The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-03-02
General Assembly Of Virginia.
SATURDAY, February 90, 1874.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Iieutenant- Governor WTHERs presiding.
Prayer by the Rev. w. G. Lumpkin, of Man
chester.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
On motion of Mr.. MorFErr, leave Of ab-
sence was granted Mr. LAWSON for one
week.
On motion of Mr.. GREEvEE, Mr. K1RKPAT-
RICK was granted leave of absence for three
days.
On motion of Mr.. GRAMAM, Mr.. EVANS
was granted leave Of absence for one day.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Mr., HERNDoN, from the Committee for
Courts of Justice, presented report asking
to be discharged from the consideration of i
resolution as to the legal obligations, duties,
and powers of the Atlantic, Mississippi. and
Ohio Railroad and what interest the State
has therein, and that the matter be referred
to the Committee on Roads and Internal
Navigation; also, report declaring it mex
pedient to legi>late on the subject of a reso-
luton instructing the committee to report
by bill or otherwise on certain laws in rela.
ton to iuries; also, House bill to prescribe
the times for holding the terms of the circuit
courts of this Commonwealth and TO repeal
the 18th section Of the 155th chapter of the
Code of 1873, which authorizes the judges
of said courts to fix said terms; also, bill
to authorize the Board of School Trustees
of King and Queen county to sell the Smith
field tract of land in said county.
Mr. PRlDEaoRE, from the Committee on
General Laws, reported, with the reconlmen-
dation that they do not pass, bills to iucor-
porate the Virginia Relief Association and
to provide for the inspection Of steam-boilers
in the State of Virginia.
Mr, HUSDLEY, from the committee of con-
ference on the disagreeiDg votes Of the two
houses to the amendments proposed By the
House of Delegates, entitled IN act to declare
the true intent and meaning of the act IN
force April I'd, 1873, TO amend and reenact
sections and Of an act to regulate and de-
fine the jurisdictions Of the county and cir
cult courts, to prescribe the number OF terms
of the circuit courts, and to Fix the pay OF
county judges, reported, asking to be dis
charged from the consideration OF the sub
ject.
BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, ETC., INTRODUCED.
The following bills, resolutions, ETC., were
presented and appropriately referred:
By Mr.. LAKELAND: A resolution as to the
expediency Of so amending section l of
chapter 12S Of the Code OF 1873 as to re-
quire more explicitly that the clerks Of courts
as well as the commissioner Of accounts shall
keep i tiducary book, in which shall be en-
tered all the particulars required to be en-
tered by the commissioner In his book.
BY the same: A resolution as to the expe-
diency of excepting subp9nas for 'citnesses
from the list of process which the clerk Of a
court is required to furnish copies of, under
provisions of section of chapter 1G6 of the
new Code.
By the same: A resolution as to the expe-
diency Of amending sections and of chap.
ter 104 of the Code, in relation to the issuing
of marriage.lcenses, so as to authorize the
county.court judge instead of the senior
justice of a county to issue a marriage-license
when the office OF clerk is vacant; said cem-
mttee also to inquire into the expediency OF
repealing section 20 of the same chapter.
By Mr.. GRAHAM: A bill to provide for the
abolition of all laws providing for the pun
ishment of citizens of this Commonwealth
by stripes. 81,
Bessemer Company, Of New Jersey, to holo
| real estate and to transact business III the
| State of Virginia.
By MIR, NowL1N: A bill to amend and re
enact an act passed March 22d, 1872, entltlet
an act for the relief of sheritfs or other ON
GERS whose official papers were lost or dc
stroyed during the late war.
By Mr.. HERNDoN: A bill to Incorporate
the st. Mary's Catholic Benevolent Society
of Fredericksburg.
i By Mr.. GRIMSLEY: A bill to lncorporat
the Southern Settlement Society.
By the same: A bill to incorporate til
: MONTPELIER Female Humane Association, O
orange county, Va.
II By Mr.. CCNNALLY: A bill to incorporat
!, the Bank Of Commerce Of the city OF Ricl
mond.
L BILLS ADVANCED.
A number of bills, etc., were taken W
twice read, and ordered to be engrossed an
read third time.
LUNATIc AsYLUMs.
/ Senate bill making additional appropri
tons to the Eastern Lunatic Asylum WI
taken up, discussed, and finally ordered to
engrossed and read third time, and mad
the special order Of the day for Wednesda,
, PASSED.
Senate bill to amend and resnact section
s, 8, and II Of chapter Of the Code Of 1877;
In relation to the registration Of voters, ws
taken up and passed.
REJECTED.
House bill incorporating the Virginia FL
lief Association, reported from the Commit
tee on General Laws with the recommen
dalton that 1t do not pass, was taken up an
rejected.
Adjourned at o'clock.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
| House met at IL M.-Speaker HANGER I
| the chair. Prayer by Rev. j. w. Jones,
the Baptist Church.
The SPEAKER announced the appoiptmer