Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1879.

The Journal was read by the clerk.

No. 30. House bill entitled an act authorizing the use of district school funds for the payment of teachers, was placed on the calendar, the rule having been suspended, on motion of Mr. FARR, requiring its reference to a committee.

Senate joint resolution, as follows:

Resolved (the House of Delegates concurring), That the committee on county, city and town organizations of the Senate be authorized to sit and act jointly with a similar committee of the House, and be instructed to revise the laws in relation to the compensation, powers and duties of county and district officers, and to county expense and levies, and to said committee shall be referred all bills and resolutions referring to said subjects; and that they be instructed to report such measures of retrenchment and economy as to them may seem expedient in the premises-

Was, on motion of Mr. HANGER, committed to the committee on rules.

The following Senate bills were reported from the committee on finance:

No. 80. Senate bill entitled an act authorizing the committee, to which was referred Senate bill No. 29 to permit counsel for claimants to said land occupied by the Central lunatic asylum to appear before them without paying the tax required by law of counsel appearing before legislative committees.

No. 34. Senate bill entitled an act for the relief of Wm. II. Bloxom, treasurer of the county of Accomac.

No. 62. Senate bill entitled an act for the relief of J. B. Hylton, of Wise county.

No. 33. Senate bill entitled an act for the relief of Thomas Wilson, of Montgomery county (with a recommendation that it do not pass).

The following House bills, reported from the committee an finance,

were read a first time:

No. 107. House bill amending the charter of the town of Lovettsville, in Loudoun county, in relation to obtaining license to sell liquors either as a keeper of an ordinary, eating house, or a merchant, within the corporate limits of said town, and further of extending the protection of the corporate powers of the town of Lovettsville to all religious denominations worshipping within one mile of said town.

No. 108. House bill providing for the reassessment of a tract of land belonging to Henry A. Goodloe, of Rockbridge county, and for refunding taxes erroneously assessed thereon.

No. 109. House bill for the relief of William B. K. Price, of King George county, from erroneous assessment, (with a recommendation that it do not pass).

No. 110. House bill for the relief of W. J. Shumate.

No. 111. House bill imposing taxes on real and personal property to meet the necessary expenses of the government, for public free school purposes, and to pay the interest on the public debt.

Mr. MCCAULL, from the committee of enrolled bills, reported that the following bills and joint resolutions were approved by the governor January 14, 1878:

An act to incorporate the town of Daniel, in the county of Campbell.

An act to amend and re-enact the first and second sections of chapter 170, Code of 1873, in relation to the removal of causes pending in one court to another.

An act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax.

An act to amend an act entitled an act to define the limits of tidewater on the south side of James river, approved March 14, 1878. An act to amend section 2, chapter 171, Code of 1873, and the acts amendatory thereof in regard to commissioners of courts.

An act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved December 13, 1877, prescribing the times for holding courts in the 12th and 18th judicial circuits.

An act instructing the attorney-general to contest the constitutionality of the act entitled an act to authorize the formation of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad company, in so far as it disposes of certain claims of the state for loans to the Norfolk and Petersburg, Southside and Virginia, and Tennessee railroad companies.

Leave of absence was granted Messrs. WINGFIELD two days, MCMULLAN two days from yesterday, and an indefinite leave for Mr. WALKER of Westmoreland.

Mr. HARRISON of Sussex, offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of so amending the laws as to require the treasurer of each county to pay county warrants on or before the 1st day of March in each year, and to receive the same in payment of taxes, and to report by bill or otherwise,

The House refused to refer the resolution to a committee.

The resolution was agreed to.

Mr. TAYLOR of Flurama, under a suspension of the rule, presented No. 112. House bill to re-assess the lands of R. Shiflett, Mrs. E. V. Little and Mrs. Emma Smith, which was read a first time.

Mr. MOFFETT offered the folowing resolution:

Resolved, That the committee on roads and internal navigation be instructed to enquire and report to the House what and all rights, privileges and franchises which the James river and Kanawha canal company, and the Buchanan and Clifton Forge railway company are entitled to use and enjoy under any law making grants to said companies, or to any company of any other name or style, to whose rights, privileges and franchises either of said companies have succeeded, or

are entitled to use and enjoy, and that said committee have said statement printed for the use of the House.

