The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-12


miles or less from any toll gate and
~ hitcaIly using fo6r miles or lsss OF
! improved road and limiting the toll
rates
No. 4i7--ro authorize ana empower
the. Board of Supervisors Of Norfolk
County to sell and convey certain
property heretofore used In connec-
ton with the toll roads In said county.
and TO provide for the disposition OF
the proceeds OF such sale.
No. 33s--Concerning actions and
suits against general and special part.
ners and members of untncorporated
companies or associations,
NO. 156-Relating to and regulating
self-propelled traction engines or trae-
tors equipped with metal tired wheels
and vehicles trailing after or propelled
by traction engines or tractors. provid-
ing for their registration, prohibiting
the operation of any traction engine or
tractor by any person when .intox'-
Gated. forbidding the passage of any
law laying a tax upon or requiring the
registration of traction engines or trac-
tors by any county. city or town. es-
IL blishing the rights of traction en-
gines or tractors upon the public high
ways with relation to other vehicles.
providing for their equipment and for
the width of tires to be used upon
vehicles trailing after or propelled by
traction engines or tractors. and pro-
viding for the disposition of fees and
fines imposed hereunder.
f., No. Officiating to liability of COM
mon carriers, whose motive power Is
steam and engaged in intrastate COM
merce. for injuries to, or death of, their
employees, and provide for the plead
ing thereof: provided. that the pro-
visions of this act shall not apply to
electric railways or roads that are In
part electric, operated wholly within
this State.
No. Ito amend an act approved
December IL, 1908, in relation to juris-
diction of justices Of the peace.
No. 1870 appropriate the sum of
I'VE hundred dollars for the purpose
OF marking the graves OF the Confed-
crate soldiers killed on the battlefield
near Williamsburg.
No. 20s-To provide for payment OF
compensation to counsel employed by
the Judge presiding at the trial to de-
Fend Luther Canter and James Canter
In the Circuit Court of Washington
County, charged with having raped and
murdered Maude Wilson, who were un-
able to employ counsel
No SOTO provide for the collec-
ton of delinquent capitation taxes, past
due three (3) years or more. by coll
lectors to be- appointed by the Judges
OF the courts of the Commonwealth.
and 10 TX the compensation of such
collectors,
No. 3&2--To prohibit the conduct of
any game played for money or thing
representing money, and to prohibit re-
ceivfng compensation from those who
play at such game for conducting such
4I tea md n nraErTthA
rules of evidence In prosecutions there
fore, and for providing penalty for the
violation of such act. and to confer
concurrent original jurisdiction In suon
cases upon certain courts In the Com
monwealth.
No. 1870 repeal section 4172 OF
the Code of Virginia.
Afternoon Session.
Shortly after calling to order the
afternoon session, Speaker Houston
called to the attention OF the MEM
hers the fact that number of rev.
nnne measures. among them the gem
e~a1 appropriations bill required at
least fifty-one favorable votes for
rassageS .tIe said he was stating the
fact FOR the purpose OF warning mem
bers against leaving before the nnal
work had been done
= AAer calling up and passing three
Or four Of the Senate bills, which had
been passed by at the morning session,
IVA Worse took under consideration
Senate bill 432, called up by Mr. Moss,
/ OF Lynchburg This measure pro-
vides that no ad valorem nor income
tax shall be collected from corpora
| lions chartered under Virginia laws
which do no business within this State.
Mr.. Moss pointed to the fact that while
such taxes are not required by law OF
| corporations not doing business in the
State. there should be on the statute
bnots a law showing definitely that
such corporations are not so taxed.
Trhe rassage ~ the bill. he said. would
bring to the State a revenue, through
the payment OF the annual registra-
ton taxes by the corporations chart
cred In Virginia, that would he like
| finding the money in the middle OF
the road. He pointed to the fact
that s1s.0o0000 corporation was
chartered in Virginia few days ago.
bringing into thu State something Hike
! $4,000 registration tax, because or
| the rassage OF the bill by the SEN
ate The House concurred
Merchants Tax Rates As before.
! The merchants license tax was set
| tied when the House concurred In the
amendments placed on House bill 555
| DV the senate. nv lhtcs "a 20 A - - -
| on merchants are the same under the
/ new law as under the old. hut the
/ new law requires small merchants TO
| keen records of their purchases so
! that they may be inspected by the
commissioner OF revenue. In the past
many of the smaller merchants have
simply guessed at the total of their
annual purchases. The addition OF
| this provision will result, in the be-
! lief Of members Of the General AS
sembly In increasing the revenue.
even though the minimum was left at