Journal of the Senate of VirginiaCommonwealth of Virginia, 1887 |
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Acker act entitled act to amend act to authorize act to incorporate act to provide amend and re-enact AYES-Messrs Barnes Berry Bibb bill to amend bill to incorporate Blackstone Carroll county chapter clerk inform committee on finance commonwealth commonwealth's attorney concurrence therein Cornett Dalton Delegates thereof Duane Dudley Edmunds Ellyson engrossed and read entitled an act finance and banks Folkes further motion Gillespie Gordon Griggs Harrison Heaton Hodges House bill entitled House of Delegates Houston Hubard inform the House joint resolution Jones Koiner Lloyd Lovenstein Lynchburg McDonald Moore noes NOES-Messrs ordered passed penitentiary presented railroad company Rawlings re-enact section read a second read a third read the second recorded as follows referred reported request their concurrence Rhea Richmond roads and internal rules being suspended Senate bill entitled Senate of Virginia Smoot Staples Stubbs suspended therefor taxes twice read Twyman Virginia Military Institute vote was recorded Wickham
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Page 41 - Commonwealth ; and that the Senators and Representatives of this State, in the Congress of the United States, be requested to use their best efforts to...
Page 132 - That a committee of three on the part of the House, and two on the...
Page 9 - ... nor unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken or within the two next days of actual session of the Senate thereafter; provided, however, that when any question is decided in the negative simply for the want of a majority of the whole Senate, any senator who was absent from the city of Richmond or detained from his seat by sickness at the time of the vote sought to be reconsidered may move its reconsideration.
Page 49 - Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution, and amend the same?"* shall be decided by the electors qualified to vote for members of the...
Page 8 - All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question, and pending such motion, shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.
Page 462 - That the auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant upon the...
Page 8 - An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime. A person can not be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense.
Page 9 - No petition of a private nature, having been once rejected, shall be acted on a second time, unless it be supported by new evidence ; nor shall any such petition, after a third disallowance, be again acted on. The several clerks of committees shall keep alphabetical lists of all such petitions, specifying the session at...
Page 13 - That a Committee of two on the part of the Senate, and three on the part of the...
Page 504 - That a joint committee of three members of the senate, and five members of the house of representatives, be appointed, to...