Virginia Legislature.
[extra session.]Senate.
House bill authorizing the settlement of the claim of Captain James E. Smith and his company of partisan rangers, for services in Western Virginia, was read twice and referred to the Military Committee.
House bill to amend the twenty-fifth section of chapter sixty-one of the Code, relating to tolls on persons in the military and naval service and on their arms, etc., was read twice and referred to the Committee on Roads.
The following bills were read the usual number of times and passed:
House bill authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Tucker Carrington for a slave condemned to be executed in Mecklenburg. Allows the sum of two thousand eight hundred dollars.
House bill for the relief of Joseph E. Bullock, of Fluvanna county, allowing the payment of a sum of money for a slave condemned to be executed.
House bill making an appropriation to the Central Lunatic Asylum.
Senate bill, amended by the House, relative to the claim of Susan Christian against the Central Lunatic Asylum.
Mr. Collier addressed the Senate at some length in explanation of his course, the question before the Senate being a motion to discharge the Committee on Confederate Relations from the further consideration of a subject which had been referred to it. After some further debate, the committee was discharged.
Mr. Dickinson, from the Committee on Confederate Relations, to whom had been referred the various patriotic resolutions adopted by the Virginia troops in the Confederate service, submitted the following joint resolutions in response thereto:
- "1. That the General Assembly have received, with pride, the expressions of devotion on the part of our soldiers to the great cause of liberty and independence, in which they have endured so much of hardships, of toil and of danger.
- "2. That, gratefully and proudly appreciating the fortitude of our brave defenders, which has done immortal honor to their own and their country's name, the General Assembly renew to them the assurance of a cordial co-operation and support in their determination to prosecute to a successful issue the struggle for independence so bravely begun and so manfully maintained."
House of Delegates.
Mr. Anderson, from the Military Committee, reported a resolution of thanks to the Virginia soldiers in the army in response to their manifestations of patriotism and valor, as shown in the resolutions adopted by them, read in the House, and published in the press of Richmond.Mr. Dyerle introduced a resolution looking to the development of the internal resources of the State; to the cultivation of everything useful, and the exclusion of everything that does not enter into our necessities.
Mr. Saunders, of Richmond, from the committee appointed to confer with the Confederate authorities in regard to the modification of the tobacco order, submitted a report, which was satisfactory.
Mr. Saunders reported a resolution looking to the introduction of a bill to provide a volunteer police force for the city of Richmond in place of the present organization, and the resolution was adopted.
The bill to authorize the Central Lunatic Asylum to obtain cotton, cotton cloth and cotton cards, and to exchange the same for supplies, was taken up and passed.
The defence bill to organize and enroll the Home Guard for local defence was taken up, on motion of Mr. Anderson, and considered at length.
The House, at 1 o'clock, went into secret session, and remained therein for a short time.
When the doors re-opened, the consideration of the military bill was resumed and advanced to its engrossment.
