Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-09
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY.

PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY.
THE Nor,h Carolina fiae--North oanv''ie
Cbar,.r-Local Opsion-Psspssed Rear
rasecmen, or the Judicial Circuits, &C.. NC.
The Senate met at 1880 O'Clock A.
M.-Hop. John L. Hurt, President pro
tenn, in the chair. No prayer.
AMENDMENTS AGREED TO.
The following Senate bills, which were
passed by the House, with amendments,
were taken up and the amendments
agreed to.
Toinccrporate the Roanoke and South
ern Railway Company.
To allow the treasurer OF Allegheny
county to file an amended list OF delin-
quent land and property taxes for the
year 1883.
To amend, &C., the Code Of 1873 in
relation to property being exempt from
distress or levy.
To amend, &C., an act to incorporate
the Lynchburg, Halifax and North Caro-
lima Railroad Company.
To amend, &C., the charter oil the
Suffolk and Carolina Railway Company.
These bills now go to the Governor.
HOUSE BILLS REPORTED.
The following House bills were re-
ported from committees;
To provide for bringing suits against
receivers in certain cases prescribing
a penalty against defaulting treasyrers
and other collecting officers; providing
for working and keeping in order the
public roads of Nansemond county,
and for levying the necessary tax for
said purposes, with an amendment;
to authorize the Board Of Supervisors
of Matthews county to levy tax for
the establishment and equipment OF
ferry across milford Haven from
Gwynn's island to the main land of
said county, and to provide regulations
for the same to allow Thomas G. Kel-
lam to erect wharf for shipping pro-
duce on a tributary Of Wachapreague
inlet, Accomack county, Va; to in
corporate the Barrett Humane Society
of Fluvanna to incorporate Stonewall
Camp Association ex.Confederates OF
Portsmouth.
SENATE BILLS REPORTED.
To allow the treasurer of Spotsyl-
vania county to collect by levy certain
tax bills not returned delinquent, with
amendments; authorizing the Auditor
of Public Accounts to receive from
Samuel c. Greenhow, Treasurer Of the
city of Richmond, certain tax tickets
and coupons rendered him in contested
cases, with amendment; to provide
for the payment of Marquis Jones, Esq,
attorney at law, fee for services rem
dered the State, with amendment; to
authorize the Governor in the exami-
nation of the transactions of delinquent
officers and the State institutions to
employ an expert accountant, &c. to
provide for the deposit Of State funds
in certain cases, with amendment for
the relief OF John G. Thomas, of
Matthews county, Va, with amendment;
authorizing suits to be brought against
receivers of railroad companies without
first obtaining the permission of the
courts which appointed such receivers,
with the recommendation that it do not
pass to declare all dogs in the city Of
Richmond and in the county Of Hen
rico to be deemed property in the
meaning Of the criminal law, with a
substitute to protect the employees
Of incorporated companies or corpora
tions, firms, or individuals; to legal
ize the issue of certain bonds of the
CITY of Roanoke in relation to foreign
insurance corporations and associations
upon the assessment plan, with the re-
commentator that it do not pass; to
amend, &C., an act of the General AS
sembly approved March 10, 1884, en-
titled an act to provide for the sale Of
lands delinquent for taxes and county le-
vies to authorize the County Court Of
Dinwiddie county to orderthe purchase Of
additional land for courthouse purposes;
to incorporate the Consolidated Sc
curity and Investment Company. with
an amendment to submit the question
Of increasing the levy for district school
purposes to the qualified voters Of the
several districts Of Highland county,
with amendments.
EXTENSION OF POWER.
Mr.. Stubs offered a resolution,
which was adopted, instructing the
Committee for Courts to examine into
and report by bill or otherwise the pro-
priety of amending the law so as to ex-
tend the powers of the circuit courts in
granting charters for various companies
in this Commonwealth.
NORTH CAROLINA LINE.
Mr.. Berry, from the Committee on
General Laws, presented a bill to pro-
vide for the appointment of commits
sioners or surveyors to mark the boun-
dary line between the States Of Vir.
GINA and North Carolina. The bill
provides that in each Of the counties OF
Virginia which border on the State OF
North Carolina, where the boundary
line is underlined or in dispute, the
County Court Of such county shall ap-
point surveyor to act in conjunction
with the person or persons appointed
by the State of North Carolina to re-
new and remark the line between such
county and the said State Of North
Carolina. These surveyors are to re-
ceive IS per day while in the discharge
of their duty.l
PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. Meredith A bill to incor.
porate the town of Fairfax, in Fairfax
county.
BY Mr.. Trout A bill to repeal thu
act approved March I, 1884, in refer,
ence to the removal Of causes from thu
Corporation to the Circuit Court and t.
re-enact the former law.
BY Mr.. Hurt A bill to amend, &C.,
an act to amend and re-enact the charter
Of the town Of North Danville. The