Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-03

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srrcrAL oRprr-
The bill to pay public school teachers
without requiring an average attendance
Of pupils was made the speciai orner i9r
today AZ o'clock. Several other bills
were ordered 10 their engrossment, ana ~
i:i5 the Senate adjourned.
House OF Delegates.
The Speaker called the House 20 order 1T
Y o'clock and Rev. A. Il. Hoider0y. OF
Ashland, offered prayer. -,
Leave of absence was granted Mr.. Hudgn,
of Caroline. for two days.
Pills PRESENTED AND REFERRED.
Rv Mr.. Hobbs: To protect fish in the
counties OF Lee, Wise, and Dickenson..
Bv Mr.. Hume: To incorporate the Alex
andria Railway and Improvement COM
pany. .,:,,
t;on az the Alexandria and Fredericksburg
Railway Company aud the Aiexandf1a anu
Washington Railway Company. =,
By Mr.. Butler: To pay John M: Payne
the amount OF certain claim against the
State.
By Mr.. MAYNARD: To allow the Judge OF
the Court Of Hastings of Portsmouth to
appoint an additional commissioner III
chancery.
of Supervisors Of Campbell county TO levy
! local taxes on certain tracts and citizens:
BY same: For the relief of Charles Il.
Hall.
Nv Mr. wilkins: To prescribe Nthe time
for killing cartridges in the counties OF
Northampton aud Accomack.
BY Mr.. Ryan To validate and confirm
sale of portion Of its real estate maze
| Mechanical Society to the Richmond Bas-
/ hot and Woodenvare COmpany.
By same: To amend the act incorpo,
rating the Virginia State Agricultural ana
Mechanical Society. 1.-THE amendment
gives the society a right to sell and convey
real estate owned by them subject TO the
ratification of the stockholders. ana the
proceeds OF such sales may be reinyest'edi
| in real estate for the same purpose as tnat
now held by the society or expended III the
payment of debts and liabilities.J
USwHoLEsoME MEATS.
BY Mr.. Downing: To prevent the sale OF
unwholesome meats. TT provides that IL
shall not be lawful to offer for sale within
the limits of the State any fresh meats
| (beef. veal. or muttOn) which shall have
| been slaughtered one hundred miles or
over from the place at which 1t IS, offered
for sale until and except it has been m
spected and approved. The inspectors
cities or counties. They shall be paid one
| cent per pound for meat inspected, the
money TO como from the owners of the
meats. Persons. firms, or corporations Of
| fering meat for sale without requesting III
to be inspected shall DO fined not Jess than
$50 nor more than 500 for each ohence.l
NoRTHERN-SEcK RAILROAD.
By Mr.. J. T.. Mason: To incorporate the
Northern-Neck Railroad and Transporta-
| tion Company. The corporators are Fred
| Il. RapnffluQ nj Nn1lnnCT1-
r.. Tunstall Pierce. John A. Palmer, James
]. Mcdonald, Benjamin Chambers William
| II. Claughton, Richard II. Lyell, William
! A. Jones. Lawrence Mitchell, j. II. Gar
| land. John L. IL. Cralle, William W. Walk
or. Robert NJ Mays. James p. Walker, lio-
bert ]. Washington. Edward ). Ruggles,
T. W. Payne, William b. X. Price, BenIa-
min i. Grymes, j. }; Mason Z. Ii. ASH
ton, j. T.. Mason. L. II. Beran, Z. a.
Bryan, DIR. James II. Ball. W; $.
White, William A.. Little, .Jr., A. K.
Phillips, Jr.. and NJ. Il. Rowe. The road IS
to commence NJ some point mt or near the
mouth of the Rappahannock river, and the
company asks the privilege OF building
branches either 10 thePotomac orthe Great
| WicomIco river, and 70 pass through the
| counties of Lancaster. Richmond, North
cumberland, Westmoreland, King George,
and Stafford tothe town OF Fredericksburg.
aud to pass thence through the counties OF
| Caroline and Spotsylvania. They may hold
90 900 acres Of land. They may establish
steamship lines to run between any port IN
| Virginia and the ports of the United States
and Europe or elsewhere, The capital
stock shall not exceed s5,OO0,0OO.I
SENATE BILL PASSED.
To amend the act authorizing the
| Charleston. Cincinnati and Chicago Rail
road Company 10 construct and operate ITS
road in Virginia. approved April 6, 1851.
THE OYSTER INDUSTRY.
Mr.. Chambers offered the following.
which was referred: -,
Rcsoired, That the Committee on the
Chesapeake and it's Tributaries be, and they
are hereby, instructed to formulate and
present TO the House by or before the lst
day of February next n bill looking to the
adjustment and modification OF the laws
/ BIZ which taxes are levied and collected on
! the oyster industry. for the purpose of IN
| creasing the revenues OF the. State from
that source, so that there shall remain in
| the State Treasury asurplus collected from
that source after the expense or MAINTAIN
| ing the oyster police shall have been PAID.
INFORMATION WANTED.
Mr.. Downing offered the following, which
was adopted:
Resolued, That the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts be- and heis hereby, requested tour
nish the House with statement showing
| the number of acres of land in each county
| in this State. the assessed value OF such
| land not including buildings, and what
| this valuation averages per acre IN each
| county also, the assessed value OF such
land including builings, and what such val
uatiOn averages per acre IN each county,
the statement not to include town lots.
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY.
The bill to repeal the act incorporating
tho American Tobacco Company was re-
ported favorably from the Committee on
| General Laws, and on motion OF MIR. Flood
was read second time.
Mr.. Flood now moved that the bill be or
dered to its engrossment and third read
| ING. 1t was an important matter, he said,
and the House should lose no time in re-
! pealing the act.
Mr. RYAN opposed hasty action. He had
| learned that the company was already or
ganized, and he urged the members to de-
| liberate carefully before they voted on such
an important matter.
THE OTHER SIDE HAD BEEN HAsTY.
Mr.. Saunders suggested that the House
could not repeal the act too quickly. The
company, be said had proceeded with
| haste to inform the Secretary of the Com
monwealth of their acceptance of the char
! ter and TO name the New York men con-
nected with the concern. When before
had they heard of like acceptance? The
House should act at once. Mr.. Saunders
thought, and send the bill to the Senate.
One DAYS delav might mean great deal.
Mr.. Shackelford inquired as to the OBJ
| jectionable features of the bill.
Mr. Saunders replied that the charter
gave the company vested right for fifty
years. during which time 1t would be con-
tended the Legislature cannot interfere
| with THAR charter