The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-19

capitation tax than other taxes. =.
BY Mr.. LoYELL: BIZ in relation to the
time of meeting Of the Board OF Supervisors
and their powers; also, bill to amend the
act fixing the time for county treasurers to
settle county levy.
BY Mr.. WATTS: Bill to amend the act in
relation to commissioners OF the revenue
and the assessment and collection OF taxes;
also, a bill in regard to records In the Su-
preme Court OF Appeals and to provide Tor
copying add printing the same.
BY Mr.. ALLEN: Joint resolution Tor the
Attorney General t., ascertain whether the
Winchester and strasburg Railroad COM
pany have not violated its charter in fainng
to make its western terminus at Strasburg.
BY Mr.. JORDAN: Resolution referring so
much OF the Governors message as re!ates
to the Central Lunatic Asylum to the COM
mittee on Asylums and Prisons, with IN
structions to report as early as practicaole.
LUEATIc AsTLUMs.
On motion OF MIR. ALLEN: ,."-
Resolued, That the Auditor OF Public
Accounts furnish the House o statement OF
the amounts paid up 10 this date on the spe-
cial appropriations to the iunatic asylums
in the StsIe made at the last session OF the
General Assembly.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To provide for erecting, reDmiding, anu
rcpairing bridges in Fairfax county.
TO amend section OF chapter ia OF the
Code OF 1873, with reference to the record
alton OF deeds. ...,
TO authorize the sale OF st. Johns Epis-
copal church, at the Old Big Lick, or town
Of Gainesboro', in the county OF Roanoke,
directing the reinvestment Of the proceeds
Of such sale, and to empower tho ycstry OF
the church to borrow money.
TO amend and reenact section II OF an act
providing charter for the city OF Norfolk.
TO authorize the Board of Public Works
to sell the States interest in the Jackson's
River Turnpike Company.
TO authorize the Board OF Supervisors OF
Clarke county to issue new bonds for the
sum OF 800, 900 in lieu of those heretofore
issued by said Board TO the capital stock or
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company.
TO amend An act to incorporate the Clarke
County Cooperative Mercantile Company.
Providing com2ensa alton to tie Attorney
General for services rendered in the SUI
premc Court of the United States.
Also, Joint resolution instructing the At
torney- General to defend the interest OF the
State in the case Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company and the case OF j.
". McCready against the Commonwealth.
Various bills on the calendar were con-
sidered and advanced.
MR.. CORCORAN's GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA. ..
The House Joint resolution returning
thanks to w. w. Corcoran, Esq, OF Wash
inton city, for his munificent gift to she
University of Virginia was taken up on its
second reading-viz.: ...
..The General Assembly of Virginia hay
ing learned that WV. Corcoran, ESQ.,, OF
Washington city, after many acts OF kind
ness to citizens Of the State and OF liberal
ity to her public institutions, has recently
given large sum to her chief seat OF learn
Ing, and having observed with admiration
the conduct of one who has shown the ca
pacity to acquire wealth without injustice,
to possess it without ostentation, and to
dispense it with no other object than the
benefit of his fellow-man, gratefully 40.
knowledge his right to fellowship with
those whom the Commonwealth has deemed
worthy OF an enduring place in her annals
As examples to be honored and initiated by
her people; therefore
s'ReSolued By the House OF Delegates (the
Senate concurring), That it be entered OF
record on the journals Of the General AS
sembly that w. w. Corcoran, Esq, of the
city OF Washington, has entitled himself to
the thanks OF the Commonwealth by his
muniticent gift to the University OF Virginia.
"Resolued, That his Excellency the Gov
ernor be requested to transmit to Mr.. Cor
coran copy Of this preamble and resolu-
ton engrossed on parchment"
Mr.. GILMAN OF Richmond city, chairman
Of the Committee on Schools and Colleges,
said: At time when men in high places
and invested with exalted trusts in Wash
ington, in their greed for money and power.
are obiterating the landmarks of the Con-
sttuticn and tearing down the bulwarks Of
republica1 liberty which our fathers thought
impregnable, we see an American gentle
man and patriot, already conspicuous for
his good deeds, making from his private
fortune muniticent donation to our great
University. The value of his benefaction
is enhanced when we remember that he
owes to Virginia neither the allegiance due
to birth nor reside ce within her borders,
and that it comegto us at a time when, IN
our poverty and sore distress, we have not
the means, but only the will, to endow our
chief institution of learning commensu-
rately with it's great merits and pressing
necessities.
In these days, when the financial outlook
is dark and the political situation darker,
we are all prone to think that Virginia,
when, unlike Connecticut, she gave her
vast northwestern domain to the Union,
without money and without price, was as
prodigal as poor old Lear when he divided
his kingdom among his ungrateful daugh-
tiers; but it seems as If, like bread cast upon
the waters, it is now coming back to US
after many days.
Who knows, Mr. Speaker, but that this is
the beginning Of long list of donations
and requests which are to enable our people
to push forward to complete consummation
the grand educational scheme OF the illus
trious founder Of the University.
And when it shall become the Oxford Of
the South, and young men by hundreds
shall come from the most distant sections Of
our disenthralled and prosperous republic
to drink in knowledge from its pure foun-
tains, they will find there statue Of Will
liam Corcoran near to that OF Thomas JET
ierson, and those effigies will teach them
daily the silent and impressive lesson that
peace has its triumphs no less than war, and
that civilians may perform deeds for State
as worthy of enduring remembrance as the
achievements Of those who fight and fall on
the battlefield in its defence. am sure,
Mr.. Speaker, that the resolutions will be
adopted without dissent.
The resolutions were unanimously or
dered to third reading.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
On motion Of b1r. DooLEY, leave OF alb
sence for tive days was granted to his col.
league, Mr.. kELLAM.