The Legislature.
The Senate, on Saturday, passed a bill authorizing the
County Courts, &c., to arm the
Militia and provide means therefore.
The report of the
Joint Committee on Federal Relations was amended and agreed to.
Ex-President Tyler,
Hon. Wm. C. Rives,
Judge J. W.
Brockenbrough, Hons.
Geo. W. Summers and
J. A. Seddon, were appointed Commissioners to visit
Washington to confer with others from sister States.
Ex-President Tyler was appointed a Commissioner to the
President, and
Judge John Robertson Commissioner to
South Carolina, to request them to abstain, during the pendency of negotiations, from all acts calculated to produce a collision.
Bills were reported authorizing the Northwestern Bank of
Virginia to establish an agency in
Richmond, and the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Company to construct a branch and increase its capital stock; also, a bill to provide for taking the sense of the people of
Henrico upon giving the
County Court authority to raise money for arming the county.
A resolution was introduced for amending the laws so as to regulate the issues of Bank notes by the amount of coin in their vaults; also, one declaring that, in the opinion of the General Assembly, every consideration of honor and interest demands that
Virginia shall unite her destinies with her sister slaveholding States of the
South.
It had previously been adopted in the
House, and passed the Senate unanimously.
A resolution was offered by
Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, and ordered to be printed, the last clause of which declares in favor of amending the
Constitution so as to withdraw the trust in regard to the
Territories entirely from the hands of Congress, and to provide for an equitable partition of the same, by assigning to the
South all now held, or hereafter to be acquired, South of the parallel of 36 30 North latitude, and to the non-slave-holding States all territory North of said parallel — the States created out of said territory to be admitted with or without slavery, as the people may elect.
The
House bill appropriating one million of dollars for State defence will be considered to-day.
The
House passed a bill to amend the act concerning trespasses on the
Potomac.
A resolution was introduced for amending the Code, so as to allow volunteer companies in contiguous counties to form battalions and regiments; also, one for requiring all property sold under execution to realize two-thirds of its value, and one for extending the time within which sheriffs are allowed to pay the taxes in the Treasury.
The Exchange, Farmers' and
Virginia Banks, used as places of deposit for State funds, reported their condition under a resolution heretofore adopted.
Among the petitions, were several in reference to the present attitude of public affairs and for authority to buy arms for the people of the counties.
