Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-16
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Inc SENATE on MONDAY passed house
bills to authorize the beneficial equta
bic owner Of claim, or chose in action,
to maintain suit in equity.
To provide for imposing tax On slot.
machines.
Also Senate bills to amend section
1888 OF the code in reference to allow
ances in criminal cases.
To amend section 1920 of the code in
relation to exl ress companies.
To prevent the unlawful use Of tele-
phone and telegraph lines.
To amend section III OF the code in
relation to appointment and duties OF
judges of election.
To amend section 1885 of the code as
to limitation of proceedings.
To amend section 2600 of the code in
relation to miuors.
To empower the corporation courts
of the State TO render judgments in civil
actions at any term of court.
To amend section 164 OF the code in
reference to disability OF persons hold
ing office under the United States.
Bills were introduced TO amend sec
ton S4S of the code with reference 10
the compensation of the boards OF gu.
pervisors.
To rt quire noteries to affi1 their seals
TO all protested paper, for which d
charge of 81 is to be made for the bene-
fit OF the Commonwealth.
The House on Monday passed Senate
bills to authorize the sale of an estate,
real or pei sonal, given by deed or will
to person for life, with vested re-
mainder to another, whether the vest
ID remainded man be an infant or
adult.
To incorporate the Leesburg and
Point of Rocks Turnpike Company,
in the county OF Loudoun, and to GU
thorze the road board of Leesburg dir
trct to appropriate road taxes 10 said
turnpike company.
To incorpoate the Mary GUSTS Lee
Children of the Confederacy.
To amend section 1859 of the code of
Virginia in relation to change of loca.
zion OF railroad lines.
To make it unlawful for any lawyer,
physician, surgeon, dentist, or any
other person engaged in profession or
calling taxed by the laws Of this State,
who has his residence in this State, to
practice his profession in any county or
city of this commonwealth under Ii
cense tax from any other State or the
District of Columbia
Also House bills to amend section
1907 of the code defining grand and
petit larceny and prescribing lis pnn-
i5hment.
To amend section 1907 of the code in
relation to the punishment of persons
convict OF petit larceny, when they
have been heretofore sentenced for u
like offence or for grand larceny.
To amend section 2476 of the code 10
relation 20 perfection of mechanics
lien, mechanics lien record, and
notices of lien, as amended by an act
approved January is, 1896, etc.
To prevent the adulteration Of -four.
To amend section 2547 of the code,
providing for the Re reco"dalion of wills
To amend section 2465 of the code,
in relation to what contracts, deeds,
and other writings are void as to credit
ors and purchasers, unless recorded.
To preserve the purity of all field
and garden seed, and to define the liza
ability of the sellers of all such seed as
guarantee that all such seed are true 10
kind and name, as represented at the
time OF sale.
To amend section 206l or the code in
relation to penalty for taking anolher's
boat or vessel.
The following House bills were dis
missed.
To rs quire the study of the laws OF
physiology and hygiene, including those
conceroing the nature of alcohol drinks
and other narcotics and their efecs S
upon the human system, by the pupils
in the public schools and other educA,
tionsl institutions under State control
or supported wholly or in part by pub
lie money.
Virginia in reference to fees to at
torneys for the Commonwealth.
To amend section 3652 of the code ss
to what wages of laboring man who
is householder are exempt.