bridges, approved March 24, 1916; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MESSRS. CANNON and WENDENBURG, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 299. A bill to confer upon the juvenile and domestic relations court of the city of Richmond the powers of a court of record, to prescribe its jurisdiction and powers, etc., which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

MR. TRINKLE, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 300. A bill to provide for indexing the records of the land office and appropriating money therefor; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

MR. WENDENBURG, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 301. A bill to amend sections 69 and 70 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act. approved March 19, 1915; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. WENDENBURG, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 302. A bill requiring persons, firms and corporations employing men in building or repairing cars, to provide adequate sheds or buildings for the protection of such employees; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation.

MR. WENDENBURG, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 303. A bill to amend and re-enact section 3231 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

MR. GUNN, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 304. A bill to prohibit the improper use of, or injury to the public highways of the State of Virginia, to prescribe regulations governing their proper use, to provide for the enforcement of this act,, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation.

MR. GUNN, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 305. A bill to license the using, driving, or moving, of vehicles, or conveyances, whose motive power is animal power, over, along, or across the public highways of the State of Virginia; to provide for the enforcement of this act and penalties for the violation of its provisions; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. ANDREWS, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 306. A bill to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more for the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil justice, to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation; and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an aet approved March 14, 1912, by (1) increasing the salary limit of said civil justice; (2) providing for interrogatories under executions issued by said civil justice, and (4) giving said civil justice certain powers in matters of contempt: (5) by enlarging the jurisdiction of said civil justice in interpleader proceedings and otherwise, approved March 10, 1914; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice. MR. CANNON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 307. A bill to provide for the removal of jail prisoners to city farms; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

MR. GOODLOE, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 308. A bill to make it a misdemeanor to, or to attempt to, entice, solicit, persuade or procure any servant, cropper, laborer or employee to leave his employer or his service for the purpose of going out of the Commonwealth to perform similar or other service, and to provide penalties therefor; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

MR. GOODLOE, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 309. A bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved November 28, 1903, entitled an act to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of cities and towns, which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organizations.

MR. GOODLOE, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 310. A bill to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial district of the county of Scott; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. GOODLOE (by request), by leave, presented

S. B. No. 311. A bill to incorporate the town of Dungannon, in Scott county, Virginia; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. GUNN, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 312. A bill making invalid assignments of accounts receivable due merchants and manufacturers unless notice of the

assignment be given to the debtor; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

MR. CANNON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 313. A bill to prevent corporations not organized under the laws of this Commonwealth securing a certificate of authority or license to do business in Virginia where the name of such corporation would conflict with a corporation already doing buisness in Virginia; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

MR. BYRD, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 314. A bill to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of water improvement bonds and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for improvement, enlargement and extension by the said city of its existing system of water works if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. BYRD, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 315. A bill to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of sanitary sewerage extension bonds; and authorize the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for the extension by said city of its existing sanitary system of wers and sewage disposal plant if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. DREWRY, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 316. A bill to ratify and confirm certain acts of Henry C. Stuart, former Governor of Virginia, in relation to the securing of options in the name of the State of Virginia, on certain lands to be used for military purposes, situated in Prince George County, Virginia, and to authorize the proper officers of the State of Virginia to assign such options to the United States Camp, Inc.; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on General Laws. MESSRS. WEST, HOLT, DREWRY, GOOLRICK and BARHAM, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 317. A bill to amend and re-enact section 508 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to appropriate sus collected hereunder for the payment of pensions and for the support of the public free schools of the primary and grammar

grades; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. GUNN, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 318. A bill to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter V of an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903; as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 23, 1916, be amended and re-enacted; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

MESSRS. STRODE, ALLEN, GAYLE, EARLY, GARRETT, HENING, DAVIS, BARHAM, GOODLOE and THORNTON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 319. A bill to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades, from the first to the seventh inclusive; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Public Institutions and Education.

S. B. No. 120. A bill to provide for the establishment of kindergartens as part of the public school system of the State; was taken up.

