Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-19
Fl LEGISLATURE.

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The Senate observed Lees birthday
as a holiday today, but the House was in
session.
ID. ID. Leake was yesterday elected by
joint vote Of both Houses to fill the I'M
expired term OF Judge Monteiro, of the
County Court of Goochland, resigned.
Mr.. Leake received all the votes cast.
Judge Keith, president of the Court Of
Appeals, brought to the attention of the
legislature the deplorable condition of
the law library. The library is lacking
in shelf room to store the books, and is
unsuited for the purpose Removal to
other quarters is suggested.
SENATE.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Ander-
son offered a resolution providing for the
laying aside by the State of 81, 900, 900
in bonds, the interest from which shall
be used to keep up fire insurance on the
buildings owned by the State and to be
known as the insurance fund.
Mr.. Barksdale introduced a bill fixing
the fee for examination before the Board
of Medical Examiners at s25. The fee
is now $40. 1t wentto the committee on
general laws.
Mr.. Byars offered a bill repeating the
State license tax on drays, hacks, &c.
The idea is hat the city license is suf-
fcient.
Mr.. Wickham presented a bill re-
newing the appropriation for the care OF
Confederate cemeteries. The total
amount is 81, 1875.
HOUSE.
The old fight over the annexation Of
territory by cities and towns was renewed
on its old basis yesterday when Leeintro-
duced the Gardener bill, which is oppos-
ed to the Anderson bill.
Mr.. Gum, introduced a bill whose
purpose is to secure a better attendance
of members, though he goes about it by
increasing their pay. II provides that
the chairman of the Senate and speaker
of the House shall receive $500 for a
regular session and the members $500,
and for extra sessions, president and
speaker S240, and members $3.50, payable
weekly at s. a day. The members nov
receive 81 a day. The bill further pro-
vides that members shall be fined So a
day each day they are absent ''unless abb
sent on leave granted for good reason,
entered upon the @jurnal of the House of
Delegates or Senate, as the case may be-"
Mr.. Ould, of Campbell, introduced a
resolution providing for adjournment
from January 30, 1904, to January II,
1905. The resolution was referred.
Under the provisions of a bill offered
by Mr.. Person, the clerks of the Senate
aud House are required to furnish State
a~nd.county officers with copies of new
laws passed, and such officers are not to
be held responsible for failure.to observe
these laws until after copies have been
furnished them.
Mr.. Stearns presented an amendment
to the code providing hatjudgments en-
tered in Office are to become final in cir
cult or corporation courts on the last
day of the next term or the fifteenth day
thereof, whichever shall occur first.
Among the bills introduced were:
In relation to when judgment entered
in Office to become final.
To continue in Office the commission
ers in chancery Of the present circuit
courts until the first term of the circuit
courts in their respective counties and
cities as established by the new consti-
tuition.
To allow shipping Of game from Spot
sylvania by residents of the county and
Of the city of Fredericksburg.
In relation to the collection of the fees
of the commissioner of the revenue
Fixing the fees of %iailors.
The House committee on the Chesa-
peake and its tributaries considered The
Jordan bill, which seeks to lease
out the barren oyster beds of the State.
BY general consent it was determined
to give a public hearing at 10 a. m.
next Wednesday. The Senate COM
mittae on fish and game will be asked to
be present.
To SEPARATE RACEs.--Mr. Kerbin,
of Worcester, introduced two Jim
Grow" bills in the Maryland House of
Delegates last night, one applying to
steamboat, the other to railroad travel.
The measures are almost identical in
their provisions. The steamboat bill re-
quires the captains of vessels TO separate
the whites and negroes, as far as the