The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-26

occupied, with their gentleman ir'enu -.
privileged seats.
81 STRAIGHT SHOOT.
b House bill to amend the charter y Oh Inc
straight.S Shoot Railroad Company. &e., WIZ
Senate amendments, was put Oh tue e''eh-
dar on motion OF Mr.. Boc0cK;
z Subsequently the amendments were
agreed to.
nFpaRTyEST OF AGgICULTURE AND MINING.
E House bill 200, to reUrasize the Asricui,
tural Bureau; to increase its eihciency anu nv
give 1t new duties; ito rage the pay on sns
chief and his clerk; ana 10 levy . tax a., ol
$500 on each brand OF iertiiizers solu ~ sns
State, and thereby to pay an expenses e on "
same, was advocated by Messrs. hAhf ~ anu
FICKLEN and opposed by Messrs. . oHihh-
ROY and McCABE. ,,.,,
On motion OF Mr.. WALKER OF Northum-
berland the fertilizers made from nsn-
g fish.c!nlm ''-were exempted from the
operations OF this act.
Messrs. HARvIE and FIcKLEN expect that
the tax will pay all expenses, and prooapiy
leave $4,000 in the Treasury.
The bill was ordered to engrossment.
RULES SUSPENDED.
The rules were. as usual. suspended for
various members, and number OF private
bills advanced.
LEASE OF PENITENTIARY.
The bill proposing to lease out the penl-
Tertiary was put upon its passage ana 1all-
ed-ayes, 65: noes, 27-siXty-seyen votes
"a constitutional majority being required
to pass It, forty members being absent or
not voting.
A motion to reconsider was made and
passed by.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
was granted Messrs. AKERs and LEE two
days each, EDWARDS three days, and indeti-
mite leave for Mr.. FULTON.
CRIMINAL. LAWS.
On motion OF Mr.. ECHoLs it was
Resolued By the House of Delegates (the
Senate concurring), That the joint Commit.
tee on the Revision oY Criminal Laws, as at
present constituted, shall continue in eX-
istence until the bill reported is finally dis
posed OF.
Mr.. EcHoLs was instructed to carry the
resolution to the Senate.
LAND DAMAGEs-IMPoRTANT FOR RICHMOND.
On motion of Mr.. HENRY, the bill amend
ing the Code in relation to land damages
was taken up out OF its order and passed.
The bill provides lit is general in its opera
tions) that wherever grades are changed,
landowners injured may recover damages,
in the same way as damages are allowed
where new streets are opened; thus, II the
city chooses to cut down Clay street near
Blenner's Park, as proposed, the property
owners injuriously affected thereby may re-
cover damages from the city by the same
process as in the condemnation OF land for
new street.
THE MCCORMICK TELESCOPE.
The resolutions OF Mr.. BococK accepting
the Mccormick telescope were ordered to
engrossment, it appearing clearly that Mr.
McCormick intended the instrument for the
University OF Virginia, and no other Vir-
ginia institution.
THE MASSEY BILL PASSED.
Senate bill OR. MAssEY's) prescribing
the manner in which public free-School
funds shall be collected, and requiring them
to be paid to the credit OF the public free
school fund, was. on motion OF Mr.. Pop
HAM, taken up and passed without division.
| Motion to reconsider rejected. [This bill
prohibits the reception OF coupons for the
portion of taxes due and to be accredited
to the school fund.-
Goes to the Governor now.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
House bill amending the charter OF Clarke
County Cooperative Mercantile Company.
To amend the Code in relation to the linn
itation Of suits.
For the relief of K. II. Thompson, late
collector of Goodson township, in the coun-
ty OF Washington.
No. 215, TO amend the Code, prescribing
| tho dutieS of certain officers
To incorporate the Commercial Club OF
Richmond.
To prevent the erection Of slaughter
houses within half mile Of the city OF Nor
| folk.
To incorporate the Essex Cemetery Com
pany.
| Fixing the time for holding the county
courts Of Lunenburg.
For amending the charter of the city OF
Portsmouth (No. 270).
TO erect wharf on Chincoteaguc bay, in
Accomac county.
TO enable the Board Of Supervisors OF
Prince William county to borrow money.
To amend and reGnact section s OF an act
concerning the town Of Wytheville, in
Wythe county, passed February q, 1858.
To amend and reenact section % OF chap
ter 81 OF the Code Of 1873, relating to the
repeal of the fence-law in counties that
have adopted it.
To incorporate the Meherrin Valley Rail
road Company.
To amend and reenact section 90 OF chap
| 70 Of the Code of 1873, in regard to duties
of the City Council to make appropriations
| for school purposes.
To authorize the trustees OF Conquest and
Guilford's Circuit parsonage property to
| borrow money.
SENATE BILL PASSED.
No. rs. in relation to duties Of certain
officers, &c.
Adjourned.
Night Session.
Mr.. MusHBACK in the chair.
About three-fourths OF an hour was spent
| in getting quorum together.
Several bills were advanced.
House bill 222, ste limit expenditures
from the library fund.-" came up as fol-
lows: BE it enacted, That chapter 1853 Of the
Acts of 1S76-'77, entitled an act to limit
expenditures from the library fund, ap.
proved March 90. 1877, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: g That it
shall not be lawful for the Committee on
the Library, or the Librarian, in addition
| to the purchase OF such law-books as shall
be required by the law libraries, the pay
ment OF premiums for insurance against
| fire, and the expenditure OF the sum now
| allowed to be used in printing historical
manuscripts, to eXpend in any one year
more than $3.50" Production Of 81, 1901
2. Ii the receipts into the library fund
| shall in any one year exceed the amount
authorized to be expended in the preceding
section, the excess shall be paid into the