ports
mouth to redistric the city into wards with
amendments.
10 authorize the qualified voters of the
county of Amherst to vote OH the question of
removing the courthouse.
TO authorize the Orange, Alexandria and
Manassas Railroad Company to consolidate
and provide for the payment Of it, mortgage
debt.
TO extend the jurisdiction of the Board OF
Health of the city of Richmond.
SIGNAL STATIONS on THE ATLANTIC.
Mr.. TERRY offered the following joint re-
solution; which was adopted under Il SlIS-
pension Of the rules:
"EcSolrcd (the House Of Delegates cor
cu7r7ng), That The General Assembly of Fir-
ginia, approaching the daily weather reports
from the chief signal Office at Washington.
would respectfully recommend to Congress
the vast benefit which would cnsue to COM
mcrce and the preservation Of human life by
establishing signal stations ut llattcrts and
other points on the coast Of Virginia and
North Carolina, andconnectn" those stations
with the telegraph lines from Norfolk.
-. Resolved, That the Governor be re-
qucSted to communicate copy of this rcso-
luton to the senators and representatives of
Virginia in Congress-
The Clerk was ordered to inform the House.
THE IMMIGRATION ELL.
Mr.. KIRKPATRICK moved to take up Senate
bill IA, to establish Board of Agriculture.
Immigration, and Statistics, and the question
being on agreeing thereto, was determined
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, IS; noes, -.
On motion of Mr.. TAYLOR, of Loudoun,
the bill was laid on the table and made the
order for this evening at O'Clock.
THE RErAIR OF THE CAPITOL.
Senate bill to appropriate $4,000 for the
rcpair of the Capitol, under the direction OF
the Governor, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and
Speaker of the House, was taken up and
passed-aycs, 20; noes, ).
AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF THE CnEsA-
PEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY.
Senate bill consenting to amendments of
the charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company by the State of West Vir-
ginia, to allow said company, as a part of its
line of railroad, to build and work railroad
bridge across the Ohio river at or near Hunt
ington and above the mouth of Big Sandy
river, and to connect with said railroad
bridge Il toll-bridge, and to build and work Il
railroad bridge across the Big Sandy river at
or near its mouth, and to permit the connec-
ton Of the railroad with the system of rail
roads in the State of Kentucky. Further. "that
the said company, forthe purpose of eXtending
its connections in this and other States, may
unite with other railroads organized or to be
organized, and may acquire an interest in
and aid in the construction or equipment Of
such railroads by purchase, by subscriptions
to capital stock, by advances of money or
credit, or by such other means and upon such
terms as may be agreed upon: Provided, this
section shall not be so construed as to release
said Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad COMPANY
from any contract entered into by said COM
pany with the commissioners of Virginia
and West Virginia"
For the construction and equipment Of the
bridges the company is authorized TO borrow
money and secure its payment by mortgage
upon the whole OF any part of its property,
including such bridges; and is empowered to
construct and operate telegraph line along
its line.
These privileges have been already granted
by the State of West Virginia to the COM
pany, and the consent Of Virginia to them is
asked.
The following amendment, proposed by
the Committee on Roads, &c, was agreed to ::
add after the enacting section, Provided
that the third section of the act hereinafter
rccited, entitled an act extending the connec-
lions of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
passed February %, 1872, shall not be con-
strued to authorize the construction of any
branch or branches, or the purchase Of any
railroad in whole or in part, or the union or
consolidation of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad with any railroad or railroads within
the limits of this Commonwealth, for which
special authority has not heretofore been
granted by the State Of Virginia."
Mr.. TAYLOR, OF Loudoun, moved further
to amend the bill by adding at the end Of the
amendment just agreed to the following pro-
yiso:
"And provided further, That before the said
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company shall
be entitled to the provisions of this act it
shall present to the Secretary of the Com
monwealth certificate bearing the corporate
seal of said company, stating that its stock
holders have relinquished all claims to any
supposed or real exemption from taxation i'll
this Commonwealth"
Upon the adoption of this resolution
long and excited debate cnsued, which was
participated in by nearly half the members
present, and was ended finally by Mr..
BoYKIN calling the pending question which
was sustained, and the Observation-Disclosures
ayes, o.; noes, 1G.
Several friends of the original bill an
nounced that the company would not accept
the bill as amended.
Mr.. QUEsENBERRY (Mr. SMITH in the chair