The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-22
HOUSE BILLS

The following bills we're presented
in the House and referred:
To t&e Committee on General Laws:
By MIR. Phillips--A bill to prohibit
the buying and selling of hares Tor
rabbits) In the State of Virginia.
BY Messrs. Rev and Norris--A bill
TO protect the public health, to pro-
vide for the control and supervision
Of waters furnished to the public for
drinking and domestic use, to define
the duties OF the State Board OF
Health in relation thereto.
BY Messrs. Rev and Norris--A bill
to protect the public health, to. pre-
serve the.purity of surface water sup
plies Of the State collected from
watersheds not exceeding nifty square
miles In area above the point of intake
of a public supply: TO prevent the pol
luton of streams within H distance OF
twenty miles above the point of in
take OF a public supply; TO prevent
the pollution of tidal waters of the
State, and to provide for the enforce
ment OF rules. regulations and orders
OF the state Board of Health in reia-
ton thereto,
To the Committee on Chesapeake
and Its Tributaries;
BY Messrs. Norris. Baum, Rev. Jett
and HundleX=A- bill TO provide for
and keeping open and unobstructed
by fixed fishing devices continuous
passages or ways to permit fish from
the ocean and the waters or the
Ghesa peake Bay TO ascend the rivers
of the State to the localities in which
shad deposit their spawn: to proVloe
for designating. defining or marking
the said passages or ways and the saio
spawning localities; to prohibit the use
to-
or ways and of haul seines in the SAID
snayning localities; defining viola
tons of the act and fixing penalties
therefor.
By Messrs Norris, Baum. Rev, Iett
and Hundley--A bill to amend and
re-enact subsections 2. s. .. 10 and III
of section 20S6 OF the Code of Nir-
ginia. az heretofore amended.
To the Committee on Privileges and
Elections:
BY Messrs Morris. Pitts, Henley,
Williams and Musgrave-A joint reso-
luton proposing amendments to sec
tons IS, 90. 81, "a 2S. 20, 80, 81 and
az of article II of the Constitution of
Virginia. concerning elective franchise
and qualifications for offices, and pro-
viding for publishing said amendment
and certifying the same to the next
General Assembly.
To the Committee on Insurance and
Banking;
BY Messrs. Shumate and Epes-A
bill TO prevent fire insurance COM
panies, associations or partnerships
doing business in this State, or the
agents of said companies. associations
or partnerships from entering into
combinations to make or control rates
for five insurance on property In TINS
State. and providing punishment Tor
violations of this act.
To the Committee on Agriculture
and Mining:
BY Mr.. Sproul-A bill to regulate
the selling. offering or exposing TOT
sale of agricultural seeds: and to re-
peal ar act entitled an act to regu-
late the sale OF agricultural seeds, 70
provide a standard of purity FOR susn'
seeds. to prescribe penalties TOT tne
violation of this act and vesting the
execution and enforcement OF TINS ACT
in the Commissioner of Agriculture
approved March 16. 1910.
To the Committee on Asylums anu
Prisons:
BY Messrs. Hundley. Rev and Nor
ris-A bill to amend and re-enact a"
act entitled an act to amend ana re-
enact an act to provide for the work
ing OF certain 1ong-term or desperate
convicts by the superintendent OF the
penite ntiary, the Governor and the
commissioners of agriculture for the
manufacture Of ground limestone and
oyster shells, and incidentally for the
disposition OF same, and the by
products suitable for road construe-
ton. to the citizens OF the State, add