Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-02-24
Legislative Notes.

Governor Tyler has signed the bill
of incorporation of the Virginia
Council of the Junior Order United
American Mechanics.
The Senate Committee on Finance
and Banks has reported favorably
yesterday the bill to appropriate
$500 to the Ladies' Hollywood Me
mortal Association.
The Governor has signed the bill
providing for separate accommoda-
lions on steamboats, for white and
colored passengers. This is aeon
panion measure to the Jim Grow"
car bill. Both 60 into effect July l
next.
The Senate has passed the Glass
bill, providing for travelling auditors
to inspect the accounts and books OF
treasurers and court clerks. This
body also passed the House bill to
incorporate the State Council. Junior
Order OF United American Mechanics.
The House Committee on General
Laws, has decided to report favora
bly, the bills offered by Mr.. Saunders,
of Franklin, rendering telephone and
telegraph companies liable for the
careless handling of messages, and TO
regulate the delivery of said mess
sages.
The special committee appointed
to inquire into the cost of remodel
ing and repairing the Capitol Build
ing, have concluded their duties.
They will offer bill for an appro
priation of about $4,000 This
amount will put the building in ex-
cellent condition.
The House Committee on the
Chesapeake and Its Tributaries was
in session Monday night, considering
bill in relation to dredging for oys'
tiers in the waters of Virginia Many
speeches were made for and against
the measure, but no conclusion was
reached by the committee.
The bill providing for submitting
to the people the question of holding
q constitutional convention was the
special order in the Senate for Wed
nesday. The bill will pass. But adj
vocates of constitutional revision are
extremely doubtful of the convention
proposition carrying at the polls.
After a warm debate, and at times
a hot colloquy, between Messrs
Whitehead and Powell, the House
adopted resolution appropriating
AL ~ no
late John Bell Bigger, for 81 years
clerk of that body, The portrait is 10
be placed on the walls of the cham
Der.
There is but little doubt now that
the Legislature will make an appro.
priation for an epileptic farm OF
colony. Drs. LeCato and Drewry
have certainly labored hard to this
end, and the valuable information
gained by them and presented to the
Legislature has won the day for this
great work.
Senate bills have passed: To amend
and re-enact section IL OF an act en-
titled an act to create the Board Of
Fisheries, define its duties, and t1
the salaries OF its members, approved
February z, 1898; to provide that
planters to whom natural oyster
rocks have been assigned through
mistake, shall have a reasonable time
to remove their planted oysters
therefrom, etc. to authorize the
Board of Fisheries, under certain
conditions, 10 compensate out OF the
oyster fund certain planters for loss oil
oysters; to amend, etc, in relation
to fishing in the waters of the Com
monwealth of Virginia, to provide
for levying tax on fishing devices
and to provide for collecting the
same, and to extend the provisions OF
said act to include all the waters
within the jurisdiction of the Com
monwealth-