and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars" be not agreed to. (9) We recommend that the amendment to section 35, page 22, line 16, after the word "boat" inserting the following: "Or the personal baggage of any person wherever situated, unless such person be found in the act of violating the provisions of this law, provided that where any intoxicating liquor is found in any wagon, buggy, automobile, or any similar conveyance, it shall be lawful to examine the baggage therein contained," be not agreed to, but that said amendment be stricken out, and in lieu thereof the following amendment to said section 35, on page 22, in line 16, after the word "boat" be inserted, to-wit: "Or any hand bag, suit case or trunk on any train or passenger steamboat, or the usual and ordinary hand baggage of pedestrians, unless such person be found in the act of violating the provisions of the prohibition laws of the State, but it shall be lawful to inspect and examine any such baggage while same shall be carried or found in any boat, automobile or other vehicle herein named, except a train or passenger boat." (10) We further recommend that all other Senate amendments to said House bill No. 252 be agreed to. (11) Having restored a part of section 63 as section 63, and having eliminated the provision with reference to the purchasing of ardent spirits contrary to law, we recommend that so much of the amendment to the title as is contained in the following words be stricken out: "And strike out section 63, and after the words 'giving away of ardent spirits' add the purchasing of ardent spirits. contrary to law, and to repeal section 63 of the prohibition act."" and further amend title by adding between the sections 32 and 41 in the title, the figures "35" and sections 5% and 5% inserted where they serially belong. Given under our hands this the seventh day of March. nineteen hundred and twenty-two. Respectfully submitted, G. WALTER MAPP, A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, ROBERT L. LEEDY. Conferees on the part of the Senate. PARKE P. DEANS, JAS. P. JONES, Conferees on the part of the House of Delegates. The report of the committee of conference was adopted-yeas, 77; nays, 5. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Bagby, Beatie, Boatwright, Bowles, Bright, Brown, Israel, Brown, J. Sinclair, Brown, Mayo C., Campbell, Carpenter, Carter, Commins, Craft, Deans, DeFriece, Dotson, Eller, Ewell, Farrier, Fletcher, Ford, Gibson, Graham, Gray, J. Walter, Haddon, Hall, Henderson, Hicks, W. F., Hoover, C. N., Hoover, W. C., Horner, Horsley, Hurt, Hylton, Jeffreys, Jones, Edwin B., Jones, James P., Keen, Long, Massey, McLean, McNutt, Norris, Nottingham, Owen, Ozlin, Page, Patterson, Pratt, Prince, Ramey, Ramsey, Rew, Richards, Rodgers, Shepherd, Smith, Alfred C., Smith, Charles F., Smith, E. Hugh, Smith, Lemuel F., Snell, Stinson, Story, Stuart, Trolinger, Turner, Tyler, Warren, B. S., Warren, C. R., Wilkins, Williams, Willis, Woodville, Wright. Mr. Speaker-77. NAYS-Messrs. Fuller, Gordon, Moffett, Sinclair, Smith, Charles Henry-5. MR. DEANS moved to reconsider the vote by which the report of the committee of conference was adopted, which was rejected. Ordered that MR. DEANS inform the Senate. A message was received from the Senate by MR. ROBERTSON, who informed the House that the Senate had adopted the report of the committee of conference. No. 529. House bill authorizing the boards of supervisors of Princess Anne and Isle of Wight counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit was, on motion of MR. EWELL, taken up out of its order on the calendar. MR. EWELL moved to dispense with the several readings and printing of the bill required by section 50 of the Constitution, which was agreed to-yeas, 57; nays, 0. The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Bagby, Boatwright, Bondurant, Bowles, Bright, Brown, Mayo C., Carter, Commins, Deans, Dotson, Eller, Ewell, Ford, Fuller, Gibson, Graham, Gray, J. Walter, Groome, Haddon, Hoover, C. N., Hoover, W. C., Horner, Horsley, Hurt, Hylton, Jeffreys, Jones, Edwin B., Jones, James P., Koger, McNutt, Owen, Özlin, Prince, Ramey, Ramsey, Richards, Shepherd, Smith, Alfred C., Smith, Charles F., Smith, Charles Henry, Snell, St. Clair, Stuart, Taylor, Trolinger, Turner, Tyler, Warren, B. S., Williams, Willis, Woods, Woodville, Wright, Young, Mr. Speaker-57. 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, 69; nays, 0. The vote required by the Constitution, this being an emergency act, was recorded as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Bagby, Boatwright, Bondurant, Bright, Brown, Israel, Brown, J. Sinclair, Brown, Mayo C., Campbell, Carter, Commins, Craft, Deans, Dotson, Eller, Ewell, Fletcher, Ford, Gibson, Graham, Gray, J. Walter, Groome, Haddon, Hall, Henderson, Henley, Hicks, W. F., Hoover, C. N., Hoover, W. C., Horsley, Hurt, Hylton, Jones, Edwin B., Jones, James P., Long, McCaleb, McCotter, McNutt, Moffett, Owen, Prince, Ramey, Ramsey, Rew, Richards, Shepherd, Sinclair, Smith, Alfred C., Smith, Charles F., Smith, Charles Henry, Smith, E. Hugh, Smith, Lemuel F., Snell, St. Clair, Story, Stuart. Taylor, Trolinger, Turner, Tyler, Warren, B. S., Warren, C. R., Willis, Woods, Woodville, Wright, Young, Mr. Speaker-69. MR. EWELL moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, which was rejected. Ordered that MR. EWELL carry the bill to the Senate and request their concurrence. All other business having been suspended, THE SPEAKER, in the presence of the House, signed the following bills, which had been passed by both houses and duly enrolled, the titles of said bills having been publicly read: No. 320. House bill authorizing the board of supervisors of Russell county to borrow money, not to exceed $50,000, for the purpose of making improvements to the courthouse and jail in said county. No. 245. Senate bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide how a charter of a town granted by a court may be annulled and repealed, approved March 4, 1920. No. 301. Senate bill to amend and re-enact sections 41 and 43 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 provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended. No. 365. Senate bill to amend sections 80, 81 and 82 of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, to provide for a sinking fund and the management thereof by a board of sinking fund commissioners. No. 137. House bill to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920. No. 415. Senate bill to validate, ratify and confirm an order of the circuit court of Greene county incorporating the town of Stanardsville in the said county; to provide that the boundaries of the said town shall be set out in said order; to validate an election held in pursuance of said order, all ordinances of the council of said town, and all official acts of the mayor of said town and its council; to provide that the said town shall have certain officers, chosen by the council, and to confer upon it certain powers concerning them; also to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Stanardsville, in the county of Green, approved February 5, 1867, and an act entitled an act to change and define the corporate limits of the town of Stanardsville, in the county of Greene, and for other purposes, approved March 31, 1873. No. 306. Senate bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Bath county to issue bonds or other obligations of said county for a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of financing road construction in said county, and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof at maturity. No. 368. Senate bill to authorize the town of Altavista, in the county of Campbell, to sell the McMinnis farm of about 207 acres in Pittsylvania county. No. 400. Senate bill to authorize and empower the board of visitors of R. E. Lee Camp soldiers' home to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of installing a new heating plant at the soldiers' home. No. 352. Senate bill authorizing the board of supervisors of Stafford county to discontinue the levy heretofore laid in said couny known as the bridge levy upon certain conditions. No. 303. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 5167 of the Code of Virginia. No. 412. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 2872 of the Code of Virginia. No. 345. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 6355 of the Code of Virginia. No. 373. Senate bill creating the office of assistant attorney for the Commonwealth for the city of Norfolk, Virginia, and providing for his appointment and duties. No. 351. Senate bill prohibiting any person from shooting from any duck blind belonging to another in the water of the Potomac river adjoining the county of Stafford. No. 369. Senate bill to authorize and empower the council of the town of Altavista, in the county of Campbell, to borrow money and issue bonds for the enlargement and other improvement of its water supply system, sewers and streets. No. 270. House bill to amend and re-enact section 3257 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal section 3163 of the Code of Virginia. No. 258. House bill 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. 439. House bill to amend and re-enact section 2978 of the Code of Virginia. No. 336. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 134 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, as heretofore amended. No. 121. House bill 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. 438. House bill to provide for the commitment of vagrants or persons who are physically incapable of supporting themselves, and in destitute circumstances, to poorhouses or like institutions. No. 386. House bill to amend the charter of the town of Pennington Gap, Lee county, Virginia, by adding thereto seven new sections to be numbered 20 to 26, inclusive; to authorize, under certain conditions, the issuing of bonds for street, road, sewer, and water supply purposes; and to provide for the procurement, installation and maintenance of a water supply system. The hour of 2 o'clock having arrived, the chair was vacated until 4 o'clock P. M. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1922-AFTERNOON SESSION. The hour of 4 o'clock P. M. having arrived, the chair was resumed. A message was received from the Senate by MR. MAPP, who informed the House that the Senate had passed Senate bills entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Accomac and Northampton counties to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the thirty-first judicial circuit, No. 437; and an act authorizing the supervisors of Alleghany. Botetourt, Bath and Craig counties and the council of the city of Clifton Forge to make appropriations for the expenses of the judge of the nineteenth judicial circuit, No. 438; in which they request the concurrence of the House. The bills were referred to the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns. A message was received from the Senate by DR. DOTSON, who informed the House that the Senate had agreed to amendments two and three and had rejected amendments one and four proposed by the House to Senate bill entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 79 of the Code of Virginia, No. 77. THE SPEAKER laid the bill before the House. MR. PAGE moved that the House recede from its amendments one and four, which was agreed to. MR. PAGE moved to reconsider the vote by which the House receded from its amendments, which was rejected. Ordered that MR. PAGE inform the Senate. No. 46. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 3206 of the Code of Virginia-came up. On motions severally made by MESSRS. FARRIER and WILLIS, the bill was severally amended. |