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secret session. The doors being opened the Senate took a recess till 2½ P. M, when a resolution of concurrence being sent up from the House postponing the day of adjournment, it was considered and passed. The injunction of secrecy was removed from an act passed by Congress in secret session as related to the time of meeting of the next regular Congress. First Monday in November, 1864, is the time fixed for the next regular meeting. House of Representatives.--Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Doggett, of the M. E. Church. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, giving his reasons for failing to approve and sign a bill passed at the last session, to provide and organize a general staff for the armies in the field to serve during the war. The message was referred to the Military Committee, and ordered to be printed. House bill to provide for the election of representatives in Congress from the State of Tennessee, was taken up, and the Senate amendme
fficient transportation of troops and military supplies. Senate bill, with House amendments, to provide for the prompt publication of the laws of Congress, was considered and passed. Senate bill to provide supplies for the army, and to prescribe the mode of making impressments, was taken up and considered by sections. Pending the discussion of this bill the Senate resolved into secret executive session, and soon after adjourned. House of Representatives.--Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Doggett, of the M. E. Church. The Speaker laid before the House sundry communications from the President, transmitting certain estimates of the amount required for the support of Government, which were referred and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chilton, of Ala, from the special committee to investigate the charges against W. R. W. Cobb, member elect of the House from the 2d Congressional District of Alabama, reported that the charges of disloyalty were sustained, that it was manifest t
fused to concur in House amendments to the bill to punish lawlessness and repress irregularity in the cavalry. On motion, Mr, Sparrow asked for a committee of conference. Senate bill to provide for the establishment and payment of claims for property taken or informally impressed for the use of the Government, was taken up and considered. And pending its consideration the Senate resolved into secret session, and soon after adjourned. House of Representatives--Prayer by the Rev Dr. Doggett, of the M. E Church. House bill to establish certain post routes was taken up, and the Senate amendment concurred in. House bill to authorize the Judges of the District Courts in the Northern District of Georgia to change the places of holding said Courts, was taken up, and the Senate amendments were concurred in. Mr. Montague, of Va., offered a resolution instructing the Committee on the Medical Department to inquire into the expediency of increasing the allowances to pati
g Senate bill on the same subject for the House bill. House bill to increase the pay of the assistant clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives was postponed till to day. The Senate resumed the consideration of the Senate bill for the establishment and payment of claims for property taken for the use of the Government, which was amended and passed. The Senate then resolved into secret session and shortly after adjourned. House of Representatives.--Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Doggett, of the M. E. Church. The bill to amend the act to regulate furloughs and discharges in hospitals was taken up and passed, with an amendment. Mr. Hartridge, of Ga., from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill to amend the act imposing regulations upon foreign commerce and providing for the public defence. It removes the restrictions upon vessels owned or chartered by States to export any of their products or to import supplies for the use of those States exclusively.
xchange of full files of the daily public journals of the Confederate States with those of England and France in all instance where the publishers shall agree to furnish such files regularly for that purpose free of cost to the Confederate States. The bill to authorize the impressment of the railroad iron, equipments, and rolling stock of railroad companies, was taken up, and pending its consideration, On motion, the Senate adjourned. House of Representatives--Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Doggett, of the M. E. Church. On motion of Mr. Miles, of S. C., the House insisted on its amendments to the Senate bill to provide for the compensation of non-commissioned officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines on detailed service, and asked a committee of conference. Mr. Farrow, of S. C., from the Committee on Accounts, reported a resolution to credit R. H. Wyane, Doorkeeper of the House, with eighteen hundred dollars, the amount abstracted from him without his fault. The resolu
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Clothing for the Confederate prisoners. (search)
Virginia Legislature. Senate. Wednesday, December 7, 1864. At 12 o'clock M. the Senate was called to order by Lieutenant-Governor Samuel Price, of Greenbrier. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett, of Centenary Church. The proclamation of the Governor calling the Legislature together was then read, after which the Clerk proceeded to call the roll, when only fourteen members responded to their names, and the President thereupon announced that no quorum was present. On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Bedford, the Senate adjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow. House of Delegates. The House convened at noon, with Speaker Hugh W. Sheffey in the chair. After the reading of the proclamation of the Governor convening the Legislature, the Clerk, William F. Gordon, Jr., called the roll; and only fifty-eight members answering to their names, the Speaker announced that no quorum was present; whereupon, on motion of Mr. Woolfolk, the House adjourned until to- morrow.
Virginia Legislature. [Extra Session] Senate. Thursday, December 8, 1864. The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock M. by the President, Lieutenant-Governor Samuel Price. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Doggett, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The roll was called, when only twenty-one members roll was called, when only twenty-one members answered to their names--five more being necessary to constitute a quorum. Adjourned. House of Delegates. The House of Delegates assembled at 12 o'clock, Mr. Sheffey in the chair. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Read. The roll having been called, a quorum was ascertained to be present. Mr. McCue, of Augusta, moved the appointment of a special committee to make arrangements for the establishment of a soldiers' home in the city of Richmond, which was agreed to. Mr. Pendleton submitted a series of resolutions in relation to the state of the country and expressive of the sentiments of the Legislature as to
Virginia Legislature. [Extra Session.] Senate. Saturday, December 10, 1864. The Senate met at 12 o'clock. Lieutenant-Governor Price in the chair.--Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Doggett. The roll being called by the Clerk, it was found that a quorum was present. Messrs. Johnson, Neeson, and Newman, of Mason, were appointed a committee to wait upon General Joseph E. Johnston, now in the city, and invite him to a privileged seat on the floor of the Senate during his sojourn here. A resolution, offered by Mr. Dillard, was adopted, instructing the Committee on Finance to report a tax bill as early as practicable, with a view to shorten the session by promptly maturing the legislation required on that subject. The hour of meeting was fixed hereafter at 12 o'clock; after which the Senate adjourned. House of Delegates. The House met at noon. Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Moore, of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Haymond, of Marion, introduced a resolution directi
Virginia Legislature. [Extra Session.] Senate. Monday, December 12, 1864. The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. A large number of resolutions were offered and referred to appropriate committees, among which were the following: Inquiring into the expediency of so amending the first section of the act for the support of soldiers' families as to authorize the impressment of supplies at rates greater than those fixed by the commissioners of the Confederate States. Inquiring into the expediency of so amending the duelling law as to relieve persons who may have incurred disabilities to hold office by engaging in duels since the the 10th day of January last. Also, so much of the Governor's message as relates to the subject of placing negroes as soldiers into the army of the Confederate States. A recess of ten minutes was agreed upon to allow the members to be introduced to General Joseph E. Johnston, who appeared in t
Virginia Legislature.[Extra session.] Senate. Tuesday, December 13, 1864. The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. A communication from the House of Delegates, on the subject of details of farmers, blacksmiths, etc., and calling for the appointment, by both Houses, of a committee on the subject of salt, was read and adopted; and Messrs. Ball, Douglas, Hart, Wiley, and Christian, of Augusta, were appointed by the Senate to concur with the committee on the part of the House on the subjects embraced in the communication. Resolutions were introduced, inquiring into the expediency of suspending, during the war, all laws requiring the removal of emancipated negroes beyond the Commonwealth; so amending the law for the relief of indigent soldiers' families as to require appropriations to be made from the State treasury instead of from the county treasuries; calling upon the Board of Public Works to make a report of the tariff of rates th