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Claims.-Messrs. Strother, Beaton, Davis, Hale, Moore, Fitzpatrick, Crank, Gaines, Alexander, Pendleton, May, Brady and Branch.

Militia and Police.-Messrs. Bagwell, Dooley, Brooks, J. Horace Lacy, Yager, Finney, Withers, Flood, T. S. Gibson, Bickings, Nickens and Cox.

Asylums and Prisons.-Messrs. Fulkerson, Walke, Pannil, Jordan, Koiner, Lovenstein, A. J. Clark, Sellers, Wm. Hoskins, Morris, Shumate, Norton and Matt. Clark.

Labor and Poor.-Messrs. Rogers, Shumate, Massey, Lipps, Spratt, Wallace, Armentrout, Jno. T. Hoskins, McGonigal, Moss, Norton and Rufus S. Jones.

Public Property.-Messrs. Armstrong, Jack Carter, Howard, Jett, James, Flood, Foster, Armentrout, Spratt, John L. Nash, Thomas, Whittaker and Harris.

Banks, Currency and Commerce.-Messrs. Anderson, Swann, McMullan, Franklin, Finney, P. Gibson, Stovall, Young, O'Neal and Bickings. Agriculture and Mining.-Messrs. Brown, Lamkin, Campbell, Sellers, Haden, Armentrout, Bohannon, T. S. Gibson, Hoeninger, Wallace, W. A. Nash, P. J. Carter and Nickens.

Manufactures and Mechanic Arts.-Messrs. Critz, Lamkin, Lee, Foster, Hale, Hoeninger, Lipps, Webb, Turner, Gilliam, Hamilton and Moss.

Counties, Cities and Towns.-Messrs. Harrison, Graves, Rogers, Jack Carter, Holbrook, Lewis, Withers, Crank, P. Gibson, Webb, Pendleton, O'Neal and Turner.

Officers and Offices at the Capitol.--Messrs. Boykin, Walke, Lybrook, Powell, Davis, Richmond, Pendleton, Stovall, P. K. Jones, Cox and Lucas.

Executive Expenditures.—Messrs. McMullan, Lightner, Beaton, Critz, Jordan, Wm. Hoskins, Lewis, Van Auken, Lipscomb, Hamilton and Syphax.

Retrenchment and Economy.-Messrs. Banks, Riddlebarger, Gardner, Alexander, Henderson, Hale, Jett, Gaines, James, Paige, P. J. Carter and Hill.

Federal Relations and Resolutions.-Messrs. Hunter, Coghill, Ould, Montague, Allen, Richmond, Lovell, Longley, Fitzpatrick, Round and

Rains.

Enrolled Bills.-Messrs. Lovenstein, Griffith, Haden, Lee, Richmond, Grayson, Massey, John L. Nash, Thomas and Rains.

House Expenses.-Messrs. Pannil, Longley, Loving, Taylor and

Morris.

Rules.-Speaker (ex-officio), Dooley, Wharton, Hudgin and B. W.

Lacy.

Library.-Messrs. Gilman, J. H. Lacy, Hunter, Holbrook and Taylor.
Printing.-Messrs. Riddlebarger, Gilman and Morrison.

Immigration. Messrs. J. Armistead Carter, Lovenstein, Howard, A. J. Clark, Brown, Walke, Cockerille, Allen, Yager, Taylor, Morris, Lee and Popham.

Chesapeake and its Tributaries.-Messrs. Taliaferro, Bagwell, McMul

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lan, Bohannon, Hudgin, Massey, Yager, Cecil, John L. Nash, John T. Hoskins and Young.

The following were presented and referred under rule 37:

By Mr. Dooley: A bill to amend and re-enact the 32d section of chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia (edition 1873), prescribing the duties, compensation and liabilities of county treasurers. Referred to

committee on finance.

By Mr. Foster: A bill incorporating the Virginia relief association, Referred to committee on propositions and grievances.

By Mr. Foster:

Resolved, That the superintendent of public printing be instructed to report to this house as early as practicable the price per copy of the new Code; also, the number of copies appropriated by the last general assembly to its members, and the cost of delivering the same.

By Mr. Round: A bill to abolish the office of aid-de-camp to the governor of Virginia. Referred to committee on executive expendi

tures.

