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school taxes, and ask to be discharged from its further consideration, as the subject is already provided for by a general law.

The following bills, reported from the committee on propositions and grievances, were read a first time:

No. 32. House bill to incorporate the Virginia club of the city of Norfolk.

No. 33. House bill to amend the charter of the Female humane association of the city of Richmond.

No. 34. House bill to amend the 9th section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Insurance and Savings company of Virginia, passed February 28th, 1866.

No. 35. House bill incorporating the Virginia relief association, with the recommendation that it do not pass.

The following house bills, reported from the committee on finance, were read a first time:

No. 36. House bill to validate the re-assessment of the lands of. Washington county, made in the year 1873, for the year 1873, and to authorize the treasurer of said county to retain out of the taxes due the State for the year 1873, when collected, an amount equal to the excess of the taxes due on the lands of said county, as assessed in the year 1870, over the amount that would be due by the valuation under the re-assessment made in 1873, and to apply the amount so retained to the payment of county levies, with the recommendation that it do not pass.

No. 37. House bill to amend and re-enact the 32d section of chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia (edition 1873), prescribing the duties and liabilities of county treasurers, with the recommendation that it do not pass.

No. 38. House bill for the relief of the incorporation of the Woodstock and Wardensville turnpike company, with the recommendation that it do not pass.

No. 39. House bill to correct the erroneous assessment of a certain tenement in the town of Lexington, reported with recommendation that it do not pass.

No. 40. House bill for the relief of William M. McGruder and others, sureties of Patrick H. Huffman, late sheriff of Henrico county, with the recommendation that it do not pass.

No. 41. House bill to provide artificial limbs for citizens of the Commonwealth who lost their limbs by the late war.

No. 42. House bill to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 46 of the Code of 1873, in relation to sheriffs' bonds.

No. 1. House joint resolution extending the time for the collection of taxes and county an township levies for the year 1873, was reported back from the committee on finance, with the recommendation that the house agree to the amendments of the senate.

Senate joint resolution to provide for printing one thousand copies of No. 1, house joint resolution, extending the time for collection of taxes of 1873, was reported from the committee on finance.

No. 19. House bill to amend and re-enact an act for the relief of the

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late sheriffs of the Commonwealth, reported back from the committee on finance, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.

No. 20. House bill to amend and re-enact the third section of the Code of 1873, in relation to sheriffs' bonds, reported back from the committee on finance with the recommendation that it do not pass.

Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Lovenstein seven days, and Armentrout two days.

The unfinished business of the morning hour, being the question on agreeing to the resolution of Mr. Taliaferro to refer all bills, resolutions and petitions relating to fishing interests to the committee on the Chesapeake and its tributaries, came up.

The resolution was agreed to.

The following were presented and referred under rule 37:

By Mr. Ould: An application from the trustees of Union Station Methodist Episcopal church south for authority to make a deed of trust on parsonage property for the purpose of securing a debt due thereon. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

By Mr. Armstrong:

Resolved, That the board of public works be and are hereby requested to inform this house the amount of all stocks owned by the State in works of internal, improvement the 1st of May, 1865, and what disposition has been made of them if sold, by whom and to whom sold, and at what price, and by what authority, and what amount of said stocks are now owned by the State, and also all indebtedness to the State from internal improvement companies, and what disposition has been made of the same.

Referred to committee on roads an internal navigation.

By Mr. J. Horace Lacy:

Resolved, That the committee on Federal relations and resolutions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill, or otherwise instructing our senators in congress, and requesting our representatives to use all proper efforts to cause a through examination to be made by the proper committees of congress into the expediency of so regulating our financial system, as to distribute equally the natural currency in every section of the Union, so as to give to each that capital to which, by its population, property and business, it is entitled; and in order to secure this end, the propriety of establishing a national exchequer, mainly on the plan of the bank of England, with authority to said corporation to establish branches thereof in each State of the Union.

By Mr. Dooley: A bill to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 173 of the Code of 1873, as to chancery dockets. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

By Mr. Holbrook: A bill to amend and re-enact sections 59 and 62 of chapter 57 of Code of 1873, in relation to the granting of charters by the circuit courts. Referred to committee for courts of justice. By Mr. Montague:

Resolved, That the committee for courts of justice inquire into the

expediency of repealing so much of section 12, chapter 63 of the Code of 1873, as fixes the toll of mill owners, grinding corn into meal, at onetenth, instead of one-eighth, as the former law did.

By Mr. Hunter: Memorial from Major H. K. Douglass, Gorge Freaner, James A. Grambrell (trustees of Washington Cemetery for the burial of Confederate soldiers who fell in the battles of Antietam, South Mountain, Monocacy and other points in Washington and Frederick counties, Maryland), asking an appropriation from the State of Virginia, in aid of their undertaking. Referred to committee on finance. By Mr. Fulkerson: A bill to amend and re-enact section 8, chapter 142, Code of 1873, with reference to buying and selling coupons. ferred to committee on finance.

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By Mr. Horward: A memorial of the bar practicing in the courts of Floyd county, in reference to the county court system. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

By Mr. B. W. Lacy: A bill to amend and re-enact section 12 of chapter 63 of the Code 1873, in relation to mills. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

By Mr. Williams: A bill to amend and re-enact the eighth section of the 169th chapter of the Code of 1873, relative to the death or change of parties, and the discontinuance of causes not prosecuted. Referred to committee for courts of justice.

