Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-13
LEGISLATIVE.

| time to legisate upon the subject OF adjust.
ing with West Virginia the proportion of
the public debt proper to be borne by that
State.
Bills were ported to provide for the sur
render of the debt of Virginia fundable in
new 3 per cent bonds under the act ap-
proved February II, 1882; to amend the
act to give effect to a com promise of litiSa-
ton in respect TO the will of Samuel Miller,
deceased, and to establish the Manual La
Dor School, &C.; and declaring the recitals
in old deeds prima facie evidence.
Mr.. Meredith introduced bill to author
ize the Virginia Midland Railway Company
| to issue bonds to provide for the payment
of the present bonds and debt of the said
| company for the extension Of the road OF
said company, as heretofore authorized by
| law for improvements and bettermenls, and
for other purposes.
| The bill to apportion the representation
of the State of Virginia in the Congress
Of the United States, was taken up and
passed.
Messrs Mccormick, Berry, Meredith,
Wickbam and Powell were appointed a
committee to prepare the rules OF procedure
in the order of impeachment of Jackson L..
| Valentine.
Bills were passed to authorize the proper
authorities of any college, institution or
seminary Of learning or manual labor school
| to convert consol coupon bonds into funded
registered consol bonds Of the State; pro-
viding for the appropriation of a portion of
| the surplus revenue of the Commonwealth
to the purchase Of its recognized debt; to
| provide for the exchange Of coupon bonds
| for registered bonds issued under the act
approved February IA, lSS2-the bill pro-
vides that, at the option of the holder, cou
pom bonds may be exchanged for registered
bonds Of the bonds issued under the above
act; TO authorize the judges of the County
! Courts of Accomac and Stafford to have the
registration books copied; and to authorize
the treasurer of Orange county to collect
uncollected taxes for the years lSS0-'Sl.
The bill to incorporate the Bank OF Good
son, was ordered to its engrossment.
Senate bill providing for the appropria
ton Of portion Of the surplus revenue Of
the Commonwealth to the purchase of it's
recognized debt, being the fourth special
order of the day, was passed. This bill
provides that it shall be the duty of the
| Commissioners of the Sinking Fund TO meet
on the first Monday in April, 1854, and the
| first Monday Of every month thereafter,
| and determine at such meetings what, if
any, sum can be spared from the Treasury
after making ample allowance for the ex-
penses Of the Government and Of the public
schools, &C., and if it be determined by the
commissioners that there is a surplus in the
Treasury which can he spared, they shall
! forthwith certify to the Treasurer of the
Commonwealth that such sum mot exceed.
ing forty thousand dollars per month) as
| IL. loto n, 60 no
Sinking Fund. The Treasurer being SO no.
tilted, shall on or before the Goth Of the
month place said sum to the credit of the
commissioners. The commissioners are re-
uuired Immediately after their meeting TO
advertise in at least one newspaper publish
ed in the cities of Baltimore and Richmond
daily for ten days that they will receive Of
| fers for sale such amounts of three per cent
| bonds as in their Judgment the sum placed
| to their credit will enable them to purchase
&c. All bonds so purchased shall be can
| celled by the Second Auditor and be deliv
cred to the Treasurer at the time Of the
payment therefor, who shall carefully pre-
serve the same in his office, and shall keep
a register of the bonds so purchased, &c.
The report of the Committee for Courts Of
Justice as to the collateral inheritance tax
recommends that the entire tax be abolished
and all claims, or supposed claims, of the
Commonwealth, by reason Of the tax here
tofore existing, be released.
The bill for the relief of the sureties OF
! James E. Jones, late treasurer of King
George county, was passed.
| In the House of Delegates bills were in
troduced giving the consent of the State to
the purchase by the United States of GER
| tain real estate in the city Of Fredericks-
burg, and exempting the same from taxa
ton giving the consent of the State to the
purchase. occupation, improvement and use
by the United States of certain real estate
in the city of Fredericksburg aud county Of
Spotsy lyania in order to open and maintain
an improved highway from said city to the
National Cemetery, near the city to au
thorize the Virginia Midland railway to is
sue bonds to provide for the payment of
the present bonds and debts Of said compa-
nv; and providing an annuity for the Medi-
cal College of Virginia.. and providing for
State students therein.
Mr. Barton presented a petition Of citi-
zens of Strasburg against tax on sample
merchants.
The bill to reapportion the State for rep
resentation in Congress, which was passed
By the Senate, was taken up out of its order
and finally passed.
The following joint resolution was intro
duced and referred:
Whereas the Insane Asylums, the institu-
ton for the deaf, dumb, and blind, and the
public institutions of learning are the prop
erty of all the people of all political parties
in this State; and whereas it is of the high
est importance to the welfare and prosperi-
ity of said institutions that they should be
placed beyond the reach Bipartisan politics
and political spoilsmen therefore
RESOLVED THE Senate concurringl, That
from and after the passage of this joint res
olution, the making of political speeches,
the presiding OF officiating in political meet