By Mr. Riddlebarger: A bill to provide artificial limbs for citizens of the Commonwealth who lost their limbs by the late war. Referred to committee on finance.

By Mr. Armstrong:

Resolved, That the committee for courts of justice inquire into the expediency of increasing the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

By Mr. Riddlebarger: A bill for the relief of the incorporation of the Woodstock and Wardensville turnpike company. Referred to committee on roads and internal navigation.

By Mr. Lee:

Resolved, That the committee on asylums and prisons be instructed to inquire into the propriety and necessity of establishing an additional asylum for the insane, and report by bill or otherwise.

By Mr. Cockerille:

Resolved, That the committee for courts of justice inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill authorizing the submission of the question to the voters of the Commonwealth whether there shall be a convention for the purpose of framing a new constitution for the State of Virginia, and providing at the same time for the election of members of the convention from districts to be laid off in the event of the call being sustained by the people, and of providing for all necessary measures to effect the object.

Mr. Lewis offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the general assembly will proceed by joint vote on Tuesday, 6th instant, at 1 P. M., to the election of a judge of the county courts of the district composed of the caunties of Clarke and Warren, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge John T. Lovell. The house refused to refer the resolution to a committee.

On motion of W. Critz, the resolution was amended by adding at the

end thereof the following: "and also to the election of a judge of the county court of the county of Halifax, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Thomas Leigh, Esq., late judge of the said county court;" which was agreed to.

The resolution as amended was agreed to.

Mr. Lewis moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the resolution was agreed to, which motion was rejected.

Ordered, That Mr. Lewis carry the resolution to the senate and request their concurrence.

Mr. Massey offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That two hundred copies of the rules adopted by the house of delegates for its government be printed, and that each member of the house be furnished with a copy thereof.

The house refused to refer the resolution to a committee.

On motion of Mr. Riddlebarger, the resolution was amended by striking out "two hundred" and inserting "three hundred and fifty," which was agreed to.

The resolution as amended was agreed to.

The speaker laid before the house the report and exhibits of Attorney-General James C. Taylor, as to the sale of the State's interest in certain internal improvement companies of the State, which was referred to the committe on roads and internal navigation.

Mr. Lovenstein offered the following resolution:

Resolved (the senate concurring), That the general assembly will proceed this day, at one o'clock, to the election of the following officers in the order named: Secretary of the Commonwealth, second auditor, treasurer, register of land office, and superintendent of public printing. The house refused to refer the resolution to a committee.

The resolution was agreed to.

Mr. Lovenstein moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the resolution was agreed to, which motion was rejected.

Ordered, That Mr. Lovenstein carry the resolution to the senate and request their concurrence.

A message was received from the senate by Mr. Nowlin, who informed the house that the senate had agreed to the house joint resolution providing for the election of auditor of public accounts and other officers, with amendments, in which they respectfully request the concurrenc of the house.

The amendments of the senate as follows:-Strike out in second and third lines the words "Saturday, the 3d of January, 1874, at one o'clock P. M.," and insert in lieu thereof the words "Monday, the 5th of January, 1874, at 13 o'clock P. M.;" strike out in fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth lines the words "auditor of public accounts, superintendent of public instruction, superintendent of penitentiary, general agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary"-were agreed to.

Mr. Lovenstein moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the senate amendments where agreed to, which motion was rejected.

Ordered, That Mr. Lovenstein inform the senate that the house had agreed to the amendments of the senate.

A message was received from the senate by Mr. Thomas, who informed the house that the senate had passed the following joint resolutions:

Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia,

1. That the sentiments embodied in the third resolution of the platform of the conservative party of Virginia in the late election, ratified as they have been by an unprecedented popular majority, and commended to the favorable consideration of the general assembly by the governor of Virginia in his inaugural message, be, and the same are hereby re-affirmed; and this general assembly doth declare that there is no purpose upon their part, or upon the part of the people they represent, to cherish captious hostility to the present administration of the Federal government, but that they will judge it impartially by its official acts, and will cordially co-operate in every measure of the administration which may be benificent in its design, and calculated to promote the welfare of the people and cultivate sentiments of good will between the different sections of the Union.

