Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-12-12
LEGISLATIVE.

| In the State Senate yesterday the House
joint resolution fixing Thursday as the time
for electing the county judge of Frederick
and corporation judge of Winchester was
agreed to.
The House joint resolution fixing We'd
nesday to-day as the time to elect Capt.
tol officers was amended by striking out Of
flee of General Agent and Storekeeper of
the Penitentiary and as amended was agreed
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The discussion on the amendment devel
oped the fact that majority of the members
are ofthe opinion that the Office of Agent
and Storekeeper is useless. 1t is claimed that
under the present system of hiring out the
convicts under contract the General Agent
has nothing to do.
An effort on the part of Mr. Hubbard to
have the office of Second Auditor abolished
failed by strict party vote.
The Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons reported adversely upon the re-
solution allowing persons contesting seats
to appear before the Senate in their own be-
half.
A petition was presented from citizens Of
Prince George and Surry counties asking
that the vacancy in the County Court judge
ship caused by the death of Judge 7. =.
Bate be filled as early rs practicable
Ia the House Of Delegates DR.. J. NJ Law,
son. who was awarded the seat from Isle
of Wight, appeared aud took the oath OF
office.
Mr.. Green, of Stafford, (AIahoneite) arose
th.,E Il ct in
the Isle of Wight case went to show that
1.-The thing had been fixed before" He wars
proceeding with one of his customary fiery
speeches when the Chair raped him to
order.
The Speaker, in justification of himself,
said Mr.. Lawson was not put upon any OF
the committees until after he was seated.
A bill was introduced to amend the Code
50 as TO prevent the catching of oysters for
the purpose Of converting the same into
lime.
The petition John 0. Reynolds, demo
craft, coutesllug the seat of p :. Boiling
from The counties Of Buckingham and Cum
berland was presented.
Dir. Reynolds, claims that at the time Of
The election, Boiling was ineligible because
= of his not being an actual resident Of Buck
ingham or Cumberland.
The Committee on the Judiciary were in
structed to enquire into the ACCESSIBILITY
Of consolidating the Twelfth and Eight
eeuth judicial circuits, embracing the conn-
lies OF Clarke, Warren, Frederick, Rocking
ham, Page and Shenandoah respectively :;
and to report their reasons therefor, to-
gcther with any matter deemed pertinent
10y them looking to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
the Eighteenth judicial circuit and attach
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contiguous circular circuits.
Mr.. Camper (dcmocrat) introduced joint
resolution for removal from Office Of Robert
+ +. Mays, judge ofthe County Court Of Bote
tourt county, with statement of causes there
for.
The charges are that his general charac-
ter units him for the duties of said office {;
that his conduct has been such that the peo
pie Of the county have no confidence in his
integrity or veracity that his character iii
these respects is bad: that he has abused his
position for partisan political purposes, and
that bis judicial career has been marked by
passion, prejudice, abuse, corruption and
malfeasance in office.
The specifications show that Mays packe
the grand jury at the February 1888, term Of
his court; that he sought out persons
against whom Il magistrate and the Board
of Supervisors had decided adversely, and
, advised them to appeal to him, when he
would sustain them: that he reduced the
assessment on the land ola citizen in order,
as he himself stated, to keep the person
whose assessment was SO reduced in the
readjuser party that he attempted to bride
democrat with Office to induce him to be-
come readjuster; that he violated the
plain mandates Of the law to subserve party
ends; that he attempted by trickery and
sharp practice TO prevent the people from
electing clerk Of the County Court to fill
vacancy in that Office in the election in
May, 1853 that his action on the bench is
VIGOROUSLY partisan and evidence, it is said,
will be furnished to prove the charges made
The resolution was referred TO the Com
mittee on Courts of Justice, and Mays will
be duly notified.