Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-09
Virginia Legislature.

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As stated in the Gazette of that day
both branches of the legislature yester-
day unanimously adopted resolution
extending the sympathy of the State to
the stricken city of Baltimore.
SENATE.
In the Senate Mr. McIlwaine offered
a bill providing that where any person
shall without just cause desert or neglect
to provide for his wife or minor child
rem he shall be punished by fine not
exceeding 800 or imprisonment not ex-
ceeding one year. or both. The court
however, has discretion to release the
guilty person for one year ON probation,
during which time he shall contribute a
fixed sum weekly to the support of his
wife and children.
Mr. Stands introduced a bill to pro-
vide punishment for throwing or shoot
ing at conveyances, passenger trains or
steamboats, in which the public travel.
HOUSE.
A bill was offered by Mr.. Parker
exempting from taxation all the manu-
featuring enterprises in the State, and
giving those so engaged the right to sell
their products throughout Virginia.
The measure reads as follows:
Whereas the employment ofcapital in
manufacturing enterprises in the State
affords employment to labor and in
creases the permanent taxable resources
of the State by developing property in
the increasing Of factories;
Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Virginia, That no license taxes, State
or municipal, shall be required of persons
or companies engaged in manufacturing
in this State, aud that such persons or
companies shall have the right to sell
the product of their factories. located in
the State, throughout the State, without
the payment of any license tax, State or
municipal.
Two bills were offered by Mr.. Stewart,
One provides that persons maliciously
shooting or throwing stones at railroad
trains, electric cars, or water craft shall
be punished by confinement in the peni-
Tertiary from FIVE to ten years. If the
action is not malicious the punishment
shall be imprisonment not over twelve
months, and fine from 500 to 5000.
Mr.. Stewards second bill provides
that any person Obstructing canal,
railroad or transportation company, or
removing any part thereof, shall be
punished by Imprisonment for from three
10 ten years, and if the crime result in
the death of any Que, it shall be deemed
murder.
A bill was offered By Mr. Gray,
amending the laws in relation to the
assignment Of dover.
Mr.. Griffith presented bill proyid-
ing that persons whose elections are con-
tested shall have ten days wherein to
prepare their papers. The contestants
shall begin to take dispositions within
twenty days after an election, and COM
plete them within ten days. The con-
testees have ten days in which to take
dispositions. An amendment to the law
of exemptions from distress warrants was
offered by Mr.. Bridgeforth. 1t applies
to farmers aud allows them to keep
pair of oxen or other draught animals
and certain farming implements.
The law in regard to attachments for
rent is amended by bill offered by Mr..
Pannill.
When the Jordan oyster ground bill
came up for engrossment, its patron pre-
scented an amendment conforming it to
the report of the courts of justice COM
mittee, which provides for report Of
the proceedings of the commission Gre
ated by the bill to be made to the next
legislature. After a somewhat heated
debate the bill was passed by until today
and ordered printed with the substitute.
The opponents of the measure made a
vain effort to have it referred to the com
mittee on the Chesapeake and It's
tributaries.
Other bills were introduced :
To make certain changes in the law in
relation to exemptions from the operations
of the homestead law.
To prevent the throwing of stones, etc..
against steam cars, boats, etc.
To amend law in relation to obstruct-
ing canals, railroads, etc.