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te the charges of Express Companies. Mr. Walker, of Augusta, offered the following resolution: It being understood that the President of the Confederate States, in a communication this day addressed to the House of Representatives, claims the right, and is practically exercising the power, to arrest and imprison citizens of Virginia, unconnected with the army and navy, for offences not known to the laws of Virginia or of the Confederate States, but constituted wholly by military orders-- Resolved by the Senate and House of Delegates, That the Governor of Virginia be requested to cause the Attorney General and the Attorneys for the Commonwealth to institute judicial proceedings, for the purpose of testing the right so asserted by the President, and of protecting the citizens of Virginia. The resolution, on motion of Mr. Robertson, of Richmond, was laid over until to-day. The Salt bill next came up, and pending the consideration of the same, the House adjourned.