By Mr. Armstrong:

Resolved, That the committee on roads and internal navigation inquire into the expediency of extending the Brock's Gap, Hardy and Hampshire rail road charter, under the present president and directors, westward to the Ohio river, near Wheeling, eastward via Massanutta to Petersburg, with suitable branches, to be called the Norfolk, Massanutta and Toledo railway.

By Mr. Rains: A bill to authorize the school trustees of Stonewall district, in the county of Richmond, to appropriate for school purposes the dog tax for 1873, in said county. Referred to committee on finance.

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

No. 21. Senate bill to allow further time for the Judge of Norfolk county to qualify, came up.

The amendments in the nature of a substitute, proposed by the committee for courts of justice, was agreed to.

The bill was ordered to its third reading.

No. 1. House joint resolution extending the time for the collection of taxes and county and township levies for the year 1873, came up. The amendments of the senate were agreed to.

No. 17. House engrossed bill to prevent obstructing with timber or rendering foul the water courses of this State, was read a third time and passed.

No. 21. House engrossed bill to transfer the interest of the State in certain turnpike companies to the counties through which they pass,

came up.

On motion of Mr. Howard, the vote by which the bill was ordered to be engrossed was reconsidered.

The bill was amended and ordered to be engrossed to be read a third time.

No. 9. House engrossed bill to amend an act incorporating the town of Wytheville, came up, and

On motion of Mr. Holbrook, was passed by.

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, laid on the table.

No. 18. House bill incorporating the Rich Valley tanning and leather manufacturing company, in the county of Washington, was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed to be read a third time. Mr. Bagwell offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That when this house adjourns to day it adjourn to meet at 12 o'clock M. to-morrow

Which was agreed to.

On motion of Mr. Lovenstein, the house adjourned until to-morrow at 12 o'clock M.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1874.

Prayer by Rev. Dr. Geo. Woodbridge, of the Episcopal church.
The journal was read by the clerk.

No. 40. Senate bill entitled an act to constitute the secretary and superintendent of the Mount Vernon association a conservator of the peace for the limits of Mount Vernon estate, was reported from the committee for courts of justice.

No. 43. House bill fixing the pay and mileage of members of the general assembly, reported from the committee on retrenchment and economy, was read a first time.

No. 44. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4, chapter 129, acts of 1871-'72, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Newport, in Giles county, Virginia, reported from the committee on counties, cities and towns, was read a first time.

No. 45. House bill to incorporate the Columbia, Fairfax and Prince William railroad company, reported from the committee on roads and internal navigation, was read a first time.

No. 46. House bill authorizing in actions for the recovery of specific personal property the delivery of the thing sued for to the plaintiff, reported from the committee for courts of justice, was read a first time.

The following reports were agreed to:

The committee on privileges and elections have had under consideration the petition of B. A. L. Holt and Benjamin J. Walker, contesting

the right of George W. Young and Ross Hamilton to seats in the house delegates from the county of Mecklenburg, have maturely considered the same, and beg leave to submit the following report:

The committee are of the opinion that the evidence does not show any such irregularities or illegality in the returns from the election precincts objected to by contestants as could vitiate said returns, and they respectfully recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: 1st. Resolved, That Geo. W. Young, one of the sitting members from the county of Mecklenburg, is entitled to a seat in the house of delegates.

2d. Resolved, That Ross Hamilton, one of the sitting members from the county of Mecklenburg, is entitled to a seat in the house of delegates.

The committee on roads and internal navigation have had under consideration a resolution to them referred, to "require the taxable property of the State to bear the burdens of opening new roads and keeping in repair the roads of the Commonwealth, excepting a capitation tax of one day upon every citizen not already exempt by the law of 1872-73," report that the subject of local and county roads properly belong to the committee on counties, cities and towns, and ask to be relieved from its further consideration, and that the same be referred to the said committee.

The following resolution, reported from the committee for courts of justice, was agreed to:

Resolved, That the supreme court of appeals be requested to report to this house whether it is necessary to the dispatch of the business in that court that the special court of appeals shall be continued, and whether any amendment to the law creating that court is deemed necessary, and whether any and what changes should be made in the laws authorizing appeals and writs of error, with any other matter touching the administration of justice in the supreme court of appeals which may tend to expedite its business.

On motion of Mr. Riddlebarger, Mr. Brooks was excused from service on the committee of privileges and elections during the investigation of the contested election case of Walker vs. Walke, from Chesterfield county.

Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Norton one day, R. S. Jones three days, and Critz four days.

The committee on enrolled bills have the honor to report that the following bills have been approved by the governor:

An act to incorporate the Masonic mutual relief association of Virginia; approved January 20, 1874.

An act incorporating the Virginia porcelain and terracotta company in the county of Augusta; approved January 20, 1874.

An act to change the name of the Augusta county fair to the Baldwin Augusta fair; approved January 20, 1874.

An act to amend section 10, chapter 202, Code of 1873, with reference to jurors in criminal cases; approved January 20, 1874.

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