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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 22 (search)
General Assembly of Virginia.Extra session.Senate Monday, May 19, 1862. A message was received from the House announcing the passage of an act to amend and re-enact section 1st of chapter 162 of the Code of Virginia. On motion, the act was taken up and concurred in. A further message was received from the House of Delegates, announcing that it had agreed to a joint resolution to provide for the comfort of the inmates of the Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, and to a resolution directing the 2d Auditor to issue a warrant to L. D. Haymond. Mr. Armstrong offered the following joint resolution: Resolved, by the General Assembly, That the Auditing Board be and they are hereby instructed to pay such persons as were appointed instructors of artillery by General J. R. Carson, while in command of the militia at Winchester, such sums as the board may deem just and equitable, not exceeding the pay of a 1st Lieutenant, and the board present such claims to the Confeder
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
House of Delegates. Monday, May 19, 1862. The House met at 10 o'clock. On motion of Mr. Davis, of Campbell, a select committee of five was appointed to inquire into the expediency of amending the 1st section of chapter 162 of the Code of 1860, so as to remove the exemption from jury duty of all persons over sixty years of age. The committee immediately brought in a bill to the effect desired, and it was carried forward to its third reading and passed. On motion of Mr. Davis, of Campbell, the bill authorizing the raising of a force of 10,000 men under command of Gen. John B. Floyd, as amended, was ordered to be printed in the city newspapers. On motion of Mr. Burkes, the bill for the organization of a Home Guard was also ordered to be printed in the city papers. Mr. Greene offered a resolution, which was adopted, removing the injunction of secrecy from the proceedings of the House in Executive session, and authorizing the Clerk to publish the same as adde