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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Virginia Legislature.[Extra session.] Senate. Friday, December 16, 1864. At noon, the Senate met. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. The joint resolution from the two Houses providing for the adjournment of the General Assembly from Wednesday, the 21st instant, to Wednesday, the 9th of January, 1865, was taken up and finally passed. The Committee for Courts of Justice were instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill prohibiting the institution of any suit in the courts of this Commonwealth upon any cause of action which may have been the subject of any suit in the pretended courts of the usurped governments in Western and Eastern Virginia; such suit, at recovery, to be placed in bar at any time before trial, and the same to constitute grounds for injunction. A resolution was offered by Mason, of Marion, instructing the Committee for Courts of Justice to consider the expediency of impressing, for public use, the coal mines near the city of Richmond
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Treasury Department, Confederate States of America, Richmond, November 28, 1864. (search)
Virginia Legislature.[extra session.] Senate. Saturday, December 17, 1864. After the usual organization of the Senate, the Rev. Dr. Doggett led in prayer. Mr. Christian, of Middlesex, offered a resolution having for its object the prevention of speculation in salt and other necessaries of life. Agreed to. A resolution inquiring into the propriety of making appropriations so as to continue at the Military Institute the full number of cadets, was presented by Mr. Ball. Agreed to and properly referred. On motion of Mr. Johnson the Senate adjourned. House of Delegates. The House met at 12 M., Opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Jeter. The bill to increase, one hundred per cent, the salaries of certain officers of the State Government was called up on its third reading and passed. The bill is retrospective as well as prospective in its action, and fixes upon July last as the date from whence the increase shall begin. After the introduction of
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], One Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
sation of postmasters, special agents and route agents, was considered and passed. House bill providing for the payment of postage on the delivery of mail matter was considered and passed. Senate bill making the pay of the marines the same as that of the infantry of the army was considered and passed. On motion, by Mr. Hill, of Georgia, the Senate resolved into secret session. House of Representatives. The House met at the usual hour, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Chair laid before the House a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury asking the passage of an act cancelling, before maturity, bonds for the payment of sequestrated property. Referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. McMullin, of Virginia, took the floor on his propositions on the subject of peace. Mr. E. M. Bruce, of Kentucky, moved to transfer the matter to secret session. All the resolutions on the subject were final
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
fifty years. Mr. Hunter offered a resolution, which was adopted, inquiring whether the funds appropriated for the relief of families of soldiers living within the lines, or under the control of the enemy, have, in any case, been fraudulently or improperly used or misapplied by any of the agents or other parties charged with the execution of the law. On motion of Mr. Douglas the Senate adjourned. House of delegates. The House met at noon, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. Mr. Tomlin introduced a resolution, for a bill from the Finance Committee, making it a felony for the buying or re-selling of gold and silver for the purpose of traffic within the Commonwealth of Virginia. The House took up and adopted a resolution, offered on Saturday, calling upon the Governor for information concerning the number of persons exempted by him because necessary to the State Government, their status, age and occupation, with other information that may be
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
ered and passed, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem and cancel, before maturity, all bonds and treasury notes received in payment for sequestrated property. Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported a bill, which was put on the calendar, providing that persons detailed or assigned as provost-marshals or clerks of military courts shall, if below the rank of major, receive the pay and allowances of a captain of cavalry. On motion, by Mr. Hill, of Georgia, the Senate resolved into secret session. House of Representatives. The House met at the usual hour, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The House took up and passed the bill to provide for the sequestration of the property of persons leaving the country to avoid military service. The House resolved into Committee of the Whole on the currency bill. Pending the consideration of the bill, the committee rose and the House adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
our independence is accomplished, were read and referred to the Committee on Confederate Relations. The bill increasing the salaries of certain officers of the State, passed by the House of Delegates, was so amended as to increase their compensation one hundred per cent., and thereupon was adopted by the Senate. The Senate then went into secret session; and when the doors were opened, adjourned. House of Delegates. The House met at noon, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. Among the bills reported was one to amend the charter of the city of Richmond. Mr. Anderson, from the Military Committee, reported a point resolution discharging from the First regiment of the second-class militia all members thereof over fifty years of age, unless they voluntarily continue therein. The resolution was passed. Mr. Magruder, from a special committee, reported a bill to secure an adequate support for families of indigent soldiers, and to secure an equaliza
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he navy, was passed. Senate bill appropriating six thousand dollars for the erection of additional buildings at Drewry's Bluff, for the accommodation of acting midshipmen, was passed. Senate bill to authorize the appointment of two naval constructors, at salaries of two thousand and six hundred dollars, was passed. On motion, the Senate resolved into secret session. House of Representatives. The House was called to order at the usual hour, and opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. The House refund to reconsider the vote by which it rejected the Senate proposition for a recess during Christmas week, by a vote of yeas, 36; nays, 47. The House passed the appropriation bill, providing for the deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of the officers, clerks and employees of the War Department. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the currency bill and having spend some time in the of the bill, the committee and the House adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ion the subject of impressments, was referred to the Committee on Confederate Relations. Mr. Christian, of Augusta, introduced a resolution providing that so much of the Governor's message as recommends the passage of a law against the distillation of dried fruit be referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.--Agreed to. On motion of Mr. Douglas, the Senate adjourned till the 4th of January. House of Delegates. The House met at noon, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. Mr. Deane, of Campbell, offered several resolutions calling upon the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company, the Governor of the Commonwealth, and the Board of Public Works, for information concerning the salt works and the operations therewith connected, relating to the transportation of salt. The resolutions were adopted. The remainder of the session was occupied with the disposal of business incidental to the recess. The House then adjourned to the fourth day of Jan
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
the Senate asking information relative to the number of officers of the army tried for drunkenness during the war, reported the same back, and asked to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. From a letter from the Adjutant-General, transmitted in this message, it appears that the total number of officers of the army tried for drunkenness since the beginning of the war is two hundred and twenty-two. Of this number, one hundred and fifty-one were convicted and seventy-one acquitted. On motion, it was ordered that when the Senate adjourn, it be to Monday next. On motion, the Senate resolved into secret executive session. House of Representatives. The House was opened with prayer by Rev., Dr. Doggett. The House agreed to the Senate amendment to the House bill to punish conspiracy against the Confederate States. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the currency bill. On motion, the committee rose and the House adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate account of the battle of Franklin. (search)
Confederate Congress. Senate. Thursday,December 23, 1864. The Senate was not in session to-day, it having adjourned over to Monday. House of Representatives. The House met at 12 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett. The House resolved itself into secret session; and the doors being re-opened, went into Committee of the Whole on the currency bill. After the adoption of several amendments, the committee rose and the chairman reported the bill to the House with a recommendation that it do pass. On motion, the House adjourned.
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