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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Confederate Congress. Senate Friday, December 16, 1864. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Minnegerode, of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Johnson, of Georgia, presented the petition of Isaac Witten, asking to be relieved from taxation on lands. Referred to the Finance Committee. Senate bill to establish the flag of the Confederate States was reported favorably from the Naval Committee; and, on motion, by Mr. Brown, was referred to the Military Committee. Senate bill to regulate supplies of clothing to midshipmen was passed. Mr. Graham offered a resolution, which was agreed to, that the Finance Committee inquire, in cases of payment of tithes of crops grown on rented lands, whether credit shall be allowed landlord or tenant, or apportioned between them. House bill to increase the pay and mileage of members of Congress was laid over till Monday. On motion, by Mr. Hill, the Senate resolved into secret session to consider the bill to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
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 Richmon