McCotter, McNutt, Page, Pratt, Price, Ramsey, Richards, Rodgers, Shepherd, Smith, Alfred C., Smith, Lemuel F., Stuart, Trolinger, Warren, C. R., Woods, Wright, Mr. Speaker-36.

MR. MOFFETT stated that he would have voted in the affirmative, but was paired with MR. SMITH of Alexandria.

MR. PRICE moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was rejected, which was rejected.

The chair was vacated until 4 o'clock P. M.

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1922-AFTERNOON SESSION.

The hour of 4 o'clock P. M. having arrived, the chair was resumed.

No. 424. House bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commission, to fix the maximum amount of the compensation of said officers, approved March 27, 1914, as amended by acts approved March 22, 1916, March 9, 1918, and March 25, 1920-special order, was, on motion of MR. SMITHEY, passed by until Wednesday.

No. 253. House bill to amend and re-enact section 2154 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved September 5, 1919-special order, came up.

MR. RICHARDS moved to dispense with the several readings of the bill required by section 50 of the Constitution, which was agreed to-yeas, 69; nays, 1.

The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Bagby, Beatie, Boatwright, Bondurant, Bowles, Bright, Brown, Mayo C., Campbell, Commins, Dotson, Eller, Ewell, Farrier, Fletcher, Ford, Gibson, Gordon, Graham, Groome, Hall, Henderson, Henley, Hicks, E. A., Hicks, W. F., Hoover, C. N., Hoover, W. C., Horner, Horsley, Hylton, Keen, Keezell, Koger, McCaleb, McCotter, McLean, Norris, Nottingham, Owen, Ozlin, Page, Patterson, Pratt, Prince, Ramsey, Rew, Richards, Rodgers, Sinclair, Smith, Alfred C., Smith, Charles F., Smith, Charles Henry, Smith, Lemuel F., Snell, St. Clair, Stinson, Story, Stuart, Taylor, Trolinger, Turner, Tyler, Warren, B. S., Warren, C. R., Woods, Woodville, Young, Mr. Speaker-69.

NAYS-Mr. Willis-1.

Motions severally made by MESSRS. GORDON, JONES and HENDERSON to amend the bill were severally rejected.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed, and being presently engrossed, the question being "Shall the bill pass?" was put and decided in the affirmative yeas, 53; nays, 34.

The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Beatie, Boatwright, Bolton, Bondurant, Bowles, Campbell, Craft, Deans, Dotson, Eller, Fletcher, Ford, Gibson, Gordon, Graham, Groome, Hall, Henderson, Hicks, E. A., Hicks, W. F., Hoover, W. C., Horner, Horsley, Hurt, Hylton, Jeffreys, Keen, Keezell, Koger, McCaleb, McCotter, McLean, Nottingham, Owen, Patterson, Pitts, Pratt, Prince, Ramsey, Rew, Richards, Sinclair, Smith, Alfred C., Smith, Charles F., Smith, Charles Henry, Smithey, Snell, Turner, Warren, B. S., Warren, C. R., Woods, Young-53.

NAYS--Messrs. Bagby, Bright, Brown, Israel, Brown, J. Sinclair, Brown, Mayo C., Carpenter, Carter, Commins, DeFriece, Ewell, Farrier, Fuller, Haddon, Henley, Jones, Edwin B., Jones, James P., McNutt, Moffett, Norris, Ozlin, Rodgers, Smith, E. Hugh, St. Clair, Stinson, Story, Stuart, Taylor, Trolinger, Tyler, Williams, Willis, Woodville, Wright, Mr. Speaker-34.

MR. SMITH of Albemarle stated that he would have voted in the negative, but was paired with MR. DIGGS.

MR. RICHARDS moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, which was rejected.

No. 194. House bill to amend and re-enact section 5555 of the Code of Virginia-special order, having been printed, was read at length a second time.

MR. WILLIS moved to amend as follows:

After word "date" strike out remainder of section and insert "on which the loan is due"; which was agreed to.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed.

No. 248. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 16 of an act entitled an act to provide for the examination and certification of professional engineers, architects and land surveyors; and to regulate the practice of engineering, architecture and land surveying; to establish their relation to public works and the surveying and platting of land, approved March 19, 1920special order, having been printed, was read at length a second time and ordered to be engrossed.

No. 476. House bill to appropriate the sum of $16,000 to repay the principal due by the school board of Ettrick sub-school district of Chesterfield county, to the Literary Fund, and to direct the Auditor of Public Accounts to draw his warrant in favor of the Literary Fund for the said sum-special order, having been printed, was read at length a second time.

MR. SHEPHERD moved severally to amend as follows:

Page 1, title, line 1, strike out "appropriate" and insert in lieu thereof "authorize the postponement of the payment of." and after $16,000 strike out "to repay the principal," and insert "and interest" in lieu thereof.

Page 1, title, line 3, put period after the word "fund" and strike out "and to direct the Auditor of Public Accounts to draw his warrant in favor of the Literary Fund for the said sum."

Pages 2 and 3, section 1, after the enacting clause in line 1, strike out all the balance of section 1, and insert in lieu thereof the following: "That the school board of Ettrick sub-school district of

Chesterfield county be, and it is hereby, authorized to postpone to January 1, 1925, the payment of the sum of sixteen thousand dollars and accrued and accruing interest due by the said school board to the Literary Fund of the Commonwealth; which were severally agreed to. The bill was ordered to be engrossed.

