THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1847. A communication was received from the senate by their clerk, which was read as follows: The senate have passed the bills, entitled IN SENATE, MARCH 10, 1847. "An act to authorize a payment to be made by the school commissioners of Madison county to Joseph B. Webb, a teacher in said county." (No. 93.) "An act incorporating the Monongahela navigation company," (No. 125;) and "An act to incorporate the Western branch railroad company." (No. 271.) They have also passed the bill, entitled "An act authorizing a separate election at Rileysville in the county of Page," (No. 109,) with amendments, in which they request the concurrence of the house of delegates. And they have agreed to the resolutions for a survey of a M'Adamized road from Salem to Buchanan, and from Salem to Lynchburg, and authorizing the executive to commission the officers of a company of cavalry in the county of Halifax. The said amendments being twice read, were severally agreed to, and it was ordered that the clerk inform the senate thereof. The SPEAKER announced the following as the committee to bring in the bill required by the resolution submitted by Mr. CARSON on yesterday, viz: Messrs. Carson, M'Pherson, Hiett, Stickley and Tyler. The SPEAKER announced the following as the committee of conference under the resolution of the senate agreed to on yesterday, viz: Messrs. Daniel, Love, Carson, Strother and Cook. Ordered, That Mr. YERBY inform the senate thereof. On motion of Mr. STOVALL, Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor of public accounts be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay William S. Moore the sum appropriated by the general assembly at the present session to satisfy a judgment in favour of Capt. Peter Moore's administrator, when the said William S. Moore produces letters of administration, properly authenticated, from any court of record in the United States, shewing that he has given good security as administrator in a sum sufficient to cover the amount so appropriated. Ordered, That Mr. STOVALL carry the same to the senate and request their concurrence. Mr. STEPHENSON, from the committee of roads and internal navigation, presented the following bills: No. 348. A bill to amend an act prescribing certain general conditions on which future subscriptions to the capital of joint stock companies shall be made on behalf of the commonwealth; and No. 349. A bill incorporating the Wheeling, West Liberty and Bethany turnpike company. A motion was made by Mr. Cook that the house adopt the following resolution: Resolved, That this house will, with the consent of the senate, adjourn sine die on Friday the 19th instant. On motion of Mr. STEPHENSON the same was ordered to be laid upon the table. A motion was made by Mr. M'PHERSON that the house adopt the following resolution, which on motion of Mr. LEAKE, was ordered to be laid upon the table, viz: Resolved by the general assembly, That the Board of public works be and they are hereby required to appoint a surveyor whose duty it shall be to survey the three following routes proposed by the citizens of Page county and others, to construct a turnpike road from New Market in Shenandoah county to the several places mentioned in petitions now before the house of delegates; first, a petition of citizens of Page and Shenandoah praying for the passage of a law authorizing the construction of a turnpike road from New Market in Shenandoah to Sperryville in Rappahannock; second, also a petition of citizens of Page to construct a turnpike road from New Market in Shenandoah, passing through the counties of Page, Madison and Culpeper to Germana, intersecting the turnpike road from Orange courthouse to Fredericksburg; and third, also a petition of citizens of the county of Page to construct a road from New Market in Shenandoah, passing through the county of Page by Madison courthouse to Gordonsville in Orange county; and that said surveyor report to the next legislature the best route of the three proposed routes. Mr. WATTS, from the committee on the militia laws, presented a report, which on his motion was taken up and read as follows: The committee on the militia laws have, according to order, had under consideration sundry communications of the governor on the subject of clothing for the 1st regiment of Virginia volunteers, to them referred, and respectfully submit the following report: Proud of the gallant volunteers, who at the call of patriotism promptly came forth and enrolled themselves as Virginia troops for the service of their country, the state will doubtless continue to cherish a deep and lively interest in their fortunes and destinies in the field of war. Embarked, however, as they are in the service of the federal government, to whom alone as soldiers they are responsible, it seems to your committee, that to interpose in any way the action of the state between them and that