The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource]

Virginia Legislature.

[Extra session.]

Senate.

Mr. Christian, of Middlesex, offered a resolution instructing the Committee for Courts of Justice to inquire what is the proper construction to be given to the ninth section of chapter eighteenth of the Code of 1860, in relation to the vacation of the appointment of certain public offices. Agreed to.

The following bills were read the third time and passed:

Senate bill to deprive certain persons, for certain causes, of the right to institute suits in the courts of this Commonwealth.

Senate bill to provide relief for the families of soldiers living within the lines, or under the control, of the enemy.

Mr. Christian, of Middlesex, by leave of the Senate, presented a bill to amend and re-enact the 1st section of the act passed October 23, 1863, in relation to the payment of certain claims against the Eastern Lunatic Asylum. Read the first time and referred to Committee for Courts of Justice.

Mr. Nash, of Chesterfield, offered a series of patriotic resolutions, adopted by the officers and soldiers of the Fourteenth Virginia regiment; which were ordered to be printed and referred to the Committee on Confederate Relations.

The bill to extend the bounds of the Fifteenth regiment of the militia of the line was then taken up and explained by Mr. Douglas, who urged its passage.

Mr. Garnett, of Henrico, opposed the bill on the ground that it imposed duties on his constituents which were not required of other citizens of the State.

Pending the further consideration of the bill, the Senate went into secret session.

[Note.--Mr. Spitler, of Page, who was necessarily absent from the Senate on Tuesday when the bill regulating the currency and prohibiting the illegal traffic in gold was passed, made a personal explanation, expressing regret that he was not present at the time. He would have voted for the bill if he had been in the Senate when the vote was taken upon it.]

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House of Delegates.

Mr. Ambers, of Chesterfield, introduced a resolution that, on and after the 26th instant (Thursday), the House will hold evening sessions for the consideration of business on the secret calendar. Lies over.

Mr. Haymond, of Marion, moved, by resolution, that the Legislature proceed, on Monday next, to the election of a Superintendent of the Penitentiary, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the failure of the present incumbent (Mr. Bass) to qualify within the time required by law. The motion was agreed to.

A communication was received from the Governor of the State conveying the action of the General Assembly of North Carolina in the matter of the Board of Public Works of Virginia diverting from North Carolina roads one engine and two trains of cars employed in the transportation of salt from the salt works to that State; also, the action of Governor Vance in prohibiting supplies for Virginia to pass over roads in North Carolina.

Governor Vance says this restriction will be removed upon the Board of Public Works of Virginia restoring the trains to North Carolina. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation.

Mr. Monroe called up the joint resolution instructing the Governor to confer with the Confederate authorities in the matter of securing an exchange of citizen and political prisoners from Virginia held by the enemy; and the resolution and accompanying preamble were adopted.

The bill to appropriate sixty-five thousand dollars for the purchase of Bruce's full-length portrait of General Robert E. Lee was taken up and ordered to its engrossment.

Several other bills were introduced, when the consideration of the unfinished business, the bill to amend the act creating a commercial agency, was resumed. The bill was laid on the table, and the House took a recess, to meet in executive session last evening.