ford, Daniel, Dickinson, Edmondson, Garrett, Gray, Green, Gregory, Gunn, Hoffman, Howle, Hunley, Jennings, Kelley, Lacy, Lambeth, Latane, H. E. Lee, H. C. Lowry, Lyell, McNeil, Mitchell, Moncure, Moss, Owen, Owens, Pannill, Person, Phillips, Powell, Powers, Rew, Robson, Royalı, Sayers, Scott, Slaughter, Blackburn Smith, Charles Smith, Stearnes, Sterrett, Stubbs, Sydnor, Thomason, Thomson, Thornhill, Turpin, Walker, Wallace, Willeroy, Withers and Wood-68.

NAYS-None.

No. 33, House bill to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental expenses of the General Assembly, and to appropriate money for the same- -yeas, 68; nays, none.

The vote required by the Constitution, this being an emergency act, was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Barnes, Beatie, Bird, Boaz, Bowman, Brooks, Bruce, Bryant, Cardwell, Clark, Clarke, Collier, Cox, Crawford, Daniel, Edmondson, Garrett, Gray, Green, Gregory, Gunn, Harrison, Hoffman, Hoge, Howle, Hunley, Jennings, Kelley, Lacy, Lambeth, Latane, H. E. Lee, J. M. Lewis, H. C. Lowry, Lyell, Mays, McNeil, Mitchell, Moncure, Moss, Owen, Owens, Pannill, Person, Phillips, Powell, Powers, Read, Rew, Robson, Royall, Slaughter, Charles Smith, Stearnes, Sterrett, Stubbs, Sydnor, Thomason, Thomson, Thornhill, Turpin, Walker, Wallace, Watson, Weaver, Willeroy, and Withers-68.

NAYS-None.

No. 34, House bill to impose a license tax upon gypsies and like strolling companies-yeas, 47; nays, 11.

The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Barnes, Beatie, Bird, Bowman, Bruce, Cardwell, Caton, Clarke, Collier, Cox, Daniel, Edmondson, Gregory, Gunn, Harrison, Howl. Hunley, Jordan, Lacy. Latane, J. M. Lewis, Lyell, McNeil. Moncure. Moss, Owens, Panniil, Phillips, Powell, Read, Rew, Rosenegk, Robson. Sayers. Slaughter, Blackburn Smith. Charles Smith, Stearnes, Sterrett, Stubbs. Sydnor, Thomason, Thomson, Thornhill, Turpin, Weaver and Withers-17.

NAYS-Messrs. Anderson, Dickinson, Green, Hoffman, Hoge, Kelley, Mitchell, Owen, Royall, Wallace and Willeroy-11.

No. 36, House bill to require the owners or lessees of public halls, theatres and opera-houses to provide suitable and sufficient exits for the safety of persons attending all gatherings therein--yeas, 62; nays, none.

The vote required by the Constitution was recorded as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Barnes. Beatie, Bird. Boaz, Brooks. Bruce, Cardwell, Caton, Clark, Clarke, Coleman, Cox, Crawford, Daniel, Dickinson. Edmondson, Garrett, Gregory, Gunn, Harrison, Hoffman, Hoge, Howle, Hunley. ·

Jennings, Jordan, Kelley, Lacy, Lambeth, Latane, H. E. Lee, J. M. Lewis, H. C. Lowry, Lyell, Mays, McNeil, Mitchell, Moncure, Moss, Owens, Pannill, Person, Phillips, Powell, Read, Rew, Rosenegk, Royall, Slaughter, Charles Smith, Stearnes, Sterrett, Stubbs, Sydnor, Thomson, Thornhill, Turpin, Wallace, Weaver, Willeroy and Withers-62.

NAYS-None.

Motions severally made to reconsider the votes by which Nos. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 36 House bills were passed were rejected.

The following Senate bills were read at length a second time:

No. 25, Senate bill to provide for the correction of errors in judgments and proceeding in cases pending or decided in the county courts on or prior to February 1, 1904, and for the disposition of such cases where further proceedings are necessary.

No. 32, Senate bill to amend and re-enact sections 4016 and 4018 of the Code of Virginia, and amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 2, 1904, which is section 553 of the Acts of the special session of 1903-1904, concerning the trial of criminal cases and juries therefor.

No. 45, Senate bill to allow notaries public of this State under the age of twenty-one years to sue for fees due them as notaries.

No. 48, Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 3055 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.

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

No. 23, House bill to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 5, 1900, entitled an act to authorize and empower the State Board of Fisheries to employ a surveyor or surveyors, and making an appropriation for compensation of the same, approved March 28, 1902. (Amended.)

No. 25, House bill to have plats of oyster planting grounds endorsed "Abandoned" under certain conditions. (Amended.)

No. 37, House bill to extend the terms of commissioners of accounts and to authorize them to complete such accounts as are now before them for settlement and return them to their respective circuit courts. (Amended.)

On motion of Mr. TURPIN, the House adjourned.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1904.

