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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Christiansburg (Virginia, United States) or search for Christiansburg (Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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The Legislature.
In the Senate, yesterday, bills were passed increasing the pay of certain officers of the Public Guard; amending the law concerning births, deaths and marriages; incorporating the Common wealth Savings Bank of Richmond; incorporating the Virginia Car-Spring Company; extending the corporate limits of Fredericksburg and Christiansburg; a bill for the relief of the Virginia Rifles was rejected for the want of a constitutional majority; also, for the same reason, the bill authorizing a loan to the Western Military College.
On motion of Mr. Wickham, a special committee was appointed to inquire into the expediency of employing a portion of the Penitentiary convicts in quarrying and dressing granite, with a view to the erection of a new Capitol.
The time of the House was consumed in discussing a slight Senate amendment to House bill authorizing the issue of one million of dollars in Treasury notes.
The greater portion of the debate will be found in the regular re