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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
s taken up from its second reading, passed, and communicated to the Senate for the concurrence of that body. The bill authorizing the Exchange Bank of Virginia to declare a dividend was taken up and passed. The Senate bill changing the time of holding the general elections in Virginia from the second Thursday in May to the second Thursday in November, 1863, was, on motion, indefinitely postponed. The bill incorporating the Petersburg Southern Female College was passed. Mr. Newton, from the Committee on Confederate Relations, to whom was referred the subject of impressments by the General Government submitted the following report, which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed: 1st. That the power of impressments, to the extent necessary to the support and operation of our armies, is possessed by the Confederate and State Governments, in a state of war, but should be regulated by law. 2d. That, except in the extremely exigencies, it should not be