The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-22
GENERAL ASSEMBLY or VIRGINIA.
SATURDAY. january 81, 1882.
SENATE.

| Mr.. ELLIOTT in the chair. NO piayu:
Mr.. DiGas offered preamble and loint
resolutions (Which lie over under the ru.es
that our senators in Congress be instructed
and our representatives requested 10 use
their utmost efforts to procure n protective
import duty levied on all sumac grown or
manufactured In foreign countries.
REPORTED PROM COMMITTEES.
Senate bill 1853, providing that where
notes, drafts. &C., fall due on sunday tney
shall be paid on Monday instead OF satur-
day. 4.
/ senate bill 10 orr. CHRIsTIAN'sb TO
amend and recnact section Of chapter 80
Of the Acts Of ls19l'S0, in regard to the
protection OF game.
INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
| BY Mr.. FLETCHER: Petition OF citizens
OF Accomac in regard to the taking ana
catching OF oysters in this state, so as 10
permit dredging save and except III the
rivers and creeks, and in Pocomoke SOUND,
bearing from the south end OF waits, :
I island a southeast course to the man lind'
! BY Mr. RUE: Bill to provide Tor the
erection of Il courthouse and other puDllc
/ buildings for the county OF Norfolk on a
site within the limits OF said county, ana
| TO repeal section OF an act entitled an act
| to provide for taking the sense OF the peo-
ple Of Norfolk county in regard to chang
/ ing the site OF the courthouse OF said
county, approved March 6. 1880.
COMMON CARRIERS.
Senate bill prohibiting common carriers
/ from limiting or restricting their liability
as such (Mr. SMITHS billy was, after much
discussion. ordered to cngrossment.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The House met at II o'clock. Speaker
FOWLER in the chair.
MESSAGE PROM TIE GOVERNOR.
4 message was received from the Gov
ernOr transmitting report from the
Second Auditor relative to the condition OF
the Miller fund, and also report from
Colonel John \. Parker, agent, &c.. in re-
ference to the claim Of the State OF Virginia
against the United States.
INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
By Mr.. STUBS a bill to incorporate the
Norfolk and Gloucester Steamboat Com
pany.
By Mr.. KEILAM: A bill TO legaliZe the
sale and conveyance OF Oal-Gr0vc church,
i'm the District Of Atlantic. in the county OF
]
Accomac.
Bv Mr.. JOHNSTON: \ bill to incorporate
the Bank of Buchanan.
By Mr.. FRAZIER: A bill for the relief OF
J. X. Gilliat & Co.. of London, England.
By MIR. BAILEY: A bill to authorize the
corporation of Fredericksburg to establish
poor-houSe and grounds outside OF its
corporation limits.
BY Mr.. Il. WILEY DAVIS: Petition OF the
Coopers' Protective Union, OF Richmond,
in relation to the employment Of convicts
by contract.
BY Mr.. GRAVES:
ReSolred, That the superintendent OF
Public Buildings he, and is hereby. in
structed to report to the House Of Dele
gates-frst, what is the approximate value
Of the PubIic-warehOuse lot and the old
Arsenal lot; second, what necessity there
is for continuing the Public warehouse;
third. whether i'm his Judgment it would
be TO the interest OF the State to sell said
property.
Adopted.
BILLS PASSED.
House hill 9S, requiring the county
Judge of Norfolk county TO submit the
question of continuing or repeating the
districts in said county upon certain con-
ditiOns.
Senate bill 1870. to incorporate the HOlstOn
Iron and Steel-W forks.
Senate bill 1865, to incorporate Cobb'S
Island Seaside Company.
House bill No. IS. to incorporate the
Norfolk and Carolina Turnpike Company.
House bill No. 90, to appropriate 4 por-
.. Of rf
county to build a pOOr-house.
House bill No. 20, to authorize the
Board Of Supervisors OF Isle of Wight
county to borrow money and issue bonds
therefor for the purpose Of building
bridge over Pagan creek, in said county.
House bill No. G3, to provide TO- the
election OF two commissioners Of the reve-
nue. for the counties Of Fluyanna and STAT
ford.
House bill No. 16G, to authorize the St.
Johns German Evangelical church, OF
Richmend, to borrow money.
PROTECTION OF FIsII.
The following bill, OF which Mr.. NICoL,
OF Prince William county, was the patron,
came up on its second reading:
1. Be IL enacted 6y tie General Assembly
of Virginia, That section l Of chapter 2l2
OF the Acts OF the General Assembly, ap-
proved March DIST, 1871, entitled an act
for the protection OF fish in the waters Of
the Commonwealth above tide-water, so
far as the said act relates to the counties Of
Prince William and Cumberland be, and
the same is hereby, repealed.
.. This act shall be in force from its
passage.
The bill gave rise to quite an animated
discussion, which was participated in by
most OF the members whose constituents
were likely to be affected by it.
Numerous changes were made by insert
ing localities other than those named in the
bill, among them the cities of Richmond
and Manchester, and finally one to include
all the counties above tidc-water.
At this point Mr.. GRIGGS, the member
from Henry, thinking, no doubt, that the
whole question was rather fishy. moved to
dismiss the bill; which motion prevailed
by large majority.
The House then proceeded to the conSid-
Grafton OF bills on the calendar, and after
appropriately disposing of several adj
iourned.
Latest from the Survivors Of the
Jennnettc.
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