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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
e master machinist, one master spinner, and one master carder, in all establishments engaged in the manufacture of cotton and woolen yarns, shall be exempt from military duty under the proclamation of the Governor of Virginia of the 10th March, 1863. All the absentees of the previous evening were arraigned before the bar of the Senate, in pursuance of a call of the same, and were severally excused and discharged without fees, satisfactory reasons being given for their absence. Mr. Pennybacker offered to amend, by inserting, after the word "yarns," the following: "Every man and his assistants engaged in wool growing, or any person engaged in growing grain or anything necessary for the public, are hereby exempted from military duty; and any poor man, who is liable to military duty, with four or more children." The amendment was adopted, and the question recurring upon the adoption of the resolution as amended, it was lo ayes none. Memorial. Mr. Robertson presente