The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-21
General Assembly Of Virginia.
THURSDAY, January 90, 1916.
SENATE.

Senator QuEsENBERRY in, the chair.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Mr.. rERNpos, from the Committee for
Carts Of Jnstice. reported Senate bills:
10 prescribe the route over which mileage
hall he cemmuted for the Judge Of Wise
and Buchauan; which was passed.
TO amend section 26 Of chapter SO Of the
Code. in relation to delinquent lands.
Touutborize the trustees of the Methodist
En;scopal Church South at Hampton to sell
n certain lot Of land, to buy another lot Ul
land. and to borrow money; which was
To amend section SO Of chapter s Of the
Code. in relation to the sale Of intoxicating
liquors on election days.
To amend section IA Of chapter Is, in re-
ference to the pay Of the Judge of the HuS:-
ings Court of the city of Portsmouth; which
was passcG.
To amend section l of chapter sc of the
Code, in reference to corporations gere era 'ly.
House bill to amend section 16 of cha pler
1913 of the Code, as amended by an act ap.
proved April %, 1874, in reference to com.
missioners in chancery.
| The committee also reported that it was
inexpedient TO legislate on the subject of a
resolution relative to paying witnesses sum-
moned before grand juries.
Mr.. FINNEy, from the Committee ON Coun-
ty, City, and Town Organizations, reported g
substitute for the bill for the relief Of county
treasulerS.
MIR. SMITH, from the Committee on Agri-
culture, &C., reported Senate bill to amend
section 2S OF chapter 81, in relation to pilots !;
which was passed.
Mr. Lawson, from the Committee on Pub.
| lie Institutions, reported Senate bill to revise
and amend the charter Of the Lynchburg
| Female Orphan Asylum which was subse.
quently committed to the Committee for
Courts Of Justice.
| PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. FNNEy: a petition Of citizens of
| Northampton county asking protection for
! fisheries of said county.
BY Mr.. FINNKY A bill to authorize j. j.
English, of Acconsc county, to erect wharf
on Chipgotesgue channel, in said county.
BIZ Mr.. HERADoN: A bill TO amend section
10 OF an act approved March 27, 1874, pre-.
scrbing the time for holding the courts in
the Tenth judicial circuit.
By Mr.. GREEvER: A bill to amend section
/ of chapter So Of the Code, with reference
to county levies.
BY Mr. SpITLER: A resolution referring so
much Of the Governors message as relates
to the raising of re, euue by tsXins spirituous
liquors to the Committee on Finance.
Agreed to.
BY Mr.. PENN: joint resolution authoriz-
lug the Joint Committee on Tobacco to have
printed any proposition referred to them
that they may think proper. Agreed to.
BY 'Mr. DICKINSON: A resolution request.
| ing the Auditor Of Public Accounts to fur.
nish the Senate with the amount paid to at.
torneys for the Common ealh for telonies
and misdemeanor fees during the past year,
and the amount of fiues imposed in each
county for the same period. Agreed to.
BY Dir. PERM: A bill to amend section 10
of chapter ID Of the Code, In regard to the
salaries of judges.
By Dir. DUPFIELD: A joint resolution re.
| questiDg our representatives in Congress to
unite in any effort TO procure the refunding
of the tax on cotton collected by the United
States authorities in the years 1854, 1865,
| 1865, and 1867. Lies over.
BY Mr.. BLAND: A resolution as to the ex-
pedency OF 80 amending section SO Of chap.
ter so of the Code IS to allow The CO inty
courts to grant the privilege to landowners
upon water courses 10 erect wharVes, piers,
or bulk.heads, and lofix such rates ind
charges upon such conditions and limitations
as said counties may see tit. 9.s,ssl 4ls ~
By Mr.. ALLAN; Petition Of DR.. Thomas