No. 119.

House bill to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2, 6, 9, 10 and 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916.

No. 120. House bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to protect certain fish in the bays, creeks, inlets and streams tributary to the Potomac river, in the State of Virginia, approved March 15, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1910.

No. 121. House bill to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to create the Board of Fisheries of Virginia and define its duties and fix the salary of its members, as amended by acts approved February 21, 1900, February 15, 1901, and March 12, 1908, respectively, so as to change the position of Secretary of the Commission of Fisheries to that of Shellfish Commissioner, to define the duties and powers of the commission, to fix salaries and provide a fund for carrying out the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1916.

The following House bills having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation:

No. 122. House bill to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to levy a special district road tax for Boiling Springs and Clifton districts.

No. 123. House bill to require railway companies operating by electric power or steam and their employees to clear from their rights of way brush and trees at public grade crossings along their lines.

No. 124. House bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to borrow money and to issue bonds for the purpose of securing national and State aid in the building of roads.

No. 125. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 6 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, to create a road board for Dinwiddie county and to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads and to regulate his duties, approved March 8, 1904, as heretofore amended.

No. 126. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county and

defining the boundaries of the same, approved March 14, 1904, aproved March 8, 1906, approved March 14, 1908.

No. 127. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 15 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animal power along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules and regulating the use and speed thereof and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910; and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violation of this act, and to further provide for the payment of fees collected under this act into the State Treasury and the expenditure of same in the maintenance and construction of State aid roads and bridges, approved March 24, 1916.

House bill to prohibit the catching of fish in the waters of Cat Point creek, in the county of Richmond, by means of certain devices, having been considered by the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation, was returned to the House with the following report:

The Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation respectfully reports that in their opinion the object of the within bill cannot be reached by general law or court proceedings.

N. E. CLEMENT, Chairman.

The bill was referred to the Committee on Chesapeake and Its Tributaries.

THE SPEAKER laid before the House the following: House joint resolution proposing amendment to section 133 of Article IX of the Constitution of Virginia.

Resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate concurring, the majority of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto), That the following amendment to section 133,

Article IX, of the Constitution of Virginia, be and is hereby proposed and referred to the General Assembly at the first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence, in conformity with the provisions of section 196 of Article XV of said Constitution, namely:

Strike out from the Constitution of Virginia section 133 of Article IX, which is in the following words:

Section 133. Each magisterial district shall constitute a separate school district unless otherwise provided by law. In each school district there shall be three trustees selected in the manner and for the term of office prescribed by law.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

Section 133. Each magisterial district shall constitute a separate school district unless otherwise provided by law. In each school district there shall be three trustees selected in the manner and for the term of office prescribed by law. Men and women may serve as school trustees in said districts and in cities and in towns forming separate school districts; which was agreed to-yeas, 66; nays, 3.

The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, R. A., Anderson, Wm. A., Bailey, Baker, Beattie, Bond, Boschen, Brewer, Brown, J. Callaway, Buck, Buhrman, Chase, Clement, Commins, Cook, Cornett, Dickerson, Dillard, Dodson, Easley, Elam, Fitzhugh, Fuller, Gilliam, Gilmer, Gordon, Hall, Wilbur C., Harman, Harvey, Hobbs, Horton, Hundley, Deane, Hunter, Jones, Marshall, Martin, McNutt, Meetze, Miller, Murray, Musgrave, Noland, Pence, Pitts, Price, Ragland, Reed, Rolston, Russell, Shackelford, Shumate, Smith, Chas. F., Smith, Harry B., Smoot, Snead, Snow, Sproul, Stephenson, Stubbs, Jas. N., Taylor, Tiffany, Turner, Williams, Winston, Wright, Mr. Speaker-66.

NAYS-Messrs. Crockett, Hundley, P. J., Stuart-3.

MR. WILLIAMS moved to reconsider the vote by which the joint resolution was agreed to; which motion was rejected. THE SPEAKER laid before the House the following communication from the Governor:

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,

GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, January 28, 1918.

Gentlemen of the General Assembly:

I have received and accepted the resignation of Hon. R. W. Peatross as judge of the corporation court of the city of Danville, effective February 1, 1918. Respectfully submitted, H. C. STUART, Governor.

MR. PENCE offered the following resolution:

Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, in His infinite wisdom, to remove from this life the sister of the delegate from Carroll county; therefore

Be it resolved, first, That the sympathy of the House be extended to the gentleman from Carroll in this his sad bereavement.

Second. That a copy of this resolution be entered upon the Journal of the House and a copy be furnished the delegate from Carroll; which was agreed to.

The following were presented and referred under Rule 37:

To the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation:

By MR. ADAMS: A bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1906, entitled an act to empower boards of supervisors to enact special and local legislation to protect the public roads and bridges from obstructions, encroachment and injury, to make violations of such enactments a misdemeanor, and to provide penalties, approved March 15, 1910.

By MR. EVANS: A bill to provide for the redemption of district road bonds under certain conditions.

To the Committee on Schools and Colleges:

By MR. FITZHUGH: A bill to provide for the admission of women to the college of William and Mary, in Virginia.

To the Committee on Labor and the Poor:

By MR. FITZHUGH: A bill to prohibit persons, firms and corporations from enticing or attempting to entice away farm or domestic labor.

To the Committee for Courts of Justice:

By MR. CARRINGTON: A bill to provide for the use of probation and the suspension of sentence in criminal and juvenile courts, providing for the appointment of probation officers and defining their powers and duties.

By MR. DILLARD: A bill to provide for the sale or partition of personal property of greater value than $20 where it is owned by two or more persons jointly who cannot agree upon a sale or division of the same.

By MR. BOND: A bill to protect dwellinghouses and to provide a penalty and punishment for shooting or throwing missiles at or into dwellinghouses or shooting within 150 yards thereof.

To the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns:

By MR. ADAMS: A bill to amend and re-enact section 834 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to powers of boards of supervisors.

To the Committee on General Laws:

By MR. BEATTIE: A bill to secure payment for the placing of monuments, tombstones, coping or cemetery structures, by the retention of title in the vendor or contractor, until paid for, and to provide for the removal of same by order of the proper court in an action of detinue.

By MESSRS. TAYLOR and SPROUL: A bill to amend and reenact section 852 of the Code of Virginia.

By MR. PITTS: A bill to prevent forest fires from originating from certain kinds of mills.

To the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation:

By MR. PRICE: A bill to appropriate $810.25 to compensate A. Wingfield Baker for subsistence and supplies furnished by him to Company A, Engineers National Guard of Virginia, under command of Captain William F. R. Griffith, between the time of its organization and mobilization, July 5, 1916, and its muster into the Federal service, July 25, 1916.

By MR. NOLAND: A bill to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the protection of certain fur-bearing animals in the county of Loudoun, approved February 9, 1916.

By MR. MARSHALL: A bill to provide for the protection of game in the counties of Amelia and Nottoway.

By MR. ANDERSON of Smyth: A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the council of the town of Chilhowie, in the county of Smyth, to borrow money and issue bonds for equipment of the fire department and for the construction and improvement of water and sewerage systems of the said town, approved March 20, 1916.

By MR. ADAMS: A bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte, approved March 6, 1874, as heretofore amended.

By MR. STUBBS of Middlesex: A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the hunting or shooting of rabbits in Mathews and Middlesex counties, approved March

16, 1916.