House bill to repeal an act approved February 21, 1917, entitled an act incorporating a company to establish a turnpike road from the city of Richmond, crossing Chickahominy river between the Meadow and New Bridges until it intersects the Swamp road on the north side of said river, as amended by an act approved January 16, 1826, as further amended by an act approved January 31, 1861, and as further amended by an act approved January 12, 1866; which motion was rejected yeas, 30; nays, 35. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messers. Anderson, R. A., Bond, Boschen, Buhrman, Carter, Chase, Commins, Conway, Cook, Cornett, Elam, Fitzhugh, Gordon, Horton, Hundley, Deane, Hundley, P. J., Marshall, Meetze, Omps, Owen, Ramsey, Reed, Russell, Smith, Chas. F., Smoot, Snead, Snow, Stephenson, Stubbs, R. H., Walton-30. NAYS-Messrs. Anderson, Wm. A., Bailey, Beattie, Brewer, Brown, J. Callaway, Brown, J. Sinclair, Buck, Burke, Carrington, Cherry, Deans, Easley, Fuller, Gilmer, Goodwin, Hall, Channing W., Jones, Mann, Martin, McNutt, Miller, Murray, Ozlin, Price, Ragland, Shumate, Stant, Stuart, Stubbs, Jas. N. Taylor, Tiffany, Turner, Winston, Wright, Mr. Speaker-35. MR. WILLIS moved that the House meet hereafter at 10 o'clock A. M. MR. GORDON moved to amend by adding "beginning Monday, February 25, 1918"; which was agreed to. The resolution as amended was agreed to. The following were presented and referred under Rule 37: To the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation: By MR. MILLER: A bill to regulate the hunting, shooting or sale of squirrels in the county of Rappahannock. To the Committee on Finance: By MR. HALL of Loudoun: A bill to amend and re-enact section 20 of 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 the 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 regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1916. The morning hour having expired, the House proceeded to the business on the calendar. The following Senate bills were read at length a first time: No. 63. Senate bill to provide for admission of women to the College of William and Mary in Virginia. No. 41. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 27 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act concerning the Bureau of Insurance, approved March 9, 1906, as subsequently amended. The following House bills were read at length a first time and ordered to be printed: No. 357. House bill to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1919, and the 29th day of February, 1920. No. 358. House bill to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, in relation to commissions of lunacy and their fees (affecting section 1021 of the report of the revisers of the Code). No. 359. House bill to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth for the caring for such minors, approved February 5, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as amended by an act approved February 17, 1916. No. 360. House bill to authorize the sale and conveyance of a lot of not exceeding fifteen acres of land, part of the State penitentiary farm. No. 361. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000 and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government, approved March 20, 1916. No. 362. House bill to amend and re-enact an act approved February 17, 1916, entitled an act defining the time in which it may be lawful to hunt deer in Mecklenburg county. No. 363. House bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved November 28, 1903, entitled an act to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of cities and towns. No. 364. House bill to validate the recordation of certain maps and plats as recorded in the counties of Amherst, Campbell and Halifax, and authorize the use of plat books in the clerks' offices thereof. No. 365. House bill to prohibit the recordation of plats for the subdivision of land into lots, showing on said plats streets and alleys within or within ten miles from the limits of any city except in conformity with the plan provided by such city. No. 366. House bill to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades from the first to the seventh, both inclusive. No. 367. House bill to provide for the extirpation of Canada thistles; requiring owners of lands to cut down Canada thistles and requiring supervisors of the public roads to cut down Canada thistles growing thereon; providing penalties for violation of this act. No. 368. House bill to add three sections to an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create and maintain a State Board of Crop Pest Commissioners and to define its duties and powers, approved March 5, 1900, approved May 9, 1903. No. 369. