The Legislature.
In the Senate yesterday a joint resolution, looking to the election of 1st and 2d Auditor's Treasurer, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and other State officers, was submitted. Laid over under the rules.After the adoption of several resolutions of inquiry the Senate passed the bill providing for the preservation of the records of the counties of Warwick. Elizabeth City, James City, and the city of Williamsburg.
The Senate went into secret session on the same subject which engaged their attention on the previous day.
Adjourned.
In the House, the Committee on Confederate Relations reported a joint resolution, as a substitute for the Senate resolution upon the same subject, urging upon Virginia representatives in Congress to secure the passage of an act providing remuneration to Virginia slaveholders and others who have lost slaves in the service of the Confederate States.
The joint resolution of the Senate, remonstrating against the extension of the conscript act by Congress, to which a substitute act by Congress, to which a substitute had been offered in the House, gave rise to considerable discussion. On motion, the subject was indefinitely postponed.
The substitute of the House for the joint resolution of the Senate relating to the subject of payment for slaves lost in the Confederate service, was amended and discussed; sending which.
The House adjourned.
