Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-24

tenn. John i. Hurt. No prayer.
AMENDMENTS AGREED TO.
The Senate agreed to the amendments
proposed by the House Of Delegates TO
tho following bills:
To amend the law with reference to
the price paid for land warrants and the
fees paid in the land Office. The amend
ment provides that persons purchasing
waste lands shall pay Zoe. per acre in
stead OF 2jc.
To extend the charter Of the Southern
Improvement Company.
For the relief of the sureties of James
p. Critz, late treasurer OF Patrick
county.
MAURY's SURVEYS.
Mr. Gordon, from the Library Com
miiteo, in response to q resolution OF the
Senate, made report in the form Of a
letter from Mr.. c. Poindexter, acting
Librarian, in which that gentleman
saws: There are on hand in the
Library fifty-eight copies of Maui
rvs Physical Survey of Virginia, Pre-
liminary Report No. 2, 1873. OF the
Preliminary Report No. l, 1869, there
are three comics on hand. This number
has for some time been scarce. 1t Is
perhaps proper 10 state that bout two
wears ago. by direction OF the Library
Committee, several hundred copies OF
the Report No. . were placed IN the
hands Of the Commissioner Of Agricul-
ture for distribution The copies of the
Report No are held for sale by direc-
ton of the Library Committee at Doc.
Laid on the table.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
BY Mr. Blackstone To authorize
BENJAMIN S. Gunter and other trustees
of the Ocean Lodge, No. 1l6, A. +. d
A. NJ. 10 sell the lot in DrummOndtown,
Accomack county, upon which the
Masonic Temple is located.
BY Mr.. Moore: To incorporate the
Fairfax and Georgetown Turnpike Com
pany.
By Mr.. Blackstone: TO exempt from
taxation the Pipers Charity School Fund
of the county Of Accomack.
By Mr.. Staples: TO empower the
County School Board of Patrick county
HUIUOIlst
public school district in said county to
invest the county school money unex-
pended in the erection or repair of school
buildings or TO the satisfaction OF any
debts due thereon.
BY MIR. Rhea; To provide for the con-
struction and working of roads in Russell
county.
BY Mr. Hurt (by request To incor-
porate the Danyille Mining, Milling,
Manufacturing, and Terminal Company
of Danvile.
BY Mr.. Rawlings (by request To en-
power the circuit courts wherein petit
ton for relief is filed, or the judges
thereof in vacation, to stay the collection
of fines under certain conditions.
By Mr.. Hodges: To authorize Samuel
W. LYONS. treasurer Of Norfolk county.
further time to collect tax-tickets for the
year 1885, for which he has accountable
the State and county.
APPEAL TO CONGRESS.
Mr. Gordon introduced and had placed
on the calendar "A bill 10 memorable
Congress on Lehalf of Virginia 10 make
some compensation for the public lands
heretofore coded TO the General Govern
ment by the State.
The memorial calls the attention OF
Congress 10 the fact that in the year
1871 the State gave to the United States.
without money and without price, all Of
her magnificent northwestern domain,
COMPRISING 27O, $50 square miles, en-
bracing l73, 4j2, 900 acres of the best
lands on the habitable globe, upon
which six of the greatest, richest, and
most powerful States in this Union have
been created that by the sale of said
lands more than Sl00,O00,000 have been
paid into the Treasury Of the United
States: that more than -, 1876, 600 acres
Of said lands have been given to the said
six States for works Of internal improve
ment that there yetremain n part OF those
lands valued at more than sd, OOO,O
and vet Virginia, having made the most
munifcent grant in the worlds history.
has never received one dollar or one acre
of land from the Government either for
education or development.
The bill further recites the existence
of n heavy public debt, the forcible dis
memberment Of Virginia's territory in
the creation of West Virginia, the de
struction of the slave property of the
State. upon the faith of which the debt
was in part contracted, the heavy burden
of educating the manumitted slaves and
taking care of their insane and in view
OF these and other reasons set out in the
bill Virginia appeals to the equity OF the
Union which She did 30 much to form to
aid her in her embarrassment by restoring
to her a portion of the public domain
equal in acreage to that which was taken
from her by the formation Of West
Virginia, SO that she may sell the same
for the purpose Of arranging her debt
and for educational purposes.
sATE-DEPOsIT COMPANY.
Mr.. Lovenstein called up the bill TO
incorporate the Virginia Safety and Safe
Deposit Company of Richmond. On
his motion the vote by which the bill
was ordered TO its engrossment was re-
considered and an amendment was placed
on it making this measure conform to