Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-10
FROM RICHMOND.
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| burg, Grunge anu CllariulleSVlilc falllnau cou
pany to extend its road to the Potomac river,
to make connection with the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, and to borrow money; aud to
amend the act prescribing the duties and CON-
pensation Of county officers
The bill to authorize the Common Council
of Petersburg to issue bonds of the city to the
amount of forty thousand dollars tor public
school purposes was ordered to be engrosseo.
The committee On finance was Instructed to
inquire into the expcdiency Of reporting at as
early day as practicable, a tax bill and bill
providing for the payment OF interest on the
public debt, and what reduction IN the current
expenses of the government can be made.
The bill to lease the Peuitcntlary was made
the order of the day for Thursday.
Bills were passed; to authorize the Liberty
and Rocky Mount Narrow Gauge Railroad
Company 10 extend its road from Rocky Mount
to the North Carolina line; to amend the Code
in relation to property not to be sold by person
al representative; 10 amend the act to protect
the oyster beds in the waters of the Common
wealth, so as to prevent the planting OF oysters
on natural beds or rocks; tor the relief OF the
sureties of William NJ. Hume, deceased, late
sheriff of Fauquirr; to amend the Code, IN re-
la,ion to the maintenance Of illegitlmate chill
PeSSSN
March Goth, 1872, 10 relation to fences aud the
protection of crops; to amend the lst and I'd
sections of the act to incorporate the Virginia
and Northwestern Railroad Company to amend
the act Incorporating the Fairfax county
Narrow Gauge Elevated Railroad Company;
aud in relation to charters OF incorporation, &c.
In the House of Delegates bills were report
ed to amend the act for the re-asSessment OF
lands, so as to enable those counties which
failed to avail themselves of the provisions OF
said act to do 50; to amend the code in relation
70 nav of Jurors memoraliZlng Congress to
abolish the internal tax GU all liquors made
from fruit, with substitute; to authorize the
County Court of Stafford to appoint comms'
sioncrs to re-arrauge the boundaries OF the
fence law in said county; and to authorize the
formation of the Virginia mining, manutactur-
ing and transportation company
The committee o. Courts reported that the
petition of John Brannaman, of Augusta coun-
~, for leave to marry, should be rejected; also
that it is neypedicntto amend the code reducing
the fees of commissioners in chancery from
sevcnty-fve cents to fifty cents per hour which
reports were c0ucurrcd 10.
A i,int resolution that no member shall be
entitled to per diem Oh leave OF absence
except in case Of sickness at the capital,
or pro,ractcd illness at home was introduced
but referred.
The Senate amendment to substitute to
House Joint resolution mrmorializing Congress
to abolish the internal tax on all liquors made
from fruit, was agreed to.
The Senate amendments TO House bill to
amcrd the code in relation to pay OF Jurors,
were adopted.
The House bill for the relief of Thos. A. 4
W. r. Bryan was passed.
Bills were passed to amend the acts OF 1855.
Sc in relation to the town of UppcrvlIle to au-
thorize the formation of land companies; to an
;, mex portion of the territory of Franklin coun-
~ TO Floyd county; and to amend section of
the act imposing taxes for the support OF the
government, &c.
The bill defining the jurisdiction the CIR,
cult and County Courts was taken. up and
pending motion to providing that the county
Judges shall be paid out of the State treasury
Instead of by the counties, the House adjourned.
Mr.. Brooke of Fauluicr offered an amend
ment providing that in counties containing
less than 5000 inhabitants the judge
of the Circuit Court shall have authorl-
ty to hold but two terms year If
in his Judgment they will be adequate
to the transaction of The business of such coun-
ties, but subsequently Withdrew It,
LAWS.
The following bills and resolutions have be.
come laws since those last reported; to amend
the act for the relief Of the late sherifs of the
Commonwealth, approved Feb 2lst, 1872; to au-
thorize the virginia and North Carolina Rail
70 ID COMPANY to assume and be known by the
name of the Washington City, Virginia, Mid
land and Great Southern Railroad Company;
to enable the trustees of the Presbyterian
Church of Harrisonburg Rockingham county,
and their successors in Office, to receive and
ho,d a beouest under the will of Ann Dawson,
deceased; to amend section IA OF chapter l9 OF
Code of 1860, directing the Committee on the
Library to make purchases for the library; to
incorporate the Richmond Building and I'M
provement Company; lns.ruclng the Auditor
of Public Accounts to subject the property OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company to
the paymcnt of taxes due and 10 arrears; to
amend the Code providing for the appointment
of cricrs. or persons to perform certain duties,
where there are no shcriffs or sergeants; to
amend the Code in reference to marriages with
in prohibited degrees of relationship; to amend
the act to appropriate the income arising from
the proceeds of the land scrip accrulng to Vlr-
ginia, under act of Congress Of July y, 1862,
and the act amendatory thereof to amend the
Code and all acts amendatory thereof, III rela-
ton to the acknowledgements OF deeds; TO lncor-
corporate the Society of the Alumni Of the
University of Virginia; for the relief Of Robert
! NJ. Heterick, late superintendent OF schools tor
Rappahannock county; to amend the act amend
ing the charter of the town Of Harrisonburg; to
amend an act to authorize the trustees ofStrass,
burg Academy, in Shenandoah county, to sell
a certain lot of land; to amend the charter OF
the town of Berryville; tor the rehet OF Samuel
R. Allabaugh, late sheriff of Rockingham
county; and joint resolution to appoint COM
mittee to adjust the State debt
THE FREDERICKSBURG ORANGE AND CHAR
louisville RAILROAD.
A bill has been reported 10 the Senate from
the Commute on Roads to authorize the Frede-
ricksburg, Orange aud Charlottesville Railroad
Company to extend its road to the Potomac
river to make connection with the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, and to borrow money The
extension to the Potomac proposed is at or