The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-08
Present Boards to be Ousted and
NOn-partiSan Ones Elected.
REGISTRARS BILL PASSED HOUSE
Both Branches Agree TO Sell the Virgins
Reports at 81 Volume.
THE REAPPORTIONMENT BILL.

| ocl0ck-Mr. Hurt, inc TTesiuent pro tenn.
In the chair. No prayer.
MANCHESTER AND WINCHESTER.
| The Senate concurred In House amend
ment TO Senate bill amending the act estab
fishing the Corporation Courts of Win
chester and Manchester.
Goes now to the Governor.
II fixes the Jurisdiction OF the Corpora
ton Court OF Manchester-gves concur
rent jurisdiction TO the county aud city
courts within mile OF Manchester's cor.
porate limits.
THE VIRGINIA REPORTS.
The Senate concurred in the House
amendments to Senate bill authorizing the
sale OF certain Virginia Reports.
Goes now to the Governor.
The price fixed Is 80 per volume.
FROM COMMITTEES.
Among the reports were the following
| Senate bill, with substitute. to estab.
lish Home for disabled soldiers in tho
southern States.
House bill in regard to the appointment
OF directors OF lunatic asylums, with amend.
ments.
House bill to amend and re-enact the 4tll
section OF chapter so Of the Code OF 1873
in regard to the appointment Of directors OF
! lunatic asylums, with amendments.
House pills 212, -. and 11G provide for
| the removal OF the Boards OF Directors OF
| the Eastern. Central. and Western LunatiC
Asylums, and the Board OF Visitors OF the
Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institution. They
also declare vacant the Offices OF superin-
tendent and other employees Of the asylums
as of 10Th April, 1884. Said bills provide
also for the appointment OF boards OF WIS.,
itors and directors by the Board OF Pub
lie Works Governor, Auditor OF Public
Accounts, and Treasurer), which Board
shall appoint members of the several
boards, "with reference solely to fitness
and business qualification, without regard
to party utilization -; and they may remove
any member OF said boards ut any time,
causing to be entered on its minutes the
order OF removal and cause OF REMOVAL
HOUSE BILL PASSED.
To provide for the working and keeping
in repair the public roads in the counties
OF Allegheny, Bath, and Highland.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
To incorporate the Norfolk Gymnasium
and Athletic Association.
TO incorporate the Roanoke Library AS
ISOLATION.
TO amend the charter of the Suffolk
Lumber Company.
For the relief Of John T. woodward and
others, OF the county OF Halifax.
To amend and re-enact section / OF chap
ter 43 OF the Acts OF 1928.
To amend section 10 Of the general rail.
road law, as applicable TO Brunswick
county.
TO amend chapter 2S OF the Acts of 1881,
authorizing the city Of Norfolk to issue its
bonds for the purpose OF retiring and re-
funding certain bonds now outstanding.
To incorporate the Virginia Baptist Sun
day-School Convention.
To amend and re-enact section 81 OF
chapter o. OF the Code OF 1873, in relation
TO ferries.
BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. Berry (by request: An act in
cooperating the colored Protestant Epls'
pal Theological Seminary and High Schoo
in Virginia.
By Mr.. Twyman Bill to authorize the
treasurer OF Orange county to collect un.
collected taxes for the years 1880 and 1881
BY Mr.. Heaton (by request: Bill tc
change the name OF the Edenton and Nor
folk Railroad Company to that OF the Caro'
lima and Chesapeake Railroad Company.
COLLATEIAL-INHERITAN TAX.
Mr.. Atkinson presented report from
the Committee for Courts Of Justice which
provides forithe abolition OF the collateral
inheritance tax. He stated that under the
tax bill OF 1SS1-'s2, by the last section o.
the act, the collateral tax was abolish
ed. and the repeal of that law was az
estoppel to all suits, and he did not believe
that there could be recovery under any
OF the suits now pending in the courts
He further stated that IL the Senate should
decide to impose cOllateral.inheritance tax
he submitted bill providing the mode Of
assessing and collecting the same, and re-
pealing all laws on the subject, so that par
ties who had failed to pay in the pas
should be relieved.
LUNATIC AsYLUMs.
OR. Atkinson I'm the chair.)
Mr.. Wngiield having reported from the
Committee on Public Institutions and Ed
ucation House bill entitled an act Il
amend and re-enact sections and o.
chapter SO OF the Code OF Virginia, 1873
regulating lunatic asylums and the care OF
insane persons and their estates, and to
add additional sections thereto, approved
February Is, 1882, and sections 80 and &c
of said act, with amendments, the same
was subsequently taken up, and the amend
ments proposed by the committee (as above
stated were agreed TO.
The bill was passed.
AYRs.-Messrs. Atkinson, Berry, Brown. Flana
NJ Oh Ia oil
Meredith. Newhfrry, Petit, Trout, Twyman
Warwick, and Wickbam-l6.
NOEs.-Messrs. BafLeD, Bdrhdn1. Bliss. Crump
Ter, Gaines. Norton. POictU, and Rogers-S.
Coalitionists In italics.
Several senator's said they were paired off
DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND.
House bill 'to amend and re-enact sec
ton OF chapter 81 OF the Code OF 1873
repealing the Joint resolution approved
April, 1882. and adding other section,
touching the Deaf. Dumb, and Blind Insti
tute a. StauntOn," was taken up.
The amendments were agreed to, ant
the bill was passed.
The Coalit;onists filibustered for abou
an hour.
REGISTRARS.
Mr.. Barton, from the House, informed
the Senate that the House had passed I'M
Senate bill providing for the appointment
OF registrars, judges, and commissioner
OF election by an Electoral Board in eacl
city and county, with amendments.
Goes on the calendar.
(Mr. Loyenstein IN the chair.)
SCHOOL suPERINTENDESTs.
At O'Clock the Senate proceeded to con
slider the special order-the senate bill IN
troduced by Mr.. Berry proposing that az
interim appointments OF county school su
perintendents shalt be made by the Count;
School Electoral Board, that IL, they shal
make appointments except where I'M
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