Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-12-23
WEST VIRGINIA. LEGIsLATURE.

In the House, on the 9Th inst, House Bill
No. 243, ga bill to amend and re>enact Sec
tion six of chapter niuety-eight of the acts of
1872, entitled An act to Incorporate the
Shenandoah River Navigation Company.;' p"
was read second time and ordered to be en-
crossed and read third time.
In the Senate, on the 9th inst, Mr. Grams
tham.on leave introduced Senate Bill No. 33S,
ga billrepealing section three of chapter one
hundred and seventeen of the acts of S6S re-
latipg to Storer College,"
A Charleston correspondent Of the Wheels
ing Register, under date of the 18th instant,
writes:
"The House has passed new road BILL
1t provides for the appointment BY the county
court, of es macy commissioners as it may
deem expedient. not exceeding one for each
district. who are TO serve two years.. and are
to examine existing roads and routes for new
roads. and report upon the expectancy of all
teriug location or grade of existing roads or
establishing new ones or building OF repairing
bridges. Every road shall be thirty feet wide
unless less width BIO ordered by the county
court. 1t also provides for the division Of
counties into road precincts, and provides for
the appointment of a surveyor for each
Every male over twenty>one and under fifty
who resides in any road precinct, shall BIO
taxed with two days labor on the roads. to be
paid in labor or cash as the person taxed shall
elect. a. the rate Of 81 so per day. The. bill
had heretofore passed the Senate and is now
q law. [ enclose copy of it.
THE Senate, as predicted, has defeated
the bill to turn the Normal schools over to
the counties in which they may be located,
to be used as public schools.
''The House has passed new school law,
which the correspondent of the 1n,e1l;gencer
declares kills the free schools of tho State
too dead to skin" The only changes are,
that it provides for the appointment of Sec
rotary ror the county board of education for
publishing an abstract of the proceedings Of
the hoard by posting on the front of the place
of meeting such abstract; for giving pre-
MUM of one dollar to each youth making the
best record in school attendance; for the
Board of Education to employ teachers and
fix their salaries. and for the creation Of inde>
pendent school districts at an election held on
the petition of at least twenty voters, in the
boundary of the proposed independent dis
trict. and on being ordered by the county
Board of Education. There is nothing so
very terrible in it after all, is there?
I'm the discussion on the bill to compel the
Governor to bring suit against Henry S. Wal
ker, late Public Printer, Mr.. Butcher said
that it was generally understood in the House
that the Governor never intended to bring his
charges to an issue before the courts, but to
keep them hanging over Mr.. Walker to be
used in political campaigns. he, (Mr. Butch
err. demanded that the suit should be brought
by some one. If the Governor did not do it.
then the Attorney General should do it; Mr.
Walker demanded that the suit should be
brought. The bill authorizing the suit was
passed by an almost unanimous vote"