Prayer by Rev. Paul L. Menzel, of the German Lutheran Church. On motion of Mr. OWENS, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with.

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

In Senate, February 1, 1904.

The Senate has passed Senate bill entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections, and authorizing cemetery companies or trustees holding title to ceineteries or burial grounds to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise or gift, No. 51.

In which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.

No. 51, Senate bill was referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

No. 40, House bill to provide for official receipts for fines, having been considered by the committee in session, was reported from the Committee on Finance.

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

No. 41, House bill to repeal sections 1185, 1186, 1187, 1188 and 1189, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1892, and by an act approved January 31, 1898, sections 1190, 1191 and 1192, as amended by an act approved February 3, 1888, and by an act approved February 28, 1890, and by an act approved March 6, 1896, and by an act approved February 26, 1900; sections 1193, 1194, 1195 and 1196, as amended by an act approved February 3, 1888, and by an act approved February 28, 1890, and by an act approved March 5, 1896, and by an act approved February 26, 1900; section 1197, as amended by an act approved February 2, 1892, and by an act approved February 24, 1898; sections 1198, 1199, 1200, 1201 and 1202, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1898; sections 1203, 1204, 1207, 1213, 1215, 1216, 1217, 1218, 1219 and 1220, as amended by an act approved December 20, 1897; sections 1221, 1222. 1223, 1225, 1226 and 1227, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1890; sections 1228, 1229 and 1230, as amended by an act approved February 12, 1894; sections 1231, 1232, 1233 and 1234, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892; sections 1235, 1237, 1240, 1241, 1242 and 1243, as amended by an act approved

February 17, 1898, and by an act approved March 2, 1900; sections 1244 and 1245, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act approved March 3, 1898; sections 1246, 1247, 1248, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1255 and 1256, chapter 51 of the Code, relating to works of internal improvement.

No. 42, House bill to amend and re-enact section 10 of "an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904," and providing for the continuance of annual tolls on turnpikes.

No. 43, House bill construing the term "railroad" and the term "railway" to mean the same thing in law.

Mr. READ offered the following resolution:

Resolved, The House of Delegates of Virginia, having learned with deep regret of the accident which has befallen Dr. Bryant, a member of this body from the county of Southampton, do hereby express its sympathy and earnest hope for his restoration and early return to his duties in this body.

Which was agreed to.

The following were presented and referred under Rule 37:

To the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation: By Mr. ANDERSON: A bill to pay J. B. Woodward and Jno. P. Goss $2,500 each for services rendered in the matter of settlement of the claim of Virginia vs. United States for advances made during the war of 1812.

By Mr. GRAY: A bill to provide for working the convicts at the State Farm upon the public roads in the county of Goochland, and for constructing and maintaining an exhibit of a good county road.

By Mr. ROSENEGK: A bill to authorize Brookland school district of Henrico county to borrow $5,000 and issue bonds therefor to be used for paying for a school-house at Dumbarton, in said county.

To the Committee on Labor and the Poor:

By Mr. THOMASON: A bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4, 1898, amending and re-enacting sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for a bureau of labor and industrial statistics, and defining the duties of said bureau.

To the Committee for Courts of Justice:

By Mr. CATON: A bill to amend and re-enact section 3129 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1903.

By Mr. CATON: A bill to amend section 2564 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the sale of lands when partitions cannot be made.

By Mr. CATON: A bill to amend and re-enact section 3956 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 17, 1898, and by an act approved February 9, 1900, and by an act approved February 16, 1901; section 3958 and section 4106, as amended by an act approved February 23, 1894, and by an act approved March 5, 1896, and by an act approved February 9, 1898, and by an act approved March 5, 1900, and by an act approved December 10, 1903.

To the Committee on Privileges and Elections:

By Mr. GREEN: A bill to prescribe an oath to be taken by candidates for nomination and election to public office.

By Mr. HOGE: A bill to amend and re-enact section 64 of an act to repeal sections 63 and 66, and to amend and re-enact certain other sections of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 8, 1903, in relation to the appointment of judges and clerks of election.

To the Committee on Schools and Colleges:

By Mr. DUKE: A bill to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3828 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the sale of intoxicating liquors to minors or certain students, approved February 6, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1898, and to regulate the sale, barter, giving or furnishing of spirituous or intoxicating or malt liquors to such minors and students.

To the Committee on Asylums and Prisons:

By Mr. DANIEL: A bill to provide for expenses of removing, supporting and maintaining insane persons; how paid.

To the Committee on Chesapeake and its Tributaries:

By Mr. CATON: A bill to protect bass in the bays, creeks, inlets and streams tributary to the Potomac river, in the State of Virginia. By Mr. JORDAN: A bill to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code, as amended by an act approved May 5, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 18, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to fishing in the waters of the Commonwealth; to provide for levying a license tax on fishing devices, and for the collection thereof, and to extend the provisions of said act to all the waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1902, and to repeal section 2088 of the Code.

To the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation:

By Mr. CATON: A bill to repeal sections 1304, 1305 and 1309 of the Code of Virginia.