Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-22
LEGISLATIVE.

The Finance Committee was discharged
from the further consideration of the bill in
reference to special collection of inheritance
tax, and the same was referred to the Com
mittee for Courts of Justice.
Bills were reported to amend the act to
extend the time in which district school
boards are authorized to use district school
funds for the payment of teachers; also to
repeal section Z, chapter 70 of the Code and
to regulate the appointment of school trus-
tees in cities and incorporated towns of
5000 inhabitants and over.
A bill was introduced and referred to
prevent frightening animals, injuring and
killing persons, and spreading Of fire by
careless moving OF engines with steam on
the turnpike and county roads of the State.
A resolution was agreed to instructinS
the Committee for Courts of Justice to IN.
quire into the status Of the late county
superintendent of schools whose successors
have been nominated by the Executive and
rejected by the Senate, and report by bill
or otherwise.
A bill to establish Il Home for Disabled
Soldiers in the Southern States was referred
| The bill appropriates 5000 per annum for
ten years, and s., 500 annually thereafter till
the home is closed. The Southern States,
including West Virginia, Maryland, Mis-
souri, and Kentucky, are invited to aid Vr-
gnia in this undertaking. 1t is proposed
that the Legislature shall appoint for five
years one commissioner aud one alternate,
without pay, who shall meet the commits
sioners of other Southern States, and they
to constitute board of directors for the
prol osed institution. The bill sets forth in
detail the manner in which the homo is TO
be organized and how managed.
Bills were passed to amend the act to es-
tablsh corporption courts Of Manchester
aud Winchester; to allow citizens Of Worces-
ter county, Nd, a period of two years to
remove their planted oysters in Chlnco.
league bay from the south side of the State
line recently established to provide for the
examination and verification of the records
of the courts of the Commonwealth to
regulate the trial of certain controversies
between the State and the Richmond and
Petersburg Railroad Company; and to ex-
empt pilots from jury service.
Senate bill providing for the appointment
of Capitol police was taken up, and the
question being, Shall the bill pass notwitb-
standing the Governors veto? was put and
decided in the affirmative The vote stood
ayes co. noes Z.
The Senate then went into executive ses-
sion, and rejected the nomination of w. y.
Cave as superintendent of schools for the
county of Alexandria This disposes of all
nominations sent in by the Board of Edu-
cation.
In the House of Delegates bills were in
troduced to incorporate the Virginia Real
Estate and Investment Company to amend
the code iu relation to the registration Of
voters; to provide more el!ectually for the
collection Of taxes dedicated by the Consti
tuition and laws for the support oft the public
free schools and to prevent the misuse d
the same; to limit proceedings for the en-
forcement ofiudgments in favor of the Com.
monWealth against sureties upon otfcia
bonds executed prior to July lst, 1870, by
public officers charged with the collection o.
the revenue; to amend the Code in relation
to verdicts in actions of ejectment, wher
adverse possession is shown by defendant
and to furnish to any law library of any
court copies of Reports Of the Supreme
Court of Appeals, and to provide for the
safe keeping of said books, and to provide
for the establishment of law libraries.
A bill was introduced providing that the
constitutional tax imposed for the public
free schools shall he kept separate and dis
tinct from all other taxes. There shall be
made out separate tax-lists by the various
tax collectors, and the tax collected for the
schools to be paid into the credit of the
school fund, and not permitted to be in any
way mixed with other funds of the State
the said money to be paid out for the sup
port of the public free schools, and shall not,
under any circumstances be used for any
other purpose or diverted in violation OF the
Constitution and laws which have been
passed for the protection of the public free
schools, the object being to carry out in
good faith the constitutional provisions and
throw around the schools every protection
to which they are entitled under the Con
sttution. All the funds are to be collected
in gold, silver and United States currency,
except to the extent as provided for in the
Henkle bill, which is not in any way to be
repealed or modified, but the provisions of
this act to be supplementary thereto.
A bill was introduced to incorporate the
Valley and Southwest Railroad Company
The incorporates are Robert w Hunter,
E. p. C. Lewis, E. c. Gordon, +. p. Clark,
VIM. A. Anderson, w. A. Glasgow, ]. D..
johnson, Robert Barnes, George G. Gose,
James B. Richmond, A. l.. Pridemore, Den
ton Mccarthy and Harmon Newberry, and
the railroad is to be of standard gauge; to
begin at or near the town Of Lexington, Va,
thence through the counties of Rockbridge,
Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Bland, Tazewell
Russell, Scott and Lee to a point on the
Tennessee or Kentucky State line; or
through the counties of Rockbridge, Bote-
tourt, Roanoke, Montgomery, Floyd, Car
roll and Grayson or Smyth, to point on
the Tennessee or North Carolina State line.
The capital stock of said company shall be
81, OO0, 900, to be divided into shares of 500
each.
The contested election case of Reynolds
VS.. Boiling, from Buckingham and Cumber
land coming up, Messrs. Harris, White and
Lakewood presented minority report,
which included resolution that P. S. Boil
ling is entitled to his seat.
The majority report recommended that
the matter be remanded back to the people
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