2. That this general assembly recognize the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States as a part of that instrument, and desire, in good faith, to abide by its provisions as expounded by the supreme court of the United States. That august tribunal recently held, after the most mature consideration, that it is only the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the United States that are placed by this clause under the protection of the constitution, and that the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the State, "whatever they may be, are not intended to have any additional protection by this paragraph of the amendment," and that the "entire domain of the privileges and immunities of citizens of the State, as above defined, lay within the constitutional and legislative power of the States, and without that of the Federal government."

3. That this amendment, thus construed by the highest judicial tribunal of the country, is the supreme law of the land; a law for rulers and people, and should be obeyed and respected by all the co-ordinate departments of the government.

4. That the bill now before congress, known as the "Civil-Rights Bill," is in violation of this amendment as interpreted by the supreme court of the United States, is an infringement on the constitutional and legislative powers of the States, is sectional in its operation, and injurious alike to the white and colored population of the southern States, "and that its enforced application in these States will prove destructive of their systems of education, arrest the enlightenment of the colored population, in whose improvement the people of Virginia feel a lively interest; produce continual irritation between the races, counteract the pacification and development now happily progressing, repel immigration, greatly augment emigration, re-open wounds now almost healed, engender new political asperities, and paralyze the power and influence of the State government for duly controlling and promoting domestic interests and preserving internal harmony.

5. That the people of Virginia, through their representatives, enter their earnest and solemn protest against this bill, and instruct their senators and request their representatives in the congress of the United States firmly, but respectfully, to oppose its passage, not only for the

reasons herein expressed, but as a measure calculated to arrest the growing sentiments of concord and harmony between the northern and southern States of the Union.

6. That the governor cause a copy of these resolutions to be forwarded to each of our senators and representatives in the congress of the United States, with the request that they present the same in their respective bodies.

In which they respectfully request the concurrence of the house.

The senate resolutions were read twice, and

On motion of Mr. Coghill, the rule was suspended requiring their reference to a committee.

The resolutions were placed on the calendar.

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

Senate joint resolutions, reaffirming the third resolution of the Conservative platform of 1873, and protesting against the passage of the civil rights bill, now pending in the congress of the United States,

came up.

Mr. Peter J. Carter moved to pass by the senate resolutions, and that the same be printed, which was rejected-yeas 23; nays 95. On motion of Mr. Moss, the vote was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Bickings, Brady, Branch, P. J. Carter, Goodwyn, Hamilton, Harris, Hill, J. T. Hoskins, P. K. Jones, Rufus S. Jones, Lucas, May, McGonigal, Moss, W. A. Nash, Nickens, Stovall, Syphax, Thomas, Turner, Whittaker, and Young-23.

NAYS-Messrs. Alexander, Allen, Anderson, Armentrout, Armstrong, Bagwell, Banks, Beaton, Blair, Bohannon, Boykin, Brooks, Brown, Campbell, J. Armistead Carter, Jack Carter, Cecil, A. J. Clark, Cockerille, Coghill, Critz, Davis, Dooley, Finney, Fitzpatrick, Flood, Foster, Franklin, Fulkerson, Gardner, P. Gibson, T. S. Gibson, Gilman, Graves, Grayson, Griffith, Halen, Hale, Harrison, Henderson, Hoeninger, Holbrook, W. Hoskins, Howard, Hudgin, Hunter, James, Jett, Jordan, Koiner, B. W. Lacy, J. H. Lacy, Lamkin, Lee, Lewis, Lightner, Lipps, Longley, Lovell, Lovenstein, Loving, Lybrook, Magruder, Massey, McMullan, Montague, Moore, Morris, Morrison, Jno. L. Nash, Neeley, Ould, Pannill, Pendleton, Popham, Powell, Richmond, Riddlebarger, Rogers, Scruggs, Sellers, Shumate, Spratt, Stuart, Swann, Taliaferro, Walke, Wallace, Webb, Wharton, Williams, Winn, Withers, Yager, and Mr. Speaker-95.

Mr. Harrison moved the pending question, which was ordered. The question being on agreeing to the senate joint resolutions, was put and decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Peter J. Carter moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the joint resolutions were agreed to.

Mr. Dooley moved the pending question, which was ordered.

The motion to reconsider was rejected.

No. 1. House joint resolution extending the time for the collection of taxes and county and township levies for the year 1873, was read a third time and passed.

Mr. McMullan moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the house joint resolution was passed, which motion was rejected.

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