Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-16


incorporating the Virginia Land
Title Guarantee Company, with amend
ment.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr.. Rhea A bill to incorporate
the Bristol Mining Company.
BY Mr.. Meredith A bill to authorize
the Governor to hire out convicts to the
Norfolk and Cincinnati Railroad Com
pany.
BY Mr.. Williams A bill to provide
a new charter for the town of Wythe-
vile.
BY Mr.. Digs: A bill to amend the
charter of the city Of Lynchburg by
adding an additional chapter thereto.
BY Mr.. Blackstone A bill to AL
thorlze Joseph f. Brodwater to con-
struct bridge across Muddy creek, in
Accomack county.
ByMr. Koiner A bill to amend and
re.enact section OF an act approved
March 9, 1880, as amended by an act
approved March Is, 1884, in relation
to wild game.
By same A bill to authorize the
treasurer of Augusta county to carry
forward certain unproductiye balances
on county levieS.
By Mr.. Mccormick A bill amend
ing Acts Of lS83-'S4 in relation to pro-
vidiDg special counsel in coupon cases
The bill provides for an appropriation
of 81 $50 annually to pay for special
counsel in the coupon cases tried in the
Richmond courts
BY Mr.. Staples A bill to provide
for the hire Of penitentiary convicts to
the several counties Of the Common
wealth, to be worked on the public
roads thereof.
By Mr.. Lovenstein: a bill for the
relief Of julius Staude.
TO BE RELIEVED FROM SERVICE.
Nff. Rhea presented the following,
which, under a suspension Of the rules,
was adopted
Resolred (the House of Delegates
concurringl, That the members of the
special Joint committee on the public
debt be relieved from service upon
standing committees on Wednesday and
Friday Of the present week, and that
said members be also excused from at
tendance upon the session of the Gene
raj Assembly on said days, and that the
General Assembly as far as practicable
consider local bills on said days.
LEAVE or ABSENCE.
Leave of absence was granted Mr..
Gillespie for two days and Mr.. Grim
for five days.
Senate bill appropriating $4,000 to
the Virginia State Agricultural Society,
which was under discussion at adjourn
ment Saturday, was the first matter
reached on the calendar. On motion
Of Mr.. Keezell the bill was passed by.
| When this bill was under consideration
Saturday Mr.. Koiner offered the follow
ing amendment " Provided that four
fiiths of said appropriation shall be en-
pended in the publication Of such yalu-
able information on agricultural and kim
bred subjects as shall be selected by
the Executive Committee and the Com
missioner of Agriculture, to be distri-
buted under the direction Of the Com
missioner Of Agriculture among the
people of Virginia" This he enforced
by remarks to show the advantages to
be derived from such publications. lie
deprecated the appropriation to the
uses Of the fair alone, which would lead
TO similar calls for appropriations on
the part of county and district fairs.
HOUSE ELLIS PASSED.
To repeal an act approved March :
1884, entitled an act to make additional
provisions for paying the debt of Pat
rick county, on account of certain bonds
issued TO the Danville and New-Rivel
Railroad Company.
To incorporate the Barratt HUMANE
Society of Fluvanna.
To incorporate the Smithville anC
Drake's- Branch Telephone Company.
To incorporate Glade-Mountain Man
ganese Company.
To incorporate the trustees Of the or
6t Of Sons and Daughters Of Unto
Star.
For the better protection of game il
Henry county.
To incorporate Stonewall Camp AS
ISOLATION ex-Confederates of Ports
mouth.
To amend and re-enact section 3 G
an act approved March IA, 1878, er
titled an act to authorize the construc
ton Of a turnpike road in Princes
Anne and Norfolk counties.
To provide for working and keepiu
in order the public roads Of Albemarl
| county.
To change the name Of the Frankli
Agricultural Society to the Tidewatt
: Agricultural and Mechanical Society
To incorporate the Hungars Tran
portation Company.
To amend and re-enact sections 6,
3 and Is Of chapter 1876, acts of 1898
: entitled an act to provide for workir
l the roads, repairing bridges, and opel
ing new roads in the counties Of Free
erick, Clarke, Warren, and August
approved February 26, 1884.
To authorize the Board Of Supe
r visors Of Campbell county to provit
: for keeping the roads and bridges
/ said county in repair and to asse
3 taxes therefor.
To incorporate the Aged Men al
Women's Home Society of Alexandra
Va.
4 To authorize the trustees Of the F
male Free School Of Alexandra and
. the Orphan Asylum of Alexandria
transfer their property, real and pc
sonal, to the Alexandria Infrmary ar
to accept the surrender Of the chart
} of the two frst-named corporations.
To allow William P. Birch and Isa'