Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-12
FROM RICHMOND.
LEGISLATIVE.

concerning allowances OF certain ottlcers ana
concerning compensation Of Commonwealth
Attorney.
Bills were passed to amend the charter of
the Potomac and Manassas railroad company
to incorporate the American photographic stone
COMPANY; giving the consent of this State to
the purchase by the United States of two tracts
of land in the counties of Henrico and Hanover,
to be used for military cemeteries, and exempt
ing the same from State aud county taxes to
amend the act in relation to the general regis
tration of voters to amend section 81 OF the
act imposing taxes for the support of the gov
ernment and free schools, and to pay the inter-
est on the public debt, approved April 9Th,
1872
The bill in relation to the lease Of the Pcni-
Tertiary was taken up and discussed until add
tournament.
In the House OF D .legates bills We're report
ed and put on the calendar; to authorize the
Common Council OF Petersburg to issue bonds
of the city to the amount of $40, 900 tor pubic
school purposes for the assessment OF taxes
on persons, property, income, Ec. to amend
the code 10 relation to the maintenance OF He
gitimate children to relieve the people 81 the
Commonwealth from the burdens OF taxation
and to raise revenue by organizing a state bu
reau of Insurance, Nc; aud to Incorporate the
Masonic relief aud banking association, OF
Front Royal, Warren county,
Bills to amend the law as to fees OF assessors;
to amend the act prescribing the duties and
compensation of certain township officers; and to
| provide for ninety days notice to tenauts out
| side of cities aud towns were dismissed.
The House bill to protect farmers and others
| FROM embczz'emcnt by commission merchants
aud others, was passed over.
A bill was introduced to provide for the more
economical transportation Of convctS to the
peuitentiary; and petition presented from
citizens of Madison, Amherst county, praying
to be relieved from tho guaranteed tax OF the
| city Of Lyuchhurg to the Virginia and Tcnnes-
sec railroad.
| The bill defining the jurisdiction Of the Cir
cult and County Courts was further discussed.
substitute for the bill offered by Mr. o Ferrel
and the substitute discussed till adjournment.
GOLD AND SILVER MATCHMAKING COMPANY.
4 bill has been reported in the Senate to
Incorporate the Uuited States Gold and Sill
yer Anal amating Company of Virginia, for
chasing, manufacturing, smelling, ;ssayiug aud
otherwise treating minerals and metals and
for building, erecting and running machinery
for any OF said purposes, or for sale, barter or
exchange They are authorized to hold real
estate to the amount of 5000 acres Minimum
capital stock, $lOo,oO The pridcipal Office is
to be at Frederick sblug.
MORE RAILROAD EXCITEMENT
There has been some further excitement in
Railroad circles in and about the Capitol occa-
stoned by the reporting OF the bill in the Sen
ate on Saturday to amend the charter of the
Fredericksburg and Orange Courthouse Rail
| road Company, all ingenious scheme OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company to get their
through line from Baltimore to Richmond.
BY this report, that which has cost MIR. Rag
land and his associates thousands of dollars III
the way of tax. printing &C. &c., without so
far, proving successful, was about being effect
ed by the the bill reported, apparently without
trouble. Should the bill pass, the Frcdercks-
burg, Orange and Charlottesville Company,
could soon have Il road from Washington to
| Hanover Junction, and at Hanover junction
could transfer their cars and run into Rich
moud on the track of the Chesapeake Il Ohio
Railroad Company. Lieutenant Governor
Marye introduced the bill before the commit
| tee at called meeting, held Saturday morning
and it was passed upon favoraby aud ordered
| to be reported without any opposition. 1t was
| only after it had reached the Senate that the
| wooden horse" was ascertaincd to be filled
with soldiers Of the Pennsylvania Contra Com
| pany, whcreupon there was considerable cX-
element. The Lieut.. Governor, whose iu-
| tegrity nobody suspects, made Il personal ex-
plaDalion to-day from the chair Of the Senate
| He denied that he had appeared as lobbyist
in getting the bill through the Senate Commit
tee on Roads. The steps he had taken in the
matter were, he said, taken at the request OF
| the corporate authorities of Fredericksburg,
and with the approval of the Senator and dele
gate from that town. He had no idea or sus-
picion of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| or Southern Security Company having any
thing to do with it and supposed that the connec-
ton with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
was to be made at Charlottesville instead OF at
Hanover junction as is now supposed. Gov
error Marye is the counsel OF the Richmond
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Conpa-
ny, and was, therefore, the more embarrassed
His friends are satisfied with the explanation
which he has given. The bill will be recon-
nitted and its provisions thoroughly invest-
gated.
VALUATION OF LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES.
The Senate committe on general laws have
reported frvorabIy "a bill to provide for the
valuation of Life Insurance Policies" which
provides that until the establishment OF a
regular insurance department 10 this State, the
Auditor of Public Accounts is authorized, and
he is hereby required, at the request of any
Life Insurance Company, chartered under the
laws of this State, to make, or cause to be
made valuation of all policies of such compa'
ny 10 force on the thirty first day of Dece mbcr,
in any year, at the expense OF said company, and
keep record ofthe same in his office, and certify
the same at the request ofsuch company. The
said valuation shall be made upon the basis Of
the American table of mortality, and at four
and one-half per ccntum interest. No Life
Insurance Company chartered under the laws
Of any other State, whose insurance department
refuses to receive as valid the valuation Of the
policies of any Life Insurance Company of this
State made under this act, shall do business IN
this State, until there shall have been made, at
the expense of such foreign Lift, Insurance