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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Farewell speech of Hon. Jeff Davis. (search)
The Legislature. In the Senate, yesterday, bills were reported to authorize railroad companies to appoint police agents; incorporating the Richmond City Insurance Company, and the Virginia Steam Sugar Refinery Company, at Rocketts. Among the resolutions were the following: For relieving the Orange and Alexandria Railroad from payment of taxes and interest on loans made by the State in its behalf; providing more efficient police regulations for the watering places of the Commonwealth; for establishing a branch Bank at Liberty, Bedford county, and for incorporating a Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company near Lynchburg. The joint resolution for an adjournment till February 18th was indefinitely postponed. The bill to relieve the various schemes of internal improvement from injurious competition, was referred to the Committee on Roads. In the House, bills were reported for imposing taxes for the support of Government, and authorizing the South-Side Railroad to build a branch road.
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
rannon, a bill increasing the number of permanent clerks in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts; and a bill for the relief of Hopkins & Campbell, of Rockingham county; a bill allowing compensation to John Critcher, Esq., for his services in the prosecution of Samuel Hubbard, in the Circuit Court of Westmoreland county: a bill for the relief of the securities of James R. Courtney, late Sheriff of Westmoreland county; a bill to incorporate the Virginia Steam Sugar Refining Company at Rocketts, Richmond. Resolutions of Inquiry.--The following resolutions of inquiry were adopted and referred to the appropriate committees: By Mr. Coghill, of temporarily relieving the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company from the payment of the amount now due the State for taxes and accrued interest on the loan heretofore made by the Commonwealth to said company; by Mr. Townes, for amending the first section of the act passed on 17th February, 1860, to provide more efficient police regulation