Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-06
The Legislature.
SENATE.


appropriation bill was submitted yester-
day. The bill carries total sppropria-
ton of $40, $50, 000 An amendment
providing for reimbursement of Cover
nor Swanson for 81, 600 Of private funds
expended 10 entertaining the visitors to
the State at the jamestown Exposition,
was defeated.
Alden Bells joint resolution reques-
ton the State board of education to
adopt the single standard of text books
for use in the public schools of the
State, and which passed the House some
time sgo, unanimously passed.
The Senate passed bills 10 provide for
the Office of Secretary of Virginia Mill
tsry Records, prescribing his duties,
and for collecting materials for the
"History of Virginia in the Civil War"
and to appropriate the sum Of $4,000
annually for the years 1908 and 1909,
to defray the necessary expenses of the
Office.
To provide single list Of textbooks
for public schools.
Relating to taxation on bank stock.
To pay funeral expenses OF Ooufede-
rate soldiers widows.
Imposing d penalty on telephone and
telegraph companies for failure to de-
liver messages. tti -.ts.
Concerning fishing in the waters of
the Commonwealth. a,
To establish an agricultural station at
the State FARM ~
To establish school Of mines.
To incorporate the town Of Potomac,
in the county of Alexandria.
HOUSE.
The bill establishing a teachers retire
ment fund, which was adopted in the
Senate on Wednesday, passed the House
Yesterday. The House adopted the
amendment proposed by the finance
committee decreasing the appropriation
for the fund from $40, 900 TO S., 900.
The bill making the unlawful selling
or handling of cocaine felony, which
had passed the Senate, was adopted in
the House yesterday. The chief feature
OF the new Law is that 1t makes posses
sion Of the drug prima facie evidence Of
guilt. The penten,iary sentence, in
case OF conviction. Is not less than one
year nor more than five.
By an almost unanimous vote, the
House defeated the Senate resolution to
allow the State Corporation Commission
to prepare a plan for q system OF tax
alton.
The House passed the Senate bill,
which allows the publisher, business
manager or assistant business manager
OF a newspaper to make afidavits as to
the proper publication of legal evidence.
U Ter the old law, only the editor could
make such sffidsvits.'
The House passed the Senate bill to
prohibit bucket-shopping and to abolish
bucket shops; to declare the same un-
lawful and to prescribe penalty there
for.
The House passed The following Sen
ale bills:
To require ell eleemosynsry instiIu-
lions, hospitals, colleges, universities,
prisons and reformatories to report
monthly to the auditor Of public &C.
counts in detail the manner In which all
funds received by said institutions from
The Commonwealth are disbursed.
To amend section 534 OF the Code 10,
relation to payment for witnesses rum
moned for the Commonwealth. The bill
requires the sheriff to pay fees before
the witnesses leave the courthouse.
To amend section 1852 OF the Code In
relation to the fees Of jsilors.
To amend section 1873 of the Code in
relation to the powers and duties OF the
board Of supervisors at annual meeting,
by changing the body Of said section and
By the addition Of new section to be
designated SIS section S33s, which shall
prescribe the powers and duties Of boards
of supervisors in relation to county and
school levies.
To validate the recordstion of memo
rsnda Of sales or contracts for the sale Of
goods and chattels wherein the title
thereto, or lien thereon, is reserved or
The transfer of title is made to depend on
any condition, and possession is delivered
to the vender.
A bill from the Senate to allow the
Supervisors OF Clarke county to main
tain toll-gste at the top OF the Blue
Ridge mountains Ia Smokers Gap was
defeated on objection of the delegation
from adjoining counties.
The House passed bills:
To regulate the. duties and salaries |
OF division school superintendents.
To provide penalty for failure to |
deliver telegraph messages.
To prohibit bucket-shops.
To regulate carrying Of pistols.
To prohibit sale of cocaiue, under
severe penalty.
To define powers and duhts Of coun-
tY supervisors. r. ktE., |
To provide for local assessments In
cities and towns. o..
To provide for incorporation by cir
cuit courts of towns Of 200 or over, up
to 5000, q I-~tr-. r
Among the bills which. have passed
both houses are: .-. - -
The establishment OF school of mines
At Blacksburg, the bill iu regard 10 the
Board Of Education and school super
ntendents, the bills allowing the Rich
noud, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railway Company to secure new
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