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The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
General Assembly of Virginia.[Extra session.] Senate. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1861. Called to order at 12 o'clock--Mr. Brannon in the Chair. Prayer by the Rev. J. A. Duncan, of the Broad Street Methodist Church. A communication from the House announced the passage of numerous bills; among them the House bill, which had previously passed the Senate, appropriating one million of dollars for the defence of the State, with an amendment providing that $50,000 of the amount be expended in the erection of three arsenals, viz: one at some point on the Baltimore and Ohio, or Northwestern Virginia Railroad; one at some point near the Great Kanawha River, and another in the great valley at or near Winchester, for the defence of the Western and Northwestern frontier and Valley. Mr. Thomas, of Fairfax, wished to amend by providing for the establishment of an arsenal at Alexandria. Mr. Lynch desired one also at Lynchburg. The Chair decided that the bill could not be