The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-12-14
VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
ELEVENTH DAY.
SATURDAY, December ID,

SENATR.--The Senate was called
order at 1905, Senator II. W. Thomas
President pro tenn, in the chair. n
prayer.
A communication was received from til
clerk of the House Of Delegates, informin
them of tho passage by that body Of tn
following bills:
A bill to incorporate the town of New
Market, in the county of Shenandoah.
A bill to provide for the election of Ger
qualified voters thereof. Referred.
Mr.. Herndon, from the Committee OF
Courts Of Justice, presented the following
resolutions, which the committee deemed
it inexpedient to legislate on:
Enquiring into the expediency of SC
amending the Code as to grant the priv.
lege of trial by jury in cases before jus.
tice Of the peace.
Enquiring into the expediency OF SO
amending the Code as to authorize the jus.
tees of the peace to enquire and decide
whether person is lunatic, &c.
By the same, from the same: Senate
bill in relation to the taking of acknowledge
ments by clerks Of county courts; House
bill to authorize and empower the Council
of the city of Richmond to increase the sala-
ries Of judges of the circuit, chancery and
hustings courts Of said city, reported with
amendments Senate bill to amend an act
in relation to the interest on money, APP
proved March 10Th, 1870, so as to provide
that six per cent. shall bethe legal rate ofin-
tere st-reported with substitute therefor.
Mr.. Hundley in behalf Of minority report
of the Committee presented bill on the
same subject in the nature of substitute
for the substitute.
The following resolutions were offered
and adopted:
By Mr.. Taylor, of Loudoun:
Resolued, That the committee on Gene
raj Laws be instructed to enquire into the
expediency Of establishing d State Board Of
Insurance.
By Mr.. Nowlin:
Whereas, The late decision of the Court
of Appeals, in regard to the receivabllity
of coupons in payment of taxes, renders
necessary tho raising of much larger
Of revenue by the State than
can possibly be derived from the
present rate Of taxation; and where
as, in the present depressed condition
of the finances of our people, any
higher rate of taxation ON the real and per-
sonal property of the State would be pro-
ductive Of much suffering, and result in a
great sacrifice of the property of many of
the citizens of this State; therefore,
Resolued, That the Committee on
Finance inquire into the expedency of
devising some plan of state insurance for
the raising of revenue.
By MIR. Penn: Bill to incorporate the
Rockingham Bank. Twice read and re-
ferred.
Mr.. Ward by leave presented bill to
amend aud re-enact an act to amend the
first and second sections of chapter 1913,
Code of 1860, in relation to leasing and
selling lands of persons under disability.
Referred.
BY the same: A bill to amend and
re.enact an act to amend the first and sixth
sections Of chapter 1919, of Code of 1880, in
relation to transferring to persons in
another state or county effects in this State.
Referred.
The following bills were read third
lime and passed:
Senate bill authorizing the Old Dominion
Coal Company to construct o railroad from
their mines in Powhatan county to James
river.
Senate bill to amend and re-enact section
3, and 6 ofchapter IA of the Code of Vir-
ginia 1860) in reference to the protest OF
notes, was amended on motion Of Mr..
Kirkpatrick, and passed.
Senate bill to amend.and re-enact the 9th
section of chapter Of an act entitled IA n
Act providing charter for the city of
in force March 20, 1872.
Senate bill to amend and re-enact section
D of an act entitled Gan Act author
cling the increase of the capital stock of
the Kanawha Coal Company, and for other
passed March /, 1858.
Senate bill declaring valid the assessment
on the same, under the act in force January
"a, 1872.
A message was received from the House
by Mr.. Riddlebarger, informing the Senate
Of the passage by that body Of bill
entitled "An Act to provide artificial
limbs for citizens of the Commonwealth
who lost their limbs during the war; also
an act to repeal an act entitled IAN Act
to provide for the payment of the interest
on the public debt" in force March 10Th.
1879.
Senate bill to amend and re-enact section
forty, chapter forty-nine of the Code Of
Virginia, 1860, in regard to Judgments by
motion against officers and their sureties,
was taken up and read the third time, when
Mr.. Taylor, of Loudoun, moved to lay
on the table. Determined in the negative.
MIR. Penn moved to reconsider the vote
by which it was ordered to its engress-
ment. Carried.
On motion of Mr.. Penn, the bill was
amended, and as amended, engrossed and
read third time.
Senate bill providing for the preservation
of historical papers, was taken up, read a
third time, and on motion Of Mr. Wynne,
laid on the table.
BY Mr.. Thomas A bill repeating the
act in force March Z, 1872, declaring what
shall be received in payment of taxes or
other demands against the State; read q
first and second time.
By Mr.. Hundley: A bill to prohibit Off
GERS charged with the collection of the
revenues Of this State, or in any manner
connected Herewith, from using the public
moneys for Purposes of speculation, and to
provide suitable punishment therefor read
frat and second times.
BY Mr.. Holiday A bill to provide for
the establishment Of Bureau of Immi.
grafton; read first and second time and re-
ierred.
House bill entitled an act to repeal ar
act entitled an act to provide for the pay