To the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation: By Mr. FULTON: A bill to authorize the trustees of Clintwood school district to issue bonds to build a school house in said district, and to authorize the said trustees to sell the present school house lot and invest the proceeds in another school house site. By Mr. STEARNES: A bill to authorize the County Court of Warwick county to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of lands of Jane E. Smith's estate, and the lands of W. F. Smith, in said county, and the taxes assessed thereon. By Mr. TONEY: A bill to authorize the School Board of Manchester to borrow money and issue bonds. To the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns: By Mr. WHITEHEAD: A bill to prohibit the establishment and location of smallpox hospitals, pest-houses, within 200 yards of the public streets and roads in any city or county in the Commonwealth. By Mr. GARDNER: A bill providing for the extension of the corporate limits of cities and towns. To the Committee for Courts of Justice: By Mr. STAFFORD: A bill to amend and re-enact section 3652 of the Code in relation to the exemption of laboring men who are householders. By Mr. HEERMANS: Joint resolution providing for impeachment proceedings by the General Assembly against C. J. Campbell, judge of the County Court of Amherst county. The morning hour having expired, the House proceeded to the business on the calendar. The following House bills were read, at length, a second time, and ordered to be engrossed: No. 26, House bill to pay certain officers of the Virginia penitentiary certain salaries due them and not paid. No. 27, House bill to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, relating to State depositories, approved February 3, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended in relation to State depositories, approved March 15, 1902, and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended in relation to State depositories, approved April 2, 1902. No. 25, House bill was, on motion of Mr. CLARKE, passed by. On motion of Mr. WEST, the House adjourned. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1902. Prayer by Mr. T. D. JENNINGS, On motion of Mr. SETTLE, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with. A communication from the Senate, by their Clerk, was read as follows: In Senate, November 22d, 1902. The Senate has agreed to House joint resolution to ascertain the term of office for which the twenty-four Circuit Judges of the State are to be elected at the first election of judges by the General Assembly under the Constitution, which went into effect at noon on the 10th day of July, 1902. House resolution to provide twenty-five copies of Pollard's Supplement to the Code for the use of committees of the House of Delegates, having been considered by the committee in session was reported from the Committee on Finance. The SPEAKER laid the resolution before the House. On motion of Mr. CABELL, the resolution was passed by. Leave of absence was granted the following members: Mr. WEST offered the following joint resolution. Whereas, the Governor of the Commonwealth, the State Board of Education, and the Richmond Education Association have invited the Southern Education Board to hold its next annual conference in the city of Richmond; therefore, be it Resolved, by the General Assembly of Virginia, That this body heartily concurs in the said invitation, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mr. Robert C. Ogden, the president of the Southern Education Board. Which was agreed to. The following were presented and referred under Rule 37: To the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation: By Mr. CUMMING: A bill to correct erroneous assessment of the lands of Wm. E. Barrett, in Elizabeth City county. By Mr. BOWMAN: A bill to authorize the council of the town of Salem, in Roanoke county, to retire and refund certain bonds of said town. By Mr. NEWHOUSE: A bill to allow additional time to the registrar of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, in which to register qualified voters, resident in said town. By Mr. FULTON: A bill to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Dickenson county to settle and compromise with the sureties of C. W. Powers, ex-treasurer of Dickenson county, a certain judgment docketed against them in the office of the clerk of the County Court of Dickenson county. To the Committee on Finance: By Mr. WHITEHEAD: A resolution passed at meeting of the executive committee of the Jamestown Exposition Company, requesting an appropriation of not less than $50,000 to the exposition to be held at St. Louis. The morning hour having expired, the House proceeded to the business on the calendar. The following House bills were read at length a third time and passed: No. 26, House bill to pay certain officers of the Virginia Penitentiary certain salaries due them and not paid-yeas, 70. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. W. W. Baker, Banks, Biscoe, Charles T. Bland, Boaz, Bowman, Branch, Cardwell, Carter, Christian, Churchman, Clarke, Cumming, Davis, Dudley, Duke, Edmondson, Edwards, Elam, Elkins, Featherston, Folkes. Fulton, Gardner, Garrett, Gent, George, Goodwin, Gravely, Green, Heermans, Hoffman, Hunley, Jennings, Jones, Kelley, Lacy, Lassiter, Lawson, Lewis, Lion, Lyell, Mays, Moore, Mort, Murrell, Newhouse, Nottingham, Powers, Purdy, Quisenberry, Reynolds, Rice, Robson, Sebrell, Settle, Simmerman, Sipe, Blackburn Smith, Southall, Stafford, Stearnes, Taylor, Turpin, Walker, Wallace, Ware, Weaver, Whitehead, and Woodard-70. No. 27, House bill to amend and re-enact section 753 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact Section 753 of the Code of Virginia, relating to State depositories," approved February 3, 1900, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled "an act to amend section 753 of the Code of Virginia as amended in relation to State Depositories," approved March 15, 1902, and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend Section 753 of the Code of Virginia as amended in relation to State depositories," approved April 2, 1902-yeas, 70. