Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-12-18
Letter from Richmond.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
RICHMOND. Va. Dec. l6, lS76.-The mes
sage of Governor Kemper recommending
the abolition of the Offices of Superln'
tendent of Public Printing, Second Audi
tor, Register OF the Land Office, aud AdJu'
tant General, has created a stir not so much
among those officers as among the members OF
the General Assembly who were not prepared
for such 40 emanation from his Excellency. |
can see from the talk among the members that
the expenses of tho Executive will be enquired
into. The Governor gets $4,000, his private
Secrctary-an Office created by the Governor
gets 81, 800, his messenger 5000. and his garden
or $500. 10 addition the Governor has q fine
mansion and garden free of cost. Cutting down
expenses will be tender subject with the Leg
~islature, especially when they remember that
they threw away $40, 900 last year on MIR.
Hotckiss' Physical and POLITICAL Virginia,
said book being designed to promote lnmlgIa-
ton, and to be sold to the immigrants at the
trihing sum of one dollar and a quarter per
volume. The inhabitants of Europe who con-
templated emigration to Virginia never sent Tor
this interesting work, and the entire edition is
now packed away in o steamboat.shaped box
10 the basement OF the Capitol, there to remain
forever.
The Senate me- to-day and adjourned with
out transacling any business OF Importance.
Io the House little was done. Mr.. Plerson
presented two petitions from the citizens OF
Fairfax county; one tor amendments to the
law for the protection OF sheep IN that county,,
the other from treeholders Of the county for an
act to change the supervision OF building bridges
10 Fairfax county. Both were referred to the
Committee on Propositions, &C..
At the request of the House Committee for
Courts of Justice that committee was discharged
from the further consideration of the resolution
as to the expediency of reporting a Joint reso'
luton for the submission to the people OF az
amendment to the Constitution 10 restore the
viva vocs system, and the same subject was
referred to the Committee on CONSTITUTIONS
| Amendments.
The House agreed to q recess from Deem
| Der 23d to January Sd. This is the resolution
which the Senate declined to accept.
Feohter opens here Monday as Claude Mel
| uotte in Lady Of Lyons" He will have quite
| good houses.
The Senate has passed the Senate bill t
amend and r~c-enact ninth section Of an act, ap
| proved March Is, 1872, Incorporating the Wash
| %ington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad Com
| paoy as amended by an act approved April 10
1874, amending and re-enacting the first anG
| ninth sections OF Gu act Incorporating that rail-
! road company, as to exempt the county OF zap
pahauuock from the operation of said road.
The Court of Appeals has amended the l8ti
rule. so as to read as follows mo application
for q rehearing will be entertained unless madt
within ten days after the decision is announced
Except as otherwise authorized by law ono
20 reheariug will be allowed unless one of The
Judges who concurred 10 the decision shall b'
dissatisfied with it, and desires a rehearing
And gu application under the Code, chapte'
l79. section SO, page Las, to rehear and re
| view aoy case decided by this Court within TIT
last fifteen days of the preceding term, shal
be made within the first ten days of the nex
succeeding term, aud not thereafter; and D'
application for a rehearing in any case will b.
entertained by the Court unless the reason
therefor, plainly written or printed, shall b
| flal ,t tha time such anplication il made