The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-09
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VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
SIxTY-SIxTH DAY.
FRIDAY, Feb. o.

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u..sa.- FRIDAY, Feb. o.
House of Delegates.
House met at IL o'clock.
Speaker Hanger in the chair.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Preston, of the
First Presbyterian church.
BILLS REPORTED.
Senate BiUS--I'o incorporate the Peters
burg Law Association; to amend an act to
incorporate the Virginia International Land,
Loan and Trust company /; to incorporate
the Mechanics Mutual Building Fund and
Dollar Savings Bank of the city of Staun-
ton to authorize the supervisors of the
counties to impose tax on dogs, with
amendment.
House Bdns-To authorize persons joint
ly, or jointly and severally bound to be
joined in the same action or to be sued
separately to authorize the voters of the
couaties of Norfolk, Halifax, Sussex,
Brunswick and Frederick to vote upon the
question of repeating the fence law to de-
clare certain streams in Charlotte county
to be highways; to authorize the County
court of Spotsylvania to rearrange the
boundaries within which the fence law shall
be operative.
This last was introduced yesterday by
Mr.. Sutherlin and was improperly said to
relate to PiHsy7Uania county. ,Spotsylrania
county is the county to which the bill re-
iates.l
House bill to apply fence-money to fenc-
ing.
THE OYsTER-PEDS. @
House bill to protect the oyster-beds of
the Commonwealth, unfinished business,
came up, Mr.. Warner L. jones' motion to
commit to the Committee on the Chesa-
'peake and its tributaries, still pending.
The motion prevailed; Ga ayes, 80 noes.
NORFOLK AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY
COMPANY. t.
On motion of Mr.. Watts, Senate bill to
incorporate the Norfolk and Southern
railway company was taken up out of its
order.
Mr.. Parks offered to amend the 1st Sec
ton by adding Messrs. John B. White
head, g. w. Newton, Kadler Biggs, and
W. N. II. Smith, of the city of Norfolk, as
the corporators and directors of the COM
pany. Agreed to-.
Mr.. Watts offered an amendment pro-
viding that the Seaboard and Roanoke rail-
road shall IN nowise be affected by the 9th
and 7th sections of the act. The sections
named provide for the sale, lease and con-
nection Of the railway to any other road,
and for the sale, &C., of any other road to
the railway company.l Adopted.
The bill was then ordered to engrossment
anG third reading. ..s-.-
THE TOWN OF WOODSTOCK.
On motion of Mr.. Smoot, House bill to
incorporate the town of Woodstock, Shen-
andoah county, was taken up out its order
and passed.
A RESOLUTION TO CLOSE DEBATE ON
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Mr.. Walker offered a resolution that all
debate on the funding bill be closed to-
at 2. M. 4#
Before the vote was taken the special or
der came up.
PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
By Mr.. Christian Proceedings of
meeting held in the county of Matthews,
asking to amend the law for the protection
of the oyster-beds and for the enforcement
Of the present laws against dredging.
ny tuO k1dilS
WHEREAS, section 4th of an act entitled an act
a tax on oysters, approved March 18th,
1871, provides that practical and experienced
shall be appointed to command the oys-
ter steamers engaged in the collection of the
oyster-tax, and
WHEREAS, it is believed that men who are not
and practical seamen have been ap-
pointed,in consequence of which one of said
steamers was sunk and lost; therefore be 1t
Resolved, That the Committee on the Chesa-
peake and its tributaries be instructed to inquire
why the requirements of the law have not been
complied with.
THE FUNDING BILL,
being the special order, was discussed until
the hour of adjournment.
Mr.. Thomas, President pro tenn, in the
chair.
BILLS REPORTED.
Senate bill to incorporate the Arlington
Land and Loan company.
House bill to amend and reenact an act to
incorporate the town of Ashland, in Hano-
yer county, and the act amendatory
thereof.
Senate bill to amend and reenact section
l3 of chapter 81, code of 1860, relating to
tolls on turnpikes out of repair.
A bill to incorporate the Nethumain
turnpike company.
A bill to authorize the formation of the
Allegheny Springs railroad company.
BILLS PRESENTED.
A bill to amend and reenact section 5 of
an act passed Jan. 26, 1866, in relation to
fences and protection of crops.
A bill for the relief of w. r. Vaughan
and A. L. Smith, executors of W. S.
Smith, deceased.
A bill to amend and reenact an act pass
ed Feb. 16, 1867, for the relief of the late
sheriffs of the Commonwealth referred to
the Committee on Finance.
A bill to incorporate the New York and
Norfolk railroad company was ordered to
second reading, and referred to the Com
mttee on Roads and Internal Navigation.
A bill providing compensation for SER
vices to be rendered by the clerk of the
Circuit Court of the city of Petersburg was
ordered to second reading, and referred to
the Committee on Finance.
A bill to perfect the organization of the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad
company was ordered to second reading,
and referred to the Committee on Roads
and Internal Navigation.
A bill to amend and reanact section of
an act to amend and reenact an act provid-
ing for the reassessment of the lands
throughout the Commonwealth, approved
July 8, 1870. Ordered to a second read-