MR. JORDAN, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 30. A bill to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Augusta County to issue time warrants to carry the present floating debt of Augusta county and to levy a tax to pay the interest upon said debt, and to establish a sinking fund to pay off said debt in full; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. THORNTON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 31. A bill to amend and re-enact chapter 252 of acts of the General Assembly of 1906, entitled an act to authorize the several school boards of the school districts in this State to borrow money belonging to the literary fund for certain purposes and to authorize the loan of said funds to each district, as amended by chapter 82 of the acts of 1908 and chapter 359 of the acts of 1914, and further amended by chapter 187 of the acts of 1916; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. WEST, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 32. A bill to amend and re-enact sections 17, and 31 of chapter 1 of an act entitled an act concerning the Bureau of Insurance, approved March 9, 1906, as subsequently amended; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Insurance and Banking. MR. GARRETT, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 33. A bill to make available for general purposes an appropriation heretofore made for the legislative reference bureau, for certain specific purposes; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. GARRETT, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 34. A bill to appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars to reimburse the civil contingent fund for extraordinary expense incurred in the rental and improvements of the building used for offices for State officials and to declare an emergency; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. GOOLRICK, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 35. A bill to prevent industrial accident; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or death sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial board for the administration of this act, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such board; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Courts of Justice.

MR. BARHAM, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 36. A bill to declare the lot on which is located the courthouse of Greensville county, in the town of Emporia, a part of

each of the three magisterial districts for said county of Greensville; which was taken up and referred to the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. CANNON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 37. A bill to amend and re-enact section 30 of chapter 5, of an act entitled, an act concerning corporations, which became a law on the 21st day of May, 1903, as heretofore amended; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Courts of Justice.

MR. HENING, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 38. A bill to invest in boards of supervisors of counties. adjoining and abutting a city with a population of 125,000 or more inhabitants as shown by the United States census, the power to install and maintain proper lights on the streets and highways in the villages and built up portions of such counties, and to pay for the same out of the county fund; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

MR. CANNON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 39. A bill to amend and re-enact section 12 of 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 civic 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 act approved March 14, 1912, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1914; so as to read as follows: Which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Courts of Justice.

MESSRS. RISON, DOWNING, GOOLRICK and MAPP, by leave, pre

sented.

S. B. No. 40. A bill to amend and re-enact section 185 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. ANDREWS, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 41. A bill to amend and re-enact section 27 of Chapter 1 of an act entitled an act concerning the Bureau of Insurance, approved March 9, 1906, as subsequently amended; which was taken up. and referred to the Committee on Insurance and Banking.

MR. CANNON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 42. A bill to require investigation by the State Board of Charities and Corrections of certain cases of hardship made possible. by the child labor law; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

MR. CANNON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 43. A bill to amend and re-enact Chapter 201 of the Acts of 1908, regulating the employment of children in certain employments, approved March 13, 1908, as amended by Chapter 339 of the Acts of 1914, approved March 27, 1914; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

A message was received from the House of Delegates by MR. STEVENSON, Who informed the Senate that the House of Delegates had concurred in the Senate Joint Resolution directing the Committees of Courts of Justice to consider and report on the Constitutional question in the length of term of office of the Hon. Walter L. Duvaney, Jr., judge of the corporation court of the city of Hopewell, Va.

A message was received from the House of Delegates by MR. REED, who informed the Senate that the House of Delegates had passed the following joint resolution; in which they requested the concurrence of the Senate:

Resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate concurring). That the General Assembly convene in the hall of the House of Delegates on this day at 10:30 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of counting the vote cast on the seventh day of November, 1917, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and State Treasurer of the Commonwealth, respectively, and to declare who is elected, and that the following rules be adopted for the government of the joint assembly:

1. At the hour fixed for the meeting of the joint assembly the senators, accompanied by the President and Clerk of the Senate, shall proceed to the hall of the House of Delegates, and shall be received by the delegates standing; appropriate seats shall be assigned to the senators by the Sergeant-at-arms of the House.

2. The Speaker of the House of Delegates shall be the presiding officer at the joint assembly. In case it shall be necessary for him to vacate the chair, his place shall be taken by the President of the Senate or in case of his absence by such member of the joint assembly as the Speaker may designate.