The House refused to refer the resolution to a committee.

The resolution was agreed to.

Mr. ASHTON offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the committee for courts of justice enquire into the expediency of restoring the lien on stock taken, damage feasant for damage done by them on lands the boundary lines of which constitute a lawful fence, and report by bill or otherwise, which was agreed to. Mr. CARTER of Loudoun, under a suspension of the rule, offered the following resolution:

Whereas the settlement of the state debt is the one question of first or prime importance in the deliberations of this body of the representatives of Virginia; and whereas a permanent settlement of the same cannot be reached without a full and unequivocal statement of the whole debt, inclusive of West Virginia's one-third, with interest arrearages since 1860 to the present time, all arrearages of interest since 1860 on the two-thirds partially assumed by Virginia, the amount of interest on the debt proper, on the sinking and literary funds, and the arrearages due the school fund, with interest on the same; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the second auditor be required to report to this House of Delegates by the 22d of this month a concise and explicit statement of the whole indebtedness of Virginia as above indicated. The resolution was agreed to.

Mr. MCCAULL moved to reconsider the vote by which Senate joint resolution authorizing the governor to extend the time for the conference with the public creditors was agreed to, which motion was rejected.

The following were presented and referred under rule 37:

By Mr. DICKINSON of Russell: A bill for the relief of Albert Smith, of Russell county. Referred to the committee on finance. By Mr. TAYLOR of Henrico:

Resolved, That the committee on finance report a bill repealing the law known as the "Moffett liquor law," and substitute in lieu thereof a bill imposing a specific tax on all liquor-dealers for the support of government.

By Mr. JonNSON of Accomac: A bill to amend and re-enact the sixtieth section, chapter 101, Code of 1873, for the protection of terrapins and terrapin eggs. Referred to the committee on the Chesapeake and its tributaries.

By Mr. TALLAFERRO of Gloucester: A bill to amend section 28 of the act approved March 26th, 1875, prescribing the powers, duties and compensation of district officers, and to repeal the 47th chapter and section 1 of chapter 48 of the Code of 1873. Referred to the committee for counties, cities and towns.

By Mr. McCRAW:

Resolved, That the committee on counties, cities and towns enquire

into and report as to the expediency of reducing the fees now allowed by law to the clerks of courts and other county officers.

By Mr. HANGER:

Resolved, That the committee on finance enquire into the expediency of so amending the liquor law as to provide for quarterly reports in the counties instead of monthly reports as now required by law.

By Mr. ALLEN: Petition of citizens of Strasburg and vicinity complaining of obstructions in the north branch of the Shenandoah river, which hinder the free passage of fish. Referred to committee on Chesapeake and its tributaries.

By Mr. WHITE of Hanover: A bill for the protection of game in the commonwealth. Referred to the special committee on game. By Mr. HUNTER: Petition of citizens of Sussex county in relation to a change of the law for the protection of deer. Referred to the special committee on game.

By Mr. TALIAFERRO of Gloucester:

Resolved, That the commitee for courts of justice be instructed to enquire into the expediency of amending the first section of the act approved March 14, 1878, to approve, confirm and ratify the award made by arbitrators, appointed to ascertain and fix the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland, and procure the assent of the congress of the United States thereto.

By Mr. SOUTHWARD: A bill to confine the criminal jurisdiction of the hustings court of the city of Richmond to the corporate limits of said city. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

The morning hour having expired, the House proceeded to the business on the calendar.

No. 22. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved April 2, 1874, in relation to the jurisdiction of county courts,

came up.

The question being on ordering the bill to be read a third time, was put and decided in the negative.

Mr. WALKER Of Chesterfield moved to reconsider the vote by which the House refused to order the bill to be engrossed.

Mr. STEVENS moved to pass by the motion to reconsider, which was rejected.

The question being on agreeing to the motion by Mr. WALKER of Chesterfield to reconsider,

Mr. GRAVES demanded the pending question, which was ordered. The motion by Mr. WALKER Of Chesterfield to reconsider, was put and decided in the negative-yeas 53; nays 55.

