The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-28
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VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

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VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
FIFTY-SIxTH DAY.
| TUESDAY, January %.
SENATE.-The Senate was called to or.
der at II o'clock, Senator Thomas in the
chair. Prayer by the Rev. j. q. Tyler, Of
| the Seventh-street Christian church.
COMMUNICATED.
House joint resolution appointing COM
mittee of conference with the bondholders
on the 10Th of February was taken up and
concurred in.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Mr.. Grimsley, from the committee on
county and city and town organization :
Senate bill providing for change of names OF
townships, where two townships are called
by the same name with the recommends
ton that it do not pass.
Mr.. Holiday, from the committee on
roads and internal navigations, presented o
bill directing the board of public works to
sell the states interest in the Richmond
Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad COM
pany.
Mr.. Penn, from the committee of privi-
leges and elections: Senate bill to pro-
vide for the general registration of voters,
approved April -, 1870, as amended by
the act approved March IA, 1872, in rela-
ton to the general registration Of voters
with amendments); resolution in relation
to the Upper Appomattox company with
q substitute therefor).
ALEXANDRIA,, LOUDOUN AND HAdP-
SHIRE RAILROAD COMPANY.
The committee on courts of justice pre-
sented the following in relation to the for
FIXTURE of state stock by the Alexandra,
Loudoun and Hampshire railroad company:
The committee have, according to order,
questing information from the board
due by the Alexandria, Loudoun
and Hampshire r. R. Co. and instructing
said committee to report whether or not
said A. L. & H. R. R. Co. by its failure to
comply with the provisions of the act dis
posing of the states interc st in said road,
and the deed of trust made in pursuance of
said act was made such forfeiture as to
authorize said board of public works to
resume the absolute ownership, possession
and control of the stock of the state in sal d
road, &C., and beg leave to report that the
attorney-general Of the state having filed
written opinion before your committee to
the effect that, upon the facts as presented
to him, there has been such forfeiture,
and that the state has a right to resume
control of the stock sold BY the board of
public works to said company your
committee recommend that the board of
public works be directed under the advise
ment Of the attorney-general to take such
steps as they may deem best to. Inforce
said forfeiture.
INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
By Mr.. Thomas: Bill to amend and re-
enact an act to incorporate the Potomac
and Manassas railroad company.
CALENDAR.
On motion of Mr.. Hundley, it was Or
dered that the Senate proceed to the con-
sideration of bills on their second reading.
Senate bill declaring all domesticated an
imals and birds personal property.
Bill providing for the publication of the
laws of the commonwealth in the newspa-
pers in this state Immediately after their
passage, were indefinitely postponed.
ORDERED TO ENDORSEMENT.
Senate bill to incorporate the town of
Rocky Mount, in the county of Franklin,
was taken up, read the second time, and
the substitute proposed by the committee
on general laws agreed to. The bill was
then ordered to be engrossed and read
third time.
Senate bill to authorize the board of SUI
pervisors for Wythe county to contract for
keeping in repair certain public roads in
said county.
Senate bill to encourage donations to the
University of Virginia, and to constitute
the state Of Virginia the trustee thereof.
Scnase bill in relation to the charter of
the town of Danville.
Senate bill to repeal tho sixtieth and six
ty-first sections of an act entitled an act
for the support of the government and free
schools, and to pay the interest on the
public debt.
Senate bill relating to the printing and
defining the duties of the superintendent of
public printing reported from committee
with amendments which were agreed to
Senate bill concerning warrants for small
claims; Senate bill in regard to judgment
liens.
Bill Tor the payment Of the funeral ex-
penses Of William H. Rohr, late an officer
of the Senate.
Bill to authorize the issue of certificates
of state debt to the executors of Jacqueli in
P. Taylor, &c.
Bill providing for making, publishing
nd selling county maps.
Bill to authorize the Liberty and Rocky
Mount narrow gauge railroad company to
extend its road from Rocky Mount to the
North Carolina line.
Bill providing for the future extension of
the corporate limits of the city Of Rich
mond.
A bill for the relief of A. w. Vaughan,
collector of Francisco township, in Buck
ingham county, in the year 1871.
Bill to amend andre enact an act as amend
ed in relation to property not to be sold by
personal representative.
Bill to amend and re-enact an act in refer
ence to the abduction of females.
Bill to amend and re-enact an act to pro-
tect the oyster beds of the comm nwealth,
SO as to prevent the planting of oysters on
natural beds or rocks.
Several bills were dismissed.
The chair appointed the following COM
mittee on the part of the Senate, for the
adjustment Of the state debt: Messrs.
Cochran, kirkpatrick, Quesenberry and
Taylor, of Loudoun.
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