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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Truth of history. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia . (search)
General Assembly of Virginia. Tuesday, January 20th, 1863.
Senate.--The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock by Lieutenant Governor Montague, and opened with prayer by Rev. Chas. H. Read, of the Presbyterian Church.
A communication from the Governor was presented, enclosing a notice issued by an Abolition General called Milroy, purporting to command at Winchester, in this State, issued on the 5th of January, relative to the execution of the emancipation proclamation of Lincoln.
The strictures of the Governor on the paper of Milroy, and the proclamation which called if forth, were just and severe.
Five hundred copies of the respective documents were ordered to be struck off for the use of the Senate, and the same was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.
Milroy's notice reads as follows:
Freedom to slaves.
Whereas the President of the United States, on the first day of the present month, issued his proclamation declaring "that all persons held
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia . (search)
General Assembly of Virginia.
Thursday, January 22, 1863.
Senate--The Senate was called to order at 12 o'clock M., by Lieutenant Governor Montague, and opened with prayer by Rev. C. H. Read.
The Senate were notified of the revival by the House of the Joint Committee on Sat, appointed at the last session.
A resolution offered by Mr. Douglas, declaring that since the 13th of April, 1861, Lieutenant E. S. Gay be regarded as Commandant of the Public Guard, and receive the pay and allowances provided by section 4, chapter 33, of the Code, so long as he may act under his present orders was agreed to, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
The bill authorizing Sarah J. Thornton to remove certain slaves from the Commonwealth of Virginia to North Carolina was passed.
The following resolution of inquiry into expediency was offered by Mr. Christian, of Middlesex: Of amending the act passed October 3d, 1862, entitled "An act to further provide for the pu