Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-27
LEGISLATIVE

In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Berry
made a report from the special commit
tee appointed to consider changes ne
cessary to be made in the present road
law by reason of q recent decision OF
the Court of Appeals declaring as I'M
constitutional the law compelling citi-
Zens to work on the county roads. The
committee reported two bills, n a
general law amending section 97S OF
the code so as to give to supervisors the
right to levy as much as 20 cents Gn-
stead of II as under the present law
on the 800 for road purposes. This
bill was passed under a suspension OF
the rules. The other bill provides that
where counties have special road laws
the Board of Supervisors may, in their
discretion, adopt the general law as
above. This bill was referred.
Mr.. Morris introduced several bills
relating to the salaries of the Superin-
tendent of the Penitentiary and other
employees of that institution to amend
section 4179 of the code in relation to
criminal proceedings against convicts;
TO amend section 1912 of the code in
regard to conservators of the peace to
make the term Office Of the Superin-
tendent of the Penitentiary four years
instead OF two.
The Mushbach a~nti-gambling bill was
called up and ordered to it's engross-
ment, after being so amended as to
| strike out unnecessary verbiage.
The Senate passed with amendments
the H~arnsberger bill to regulate the
oyster industry also bill to the same
effect known as the committees substi-
tute for the Wickham bill.
The Fairfax bill to create q board of
equalization to correct errors and inc
gu llities in the assessment of real and
personal property came up in the Sen
ate as a special order. The bill was
passed by.
Bills were introduced by Mr.. Mush-
bach to amend the charter of the Vir-
GINA, Washington and Maryland Ferry
Company to incorporate the Virginia
Water and Sewerage Publication Com
pany.
The Governor returned to the Senate
without his signature Senate bill to in
corporate the Virginia Transit Compa-
ny. The Governor assigns six reasons
for vetoing this bill, the first of which
is that the bill is in conflict with article
5, section Is of the constitution, which
declares that "no law shall embrace
more than one object which shall be ex-
pressed in the title"
At its night session the Senate passed
Senate bills to regulate the tax on real
estate agents, reducing tax on gross
sales to l S of l per cent to amend the
code so as to abolish the regulation al
lowing the reception of pay patients in
the insane asylums to amend the acts
relative to the time of organization of
electoral boards authorizing the LOU
doun Natural Brick, Paint and Manu-
featuring Company to construct and OPP
crate a railroad imposing a tax on
building and loan associations to in
corporate the Culpeper and Fredericks-
burg Railroad Company.
And House bills to regulate the tax
ing of oysters 10 the Potomac river and
Chesapeake bay !; 10 amend the charter
of the city of Alexandria, and to ratify
and confirm the charter of the Deis
Manufacturing Company.
The special order in the House was
Mr.. H%arrison's bill to correct excessive
and enormous taxes on lands and lots
of the Commonwealth. The occasion
for the introduction of this Measure is
the result of the fact that when the as
sessments were made in 1890 "boom
towns" were in existence in all parts of