Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-03-05
Legislative Notes.

The Senate has concurred In the
House bill levying tax OF SSOO on
gypsies travelling through the state
The Senate has passed the bill pro
hibitipe non residents from becom
ing members of companies engaging
in the fisheries business In this Stete'
The House Wednesday defeated the
bill providing for a jail sentence, In
addition to heavy fines, for persons
convicted of carrying concealed
weapons.
4 In the Senate Mr.. Hutchinson has
introduced bill providing for CAPT
tai punishment for incendiaries VINO
destroy barns or stables OF other
buildings containing live stock.
Mr.. Gum, of Norfolk, has intro
duced a bill to exempt Confederate
soldiers of 60 years and over from the
payment of capitation taxes and TO
cancel delinquent taxes now against
them.
The Sale bill, looking to the care
of the INDECENT sick Of the State In
the hospitals of the various cities,
and making an appropriation there
for, was taken up in the Senate Mon
day and defeated.
The House Committee on Roads
Monday put an end to the bill for
distributing the tax on railroads to
the counties and towns through
which they pass. The committee
voted to pass the bill by indefinitely.
Mr.. Withers introduced a bill In
the House Tuesday amending the
Section 1850 of the Code, so as to pro-
vide that notaries public may take
dispositions in divorce suits. The
present law requires such depositlons
to be taken before commissioners In
chancery.
The Senate Wednesday afternoon
eugrossed the bill re .apportioning
the State for members of Congress.
The only districts affected are the
| First and Second, Newport News,
Elizabeth City and Warwick coun-
ties being placed in the First instead
of the Second District.
| A bill was introduced in the Senate
Monday appropriating the sum OF
$4,000 for the purchase OF silver
| service to be presented to the battle
ship Virginia when she goes into
| commission. A second bill was pre-.
sented to make April 9th, the day OF
the launching of the Virginia, legal
holiday.
Two hundred and twenty thousand
dollars has been appropriated by the
Senate for school purposes in Vir'
ginia. OF this $165, 600 goes to the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at
Blacksburg, for new buildings and
equipment. The rest was donated to
the Normal School at Farmville, foi
the same purpose.
To provide for more effectively ad'
vertising the resources OF the State
and securing immi6 ration by meani
of a handbook, folders and eimilal
advertising methods, under the di
rection of the State board OF agricul'
ture, Mr.. Thornhill has offered bill
in the house of delegates appropria-
ting $1,000 for the purpose.
The shortage of Joseph Fl. Shep-
herd, the defaulting clerk of thu
state auditors Office, was made pub
lie Saturday for the first time, al
though Shepherd has served veal
or more in the penitentiary. Thu
amount, as stated by Auditor Mary
before the committee OF the house Oh
courts of justice was $9S,914. Hereto
fore the impression has been that rh'
amount was only several Thousand
dollars, and even at this late dat
Colonel Marye's statement created
sensation.
The three companion bills modify
D ling the restrictions in the Mann
3 LIQUOR law passed the house Monday
eliminates Jail punishment 10
violating the law; another allows tn
saloon keeper to plead when beinI
tried for selling to minors or student
that he had no means OF knowing hi
v customers, and the third gives him
8 rebate on license when a dispenser
' is established and allows him ninet,
DAYS in which to close up his busi
: ness. A number of amendments wer
D offered but all failed.