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ities. It is fit that Virginia, who gave Maury to mankind, should afford moral support to this tribute to his great name, and I commend it to your most favorable consideration.

JAMES L. KEMPER.

The communication, annual report and accompanying papers were referred to the committee on schools and colleges.

The following report was presented:

The committee on rules recommend that the following resolution be agreed to:

Resolved by the house of delegates, That the 24th rule be amended and readopted so as to read as follows:

24. Committees shall in all cases report by bill or resolution, in such form that, if passed or agreed to, it will carry into effect their recommendations. Every such bill or resolution shall be printed, unless the committee recommend that the same be not printed; but no papers returned therewith shall be printed unless the committee shall so recommend. But any committee, with the consent of the house, may order such bills referred to it to be printed, as may be deemed necessary by said committee.

The report was agreed to, two-thirds of the members present voting in the affirmative.

Mr. Blair moved a reconsideratian of the vote by which the report of the committee on rules was agreed to, which motion was rejected.

The following were presented and referred under rule 37:

By Mr. Hoeninger: A bill incorporating the Virginia Deep Run mining company. Referred to committee on agriculture and mining. By Mr. Gibson:

Resolved, That the committee for courts of justice inquire into the expediency of so amending the law in regard to judicial sales as to provide that the owner of the real estate sold may within three years redeem said estate on payment of the purchase money with interest and costs.

By Mr. Riddlebarger: Petition of citizens on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, asking for legislation to prevent illegal discriminations in the transportation of stock freights. Referred to committee on roads and internal navigation.

By Mr. Holbrook: Petition of Michael Cassell and others, to authorize the county court of Wythe to provide for the completion of the Black Lick and Cove Plaster Bank turnpike company, in said county. Referred to committee on roads and internal navigation.

By Mr. O'Neal: A bill to incorporate the benevolent association known as the Gallilean Fishermen of Virginia. Referred to committee on propositions and grievances.

By Mr. Branch: Petition of members of the bar and citizens of Prince Edward county, asking a restoration of the county court system. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

By Mr. Morrison: A bill to re-enact and amend section 4 of chapter 154 of the Code of 1873, in relation to county and corporation courts. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

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By Mr. Lee Petition of citizens of Craig county, asking the general assembly of Virginia to adopt measures asking congress of the United States to call a national convention for change of constitution of the United States. Referred to committee on Federal relations and resolutions.

By Mr. Gardner: A bill providing a remedy against turnpike companies failing to keep their roads in order. Referred to committee on roads and internal navigation.

By Mr. Hoeninger: A bill to authorize the Springfield and Deep Run coal mining and manufacturing company to issue preferred stocks and mortgage and other bonds. Referred to committee on agriculture and mining.

By Mr. Hoeninger: House joint resolution asking congress to provide for the sepulture of southern soldiers deceased during the late war. Referred to committee on Federal relations and resolutions.

By Mr. Brady:

Resolved, That the committee for courts of justice be requested to take into consideration the repeal of the bill approved March 31, 1873, so as to restore the jurisdiction of county courts.

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

No. 31. Senate bill entitled an act to define and declare the true intent and meaning of the act in force April 2d, 1873, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections five and seven of an act to regulate and define the jurisdiction of the county and circuit courts, to prescribe the number of terms of the circuit court, and to fix the pay of county judges, came up.

The amendment (in the nature of a substitute) reported by the committee for courts of justice was agreed to.

The bill was ordered to its third reading.

No. 34. Senate bill entitled an act to amend and re-enact the ninth section of an act to incorporate the Insurance and Savings company of Virginia, passed February 28th, 1866, was read a third time and passed.

Mr. Dooley moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill was passed, which motion was rejected.

No. 56. Senate bill entitled an act to extend the time within which the Farmville, Charlottesville and Stanardsville narrow-gauge railroad may be commenced and completed, came up.

The amendment proposed by the committee on roads and internal navigation was agreed to.

The bill was ordered to its third reading.

No. 36. Senate bill entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 63 of the Code of Virginia of 1873, so as more effectually to require millers to grind for toll all grain brought to their mills for the consumption of the person bringing or sending it or his family, came up.

Mr. B. W. Lacy offered an amendment in the nature of a substitute. On motion of Mr. B. W. Lacy, the bill was passed by, and the substitute ordered to be printed.

No. 30. House engrossed bill to prevent pulling and leaving fences down, and of opening and leaving open gates without permission of owner, was read a third time and passed.

Mr. Jack Carter moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill was passed, which motion was rejected.

No. 46. House engrossed bill authorizing in actions for the recovery of specific personal property, the delivery of the thing sued for to the plaintiff, was read a third time and passed.

On motion of Mr. Dooley, the title was amended by striking out the whole of the same, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "An act in relation to action of detinue."

The title as amended was agreed to.

No. 40. House bill for the relief of Wm. M. McGruder and others, sureties of Patrick H. Huffman, late sheriff of Henrico county, was, on motion of Mr. Anderson, recommitted to the committee on finance.

A message was received from the senate by Mr. Lawson, who informed the house that the senate had agreed to a joint resolution that a select committee be appointed, consisting of five members of the house of delegates and three of the senate, to whom shall be referred the communication of the governor in reference to Commodore Matthew F. Maury, deceased, in which they respectfully request the concurrence of the house.

The following house bills were read a second time and ordered to be engrossed to be read a third time:

No. 48. House bill requiring claims for jury service to be presented for payment within two years.

No. 49. House bill to provide for the collection of the revenue of the city of Norfolk for the year 1873.

