Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-15
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURES.

" CSA ViNoINlh kEOiSLA III RE.
In the Senate, on the goth ultimo,
House bill 80, ga bill requiring labor
of convicts sentenced to county jails,
was read third time and passed with
its title. 1t has since become law.
In the Senate, on the LIST instant, Mr..
Custom offered Senate Joint Resolution
"a, "Requiring our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress to ask the pass
age of an act providing for session of
the United States District Court at
Martinsburg," which was laid over for
one day, under the Rules. Subsequent
ly, Oh the 4th instant, the resolution was
amended by adding That the Governor
be requested to transmit a copy of this
Joint resolution to each of our Senators
and Representatives in Congress. The
resolution was then adopted.
The Senate, on the Sd instant, unani-
mously passed Joint Resolution which
was concurred in by the House of Del
egates with only three negative votes,
to adjourn sine die on the fifteenth of
December. All the legislation necessa-
ry to adapt the code to the new consti-
tuition, it is asserted, will have been &C
complished at that time.
House Bill No. 19l, entitled can act
requiring the Executive officers OF this
State to certify the election of the mem
bers of the House of Representatives of
the Forty-Third Congress of the United
States, for the several districts of the
State, passed the Senate on the 4th in
slant.
The Constitution of the United States
requires re-distrcting Of the States,
by their respective Legislatures, for
congressional purposes, within three
years after the completion of the census
every ten years. 1t is, therefore, inn
perative on this Legislature to perform
this duty. The Senate has passed bill
to its second reading for this purpose
1t leaves the Second district as it now
is and the only change in the other two
is the transfer of Braxton county from
the Third to the First.
On the 9Th, Senator Grantham intro
duced bill from the Committee on
Privileges and elections, providing for
the election of Congressman in this
State on the second Tuesday in October
next. After that time the act Of Con
.gress regulates the election of members
in the various States.
In the House, on the 9TH instant, Mr.
Legg presented the petition Of Charles
James Faulkner, Jr., and 2S3 others of
Berkeley county, asking the repeal of
the liquor law, which was referred to the
Committee on Taxation and Finance.
DEATH OF MRs r. +. LEE.--The I'M
mediate cause of the death of Mrs. Gen
eral II. +. Lee was paralysis. 1t took
place at II o'clock Wednesday night.
Her three sons and daughter were
present. Her passing away was peace
full and calm as became her life. The
funeral took place in Lexington on Fri
day, the remains being placed in the
chapel by the side of her husband and
daughter, in obedience to her latest re-
quest. The services were very solemn,
and all business was suspended i'll Lex
ington in honor to the widow OF our
great Confederate chief.
In referring to her death, the Baltl-
more Gazette says:
1t is with the most sincere regret we
announce the death of that good wife
and faithful mother and Christian lady,
Mrs. Robert Z. Lee. She had been an
invalid for ten years with rheumatic
affection. The death of her husband
WAS heavy and overwhelming blow to
her. All who have seen the attachment
subsisting between the tall, strong, stall
wart and soldierly Lee and his fragile
and crippled wife know how sincere and
beautiful and deep it was Since his
death Mrs. Lee suffered much from de-
preston of spirits, distress greatly in
creased by the loss Of her daughter
Agnes. Mrs. Lee was Mary, daughter
of G. w. Z. Gusts, and her age about
sixty-fve years.