The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-08
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[ wEsr Virginia LEGIsLAruRE.
Yesterdays Proceedings IN The aenat,
and House Of Delegates.
The Senate met at the usual hour yesser
day, and was opened With prayer BIZ Rev
Y. T. Masden, Of the Fourth Street N. i
Church.
A communication WINS received from tbf
CLERK Of the House OF Delegates announc.
iag the passage OF House bill $500, and ask.
ing the concurrence OF the Senate.
House bill 2OS, concerning certain gen.
eral provisions respecting officers, coming
up Tor conside tation, was on motion referred
to TIE Judiciary Committee.
Senate bill l27, transferring the several
normal schools Of the State to the counties
In which they Are respectively situated,
was read u second time, and on motion Of
Mr. Stout WIS made the special order for
$50 o'clock Thursday.
A message from the House By Delegate
Riley announced the passage by that body
oil Senate bill 207, with several amend.
meHts. On the motion Of Mr.. Brown the
bill was taken up and the appointments Of
the House Of Delegates agreed to, and the
bill DgaiD passed.
Mr.. Dawson, from the Committee on
Enrolled Bills, submitted a report Of O
number Of bills having been examined and
found to be correctly enrolled.
On the motion Of Mr.. Dennis the rules
were suspended and House bill 1853, author
King the Auditor to transfer the claim Of
the State against the Merchants Banks Of
Charleston, was taken up and after a few
amendments WINS ordered to It's engross.
ment and third reading.
Il was ordered that Mr.. Farnsworth COM
muniCate the passage OF Senate bill 2O2, re.
lifting TO the government of the city Of
Wheeling.
Recess.
AFTERSooS:sRSSfoS.
Upon reassembllng Mr. DonehOo, from
the Committee on Education, submitted q
report on House bill gig, establishing the
independent school district Of Peeltree,
with amendments, with the recommends.
that II do pass.
Senate bill No, III, in relationto charges
Tor legal advertisements, ms reported from
the Judiciary Committee came up on its
second reading. The committee RECON-
mended that the pending amendment to
the bill offered by Mr.. Dawson be rejected.
The amendment is us follows:
The price for publishing all legal adyer-
slsements and publications required to be
made by law, or by the order OF q court In
any cause or proceeding therein, or by any
provision oil deed oitfust, or where amy
publication is made pursuant to law and
no other price is named, shall not exceed
one dollar per inch for the first insertion,
aud fifty cents per inch for each subsequent
insertion. All such advertisements aud
publications shall be set Zip in BREWER
type, solid and compact, or Il set up in
type OF II different size, the space occupied
by any such publication shall be estimated
as though every word and line
thereof were SO set in bre.
Vier type Ps0vided, That in adj
vertisemeuts Of salesand other publications.,
the person having the right to have the
same published may, for the purpose OF
making the sumo more conspicuous, direct
that such display shall be made in such
advertisements us he may think proper;
and in such cases the space occupied by
such display shall be computed us though
the space were set in BREWER type. Any
person liable, or that may become liable,
to pay for any such publication or adyer.
tisement, shall be entitled to receive from
the publisher Of the newspaper publishing
the same u discount OF twenty per cent
from the amount Of the proper charge for
such publication, ii he pay the same with.
in thirty days after the lust insertion Of
such advertisement or publication.
In estimating the space occupied by any
such advertisement or publication, an inch
shall be held TO include space Of one inch
in length by two aud one-sixtii inches in
width.
hepublishtng OF acknowledgements
made pursuant 10 the provisions OF law
or by tho order Of court, the publisher Of
the newspaper publishing the sdtne, or
other person entitled to receive the pay
therefor, shall have the same rights for the
collection Of the proper charge therefor, NJ
are provided for the collection OF the fees OF
Clerks Of Circuit Courts.
Any publisher or other person entitled
TO receive payment for the publishing Of
any such advertisement or publication rs is
named in this section, violating any OF the
provisions OF this section, or collecting or
attempting to collect greater charge than
isherein prescribed, shall be deemed guilty
OF n misdcmeanor and on conviction there
of shall be fined not less than ten nor more"
than dfty dollars for every such violation.
The committee recommended that the
price for the publication Of deed Of trust
shall not exceed SO cents instead Of 10 cents
for every ono hundred words, for each
weekly insertion, and that the bill pass rs
amended by the committee.
On the motion of Mr., Dawson the pend.
ingamcndmcnt offered by him was amend:
ed rs follows; Strike out the work "brevier"
and insert the word "miDjon."
Mr.. Woods moved to add at the end OF
tho amendment the words ito be measured
ms il set up in solid minion type" which
Mir. Dawson accepted.
The proposed amendment was ably
championed by Mr.. Dawson, who was
supported in his position by Mr Donehoo.
The question recurring on the amend
ment Of Mr.. Dawson, the sumo was reject
cd bya vote Of II tol3.
Pending the further consideration Of the
bill on the motion Of Mr.. Dawson, it was
laid on the table.
Senate bill No. $50, concerning ofenses
relating to elections was taken up and dis
cussed at some length, and was afterwards
informally passed by.
House or Delegates.
The House was opened with prayer by
Rev. G. P. Masden, Of the Fourth street
NJ. L. Church, yesterday.
Mr.. Maxwell was granted leave ofabsercC
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