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. W. W. Baker, Banks, Biscoe, Charles T. Bland, Boaz, Bowman, Cannaday, Cabell, Cardwell, Carter, Caton, Christian, Churchman, Clarke, Cumming, Davis, Dudley, Duke, Edmondson, Edwards, Elam, Elkins, Featherston, Fulton, Gardner, Garrett, Gent, George, Goodwin, Gravely, Green, Harman, Heermans, Hoffman, Huff, Hunley, Jennings, Jones, Kelley, Lacy, Lassiter, Lawson, Lee, Lewis, Lyell, Mays, Moore, Newhouse, Nottingham, Owen, Powers, Purdy, Quisenberry, Reynolds, Rice, Robson, Sebrell, Simmerman, Southall, Stafford, Stearnes, Taylor, Turpin, Waddy, Walker, Wallace, Ware, Weaver, Whitehead, and Woodard-70. Motions severally made to reconsider the votes by which Nos. 26 and 27, House bills, were passed, were rejected. No. 25, House bill to ascertain and fix the term of office of the judges in the twenty-four judicial circuits of the State, respectively, at the first election by the General Assembly under the Constitution which came into effect at noon on the tenth day of July 1902, came up. And, on motion of Mr. SOUTHALL, was passed by. On motion of Mr. Boaz, the House adjourned. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1902. On motion of Mr. JORDAN, of Nansemond, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with. Mr. SMITH, of Clarke, moved to discharge the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation from the further consideration of a bill to authorize and direct the Board of Supervisors of Clarke county to build, construct and maintain a toll bridge at or near Castleman's Ferry, in said county, and to build, construct and maintain a toll bridge at or near Berry's Ferry, in said county of Clarke, over the Shenandoah river; to issue county bonds to the extent of forty thousand dollars for the purpose of raising money for the construction of said bridges; to receive any subscriptions that may be made for said purpose; to provide for the collection, custody and application of said tolls; and to validate an election held in the county of Clarke, November 4th, 1902, approving an issue of the bonds of said county, to the amount of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of constructing said toll bridges. Which was agreed to-yeas, 74. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Allen, Angell, W. W. Baker, Banks, Biscoe, Charles T. Bland, George C. Bland, Boaz, Bowman, Branch, Carter, Caton, Churchman, Davis, Dudley, Duke, Edmondson, Elam, Featherston, Folkes, Fulton, Gardner, Garrett, Gent, George, Goodwin, Green, Harman, Heermans, Hoffman, Huff, Hunley, Jennings, Jones, E. C. Jordan, Walter Jordan, Lacy, Lassiter, Lawson, Leake, Lee, Lewis, Lion, Lyell, Mathews, Mays, Moore, Mort, Murrell, Newhouse, Nottingham, Overby, Owen, Owens, Powers, Quisenberry, Reynolds, Robson. Sebrell, Settle, Simmerman, Sipe, Blackburn Smith, Snead, Stafford, Stearnes, Taylor, Toney, Turpin, Waddy, Walker, Ware, Weaver, Whitehead, and Woodard-74. The bill was referred to the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns. Mr. FULTON moved to discharge the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation from the further consideration of House bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 25, 1902, entitled an act prohibiting the manufacture and sale of certain intoxicating liquors in certain counties of the Commonwealth, so as to exempt the county of Dickenson from the further operation of the said act. Which was agreed to—yeas, 66. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows; YEAS-Messrs. Allen, Angell, W. W. Baker, Banks, Biscoe, Charles T. Bland, George C. Bland, Boaz, Bowman, Branch, Cardwell, Caton, Churchman, Davis, Duke, Elam. Featherston, Folkes, Fulton, Gardner, Garrett, Gent, George, Goodwin, Green, Harman, Hoffman, Huff, Hunley, Jones, E. C. Jordan, Walter Jordan, Lacy, Lassiter, Lawson, Leake, Lee, Lewis, Lion, Lyell, Mathews, Mays, Moore, Mort, Murrell, Newhouse, Nottingham, Overby, Owens, Powers, Reynolds. Settle, Simmerman, Blackburn Smith, Southall, Stafford, Stearnes, Toney, Turpin, Waddy, Walker, Wallace, Ware, Weaver, Whitehead, and Woodard-66. The bill was referred to the Committee on General Laws. Mr. FOLKES moved to discharge the Committee on Agriculture and Mining from the further consideration of House bill to abolish company stores or commissaries in connectien with mining and manufacturing establishments in this State. Which was rejected—yeas, 38; nays, 36. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Allen, Charles T. Bland, George C. Bland, Boaz, Branch, Carter, Caton, Duke, Edmondson, Elam, Folkes, Gent, Green, Harman, Jones, E. C. Jordan, Lassiter, Leake, Lee, Lyell, Mort, Newhouse, Nottingham, Overby, Owen, Owens, Quisenberry, Sebrell, Settle, Blackburn Smith, Southall. Toney, Waddy, Walker, Wallace, Ware, Whitehead, and Woodard-38. NAYS-Messrs. Angell, W. W. Baker, Banks, Biscoe, Cardwell, Churchman, Davis, Dudley, Elkins, Featherston, Fulton, Gardner, Garrett, George, Goodwin, Gravely, Heermans, Hoffman, Huff, Jennings, Lacy, Lawson, Lewis, Lion, Mathews, Mays, Moore, Reynolds, Robson, Simmerman, Sipe, Stafford, Stearnes, Taylor, Turpin, and Weaver-36. |