service, would imply a want of confidence in the protecting care of that government. The committee take pleasure in saying that the provision made for the clothing of the volunteers by the governor of the commonwealth, before they were mustered into the service of the United States, was such as to reflect the highest credit upon the patriotic exertions of that officer. No regiment ever went into the field better clothed for service, or equipped with more uniformity. The excess over the amount of commutation allowed for this purpose by the general government is small, and ought, in the opinion of the committee, to be allowed by the state. It will be received by the volunteers, though small, as a tribute to their patriotism. The committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolutions : Resolved, That the committee on the militia laws be discharged from the further consideration of the communication of the governor of the 11th January, to them referred, on the subject of clothing for the 1st regiment of Virginia volunteers. Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, That the governor be and he is hereby authorized to pay out of the appropriations heretofore made for the 1st regiment of Virginia volunteers, the amount of excess in the cost of their clothing over and above the amount of the six months commutation allowed them by the general government, and that they be discharged from all liability to the state for said excess. The said resolutions were severally agreed to, and it was ordered that the clerk communicate the said second resolution to the senate and request their concurrence. On motion of Mr. DORMAN, Resolved, That the executive and council of state be requested to lay before the general assembly the respective journals of their proceedings. The following report of the committee for courts of justice was taken up and read: The committee for courts of justice have, according to order, had under consideration the petition of Lucinda Hughes, praying for a divorce from her husband Thomas Hughes, to them referred, and have come to the following resolution thereupon: Resolved as the opinion of this committee, That the prayer of the petition be rejected, because of the want of a record ascertaining the facts according to the 4th section of the act, entitled "an act to prescribe the method of proceeding in suits and on petition for divorces," passed February 17, 1827. The said resolution was amended on motion of Mr. BURDETT by striking out all after the word petition and inserting in lieu thereof the words "is reasonable," so as to reverse the decision of the committee, and as amended was agreed to by the house. On motion of Mr. HAYMOND, Ordered, That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill conformably with said amended resolution, and a committee was appointed of Messrs. Haymond, Bocock, Burdett, Lee, and Brown of Monongalia. A message was received from the senate by Mr. Cox, who informed the house that the senate had passed a bill, entitled "an act to empower the corporation of Petersburg to construct a ship canal, (No. 182,) with an amendment in which they request the concurrence of the house of delegates. The said amendment being read, was agreed to by the house, and it was ordered that the clerk inform the senate thereof. No. 139. An engrossed bill establishing an inspection of tobacco on the land of William H. Macfarland and Moncure Robinson, near the Richmond and Petersburg railroad depot in the City of Richmond, was read a third time and passed. Ordered, That the clerk communicate the said bill to the senate and request their concurrence. No. 46. An engrossed bill making an annual appropriation from the treasury of $50,000 to the primary schools was read a third time, thereupon a clause by way of ryder thereto was submitted by Mr. JONES of Gloucester, which was read the first time, and the question being put upon reading the same the second time, was determined in the negative. The question was then put upon the passage of the bill, and was determined in the affirmative. Ayes 69, noes 32. On motion of Mr. CUSTIs the vote was recorded as follows: AYES-Messrs. Custis, Finney, M'Dearmon, Sheffey, Johnson, Byrd, Burwell, Boak, Small, Thompson of Botetourt, Bennett, Bambrick, Morris, Fox, Cardwell, Evans, Carson, White, Carroll, Calwell, Hiett, Thompson of Hampshire, Darracott, Lee, Lancaster, Dillard, Thompson of Jefferson, Patrick, Richmond, Ballard, Harrison of Loudoun, Schooley, M'Intyre, Poindexter, Edmondson of Lunenburg, Haymond, Oldham, Browne of Mathews and Middlesex, Waggoner, Brown of Monongalia, Beirne, Edmundson of Montgomery and Pulaski, Breathed, Perrow, Newton, Yerby, Nelms, M'Pherson, Tatum, Cackley, Cocke, Fairfax, Anderson, Tyler, Sturm, Mayo, Cook, Harper, Dorman, Bare, M'Elhenney, Morison, Hill of Shenandoah, Stickley, Tate, Burdett, Gillespie, Castleman and Stephenson-69. NOES-Messrs. Hart, Layne, Harvie, Powell, Scruggs, Bocock, Mosby, Dickinson, Slaughter, Thompson of Dinwiddie, Roane, Stillman, Street, Carper, Jones of Gloucester, Leake, Major, Stovall, Wallace, Banks, Kelly, Watts, Happer, Syme, Tunstall, Daniel, Strother, Goodwin, Holladay, Hargrave, Freeman and Chandler.