Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-17
THEIR SEATS EMPTY.
A EUKRsR OF SENATORS QUIT THE
CHAMBER AVID LEAVE The BODY
WITHOUT A QUORUM.
Outcome Of the ElliSHouston Contest
Cigarette Bill committed-Convicts
on the South Atlantic Rosd.

TIE Senate, after n recess from Fri
day, reconvencd yesterday at II o'clock
noon, aad was called TO order by Lieu
tenant. GoveTuorJohn E. Massey. There
was no prayer.
FARMvuLE AND CHARLOTTESVILLE.
OF the fourteen bills passed by tho
House on Friday and Saturday and COM
municatsd 20 the senate by Clerk Bigger
in his usual morning message, all were
twice read and appropriately referred
except the one TO amend section D OF the
charter of the Farmville and Charlottes-
vile Railroad Company, as amended and
rc-enactod by an act OF the General As
ssmbly Of Virginia, approved on the 18th
day Of January. 1883, which, under
suspension OF the rules, was placed on
the calendar. The bill was subsequently
taken up and passed.
SENATE BILLS REPOETED.
To relieve the Baltimore, Cincinnati
and Western Railway Company from any
forfeiture which may have arisen from a
failure TO commence and complete its
road within the time prescribed by rs
charter: to amend section OF an act
approved March 3, 1894, to incorporate
the Pittsburgh aud Virginia Railroad
Company with amendment to change
the name of Iron Belt Land. Mining,
and Development Company of Virginia
to the Virginia Company to authorize
the issue Of bonds and stock 10y the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company;
to repeal an act to limit the time within
which the South Atlantic and Ohio Rail
road Company shall commence and com
plete it's road approved March 10, 1884,
and to lcgalize all corporate acts which
the said company may have performed
since the lst day of December, 1887 to
incorporate the Wythe Canning and
Manufacturing Company with amend
ments
Bills INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. Hurt: TO refund the estate of
HartWell Farmer, deceased, an amount
Of delinquent taxes enormously paid by
the administrator of said deceased.
BY Mr.. Stubbs: To amend and re-
enact an act prescribing the duties,
powers, liabilities. and compensation Of
district officers and to repeal chapter AZ
and section l of chapter 4S, Code OF
1873.
BY Mr.. Mcdonald: To amend and
reenact an act in relation to fishing for
alewiyes.
BY Mr.. Gillespie: For working and
keeping in repair the roads in Tazewell
county.
BY Mr.. Heaton: To relieve r. II.
bowman.
BY Mr.. Griggs: TO incorporate the |
Farmers Benevolent Association Of |
Prince Edward Cumberland, and Anne
liza counties.
BY Mr.. Barnes: To amend an act TO
establish a board of river and harbor
commissioners for Nansemond river and |
and to amend the title of said act, APP
proved February 8, 1882.
BY Mr.. Barnes: To authorize the 1
Board Of Supervisors OF Nansemond /
county to increase the salary of the
County Court Judge of said county.
BY Mr.. Barnes: To grant the right
and privilege for a period OF twenty
years of occupancy Of certain plats and
on James river.
BY Mr.. Rhea Toauthorize the trustees
Of Glade Spring Masonic Hall to sell
and rcinvest the proceeds
BY Mr. Hodges Authorizing certain
railroad crossings.
By Mr.. Jones: To relieve Henry
MahOney.
BY Mr.. Mcdonald: To amend en- act
n relation to the preservation of oysters,
md to obtain revenue for the privilege
If taking them from the waters of the
Commonwealth.
BY Mr.. Lovenstein: To regulate the
practice Of medicine and surgery.
RICHMOND, MANCHESTER AND PETERSBURG
RAILROAD.
Mr.. Lovenstein introduced bill to in
Corporate the Richmond, Manchester and
Petersburg Railroad Company. The
ill authorizes w. 4. Gaines, ". b.
Crooks, John c. George, \. VI. Osborne,
v. S. Phillips, Charles Gee, F. L. Green,
]. i. Carpenter, Robert McCandlish, $. ,
|. Hoge, and Charles Stokes TO build
nj operate a standard gauge railroad
rom Richmond and Manchester to Pc
or3burg, and the company are permitted ,
D locate It's road by such route as it may !
eem most expedient and advantageous, {
nd shall have the right to cross at grade, +
yer or under grade, intersect, join, or
mite It's railroad with any other rail I
Dads now built or hereafter to he built =
t any point ON its route, DC. The work q
} be commenced within two years and !
ompleted within five years from the
assage of this act. Referred. q
FLOUR AND FISH.
Mr.. Hodges presented a memorial
ON the Merchants aud Manufacturers {
xchange, OF Norfolk, endorsing the
,tion OF Senator Lovenstein and Dele
ate Buiord, in endeayoring to abolish r
le compulsory inspection Of fish and Z
our. =
LIS INTRODUCED AND PLACED on THE
CALENDAR.
BY Mr.. Acker: For the preservation
certain useful animals and fowls and L
prevent unlawful hunting in the coun- d.
OF Rockingham. The bill only pro-
oscs to shorten the hunting season. ;,
BY Mr.. Edmunds To amend an act u
incorporate the town Of South Boston, "a
the county OF Halifax. g.
BY Mir. Smoot: For the protection Of n
,er in the county of Page. a.
BY Mr.. Rhea Prescribing the times II
r holding the courts of the Sixteenth
dicial circuit.
BY Mr.. Folkes: To amend section 3 II
chapter of the charter OF the city Of So
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AMENDING THE CODE. al
Mr.. Blackstne introduced a bill to I'll
lend and re-enact sections 112, 633, ST
4, 1888, 3055, 3O53, 5000, 1901, 1856, al
%, 404S, sud 4049 of the act entitled 81
act to revise, arrange, and consolidate CT
% a code the general statutes Of the II
approved May l6, 1887. ri
r. Blackstone stated that this bill had to
en- prepared ut the instance Of the re- tx
ers of the Code, and that the memo pr
ida from which it was framed was fur or
he'd by them that the bill was only co
signed to correct slight omissions and OF
ler trivial errors. an
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