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act in relation to the sale of farm produce on commission, defining the terms "farm produce" and "commission merchant" and regulating commission merchants and providing for their registration and bonding and the issuing of a certificate of such registration by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration; also empowering the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, upon complaint and in certain cases, to investigate the acts of commission merchants and to revoke or refuse certificate of registration, and prescribing regulations and offenses under this act and pro viding penalties for violation of such regulations and of tms act, approved February 29, 1916. No. 370. House bill to prevent trusts, combinations and monopolies inimical to the public welfare. No. 371. House bill to prohibit the improper use of or injury to the public highways of the State of Virginia, to pre scribe regulations governing their use, to provide for the enforcement of this act, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act. No. 372. House bill to permit the transfer of the Valley turnpike to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to fix the terms. and conditions of such transfer, and to provide for the maintenance of the said turnpike. No. 373. House bill in regard to the powers and duties of boards of supervisors in relation to levies for road taxes. No. 374. House bill to provide for the designation of the Boone trail highway in Virginia. No. 375. House bill to provide for the locating and opening of new roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any of the existing roads, for the working, improving and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges in the county of Wythe, and to provide for a penalty for obstruction or injuring the roads and bridges in said county, and for repealing all former special road laws for the said county of Wythe. THE SPEAKER laid before the House the following communication from the Governor: COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, February 16, 1918. To the House of Delegates of Virginia: I recommend, at the request of the Commissioner of Insurance, that the bill be amended by striking out the words "in his discretion," in lines 4 and 5 from bottom of page 1, and inserting in lieu thereof "upon approval by the Governor.'' WESTMORELAND DAVIS, Governor. THE SPEAKER laid before the House No. 32. Senate bill to amend and re-enact sections 17 and 21 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act concerning the Bureau of Insurance, approved March 9, 1906, as subsequently amended, together with the foregoing recommendations of the Governor for amendment, and the House proceeded to reconsider the same. The question being whether the House shall agree to amend the bill in accordance with the recommendations of the Governor, was put and decided in the affirmative-yeas, 82; nays, 0. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, R. A., Anderson, Wm. A., Bailey, Baker, Beattie, Bond, Beschen, Brown, J. Callaway, Brown, J. Sinclair, Burke, Carner, Carrington, Carter, Chase, Cherry, Clement, Commins, Conway, Cook, Cornett, Davis, Deans, Dickerson, Dodson, Easley, Elam, Fitzhugh, Flanagan, Forester, Fuller, Gilliam, Gilmer, Goodwin, Gordon, Hall, Channing W., Hall, Wilbur C., Harvey, Hobbs, Horton, Hundley, Deane, Hundley, P. J., Jones, Mann, Marshall, Martin, MeNutt, Meetze, Miller, Murray, Noland, Omps, Owen, Ozlin, Pence, Pitts, Price, Ragland, Ramsey, Reed, Rew, Rolston, Russell, Shumate, Smith, Chas. F., Smith, Harry B., Smoot, Snead, Snow, Sproul, Stant, Stephenson, Stuart, Stubbs, Jas. N., Stubbs. R. H., Taylor, Tiffany, Turner, Walton, Williams, Winston, Wright, Mr. Speaker -82. MR. BROWN of Roanoke county moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was amended in accordance with the Governor's recommendation; which motion was rejected. The motion of MR. ROLSTON to reconsider the vote by which No. 113. Senate bill to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act providing for the appointment of a State Board of Health and of local boards of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers and agents in connection with the preservation of public health, and prescribing penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpoenas issued by said State Board of Health or any authorized member thereof for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in contempt of said State board or its duly authorized members, approved March 7, 1900 (section 1713-d, Code of 1904); to repeal sections 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717 and 1718 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith; to provide for the appointment of a health commissioner and assistants, to define their duties, to provide for their compensation and to appropriate money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 14, 1908, was rejected; was agreed to. On motion of MR. STUBBS of Gloucester, the bill was passed by. No. 114. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 18, 19 and 20 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof, and to segregate to localities the tax upon shares of stock of banks, banking associations, trust and security companies-unfinished business-came up. On motion severally made by MESSRS. DEANS, REED, GILMER and STANT, the bill was severally amended. The bill was ordered to be engrossed. |