The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-15
TWO SESSIONS
HELD YESTERDAY
Convention Going Ahead With lis
Work,
AS TO CREATING NEW OFFICES,
Requires the Votes of Majority Of Mem
bers Elected TO Both Houses-Pro.
gress With Legislative
Report.
AS TO CREATING NEW OFFICES.

The Constitutional Convention held
two sessions yesterday, and made much
7rogress-in Committee of the Whole-in
The further consideration of the report Of
the Committee of the Legislative Depart
1rant. The morning session was called
to order by President Goode at noon, and
the chair was vacated at 2 O'Clock =. NJ.
and resumed for the night session at {
o'clock p. NJ.
The attendance of visitors was slim as
compared to that of last week, and there
4 We're but tifty-five members in their
seats. Several memorials Oh The Bar
bonr liquor resolution were presented, but
outside of this there Was little business
in the morning hour. The Committee Of
the Whole was then gore ilto (Adr. Walk
er in the chaiC, ana Mir. Moore called up
the report OF the Legislative Committee.
Section %, in relation to The formation
Of new committees was then taken up and
adopted, it being practically the one II.
the present Constitution Section %, in
relation to religious freedom. was passed
by temporarily on motion of Mr.. Newton.
Section 90 was then taken up, and ?fter
being amended in several particulars was
adopted.
The section relates to the creation Of
new offices by the Legislature, and in its
amended form provides that the creation
Of new Office shall require the votes of
each body, and they shall be recorded.
When the chair was resumed at o'clock,
the report was further considered in Com
nit.ee Of the Whole.
THE DAY IN DETAIL
The convention met at noon, prayer be-
! ing offered b. DIR. Dunaway
The roll-can showed tifty-fsve members
present, and the journal of Saturdays
proceedings was read and approved.
i
many members.
Memorials were presented PRAYING the
adoption Of the Barbour liquor license
resolution.
The convention then went into Commit
tee of the Whole. to consider the report of
the Legislative Committee.
5# Section .. relating to formation of new
counties. was adopted. This section is the
same as section 10 OF the present Corsti-
tuition, with tho last paragraph omitted.
Sec. .. No new county shall be formed;
with an area of less than six hundred
square miles; nor shall the county or
counties from which 1t is formed be
reduced below that area; nor shall any
county having a population less than
ten thousand be deprived of more than
one-ffth OF such population: nor shal,
a county having a larger population be
reduced below eight thousand But any
times its mean breadth. or which ex-
ceeds fifty miles in length, may be di-
Nided at the discretion of the General.
Assembly. In all general elections the
voters in any county not entitled to
separate representation shall vote in
the same election district
On motion Of Chairman Moore the last
paragraph beginning I'm a!l,'' was struck
out
DE-. DGSauAY.s MOTION.
DIR. Dunaway moved to amend section
60 relating to religious freedom. so that
Il be in the exact language Of the act of
1855.
DR.. Dunaway said the. exact langua ge
of the original act had been slightly
changed since 1t was adopted in l7s5.
There no material change, but he
though; every word of the oricinal should
he preserved. He asked Judge Robert
son to read the act in the Code. The
law was read DR.. Dunaway then moved
that the language of the Code be sub
stituted for the present section of the
Constitution.
Mr Newton moved that the question