The Legislature.
A communication was read in the
Senates Saturday, from the House of Delegates, announcing that body had agreed to a joint resolution reviving the select joint committee on salt.
Agreed to.
A bill was reported so amending the Code as to increase the salaries of the
Judges of the Court of Appeals and Circuit Courts.
Also, a bill to authorize the admission of wills to record upon proof of the handwriting of the attesting witnesses, in certain cases.
Also, a bill amending the act of Oct., 1863, entitled "an act to authorize the arrest of deserters by the civil authorities."
A bill for the relief of families of soldiers living in counties within the lines or under the control of the enemy was reported, by leave, and appropriately referred.
A large number of resolutions of inquiry were adopted; one of them, proposed by
Mr. Randolph, for increasing the compensation of the
Commonwealth's Attorney of the Circuit Court of
Richmond city.
Mr. Taylor, of
Montgomery, introduced joint resolutions for the final exemption from the Confederate army of such persons as have been found incapable, from permanent physical disability, to perform the services of a soldier in the field; whether such disability arise from natural causes, or wounds, or disease contracted in the service.
Mr. Collier offered a resolution referring so much of the
Governor's message as relates to substitutes to the committee.
The President of the Senate was required to issue a writ of election to fill the vacancy occasioned in the Senate by the resignation of
Wm. E. Taylor,
Esq., of the city of
Norfolk.
In the
House a resolution was adopted, inquiring into the expediency of exempting by law the soldiers from
Virginia in the
Confederate States service from taxation, except upon
real estate and personal property.
The outline of a bill prepared by the
Auditor of Public Accounts was referred to the Committee of Finance.
A resolution was adopted recommending the purchase of one of more of the coal mines in the vicinity of
Richmond, to form part of the penitentiary, where the convicts can be employed.
Also, one looking to the same provision for the supplying of the
State with plaster for agricultural purposes.
A joint resolution was offered for the appointment of a joint committee to wait upon the
Governor and
Lieutenant Governor elect and inform them officially of their election.
Also, a resolution for repealing the law exempting certain persons upon religious grounds.
Adjourned.
