The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-05

charter when they subscribed their money.
Dir. PHI.EGAR favored Reconsideration:
He wanted free expression OF OPINION OF
the Senate on the bill.
Mr.. LEE reminded the Senate that the
company had been prevented from compile.
ting their road by the heavy rains and
freshets OF last fall.
Mr.. PHLEGAR: Does the gentleman
know that the charter OF the company
expired on the uery day that The freshet
occurred?
Mr.. LEE said he did not. lie opposed a
reconsideration.
At O'Clock Mr.. Belts moved to adjourn,
which he subsequently withdrew.
Mr.. HURT demanded the pending ques-
ton, which was motion to reconsider the
bill.
: The motion to reconsider was lost-ayes,
IA; noes, %.
The bill was then passed by the follow
ing recorded vote:
AYEs.-Messrs. Belts, Bland, Brooke, Chihs, e.
lott. Fulkerson Goodc, Griffin, Grmsley, I!airston.
Henry H. Hurt, johnson. Lee, Moulton, Murray,
Nash Num-, Phlegar. Smith, Splitter. Stevens. Tan
ner, Walston, Ward, Wood, and Wortham-26.
NoES.-Messrs. John l.. Hurt, koiner, Massey,
Norton, Paul, Powell, Quesenberry, and Slemp-s.
TAXES ON REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Mr.. FULKERsoN introduced bill to pre-
scribe the mode Of collecting taxes on real
and personal property. Referred.
THE PUBLIC DEBT. E
The CHAIR laid before the Senate COM
munication from the Second Auditor trans.
hitting statement OF the public debt in
April, 1861, in response TO resolution
passed by the Senate yesterday.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Tue House of Delegates was called to or
der at y O'Clock by Speaker ALLEN. Prayer
by the Rev. DR.. j. William Jones, Of the
Baptist Church.
CRIMINAL LAwS-EXrRA CLERK.
Senate joint resolution authorizing the
special Committee on the Revision OF the
Criminal Laws to employ clerk, came up.
MeSsrs. ATKINSON, and CLARKE OF Surry,
urged the adoption OF the resolution. 4
clerk was necessary, and could not be oh.
tanned, they said, from either the House or
Senate corps.
The resolution was adopted on division
ayes, CO +; noes IA.
Mr.. FAUNTLERoY demanded the ayes and
noes; ordered. with the following result:
AYEs.-Messrs. Adams. Anderson. Atkinson, Bar
bour, Bernard Bohannon, Burger, Burnham: John
X. Carter, Clarke, Coleman Cox. Crutchfleld. Cur.
lett, Dance, Davis, Echols, Edmunds, Edwards
Evans Fickien, Fry, Gray, Green, Hall, Reuben N
Johnson, Lee. Lowell, Luck, McCabe, McCauii, Nc
Daniel. MCMILLAN. Moncure. Mushback, Nelson
Norton. oglesey Pace sandidgs , shriyer shumate
Warner T: Taialerro, Trout, Van Lear, George
Walker, William u. Walker, Wallace. Warning, Wat
son, Thongs d. White. Wingaeld, Witten and Dir
'f SoEs-Messrs. Akers, Bland, coghill, Crank, Da.
yaS pney Fower Faser fukerson Fulton
Graves, Hamilton, Hanger, Hardesty, Henry, John
s,on JordaB, Kelly Keyse5' Kye, Lady asGraw
j. II. Robinson, Ryland, Shannon, Sheburne E. II
Smith, Andrew ): Taylor, William Taylor, Walsh,
Whitacre, Smith J. B.. White, and WrlGht-42
So the committee was authorized to ap.
point clerk. A motion to reconsider was
made by Mr.. MCCAULL. Hostages, 80;
noes, 4S.
REPORTED FROM COMMITTEES.
Bill No. 40, in reference to insurance com.
panies-allowing bonds of Staunton and
Danville to be deposited by them with the
Treasurer &c. bill to incorporate the Plan.
ters' Tobacco Warehouse Company Of Bris.
toll; bill for the protection OF wild fowl in
Accomac; bill in relation to killing noxious
animels adversely.
PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. TROUT: Bill to amend the charter
of Big Lick.
By Mr.. FICKLES: An act to transfer the
jurisdiction OF parcel OF lands formerly
All island in James riyer) to the county OF
Buckingham.
By Mr.. BERNARD: Resolution us to allow
ing only lands to be claimed as home
stead
BY Mr.. GRAVES: Joint resolution direct
ing the Auditor to pay to the credit Of the
literary fund the amount due the public
school fund for the years 1870, 1871, 1872,
1873, and 1874.
BY MI. LEE: Bill in relation 10 fees OF
justices.
BY Dir. WALKER OF Westmoreland: Bill
to rearrange the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and
Eleventh judicial circuits.
By Mr.. 3IooRM4N: Resolution as to dis
elimination in freights manufactured in
Virginia.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
TO amend and reenact an act approved
January 10, 1875, entitled an act to amend
and rcGnact section % OF chapter IS Of the
Code of 1878, to provide for taking the
census OF school population.
To provide fence-laW for the county OF
auu ~ lCpCtit ul aSb 1hgiIiSo al
act relating to fences and for the protection
of crops, approved January 26, 1866, in SO
far as it applies to the county OF Loudoun.
TO facilitate the extinguishment Of verd.
ors' liens and to give notice OF the same.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
The SPEAKER laid before the House a
communication from the Commissioner of
in answer to resolution in
brief as follows:
Statement of the officers. clerks, and employees
in the Department Of Agriculture and eI-
penses Of the RepaTtmemt from July l. 1877
TO January l, 1873.
Commissioner of Agriculture, salary TO-
January 1St .................S fou w
Clerk to Department, salary to January
lat. ......:.:.......... .'........'...ii; ooo w
Chemist to the Department-auount paid oor 40
for yses.............. :........;.... olo w
j. e. Goode, for printing first annual re-
port rs, 900 copies) ..................... 59U eU
To binding same, w. E. Silnons 127 oO
Various other items piveu by DR.: Pollard,
such rs printing, postage, fre1gnt, &c.,
making the co on, on
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ...'.....'s2,ssl "a
The SPEAKER also laid before the House
communication from Governor Holiday
transmitting the first annual report OF the
Commissioner OF Agriculture.
FISH AND GAME.
Senate Joint resolution creating special
committee on the fish and game Interests
was again passed by, on motion OF Mr.;