Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-04-30
FROM RICHMOND.
LEGISLATIVE.


RICHMOND, April 60 morrow, and the
nresept session of the Legislature will have ad-
iourned till the session in course, and very
trulv the State Journal remarks that if the
members when they first came to Richmond
had worked half as hard as they are now doing,
there would have been 40 occasion for them TO
have staid at the Capitol more than three
weeks.
The Senate to-day, passed the bills in r.la.
ton to the release of taxes prior to the year
1865. with the House amendments; authorlZ-
ing the division of cities aud town ol more THAI
i've thousand Inhabitants into wards, with The
House amendments; amending an act 10 reia-
ton to the pay Of sheritfs and serpeantS; aud
authorizing the Governor and Treasurer, with
the aid of experts, if they deem 1t proper, TO
examine and report upon the c0udltun anu
manapement Of affairs i'll the basement offices
of the Capitol aud to report to the next Grue-
raj Assembly.
The bill to Incorporate the Hampton aud
Fortress Monroe Railroad Company was re-
ported from committee without amendment.
The bill to change the guage OF the Rlch-
mond and Dauve Railroad was discussed uil-
til the hour for the recess, a motion to lay on
the table having been r. ected by a vote oil IS
to-.
In the House of Delegates the committee to
visit Kentucky and ascertain the probabllliyD 81
securing railroad connection at Cumberland
Gap was appointed.
The Senate bill appropria.iug the public rev,
enue for the fiscal year 1873 IA was ordered
to be engrossed.
The Cumberland Gap Railroad bill was con-
sidered till the hour of adjournment.
MISCELLANEOUS.
In the Court of Appeals, to-day, the decls-
| ion OF the Hastings Court OF Richmond, III the
case of Coleman VS.. the Commonwealth, was
affirmed.
The memorial meeting to the late Charles
| Sumner at the African Church, last uight,
| was one Of the largest ever held IN this city,
there being among the audience a large nun
Der of whites. The address on the occasion
was delivered by j. NJ. Langston, colored, OF
Washington, aud is spoken OF as very credl-
table production.
Capt. j. NJ. Steuart, City Sergeant Of Alex
| andria, reached here, to day, 10 charge OF four
| negroes, sentenced to the penltentlary Tor the
| periods named, viz: Elias Jordan. live years;
| j. Nj. Woody, tour years; Lewis Green, three
years and three mouths; VIM. johnson, two
years aQQ SIX mOuluS.
A delegation of merchants Of this city waited
| on the Governor to-day and urged several rea-
sons why he should veto the general tax bill.
| The Governor listened with attention and seems
DESTROYS to hear all that has to be said on both
Sides The work of enrolling the bill was flush
ed yesterday evening, aud it was placed 10 the
hands of the Governor this morning. Ii DOT
signed by - clock tomorrow night, the hour
| when the session expires, it will 10 consequence
fail TO become law-at least 1t has heretofore
been so held.
Hereafter it will be lawful for notaries pub
| lie in cities Of over 10000 inhabitants 10 serve
notices of protests by mailug the same to par
ties concerned, Instead of delivering the notices
10 person.
The law in relation to sheriff fees has been
amended, aud 10 some instances the fees are d.
usual, 10 others decreased. One dollar Is al
lowed for serving any process under which the
body is taken instead of sixty cents. as herctu-
fore; tor Jail board per day, thirty ccuts,
instead Of forty cents; for search and return
Of writ of disraint where the property is
not found, fifty cents for keeping any horse
or mule distraioed or levied on, twenty
| FIVE cents for each day said animal Is stall fed,
aud ten cents per day when pasture-ted; at pre-
sent the fee is seventeen cents for feeding and
pasturing. Interest is to be hereafter allowed
on all tees included 10 a forthcoming boad from
the date Of the boud.
Twenty.fv hundred dollars have been appro-
priased to the Central Lunatic Asy um, to be
expended in constructing a new ward.