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The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], A Washington Judge and a Lawyer at Loggerheads. (search)
ing, to be adopted as a joint rule: "There shall be a Joint Committee on Printing, composed of three members of the Senate and five members of the House, whose duty it shall be to make contracts for the printing of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and to supervise the proper execution thereof, and of all printing done for the State." Laid over under the rules. Mr. Lee introduced a bill to authorize the Richmond and York River Railroad Company to borrow money. Mr. Straughan moved to take from the table his resolution that a committee of seven be appointed to take into consideration the propriety of calling a convention, to alter and reenact the Constitution of the State. Mr. Grattan hoped it would not be the pleasure of the House to take up the resolution. The House refused to take up the resolution. Senate bill providing that the principal office of the National Express Company shall be established in Richmond, unless moved to some other poi