No. 51. House bill authorizing the trustees of the religious society in Frederick county, known as the United Brethren in Christ, to sell and convey certain property.

No. 52. House bill to authorize the trustees of the Union Station Methodist Church South to make a deed of trust on parsonage property.

No. 50. House bill to amend and re-enact the 58th section of the 78th chapter of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1873), in relation to public free schools, was read a second time.

Mr. Armstrong moved to amend the bill by striking out the following words: "But no person shall be allowed to attend any public school whose father, if he be alive and a resident within the school district, and not a pauper, shall not have paid the capitation tax in aid of the public free schools last assessed on him in pursuance of section five of article ten of the constitution, and section sixty-seven of this act." Mr. Anderson moved to dismiss the bill.

The amendment offered by Mr. Armstrong was rejected.

The motion of Mr. Anderson to dismiss the bill was agreed toyeas 52; nays 51.

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

YEAS-Messrs. Alexander, Anderson, Bagwell, Banks, Beaton, Bohannon, Boykin, Brown, Campbell, J. A. Carter, Jack Carter, Cecil, A. J. Clark, Dooley, Flood, Foster, Franklin, Gaines, T. S. Gibson, Graves, Griffith, Harrison, Hoeninger, Holbrook, Wm. Hoskins, Howard, Hudgin, Hunter, James, Jett, Jordan, Koiner, Lewis, Lightner, Lipps, Lipscomb, Massey, McMullan, Montague, John L. Nash, Pendleton, Popham, Powell, Rogers, Scruggs, Sellers, Spratt, Strother, Swann, Wallace, Webb, and Mr. Speaker-52.

NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Armentrout, Armstrong, Bickings, Blair, Brady, Branch, Brooks, Peter J. Carter, Matt Clark. Cockerille, Coghill, Cox, Crank, Finney. Fitzpatrick, Fulkerson, Gardner, Gilliam, Goodwyn, Grayson, Hamilton, Harris, Henderson, Rufus S. Jones, B. W. Lacy, Lamkin, Lee, Longley, Lovell, Lucas, Lybrook, Magruder, Morrison, Moss, W. A. Nash, Neeley, Nickens, Norton, Riddlebarger, Round, Shumate, Syphax, Taliaferro, Taylor, Van Auken, Whittaker, Williams, Winn, Withers, and Yager-51.

Mr. Montague moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill was dismissed, which motion was rejected.

On motion of Mr. Bagwell, the house adjourned until Monday next at 12 o'clock M.

MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1874.

Prayer by the Rev. George C. Vanderslice, of the Methodist church. The journal was read by the clerk.

Senate joint resolution as follows was agreed to:

Resolved (with the concurrence of the house of delegates), That a select committee be appointed, consisting of five members of the house of delegates and three of the senate, to whom shall be referred the communication of the governor in reference to Commodore Matthew F. Maury, deceased.

The speaker laid before the house a communication from the inspectors of tobacco at West Hill warehouse, Petersburg, in answer to a resolution in relation to insurance on planters' tobacco, which was referred to the committee on propositions and grievances.

The speaker laid before the house the following communication:

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, January 26th, 1874.

To the Senate and House of Delegates:

I have the honor to transmit herewith the able and exhaustive final report of the commissioners in behalf of this State upon the boundaries between Maryland and Virginia, together with the accompanying papers, and to commend to your careful consideration the important interests to which they refer.

JAMES L. KEMPER.

Which, together with the report mentioned, was referred to the committee for courts of justice.

No. 15. House bill authorizing D. A. Plecker to erect a toll-bridge across North river at Mount Crawford, in Rockingham county, was, on motion of Mr. Armstrong, taken up from the table.

The bill was placed on the calendar.

No. 69. House bill to authorize the school trustees of Stonewall district, in the county of Richmond, to appropriate for school purposes the dog tax for 1872 in said county, reported from the committee on finance with the recommendation that it do not pass, was read a first time.

The following house bills, reported from the committee for courts of justice, were read a first time:

No. 70. House bill to prevent trespasses on lands and injuries to crops, with the recommendation that it do not pass.

No. 71. House bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 147 of the Code of 1873, extending the jurisdiction of justices in civil cases to $100, with a recommendation that it do not pass.

No. 72. House bill to authorize the Valley mining and manufacturing company to borrow money, and to pledge the property of the company to secure the payment, reported from the committee on agriculture and mining, was read a first time.

No. 73. House bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing certain commissioners to sell a certain lot of land in Winchester belonging to the Winchester academy, reported from the committee on schools and colleges, was read a first time.

The following reports were agreed to:

The committee on finance have, according to order, had under consideration a resolution to examine the law prescribing the amount of bonds of the sheriffs of the Commonwealth, and if found necessary, report a bill modifying said law, respectfully report that any change in the law is deemed inadvisable, and ask to be relieved from its further consideration.

The committee on finance have, according to order, had under consideration the following resolution to them referred:

Resolved, That the committee on finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the law in regard to the duty of assessors, as to require all the assessors in the Commonwealth, in taking their annual list of property, to register on their books all bonds or other evidences of debt held by parties in their respective districts, describing said bonds or other evidences of debt, and if bonds or obligations of any class, stating by whom drawn and when; to whom payable and when; how much is due thereon, and the cash valuation thereof and to prescribe as a penalty to parties who fail when called on by his assessor to make such an exhibit of his bonds, or other evidences of debt, or to give the desired information in regard to the same, so as to lead to the same practical results, viz: The registration and

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