The hour of 12:30 o'clock having arrived,

S. B. No. 18. A bill to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt. and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof; being the special and continuing order for the hour. was taken up, and read the second time.

The committee amendment was rejected.

The amendment offered by MR. WEST was agreed to.

MR. WEST moved to dispense with the feading of the bill, as required by section 50 of the Constitution, and the Senate being satisfied that an emergency exists, it was agreed to by the following vote-ayes, 36; noes, 0.

Senators who voted are:

YEAS-Messrs. Addison, Allen, Andrews, Barham, Bowers, Buchanan, Byrd, Cannon, Conrad, Corbitt, Downing, Early, Garrett, Goodloe, Goolrick, Gravatt, Gunn, Hening, Holt, Jeffreys, Jordan, Keith, Lacy, Mapp, Mathews, Mitchell, Rinehart, Rison, Robertson, Royall, Strode, Thornton, Trinkle, Webb, Wendenburg, West-36.

The bill was then ordered to be engrossed; and being forthwith engrossed, on his further motion, was passed with its title by the following vote--ayes, 22; noes, 16.

Senators who voted are:

YEAS-Messrs. Addison, Andrews, Barham, Bowers, Cannon, Corbitt, Early, Garrett, Goolrick, Hening, Jeffreys, Jordan, Keith, Lacy, Mapp, Mathews, Mitchell, Rinehart, Rison, Strode, Wendenburg, West-22.

NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Buchanan, Byrd, Conrad, Davis, Downing, Goodloe, Gravatt, Gunn, Holt, Robertson, Royall, Thornton, Trinkle, Walker, Webb

16.

MR. GOOLRICK moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed.

MR. WALKER moved to pass by the motion to reconsider.

MR. CONRAD moved to adjourn, which was rejected.

MR. GRAVATT moved to adjourn, which was rejected, by the following vote-ayes, 16; noes, 21.

Senators who voted are:

YEAS-Messrs. Allen, Buchanan, Conrad, Davis, Downing, Goolrick, Gravatt, Gunn, Holt, Keith, Robertson, Royall, Strode, Thornton, Walker, Webb16.

NAYS-Messrs. Addison, Andrews, Barham, Bowers, Byrd, Cannon, Corbitt, Drewry, Early, Garrett, Goodloe, Hening, Jeffreys, Jordan, Lacy, Mapp, Mathews, Mitchell, Rison, Wendenburg, West-21.

The motion to pass by the motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, was rejected, by the following vote-ayes, 17;

noes, 19.

Senators who voted are:

YEAS-Messrs. Buchanan, Byrd, Conrad, Davis, Downing, Goodloe, Goolrick, Gravatt, Gunn, Holt, Keith, Robertson, Royall, Strode, Thornton, Walker, Webb-17.

NAYS-Messrs. Addison, Andrews, Barham, Bowers, Cannon, Corbitt, Drewry, Early, Garrett, Hening, Jeffreys, Jordan, Lacy, Mapp, Mathews, Mitchell, Rison, Wendenburg, West-19.

The motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, was rejected, by the following vote-ayes, 17; noes, 19.

Senators who voted are:

YEAS-Messrs. Buchanan, Byrd, Conrad, Davis, Downing, Goodloe, Goolrick, Gravatt, Gunn, Holt, Keith, Robertson, Royall, Strode, Thornton, Walker, Webb-17.

NAYS-Messrs. Addison, Andrews, Barham, Bowers, Cannon, Corbitt, Drewry, Early, Garrett, Henings, Jeffreys, Jordan, Lacy, Mapp, Mathews, Mitchell, Rison, Wendenburg, West-19.

On motion of MR. GOOLRICK, S. B. No. 35 was made a special and continuing order for Tuesday, February 19, 1918, at 12:45 o'clock.

On motion of MR. GOOLRICK, it was ordered that 250 copies of the bill as amended be printed.

H. B. No. 163. A bill to revise, arrange and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the Commonwealth; being the special and continuing order, was taken up.