Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-18
LEGISLATIVE.

In the Senate yesterday the House bill to
prevent selling or furnishing cigarettes or
tobacco in any form, or pistols. dirks, or
bowie-knives to minors under sixteen years
OF age, was reported without amendment.
A bill was presented to amend the Code
in regard to fraudulent acts that are void.
The design of tnis bill is to prevent any per
son who has made q conveyance which ls
proven to have been fraudulent from
coming in and claiming.the homestead ex.
emption.
The joint resolution directing the Auditor
to turn over certain land books of the coun.
ties of West Virginia, was amended and
made special order for tomorrow.
The eleven bills looking to reduction of
the criminal expenses of the State, were
taken up seriatim and passed.
The twelfth bill of the series, which makes
change in the fees of the Commonwealth
attorneys, was passed by until to day. Mr.
Harrison will offer substitute paying these
officers salaries instead of fees, as now.
Among the bills passed were those to
amend the code In relation to the pay OF
clerks of district school boards for taking
census of children.
To amend the code In relation to the re.
demptlon of delinquent lands.
To provide for terminating the terms Of
office of the county and city electoral boards
elected by the General Assembly at the ses-
sion of 1S87-'SS.
To amend section 81 of the Code in re!a.
lion to electoral boards.
Among the bills reported in the House were the
following To amend the Code relating to I'M
| lawful fishing.
To enable minors over seventeen years old to
obligae themselves to teach in the public schools
of Virginia and to legslze such obligations.
To amend the Code in reference to denomina-
| ton of bonds and rate of exchange of old bonds
for new Ones The amendment proposed is to
give the officers charged with the funding of the
old debt into Riddlebergers discretion in cases
where consol or 10-40 bonds are presented for
/ funding where the coupons have been detached
| to allow other tax-recevable coupons OF the same
amount to BIO substituted for those detached
| Mr.. Tyler introduced a bill to submit to the
aualiftd voters of Virginia at sn election to be
held on the first Tuesday after the frat Monday
| il November, 1890. the question Of limiting the
| funding OF the public debt of Virginia under the
act of February IA, 1882, known as the Riddle
| berger bill.
Mr.. Arnold introduced bill to provide for the
registration of voters. The bill provides for the
appointment by the Governor fol each county
and city Of the Commonwealth board of three
Commissioners of Registration, and that no per-
son shall be entitled 10 vote in any election who
has not appeared in his own .person before regis.
trars and been registered by them and furnished
with certificate of such registration, and that no
person shall be entitled to vote except on the pre-
sentation Of his certificate as a voer the certfi-
cate to bs taken up by the judge of election and
| cancelled.
Among the bills passed were the following:
To Incorporate the Potomac and Ohio Railway
Company.
government OF persons consigned to chain gangs
established by order of the council OF any city or
town, by the board OF supervisors of county, or
| BY the Judge of g county or corporation court
Making it unlawful for any person to own,
keep, or sell any tree known to be infested with
the 'yellOws," and to provide for the appointment
| of inspectors of orchards.
To regulate trials by jury in cases whore the
Commonwealth Is defendant
Mrs Adeine j. Russell through senator Low.
ensten, sent communication to the Legislature
offering to devote two tracts Of land, one contain.
ing III, and the other 120 acres of land in Hem
rico county, near Richmond, if the State will
erect apon them two reftrmatories, one for the
white and the other for colored criminal youths