The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-02

| HcIitlOn Oh meTCDuUts OF AtDeIndTte
county for reduction Of license-tax on
sample merchants.
BY Mr.. Jones: Bill to amend an act en-
titled an act concerning the surveyors
office, and prescribing where 1t shall be
kept.
PASSED.
Senate bill to provide for the protection
of deer i'm the counties OF Bland and
| Wytbe.
Senate bill to authorize the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company to make
contracts for the use and operation
or lease OF connecting lines, and comforting
certain other additional powers on said
company.
NIGHT SESSION.
Mr.. Graves offered n resolution which
provides for night sessions on Monday,
Wednesday. and Friday nights OF next
week for the purpose OF considering pri-
vate bills.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE.
IL being Friday, a number OF leaves OF
absence were asked for and obtained for
members who wanted to spend the Sab
bath at home.
RICHMOND AND CHESAPEAKE RAILROAD COM
PANY.
On motion OF Mr.. Cardwell the rules
were suspended and the Richmond and
Chesapeake railroad bill was amended and
passed to its third reading and engross-
ment. The incorporators are A. Y. Stokes.
Thomas w. McCance, C.. +. Belvin,
IS. G. Tinsley, III. NJ. Price, A. l..
Johnston, james b. Pace, and James
A. Roane. The road is to run
from Richmond to point on the
Chesapeake bay, and near the mouth Of
the Potomac river, passing through the
counties OF HenrlcO, Hanover. King Will
liam, King and Queen, Essex, Richmond,
Westmoreland, and Northumberland. The
capital stock shall not be less than $1,000
nor more than S1,000.000. Work shall be
commenced within two years and com
pleted within ten yeara.
GEENRAL AGENT AND sTOREKEEPER OF THE
PENITENTTARY.
a bill having for It's object the abolish
ing OF the Office OF General Agent and
Storekeeper Of the Penitentiary, and pro-
yiding for the discharge Of the duties OF
this officer by the Superintendent Of the
Penitentiary. under the control of the
Board OF Directors OF the Penitcntialy,
was taken up.
Mr.. Trigg called attention to the fact that
the General Agent gave a bond for $4,000,
while the Superintendent Of the Peniten-
tiary only gave bond OF 100000, and he
saw no provision to increase the bonds OF
the Superintendent in this bill.
The bill was, therefore, recOmmitted to
the Committee on Offices and Officers at
the Capitol.
THE OYSTER QUESTION.
The bill to repeal so much of section 23,
chapter 2li, OF Acts OF 1874, for the preser-
yation OF oysters, as relates to the taking
and catching oysters for family use, was,
on motion OF Mr.. Ross, postponed and
made the special order for next Tuesday.
ADVANCED.
A large number OF private bills were adj
vanced to their third reading and en-
grossment; after which the House adj
iourned.
Capitol Police.
Under the recent act OF the Legislature
the number OF Capitol police was increased
by the addition OF one, and the power Of
appointment transferred to the Register OF
the Land Office and Superintendent Of Pub
lie Buildings. Yesterday he appointed the
following Capitol police: J. b. Wood of
Caroline; W. :. Eustis, Of Fauqmer; L.
b. Dunn, of Hanover; W. II. Moseley, o!
Richmond, and Calvin Parker, of King and
Queen. II. NJ. Airport, Of Caroline, and
W. l.. Waring, OF Essex. are retained, as is
Thomas f. Drinkard, one-arm Confed-
crate soldier. who fills very acceptably the
position of engineer at the Capitol. Now
let the Capitol Square receive the attention
II deserves