—32. Ordered, That the clerk communicate the same to the senate and request their concurrence. No. 138. An engrossed bill to incorporate the Phoenix mining and manufacturing company of the state of Virginia, was on motion of Mr. LEE ordered to be laid upon the table. A message was received from the senate by Mr. FRY, who informed the house that the senate had passed the bill, entitled "an act establishing the county of Boone of parts of the counties of Kanawha, Cabell and Logan," (No. 211,) with amendments, in which they request the concurrence of the house of delegates. The said amendments being read were severally agreed to, and it was ordered that the clerk inform the senate thereof. On motion of Mr. SYME the rule of the house was suspended, and the vote agreeing to the amendment of the senate to the bill, entitled "an act to empower the corporation of Petersburg to construct a ship canal was reconsidered, the said amendment was then amended on motion of Mr. SYME, and as amended agreed to, and it was ordered that the clerk inform the senate thereof. No. 140. An engrossed bill to revive an act providing for the construction of a road from Guest's station to the Tennessee line, was read a third time and passed. Ayes 48, noes 31. On motion of Mr. MAJOR the vote was recorded as follows: AYES-Messrs. Layne, Sheffey, Johnson, Byrd, Scruggs, Burwell, Boak, Small, Thompson of Botetourt, Bennett, Bambrick, Morris, Fox, Street, Carson, Carroll, Calwell, Lee, Lancaster, Dillard, Thompson of Jefferson, Patrick, Richmond, Ballard, M'Intyre, Haymond, Oldham, Waggoner, Brown of Monongalia, Beirne, Edmundson of Montgomery and Pulaski, Breathed, Edgington, M'Pherson, Tunstall, Anderson, Sturm, Mayo, Bare, M'Elhenney, Morison, Hill of Shenandoah, Stickley, Burdett, Gillespie, Horner, Castleman and Stephenson-48. NOES-Messrs. Jones, (speaker,) Finney, Harvie, Powell, M'Dearmon, Bocock, Slaughter, Roane, Leake, Major, Stovall, Hiett, Thompson of Hampshire, Darracott, Gresham, Harrison of Loudoun, Schooley, Edmondson of Lunenburg, Banks, Browne of Mathews and Middlesex, Kelly, Yerby, Nelms, Cocke, Daniel, Strother, Goodwin, Holladay, Hargrave, Freeman and Chandler-31. Ordered, That the clerk communicate the said bill to the senate and request their concurrence. No. 150. An engrossed bill providing for the construction of several bridges on the Staunton and Parkersburg road, was read a third time and passed. Ayes 45, noes 40. On motion of Mr. FREEMAN the vote was recorded as follows: AYES-Messrs. Layne, Sheffey, Johnson, Byrd, Boak, Small, Thompson of Botetourt, Bennett, Bambrick, Fox, Love, Stillman, Street, Carson, Calwell, Lee, Lancaster, Patrick, Harrison of Loudoun, Schooley, M'Intyre, Haymond, Oldham, Brown of Monongalia, Beirne, Edmundson of Montgomery and Pulaski, Perrow, Edgington, M'Pherson, Syme, Tunstall, Cackley, Fairfax, Sturm, Mayo, Harper, Dorman, Bare, Hill of Shenandoah, Stickley, Tate, Burdett, Gillespie, Horner and Stephenson-45. NOES-Messrs. Jones, (speaker,) Custis, Hart, Harvie, Powell, M'Dearmon, Scruggs, Burwell, Morris, Mosby, Cardwell, Slaughter, Roane, White, Jones of Gloucester, Leake, Carroll, Major, Stovall, Hiett, Wallace, Gresham, Ballard, Poindexter, Banks, Browne of Mathews and Middlesex, Kelly, Watts, Happer, Yerby, Nelms, Tatum, Daniel, Morison, Goodwin, Holladay, Hargrave, Freeman, Castleman and Chandler-40. Ordered, That the clerk communicate the said bill to the senate and request their concurrence. The following engrossed bills were read a third time and passed, viz: No. 137. A bill authorizing an additional troop of cavalry in the county of Charles City, within the limits of the 52d regiment. No. 141. A bill to revive the act passed 1st February 1839, incorporating the Dunkard creek turnpike company. No. 142. A bill amending the 12th section of the act relating to banks, passed April 4th, 1839. No. 143. A bill concerning John Thompson. No. 144. A bill concerning Edward S. Gay of the public guard. No. 145. A bill concerning Elijah Brown of the public guard. No. 146. A bill concerning the sheriffs of this commonwealth. No. 149. A bill releasing to Nancy Mumford alias Walden, and others, the commonwealth's right to certain real estate. No. 150. A bill to incorporate the Beverley and Philippi turnpike company. No. 151. A bill directing the Board of public works to pay Shadrach White's claim as a contractor on the Price's turnpike and Cumberland gap road. No. 152. A bill providing for the payment of contractors on the road from the Ohio river to the Maryland line. No. 154. A bill to declare Buffaloe creek a public highway. No. 156. A bill changing the boundary line between the counties of Marion and