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leton.--A resolution that the Committee on Roads, &c., inquire into the expediency of districting the State for the election of Commissioners of Public Works, or, if deemed expedient, to report a bill abolishing the Board of Public Works. Mr. Woodson submitted the following resolutions, prefaced by a preamble giving the history of the partition of Virginia: "Resolved by the General Assembly of Virginia, That it is the wish of the people of Virginia that the partition of the territoryt to this General Assembly, at the earliest practicable period, if they deem it expedient, a proposition, to be submitted to the State and people of West Virginia, for the accomplishment of the purpose indicated in the first resolution." Mr. Woodson advocated his resolutions. Mr. Garnett moved to lay the resolutions upon the table. The people of West Virginia had separated from us, and he was in favor of letting them go. His constituency were opposed to letting them come back, even