No. 225. House bill imposing public duties on persons, firms, corporations and associations operating motor vehicles over the public highways and streets of the Commonwealth for the transportation of passengers and freight for a fare, charge and compensation, defining them as common carriers, and as such, public service corporations, and providing for the control and regulation thereof by the State Corporation Commission-special order,

came up.

On motion of MR. JONES of Richmond city, the bill was dis

missed.

The following House bills, having been printed, were read at length a second time and ordered to be engrossed:

No. 151. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4439 of the Code of Virginia.

No. 475. House bill to authorize the Adjutant General to place appropriate markers upon the battlefields of the seven days' campaign, to make appropriation therefor, and to authorize the Adjutant General to accept in the name of the Commonwealth the donations and services of citizens in carrying out the purposes of this bill.

No. 488. House bill relating to county notes in anticipation of the collection of taxes.

No. 490. House bill to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the 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, as heretofore amended.

No. 499. House bill providing an additional regular term of court for Giles county, and prescribing the times for holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-second judicial circuit.

No. 500. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 23 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the roads of said county and levy a tax to keep the same in proper repair, as amended by an act, approved February 29, 1892, and February 2, 1894, and acts amendatory thereto, respectively, January 22, 1898, March 7, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as amended by an act approved March 15, 1910, and to appoint a county road superintendent. his salary, duties, etc., the purchase of road machinery, implements, tools, etc.. pay of supervisors, road superintendent, clerk and duties

of each, prescribing penalties, etc., and to repeal all special acts in conflict herewith, approved March 24, 1920.

No. 501. House bill to validate, ratify, approve and confirm bonds heretofore and hereafter issued on elections heretofore held authorizing the issuance of such bonds by any county of the State for the purpose of macadamizing or otherwise improving public roads or bridges of magisterial districts of said county.

No. 502. House bill authorizing the board of supervisors of Carroll county to make an appropriation of $2,000.00 to be applied to the construction of a bridge at Harrison Farris ford in Pulaski county.

No. 506. House bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to enact special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and bridges of the said county.

No. 507. House bill authorizing the school board of South Hill school district, in the county of Mecklenburg, to borrow money, not to exceed $45,000, for building a schoolhouse in the town of South Hill in said district.

No. 509. House bill to prohibit the making of permanent, uncovered excavations exceeding 5,000 square feet in area, and five feet in depth, in Arlington county, Virginia, within half a mile of a subdivision which has been dedicated and recorded for five years prior to the passage of this act and to prohibit the making of such excavations within said county unless said excavations will, without pumping or other artificial aid, drain to some natural drainage course or outlet.

No. 510. House bill to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the town of Waynesboro.

No. 512. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 6, 9, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, approved January 11, 1898, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 7 and 8 of said charter.

No. 442. House bill to create Arlington sanitary district, imposing certain duties of the board of supervisors, granting to said board the power of eminent domain and authorizing the issuance of bonds upon certain conditions and to repeal an act approved March 25, 1920; having been printed, was, on motion of MR. SMITH of Alexandria, taken up out of its order on the calendar.

The bill was read at length a second time.

The substitute proposed by the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns was agreed to.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed.

No. 508. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 25, 1920, and entitled an act to erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the world war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public streets and highways, upon certain conditions, a strip of land fifteen feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol square in the city

of Richmond, needed by the city of Richmond for the widening of Bank street. To allow the library board to borrow money, issue bonds therefor and secure the same; and to allow the State Board of Education, from time to time, to invest the cash in hand of the Literary Fund in said bonds; having been printed, was, on motion of MR. HENLEY, taken up out of its order on the calendar and read at length a second time.

The question being on the engrossment and third reading of the bill was put and decided in the negative.

On motion of MR. REW, the House adjourned.

JOHN W. WILLIAMS,

RICHARD L. BREWER, JR., Speaker of the House of Delegates.

Clerk of the House of Delegates.

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922.

Prayer by MR. TROLINGER, the member from Pulaski.

On motion of MR. COMMINS, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with.

THE SPEAKER and Clerk signed the Journal as provided by Rule 3.

A communication from the Senate, by their Clerk, was read as follows:

In Senate, March 6, 1922. The Senate has passed House bills entitled an act to authorize and regulate the recordation of plats subdividing tracts of land situated within the corporate limits of any city containing more than thirty thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census, or within ten miles of the corporate limits of any such city, into three or more parts for the purpose of laying out any town, or city, or any addition thereto, or any part thereof or suburban lots, and to declare the effect of such recordation; and to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the recordation of plats for the subdivision of land into lots showing on said plats streets. and alleys, within' or within fifteen miles from, the limits of any city having a population of not less than sixty thousand nor more than one hundred and ten thousand inhabitants, except in conformity with the plan provided by such city, approved March 27, 1918, No. 121; an act to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920, No. 137; an act to amend and re-enact sections 2881 and 2882 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the incorporation of towns by the circuit courts of this State, No. 258; an act to amend the charter of the town of Pennington Gap, Lee county, Virginia, to