Monongalia. No. 157. A bill to incorporate the Armory iron company for the purpose of manufacturing iron. No. 159. A bill amending the act, entitled "an act forming a new county out of parts of the counties of Giles and Tazewell." The title of this bill was amended on motion of Mr. BANKS, and as amended was agreed to as follows: "an act changing one of the boundary lines of each of the counties of Mercer and Alleghany." No. 160. A bill exempting Carter's ferry across James river from the operation of the 23d and 24th sections of the act passed January 30th, 1819, regulating ferries. No. 162. A bill to authorize the Bank of the Valley to establish a branch of said bank at Staunton. No. 167. A bill to incorporate the Shenandoah lodge No. 32 of the Independent order of Odd Fellows. No. 168. A bill authorizing the collection of certain state rifles. No. 170. A bill changing the times of holding the county courts of Nicholas. No. 171. A bill divorcing Amanda Woodyard from her husband John Woodyard. No. 172. A bill to incorporate the trustees of the Piedmont institute in the county of Bedford. No. 174. A bill to incorporate the Woodstock female seminary; and No. 176. A bill incorporating the Appomattox savings bank in the town of Farmville. Ordered, That the clerk communicate said bills to the senate and request their concurrence. No. 161. An engrossed bill amending the statute of distribution, was, on motion of Mr. HARRISON of Loudoun, ordered to be laid upon the table. No. 91. A bill to establish the Virginia armory school, was taken up on motion of Mr. ANDERSON, and the substitute of the committee of schools and colleges having been adopted, the bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. The following bills were read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, viz: No. 177. A bill further to amend an act concerning the Howardsville and Rockfish turnpike company. No. 178. A bill to incorporate the Nelson county savings bank at Lovingston. No. 179. A bill authorizing the discontinuance and sale of certain vacant and useless streets in the plan of the town of Martinsburg in the county of Berkeley, and directing the application of the proceeds thereof. No. 181. A bill adding the county of New Kent to the seventh judicial circuit. No. 183. A bill concerning Thomas F. Conway. No. 185. A bill to amend the act passed the 25th February 1846, to establish district free schools in Lancaster and other counties. No. 186. A bill concerning the estate of Blair Bolling late of the public guard. No. 187. A bill providing for the issuing of new certificates of debt in place of certain bonds issued by the James river company. No. 188. A bill concerning Joseph Selden late of the public guard. No. 190. A bill discontinuing the separate poll required to be held at the house of David West in Wetzel county. No. 191. A bill divorcing Catharine Hillary from her husband William Hillary; and No. 192. A bill releasing to George Nicholson the commonwealth's right to a lot of land therein mentioned. No. 195. A bill to incorporate the trustees of the glebe fund of Lancaster county, was read a second time, amended on motion of Mr. GRESHAM; and a further amendment having been proposed, On motion of Mr. CARROLL the house adjourned until to-morrow morning 10 o'clock. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1847. A communication was received from the senate by their clerk, which was read as follows: The senate have passed the bills, entitled IN SENATE, MARCH 11, 1847. "An act investing part of the Literary fund in buildings, &c. for the Medical college in the Valley of Virginia." (No. 108.) "An act authorizing the county court of Amelia to reassess the lands of Francis A. Wilson." (No. 80.) "An act to incorporate the Mount Vernon cotton manufacturing company in the town of Alexandria," (No. 114 ;) and "An act authorizing a separate election at Faber's mills in the county of Nelson." (No. 124.) They have agreed to the resolution to pay to William S. Moore a judgment in his favour. And their committee appointed to examine enrolled bills have examined sundry other such bills, which being found truly enrolled, have been signed by their speaker, and are herewith returned to the house of delegates. They have appointed a committee on their part to act with a committee from the house of delegates in free conference on the disagreement of the two houses upon the amendments proposed by the senate to the bill, entitled "an act to extend the jurisdiction of the commonwealth of Virginia over the county of Alexandria." Mr. LEAKE announced that the committee of banks had no further occasion for a clerk and that officer was accordingly discharged. Mr. MAYO according to order presented the following bill: No. 350. A bill to authorize the sergeant of the City of Richmond to hold a poll at the next election of councilmen for the said city to take the sense of the owners of real property in said city upon the