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The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
s, late Sheriff of Ritchie county; for the relief of Benj. S. Reynolds, of Harrison county. Senate Bills Reported.--For the relief of Thomas L. Jordan, of Wayne county; directing the payment of certain interest to Emmet J. O'Brien; amending the Code so as further to encourage the volunteer system; legalizing proceedings on Sunday in certain cases. Free Negroes.--The special committee on free negroes reported a bill for the voluntary enslavement of certain negroes in the county of Appomattox. The bill for the voluntary enslavement of free negroes without compensation to the Common wealth was taken up and passed, after the following ryder had been attached to it, offered by Mr. Magruder, of Albemarle: "The master or mistress of any free negro heretofore voluntarily enslaved, shall have the same right to the custody, control and services of any infant child or children of any such negro so enslaved, as herein before provided for; but before the master or mistress shal
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
n opposition to said bill, and desired its reference to the proper committee. He regarded the inspectorship as nothing more than an unnecessary imposition of taxes upon the people of Virginia, and tending only to bestow upon certain persons large salaries for doing nothing. He was opposed to the principle of creating offices for the remuneration of political tricksters and party wire-workers. The bill was so committed. The special committee on free negroes reported a bill for the voluntary enslavement of certain free negroes in the county of Appomattox. Mr. Magruder offered a ryder to the bill for the voluntary enslavement of free negroes without compensation to the Commonwealth, which bill, with the ryder thereto attached, passed. The unfinished business of Tuesday coming up next in order, being the bill to ratify the sale of the James River and Kanawha Company, several amendments were offered thereto and discussed at length, after which the bill was ordered to its engrossment.