REGISTER OF BONDS. [This is for $100, $500, and $1,000 bearer coupon consols; also peelers.] Register of coupon bonds payable to bearer, issued in conformity to the act approved March 30, 1871, to provide for the funding and pay- Each bond sealed with the seal of the state, the principal becomes due and payable in 34 years from 1st July, 1871, but redeemable at the Register of coupon bonds payable to order, issued in conformity to the act approved March 30, 1871, to provide for the funding and payment of the public debt. Each Each bond sealed with the seal of the state, the principal becomes due and payable in 34 years from 1st July, 1871, but redeemable at the pleasure of the state after ten years; the interest to be payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July in each year. bond is made payable to order, transferable in person or by attorney, and the coupons to bearer at the treasury of the state. 1 1871, July 1st. $1,000 6 pr. ct. Jeremiah Jones. George Rye. Asa Rogers. George Rye. 1871, July 1. 1878, Jan. 5. Jeremiah Jones "Resolved, That the report of the joint committee to examine the offices of the second auditor and the treasurer, in regard to the double funding and abstraction of state bonds made at the session of the legislature of 1877-78, be printed among the documents of this session." OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND THE COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL RELATIONS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF VIRGINIA, AS A JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON USURPATION OF POWER BY THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY IN VIRGINIA. RICHMOND: R. E. FRAYSER, SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC PRINTING. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL RELATIONS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF VIRGINIA AS A JOINT COMMITTEE. To the General Assembly of Virginia : On the fourth day of December, 1878, the Senate adopted the following resolution: "Whereas it has been reported to the Senate by one of the senators thereof, on his official responsibility, that certain persons held for trial under the laws of this commonwealth, by her authority, charged with the murder of one of her citizens, on her soil, within her jurisdiction, against her statutes, her peace and dignity, have been taken from the custody of her proper officers, by virtue of the mandate of the judge of the district court of the United States, for the western district of Virginia; and that the said federal judge proposes, and is now proceeding in a judicial proceeding, conducted by him, to try said persons in said federal court, for said crimes against the State laws, which proceeding will be to that extent an enforcement of the police regulations and control of the domestic affairs of a State by the federal authority: therefore, "Resolved, That his excellency the governor is hereby requested to communicate to the Senate, as speedily as possible, all the information he has in the premises." On the 9th day of December following, the Senate adopted this further resolution: "Resolved. That a special committee of nine be appointed to enquire into the exercise of jurisdiction by the judge of the district court of the United States for the western district of Virginia, in the case of Burwell Reynolds and Lee Reynolds, parties charged with murder under the laws of the commonwealth, and tried by the circuit court for Patrick county, and if they find such exercise of jurisdietion unwarranted by the constitution of the United States, and against the rights reserved by this commonwealth and the people thereof under it, to report such mode and measure of redress as may be necessary and practicable under the constitution of the United States. |