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General, Assembly of Virginia.
[extra session.]
Senate.

Friday, March 15, 1861.

The Senate was called to order at 10 o'clock, Mr. Brannon in the chair.

Bills Passed.--House bill to amend the act concerning District Free Schools in the county of Jefferson; Senate bill to incorporate the Queen's Point Division, No. 28, of the Sons of Temperance, in the county of Hampshire; Senate bill to authorize the sale of certain Church property in the town of Moorefield; Senate bill to amend the act Incorporating the Insurance Company of the to late of Virginia, of Richmond; Senate bill to incorporate the Oxford Cotton and Woolen Company; Senate bill for the incorporation of the Home Mining and Manufacturing Company; Senate bill to amend the first section of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Springfield and Deep Run Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company," passed the 12th of February, 1861; Senate bill allowing compensation to Parsha A. Fowlkes and Joseph C. Fowlkes, for the arrest of three convicts, escaped from the jail of Lunenburg county; Senate bill in relation to the devise made by Joel Osborne to the Alexandria, London and Hampshire Railroad Company.

Bill Reported.--Mr. Coghill asked leave to report a bill authorizing the amendment of the charter of Holliday's Cove Railroad Company.

On motion of Mr. Coghill, the Senate adjourned.

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