Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-11


calendar and was passed by without fur
ther action.
The Senate bill to amend an act to
make husband and wife competent wit
nesses for or against each other in GER
tain civil and criminal cases was taken
up and passed and communicated to the
House.
The Senate passed the following House
bills:
To require the owner or owners OF
steamboat wharves to provide suitable ac-
commodations. Bill to amend the code
in relation to penalty for malicious tam
pering with, iujuring or obstructing rail-
ways or canals was passed.
To amendan act in relation to appoint
ment of police justices and their jurisdic-
ton in towns of 10000 or over with
amendments).
To provide for working the roads OF
Fairfax county.
In relation to providing punishment
for maiciously or unlawfully shooting or
throwing stones at any train or car or
steamboat.
To amend section 3O49 of the code,
in relation to designation ofjudges to
hold court in event another is i'll or other
wise prevented from serving.
Also the following Senate bills:
To authorize juries to punish with
death, in their discretion, persons who
maliciously burn barn, stable or shed
containing live stock.
To authorize suits to be brought in this
State against foreign insurance COM
panies.
To provide for the appointment of a
commission to investigate and report upon
the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing State
sanatorium for INDECENT consumptiTes.
The bill, as passed, carries no appropri-
alton. The clerk was authorized to com
municate the passage of the bill.
The electric lights having failed, the
legislature sat until midnight working
by candle light Many bills of local
nature were passed. The Duke bill to
require telephone companies to connect
was killed.
The House again passed by the congres..
sional redistricting bill, and the prospects OF
the passage of that measure grow DINNER.
| The House agreed to the Senate joint reso-
| luton for a single text book list, there having
been no debate or objection.
The House passed the following bills: To
require interest to be paid upon all state,
county, district and municipal taxes or levies
remaining unpaid on the 10Th Of June in the
year next after that in which the same were
| or may be assessed as assessable, and to pre-
scribe the date from which such interest shall
be charged.
To prohibit the fishing with pound nets,
fykes. traps and other fixed devices in the
waters of the commonwealth on the ocean
| side of the counties of Accomac and North
ampton, and in the Potomac river and the
| Chesapeake bay within two miles of the
mouth of the Potomac river, and In the
James river, and in the Chesapeake bay
within two miles Ct the mouth of the James
| river
To protect certain fish in the bays, creeks,
| inlets and streams tributary to the Potomac
river in the State Of Virginia.
Requiring the chairmen Of the boards OF
supervisors and presidents Of city councils "a
check over and compare the assessments made
| by the corporation commission OF public
works in each county.
To submit to the qualified voters of Dunn
| fries district. in the county Of Prince William,
at a special election to be held therefor. the
question of the establishment of dispensary
| for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the
town of Mayyille.