The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-08
VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
THIRTY SIXTH DAY.
WEDNESDAY, January s, 1872.

SENATE.--The Senate was called to or
der at 1915 o'clock. Prayer by DR.. Thos.
l.. Preston. of the First Presbyterian
church.
A communication was read from the
House of Delegates informing the Senate
of the passage of House Bill entitled an
act to encourage Agricultural and Indus
trial Fairs, and Senate Bill exempting the
citizens of Chincoteague and other islands
in the Chesapeake Bay from jury service,
with amendments. This bill was taken up
and the amendments proposed by the
House were agreed to.
The President laid before the Senate a
communication from the Board of Visitors
of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College relative to the payment of the
interest on the State bonds held by that
institution. On motion of Mr.. Thomas
referred to Committee on Finance. Also a
communication from the Board of Educa-
ton in reference to resolution of the Sem
ate calling for information as to the amount
realized from the sale of the college land
scrip donated by Congress, &c. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Taylor, Of Loudoun, laid on
the table and ordered to be printed.
Bills, resolutions, &C., offered and re-
ferred.
By Mr.. Hundley: A bill for the relief
of A. w. Vaughan. collector of Francisco
township, in Buckingham county, he also
presented petition from A. W. Vaughan
in connection herewith.
Mr.. Anderson, of Rockbridge, offered a
joint resolution in reference to the employ
ing of clerk for the joint committee on
Constitutional Amendments. Laid over
under the rules.
Committee reports:
By Mr.. Wynne A bill directing the
Committee on Library to make purchases
for the same.
BY Mr.. Grinsley: House bill providing
for the election of certain officers of the
city of Norfolk by the qualified voters
thereof.
By Mr.. Fitzpatrick Senate bill to in
corporate the Augusta Mining and I'M
provement Company also. Senate bill
the charter of the town of Har-
passed July 8, 1870.
These bills were all reported without
Bills and resolutions passed:
House bill to authorize the qualified
voters of Halifax county to vote on the
question of the purchase of the Toll bridge
at South Boston, in order to make it free
bridge, being the unfinished business of
was taken up and passed Sem
ate bill to provide for the removal of GER
tain causes from the docket of the Special
Court of Appeals to the docket of the Su-
preme Court of Appeals /; joint resolution
for the selection of site for
State Reform School, and the erection of
suitable buildings thereon.
Senate bill to provide for State Board |
of Equalization being the order of the day,
was taken up. and unsuccessful efforts |
made to amend, and postpone indefinitely,
it was then tabled, and on motion the vote |
by which it was tabled was reconsdered,
and it again came up, when it was discuss
ed at length, and motion again made to ta
BILE, which motion was withdrawn, and
Mr.. Cochran offered a substitute, to which
Mr.. Hundley offered an amendment, pend
ing which, on motion of Mr.. Lathrop, the
Senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-House met at u NJ, Mr.. |
Booker, of Henry, in the chair. Prayer
by Rev. j. William Jones, of the Baptist |
Church.
On motion of Mr.. Noble, under suspen-
sion of the rules, Senate bill authorizing
the supervisors of Rockingham county to |
borrow money to rebuild the courthouse,
which was destroyed by fire, was put on
the calendar.
The following bills were reported and
placed on calendar:
House bills: To incorporate the Virginia
Coal Company to amend section 40,
chapter IS, of act Of March 10, 1872, to
prevent the destruction of wild fowl in
Virginia; to incorporate the Hunter Woods
Club of Norfolk to incorporate the Man.
cork Wharf Company on the Rappahan-
mock river; to repeal the act making the
Board of Education &c o6tcio members of
the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Ag-
riculuural and Mechanical College.
Senate bills: Declaring valid DEGREES
made in vacation, by consent of parties,
with amendments; to amend section 2 of
an act authorizing an increase of the capt.
tai stock of the Kanawha Canal Company,
and for other purposes to amend section
2 of the act of March -, 1872, prescribing
the duties and compensation of county Of
ficers, with recommendation it do not pass;
to amend section 40, chapter 40 of the
Code in regard to judgments by melton
against officers and their sureties.
The committee on schools and colleges
made report that the payment of balances
due school teachers in districts unable to
pay out Of the public free school fund
is already provided for by law and asked
to be discharged from the further con-
sideration of the subject. Agreed to.
MIR. Noble, from the special committee to
request Ex-Governor Wise and the Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth to furnish the
House with such information in their pos
session as relates to state or national insu-
rance, submitted report covering bill to
establish State Bureau to issue policies of
insurance on life, property, &C., with an
accompanying paper, by Mr.. Wise,
explaining the bill and urging its adoption.
1t was laid upon the table and ordered to
be printed.
Mr.. Wharton, under suspension of the
rules, had leave to introduce the following
which was placed upon the calendar:
Resolced (by the House of Delegates, the
Senate concurring), That the Auditor of
Public Accounts be and he is hereby au-
thorized and directed, to pay the interest
due up to the first of the present month on
the bonds of this State purchased by the
Board of Education with the proceeds de-
rived from the sale of the congressional
landscrip, the same as is paid to other
colleges under the act of March 20, 1872.
The resolution was subsequently taken