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General Assembly of Virginia
extra session.
Senate.

Wednesday, May 14, 1862.
This body was in secret session from 1 o'clock to 3 P. M. continuously, and again in the afternoon.


Secret session.

The two military bills (reported in tall in the Enquirer, of yesterday) were discussed at lengths in secret session and adopted, with a few immaterial amendments.

The discussion upon these bills — the ten thousand brigade and the home guard bills — was of a character which would have been not only interesting, but instructive to the public. We accord to Dr. Worsham, of Dinwiddie, all the praise that we can give, in the capacity of journalists, for contending against the secrecy of the debate. We know that it was important, and its character was of that especial kind the knowledge of which the public would be greatly beneficed by.

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