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The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
The Legislature. The Senate yesterday passed the bill concerning street railroads in Richmond. A joint resolution for adjournment on the 20th was adopted and sent to the House. A report from the Peace Commissioners was read and ordered to be printed. In the House, bills were reported amending the law organizing the militia, and that for increasing and re-arranging the divisions and brigades of the Commonwealth. The report of the Peace Commissioners was read, and a bill passed creating the county of Bland out of parts of Giles, Wythe and Tazewell. The general bill for the voluntary enslavement of free negroes, was ordered to its engrossment.
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Peace Congress--The Speaker laid before the House a communication addressed by Messrs. John Tyler, G. W. Summers, W. C. Rives, and James A. Seddon, Virginia Commissioners to the Peace Congress, to the Governor, transmitted to the Speaker this day, accompanied by a copy of the plan adopted by said Peace Conference, commonly known as the Franklin Substitute. The document being read, on motion they were laid on the table and ordered to be printed. Bills Passed.--Establishing the county of Bland out of parts of Giles, Wythe, and Tazewell. Enslavement of Free Negroes--On motion of Mr. Baskervill, the bill for the voluntary enslavement of B. W. Love and Isaac Burnett, free persons of color, was taken. He said when the bill was before the House the other day, on the suggestion of members that a general bill, embracing the same objects, would be reported, he had moved to lay the bill on the table. He now reported said bill. The title reads as follows: "For the voluntary en