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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
om Jefferson, (Mr. Isbell.) It was known that a body of men were ready to enlist for the purpose of serving on the works about Richmond, and he urged the necessity of the adoption of his amendment to meet this and similar cases. Mr. Armstrong viewed the subject as one of great importance, and he desired time and opportunity to give it full consideration — He moved that the bill be laid upon the table, and that its further consideration be in secret session. At the suggestion of Mr. Robertson, the motion was so changed as to make the bill and amendments the order of the day for Thursday, in secret session, and agreed to. Resolutions of inquiry. The following resolutions, instructing the standing committees to inquire into expediency of legislation upon the subjects mentioned, were adopted: By Mr. Armstrong.--Of making an appropriation to relieve the wants of such of the loyal citizens of Virginia as have been arrested and imprisoned by the United States authorit
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
on Finance. The bill compensating E. J. Buckwater and Wm. H. Pate, for keeping certain negro convicts in the county of Bedford, was passed. The following resolutions of inquiry into expediency were referred to the appropriate committees: By Mr. Taylor: Of making South Anna river, from Bush Creek Ford to its junction with the North Anna, in the county of Hanover, a lawful fence. By Mr. Hopkins--Of incorporating Liberty Hall Academy, in the county of Rockingham. By Mr. Robertson, of Berkeley: Of providing by law "for the trial of criminal cases by juries of a vicinage other than that in which the offence is charged to have been committed when a trial in such vicinage cannot be conveniently had by reason of the presence of the public enemy, or the prevalence among the people therein of sentiments unfriendly to the enforcement of public justice"--as authorized by the Convention. The bill to provide for the construction between the Orange and Alexandria and Ma