The Legislature.
Several bills were reported in the Senate on Saturday for the incorporation of Oil and Coal Companies. A number were ordered to be engrossed. Amendments were proposed to the bill amending the charter of the Bank of the Commonwealth. Bills were passed incorporating the Richmond City Insurance Company and Steam Sugar Refinery Company.The House passed Senate bill for the relief of Charity Casey, and for allowing the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Company to construct a branch. The Committee on Military Affairs through Mr. Jones, of Gloucester,) reported adversely to the proposition to allow volunteer companies to purchase arms, the quantity and quality to be defined by law, and paid for out of the public treasury. A special committee was instructed to inquire into the expediency of painting the Capitol. The bill exempting the Banks of the State from the penalty of suspending specie payments (previously passed by the Senate,) was taken up and considered, and certain proposed amendments being voted down, it was passed. An adjournment was effected pending a discussion on amendments proposed to the bill appropriating one million of dollars for State defence.