On motion of Mr. MOFFETT, the vote was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Akers, Burnham, John R. Carter, Peter J. Carter, Chase, Coleman, Dance, Davidson, Davis. Dickerson, Dyer, Echols, Edmunds, Edwards, Evans, Farr, Fauntleroy, Ficklin, Finney, Fulkerson, Fulton, Goode, Grigsby. Henson, Waddy T. James, Jordan, Kelly, Kyle, Lacy, Lady, Lee, McCabe, McConnell, Nor

ton, Parrish, Pitts, Shelburne, E. H. Smith, J. Howard Smith, Stevens, Sykes, William B. Taliaferro, William Taylor, Trout, George Walker, Joseph Walker, Walsh, Watson, Smith J. R. White, Thomas M. White, Wilkinson, Witten, and Young.-53.

NAYS-Messrs. Speaker, Adams, Anderson, Ashton, Attkisson, Barbour, Bernard, Bocock, Bohannan, Burger, Cox, Crank, Crutchfield, Fowler, Fry, Graves, Gray, Green, Hall, Hanger, Hardesty, Reuben N. Harrison, Harvie, Healy, Johnson, Johnston, Keyser, Lovell, Luck, McCaull, MeCraw, McDaniel, Moffett, Moncure, Moorman, Mushback, Oglesby, Pulliam, Ragland, Reese, Edmund C. Robinson, J. H. Robinson, Ryland, Sandidge, Shannon, Shumate, Southward, Spessard, Warner T. Taliaferro, Andrew J. Taylor, VanLear, Wallace, Waring, Whitacre, and Witmer.-55.

No. 30. House bill entitled an act authorizing the use of district school funds for the payment of teachers, came up.

The amendments of the senate, as follows:

First section, third line, after the word "districts," where it first occurs, insert the words "where a sufficient number of school houses have been built in said district;" same section, same line, after the word money," insert the words " for the payment of teachers"'Were agreed to.

[ocr errors]

The following senate bills were read a third time and passed: No. 36. Senate bill entitled an act to incorporate the Dan valley and Yadkin river narrow-gauge railroad company.

No. 80. Senate bill entitled an act authorizing the committee to which was referred Senate bill 29 to permit counsel for claimants to said land occupied by the Central lunatic asylum to appear before them without paying the tax required by law of counsel appearing before legislative committees-yeas 106; nays 2.

The vote required by the constitution was recorded as follows :

YEAS-Messrs. Speaker, Adams, Akers, Anderson, Ashton, Attkisson, Barbour, Bocork, Bohannan, Burger, Burnham, John R. Carter, Peter J. Carter, Chase, Coleman, Cox, Crank, Crutchfield, Dance, Davidson, Davis, Dickerson, Dickenson, Dyer, Echols, Edmunds, Edwards, Evans, Farr, Fauntleroy, Finney, Fowler, Fry, Fulkerson. Fulton, Goode, Graves, Gray, Green, Grigsby, Hall, Hamilton, H. H. Harrison, Reuben N. Harrison, Harvie, Healy, Henkel, Henson, Hunter, Waddy T. James, Johnson, Johnston, Jordan, Kelly, Keyser, Kyle, Lady, Lee, Lovell, Luck, McCaull, McConnell, McCraw, McDaniel, Moffett, Moncure, Moorman, Mushbach, Nelson, Norton, Oglesby, Parrish, Pitts, Popham, Pulliam, Ragland, Reese, E. C. Robinson, Ryland, Sandidge, Shannon, Shelburne, Shumate, E. H. Smith, J. Howard Smith, Southward. Spessard, Sykes, William B. Taliaferro, Warner T. Taliaferro, Andrew J. Taylor, William Taylor, Trout, George Walker, Joseph Walker, Wallace, Walsh, Waring, Watson, Whitacre, Smith J. R. White, Thomas M. White, Wilkinson, Witmer, Witten, and Young-106.

NAYS-Messrs. Frazier and J. H. Robinson-2.

No. 34. Senate bill entitled an act for the relief of William H. Bloxom, treasurer of the county of Accomac-yeas 99.

The vote required by the constitution was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Speaker, Adams, Akers, Ashton, Attkisson, Barbour, Bernard, Bocock, Bohannan, Burger, Peter J. Carter, Chase, Coleman, Cox, Crutchfield, Dauce. Davidson, Dickerson, Dyer, Echols, Edmunds, Edwards, Evans, Farr,

« ZurückWeiter »