subject of the bonds of the James river company and for other purposes, which on his motion was read the first and second times and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. Mr. BURDETT according to order presented the following bill: No. 351. A bill divorcing Lucinda Hughes from her husband Thomas Hughes. No. 164. A bill changing the times of holding certain courts in the fourth judicial circuit was taken up on motion of Mr. GAINES, read a second time, thereupon a motion was made by Mr. JONES of Gloucester to amend the same, and then on motion of Mr. Fox the said bill was again laid upon the table. Mr. CARSON according to order presented the following bill: No. 352. A bill to authorize James Castleman of the county of Clarke to build a bridge at his ferry across the Shenandoah river. A motion was made by Mr. CARSON that the house adopt the following resolution : Resolved by the general assembly, That it shall be the duty of the public officers of the state and of the boards of directors, visitors, superintendents and other agents of public institutions or interests to prepare the annual reports and statements required of them by law concerning the institutions or trusts committed to their management, made up to the 30th September annually, and to deliver the same to the governor of the commonwealth on or before the first day of November following, to be by him communicated with his annual message to the general assembly: Provided however, That this requirement shall not apply to the report of the Board of public works and the documents accompanying the same. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the public printer to print five hundred copies of such reports as shall be delivered to him by the governor in conformity to the foregoing provision, in octavo form, on good paper of the size of the report of the Board of public works, and bound in boards, of which the usual number shall be distributed as heretofore to the members and officers of the general assembly, and the other officers of the government, on the first day of the annual session of said assembly-50 copies shall be delivered to the governor to be transmitted to the executive departments of the several states and territories of the Union and for other public purposes, and the remainder shall be delivered to the librarian of the state to be disposed of for the benefit of the library, except twelve copies thereof, which shall be bound uniformly with the other books of said library and permanently retained therein; and henceforth the usual orders of either branch of the legislature for printing the said reports shall be dispensed with. A motion was made by Mr. SHEFFEY to amend the same by adding at the end of the first resolution : Provided, That the Western asylum and the Virginia institution for the education of the deaf and dumb and of the blind at Staunton be not required to make their reports or close their accounts, till the 31st of December in each year. On motion of Mr. HAYMOND the said resolution and amendment were ordered to be laid upon the table. Mr. DANIEL, from the joint committee to investigate the conduct of certain railroad companies, presented a report. On motion of Mr. DANIEL, Resolved by the general assembly, That the sum of three dollars per day be allowed Byrd Chamberlayne for his services as clerk of the joint committee charged with the duty of investigating the conduct of certain railroad companies whilst he was so engaged. The resolution was adopted by the following vote. Ayes 49, noes 42. On motion of Mr. STOVALL the vote was recorded as follows: AYES-Messrs. Hart, Layne, Sheffey, Johnson, Scruggs, Thompson of Botetourt, Bennett, Morris, Mosby, Dickinson, Slaughter, Roane, Love, Carson, Jones of Gloucester, Leake, Darracott, Lee, Lancaster, Patrick, Wallace, Gaines, Robinson, Harrison of Loudoun, Schooley, M'Intyre, Haymond, Oldham, Waggoner, Kelly, Newton, Happer, Yerby, Nelms, M'Pherson, Syme, Cocke, Anderson, Daniel, Tyler, Mayo, Harper, Bare, M'Elhenney, Morison, Goodwin, Holladay, Fitzhugh and Burdett-49. NOES-Messrs. Jones, (speaker,) Finney, Harvie, Powell, M'Dearmon, Byrd, Boak, Small, Bambrick, Bocock, Fox, Thompson of Dinwiddie, Stillman, Street, White, Carroll, Calwell, Major, Stovall, Hiett, Thompson of Hampshire, Dillard, Richmond, Ballard, Banks, Browne of Mathews and Middlesex, Brown of Monongalia, Beirne, Edmundson of Montgomery and Pulaski, Breathed, Perrow, Tatum, Cackley, Sturm, Strother, Dorman, Stickley, Hargrave, Freeman, Gillespie, Horner and Chandler-42. Ordered, That the clerk communicate the said resolution to the senate and request their concurrence. No. 353. A bill incorporating the German sick assistance society of Richmond. On motion of Mr. BANKS, Ordered, That the committee of propositions and grievances be discharged from the consideration of the petition of Shepherd Gilleland and Orlando Griffith, and that the same be laid upon the table. |