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The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Mr. Paxton moved to insert an independent section, imposing a tax on the owners of oyster plantations for each bushel taken from such plantation. On motion of Mr. Finney, the amendment was indefinitely postponed. The report of the Finance Committee, to whom had been referred the subject of taxing all private acts of Assembly passed at the present session, and which may hereafter be passed by the General Assembly, was considered, and discussed by Messrs. Brannon, Coghill, Paxton, Neeson, and others. Mr. Paxton moved to lay on the table. Lost. Mr. Newman proposed to amend by exempting all bills passed at the present session from the tax. Rejected. Mr. Brannon moved to amend so as to fix a specific tax on such bills as have been, and may be passed at the present session. Lost. The amendment as reported was then passed. Mr. Thomas, of Fairfax, moved to amend the 4th section, which imposes forty cents on every hundred dollars' worth of lands, lots and imp