Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-01-28
Legislative Notes.

LcS ISintIYt NOtcSs
4 hill introduced in the Senate
hv Mr.. Stubs provides that all
oysters shall hereafter be bought
and sold in a measure made with
STRAIGHT slaves and straight head
ing, of the following dimensions:
The bottom to he sixteen inches
and one.half across from inSilla to
inside. and twenty one inches dag
onally from inside chime to the top;
half tubs to I've twelve inches and la
half from inside to inside at the
top, and sixteen inches and n half
diaSonally from inside chime to
the top. All Stave measures mnst
he scaled by some legallr-enpointed
Inspector of this State before they
are used. In measuring oysters in
the shell. the tubs mutt he filed
with a slight rise above the top
The captains Of the steamer and
vessels used as the oyster police
force shall have power to see that
;hc provisions of this act are Ell
forced.
rhe Senate has passed House
bill To amend tle acr.ro provide for
tbe assessment Of taxes. &c. in re
gard to the tax on peddlerS, with
amendment. The hill in its pres
emit shape requires reddlerS on foot
to pay IL license of $500 in each
county Q@ddIers of lightning rods
cxcepted.) Ii the prd'llrrS are not
ON foot the license is $500 in each
county. Farm products are eX
ornpted from the provisions Of this
bill.
The hill WAS communicated to
1.-THE House and the amendments OF
the Senate were agreed to. The
bill now goes TO the Governor for
his approval.
Bills were introduced in the Sen
a'e Monday providing THAI the
State commissioner of agriculture
shall see that all fertilizers sold III
this State are analyzcd, and the
result OF such analysis marked mp
on each package or bag. This is
the legislation demanded hy the
State Farmers Assembly. The
object of!lliS requirement is 10 PHI G.
vent farmers from being swindled
hy worthless fertilizers.
MIR. Ewell Gn the liruse) has in
tioduced Il bill to amend tile pres
ent oyster laws, making itunlawiul
to take or catch oysters in the Wal
terS Of the Pocomokc Sound from
the first day of May to the first day
of September.
Mr. Harris has offered in the
House Il joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the Constitution
of Virginia, making the county
treasurer ineligible TO the same of
fee for the term next
succeeding that for which he was
elected. Referred to Committee
for Courts of Justice.
Mr.. Fam has offered the follow
ing in the House:
" hereas the frequency Of cleo.
tons in this State is a great evil,
not only costly to the people in
in time and money, but
in promoting all the heat, passion
and strife 50 detrimental to good
government and to the good feel
ing that should obtain amoug fel.
low citizenS: and, whereas, il all our
elections. State and Federal, were
biennial and qna,lrennial, so that
every other year would be wllhout
elections, giving the People a need
ed lest from political ard party
struggles and the animositieS Ell
suing therefrom, a great publicand
private benefit, manifold in its
| blessings, would thereby lie as
sured; and whereas both political
parties III this State are committed
by pledge and profession to the
policy of a rest from elections eve.
ry alternate year be It therefore
Resolved by the House of Dele.
gates, That the Committee fol-
Courts of Justice be instructed
without delay to prepare and re
port such bills, resolutions and
other measures us may be neceS-
<ary to so amend our Constitution
anG laws as to give full effect to
the policy indicated; that the com
mlttee shall ut once prepare and
report bill conforming our cleo.
tions-Statc, county aud city. wards
and districts-as nearly aS may be
To the policy above set forth. Re
ierlrd.
\ resolution has been offered in
the Senate inStructing the Com
mittee for Courts OF Justice to in
quire as to The propriety OF provid
ing by law thatanyrerSon charged
with crime and tried in any court
Of the Commonwealth who shall bc
acquitted on the ground of insanity
shah be confined i'll one of the luna
tic asvlums for a period OF not less
than 10 wears.
One Thousand Persons Perish from
Cold i'm DakOfa.