3. The Sergeant-at-arms, Doorkeepers and Pages of the House shall act as such for the joint assembly.

4. The Clerk of the House shall be the Clerk of the joint assembly, and shall be assisted by the Clerk of the Senate.

5. The rules of the House of Delegates as far as aplicable shall be the rules of the joint assembly.

6. When the joint assembly meets to count the vote for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and State Treasurer, respectively, the Speaker of the House of Delegates shall open the returns from the several counties and corporations, and as each county or corporation is announced a senator and

delegate be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, who shall receive said returns and count the votes. They shall deliver the result to the Clerk of the House of Delegates, who shall embody the several results in a general statement. Thereupon a committee of one senator and one delegate shall add up the entire vote for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth and State Treasurer, respectively, and the Speaker of the House of Delegates shall announce and declare thereupon who is elected.

7. In calling the roll of the joint assembly the names of the senators shall be called first, in alphabetical order, and then the names of the delegates in like order, except the name of the Speaker of the House of Delegates shall be called last.

8. If when the joint assembly meets it shall be ascertained that the majority of each house is not present, the joint assembly may take measures to secure the attendance of the absentees, or adjourn until the succeeding day, as a majority of those present may deter

mine.

9. When the joint assembly adjourns the senators, accompanied by the President and Clerk of the Senate, shall return to their chamber and the business of the House shall proceed in the same order as when interrupted by the entrance of the senators, which was agreed to. MR. CANNON was ordered to inform the House of Delegates thereof.

The hour of 10:30 o'clock A. M. having arrived, being the time fixed for the meeting of the General Assembly to count the votes for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth and State Treasurer, the Senate repaired to the hall of the House of Delegates and was received by the Delegates standing. The roll of the Senate was called, and the following senators responded to their names:

Messrs. Allen, Andrews, Barham, Bowers, Buchanan, Cannon, Conrad, Corbitt, Davis, Downing, Early, Garrett, Gayle, Goodloe, Hening, Jordan, Lacy, Mapp, Mathews, Rison, Royall, Strode, Thornton, Walker, Webb-25.

There were 25 senators present.

The roll of the House of Delegates was called, and the following Delegates responded to their names:

Messrs. Adams, Anderson, R. A., Bailey, Beattie, Bond, Boschen, Bowles, Brown, J. Callaway, Brown, J. Sinclair, Buck, Buhrman, Burke, Carner, Carrington, Carter, Cato, Chase, Cherry, Clement, Commins, Conway, Cook, Cornett, Crockett, Davis, Deans, Dickerson, Dillard, Dodson, Easley, Evans, Fitzhugh, Flanagan, Forester, Fuller, Gilmer, Gordon, Hall, Channing W., Hall, Wilbur C., Harman, Harvey, Hobbs, Horton, Hudgins, Hundley, Deane, Hundley, P. J., Hunter, Jones, Mann, Marshall, Martin, McNutt, Meetze, Miller,

Murray, Musgrave, Noland, Omps, Owen, Ozlin, Pence, Pitts, Price, Ramsey, Reed, Rolston, Russell, Shackelford, Shumate, Smith, Chas. F., Smith, Harry B., Snead, Sproul, Stant, Stephenson, Stuart, Stubbs, Jas. N., Stubbs, R. H., Taylor, Tiffany, Turner, Walton, Williams, Willis, Winston, Wright, Mr. Speaker-88.

There were 88 delegates present.

The Speaker laid before the joint assembly the following com

munications:

OFFICE OF THE

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,

To the Honorable Speaker of the House of Delegates:

DEAR SIR:

January 9, 1918.

I herewith transmit the abstract of votes for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney-General, Secretary of the Commonwealth and State Treasurer, to be canvassed by the General Assembly, as provided by law.

The Speaker then, in the presence of the Senate and House of Delegates, proceeded to open the returns of the election.

The Speaker appointed MESSRS. ANDREWS, of the Senate, and MEETZE, of the House, to receive and count the joint vote and to add up the vote as embodied in the statement by the Clerk of the House. The vote is as follows: