The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-12-12

| before justice OF the peace upon oeuiati
OF party to the action.
The following bills were passed:
Senate bill declaring valid DEGREES {
courts made In vacation.
| Senate bill to amend section q chapte
1S8, of the Code, in relation 10 docketin
Judgments and other liens Of lik
| nature.
Senate bill to authorize the collector Q
Pungoteague township to collect the dis
trict school-tax for the year 1871.
Mr.. Thomas presented the following
resolution, which was agreed to-:
Resolved, That the Auditor Of Publ
Accounts be requested to furnish the iol
lowing information at as early day a
practicable: First. What amount Of funds
there are now in the treasury. Second
What amount now in the treasury is helt
subject for the payment of the interest due
January and July, 1872; what will be thS
amount of liability upon the treasury foi
the interest falling due January and July
1873, at tho rate of four per cent. and six
per cent, as also for the two per cent,
withheld by the act passed ---, 1872 ;
what ID his estimate of the expenditures
for support of government for 1873, and
his estimate of the amount receivable from
taxes applicable thereto and what in bis
opinion will be the deficit, if any.
The President of the Senate announced
the names of the following senator's ON the
part Of the joint committee for the perma-
nent preservation of the Houdon statue of
Washington Messrs. Anderson, of Pittsyl-
vania, Wynne, and Taylor Norfolk.
Mr.. Thomas, from the Finance Commit
tee, presented report proposing to amend
Senate bill No. 80, as follows:
"Strike out all after the enacting clause
and insert in lieu thereof the following {:
Section 9l.. On every bill hereafter pro-
posed in the General Assembly Incorporate
ing any joint stock company, unless it be
for cemetery or any object purely CHAIR.
table, there shall be paid into the Trea-
sury, for the use Of the Commonwealth,
before the same shall be passed to its
second reading, the sum of $50. If the
said act shall receive the assent of the Gem
eral Assembly, before the same shall re
good and effectual in law, or any of the
franchises therein mentioned shall vest, the
said company shall pay into the Treasury,
for the use Of the Commonwealth, the sum
Of % for every $4,000 of the maximum
capital stock OF said company, as provided
in the charter. And whenever charter
is amended, if it increase the capital stock
of the company, there shall be paid, before
the charter 80 amended shall be good and
effectual, sum in proportion to the in
crease of capital stock"
The sdhject was taken up and discussed
at length by Messrs. Greene, Stevens,
Herndon, Kirkpatrick, Taylor of Norfolk,
Pridemore and Greever.
MIR. Greene, as an amendment, offered
Senate bill No. 8. repeating the entire bill
imposing a tax upon charters, &C. Reject.
ed-ayes, 10; noes, 81.
Mr.. Thomas then moved to strike out,
and for the present leave blank, the words
''S2 for every a5,000.h 'Lost-ayes, II
noes, 10.
The question was now upon the adoption
of the substitute from the committee as
amended, and pending an amendment offer
ed by Mr.. Roller, the Senate adjourned on
motion of Mr.. Kirkpatrick.