S. B. No. 66. A bill to authorize and regulate the exchange of certain classes of reciprocal or inter-insurance contracts among individuals, partnerships and corporations, empowering corporations generally to make such contract and prescribing certain fees, and penalty for violations; was taken up, read the second time, committee amendments agreed to, and the bill as amended, ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. S. B. No. St. A bill to set forth the qualifications prerequisite to taking examination as registered pharmacists, on and after April 1, 1922; was taken up and read the second time. MR. MATHEWS offered an amendment, which was agreed to. The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. S. B. No. 58. A bill to cause all deposits or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations in this Commonwealth, whereof the depositor is unknown, or the person, or persons, to whom such account or deposit belongs, or belong, is, or are unknown, and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of fifteen years, to escheat to the Commonwealth; and to direct the manner of reporting same, and the final disposition thereof; was taken up, read the second time and committee amendments agreed to. MR. STRODE offered an amendment. On motion of MR. ROBERTSON, the bill was passed by. On motion of MR. CANNON, the Senate adjourned until tomorrow at 12 o'clock. O. V. HANGER, Clerk of the Senate. B. F. BUCHANAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1918. Lieutenant-Governor B. F. BUCHANAN presiding. The Journal of yesterday was read by the Clerk. A communication from the House of Delegates, by their Clerk, was received and read as follows: In House of Delegates, February 13, 1918. The House of Delegates has passed Senate bills entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections fifteen, eighteen and twenty of an act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the State of Virginia, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits; to require prompt returns to the Bureau of Vital Statistics at the capital of the State, as required to be established by the State Board of Health; to insure the thorough organization and efficiency of the registration of vital statistics throughout the State; to provide certain penalties; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, approved March 12, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 13, 1914, No. 75; an act to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken before certain officials in foreign countries, No. 69; and an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 10, 1904, entitled an act to make valid any disposition of property in perpetuity for the maintenance or care of cemeteries, cemetery lots, monuments and other erections and authorizing cemetery companies and trustees holding title to cemeteries or burial grounds, to take and hold any property according to the terms of the grant, bequest, devise of gift, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 20, 1906, No. 71. They have rejected Senate bill entitled an act to enlarge the powers of married women in respect of dower rights, No. 86. They have dismissed Senate bill entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 17, 18 and 19 of an act entitled an act to establish a uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting and for the appointment of a State accountant, approved March 14, 1910, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the uniform system of bookkeeping and accounting and for the appointment of a State accountant. approved March 14, 1910, so as to add thereto sections 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, enlarging the powers and duties of the State accountant so as to authorize counties and cities to have the use of his services for the examination of the accounts of county and city officers at the expense of counties and cities, and providing for a biennial examination of County offices, No. 2. They have passed House bills entitled an act to amend and reenact section 2700-a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds, issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, approved February 9, 1898, approved March 22, 1916, in relation to fiduciary investments, No. 53: and an act to require the equipment of grinding, polishing and buffing wheels with suitable devices for the protection of operators and other persons from dust and refuse thrown off from such wheels; making non-compliance a misdemeanor and providing a penalty, No. 55; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate. H. B. No. 55. A bill to require the equipment of grinding, polishing and buffing wheels with suitable devices for the protection of operators and other persons from dust and refuse thrown off from such wheels; making non-compliance a misdemeanor and providing a penalty; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on General Laws. H. B. No. 53. A bill to amend and re-enact section 2700-a of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds, issued by virtue of an act, approved February 14, 1882, approved February 9, 1898, approved March 22, 1916, in relation to fiduciary investments; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice. MR. WALKER, from the Committee for Courts of Justice, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 5. A bill to amend and re-enact section 3650 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: II. B. No. 72. A bill to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken before certain officials in foreign countries. He, from the same committee, reported with amendments: S. B. No. 35. A bill to prevent industrial accidents; 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. And he, from the same committee, reported with amendments: S. B. No. 198. A bill to prohibit stealing and taking away sand and gravel from the banks of the Potomac river in certain cases, and to repeal an act entitled an act to punish stealing and taking away sand within this Commonwealth, on the banks of the Potomac river, approved March 8, 1894. MR. CANNON, from the Committee on County, City and Town Organization, reported with amendments: S. B. No. 106. A bill to provide a new charter for the city of Clifton Forge, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 190. A bill to authorize the school board of the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $30,000 to meet notes for money borrowed by trustees for the purpose of erecting the graded school building in said town, and to complete the said building. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 219. A bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to acquire rock quarries. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 207. A bill to permit the councils, or other governing bodies, of cities of the first class, to appropriate money to aid in the support of dependent children of members of the police and fire departments of such cities who may have lost their lives through injuries received or disease incurred while in the performance of their duties as members of such departments. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 204. A bill to authorize and empower the council of the town of Chilhowie, in the county of Smyth, to borrow money and issue bonds for equipment of the fire department, and for the construction and improvement of water and sewerage systems of the said town. Hle, from the same committee, reported with a substitute: S. B. No. 220. A bill to make and declare the county courthouse building and the lot appurtenant thereto, located in Harrisonburg, a part of Central magisterial district in Rockingham county, for certain purposes. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 221. A bill to enact and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing, and working of roads in the county of Rockingham, approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 5, 1890, as further amended by an act of the General Assembly ap proved February 25, 1892, as further amended by an act of the General Assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the General Assembly approved February 26, 1896, approved March 15, 1904, as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910, approved March 20, 1916. He, from the same committee, reported with amendments: S. B. No. 235. A bill to amend and re-enact sections four, nine, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four and ninety of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and the acts amendatory thereof. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 237. A bill to authorize cities in this Commonwealth of fifty thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last census of the United States, to increase the salary of the civil justice of such cities to an amount not to exceed thirty-six hundred dollars per annum, during the term of office of said civil justice. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 249. A bill authorizing the board of supervisors of Culpeper county, Virginia, to levy a special tax on the real and personal property in the town of Culpeper, Virginia, not to exceed $.15 on each one hundred dollars' worth of such property to be expended in resurfacing the roads now macadamized, in Catalpa magisterial district in said county. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 255. A bill to authorize the common council of Winchester to issue fifty thousand dollars of refunding improvement bonds in the sum of fifty thousand dollars and prescribing the terms and conditions of said issue. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 262. A bill authorizing cities, containing by the last or any subsequent United States census, a population of not less than fifty thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, to appropriate to standard gauge steam railroad companies such sum or sums as may be necessary, not to exceed two humdred thousand ($200,000) dollars in any one case, to induce such standard gauge steam railroad companies to extend their lines into the corporate limits of such cities, and ratifying and confirming any such appropriation, not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars, made by any such city heretofore for said purpose. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: S. B. No. 119. A bill to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 139. A bill to amend and re-enact sections 45 and 54 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: II. B. No. 22. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend section 3730 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to pulling down fences or leaving gates open, and so forth, approved February 16, 1892. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: II. B. No. 92. A bill to prohibit the sale of water by one city to the inhabitants, firms, corporations or industries of nother city; and the right to occupy and use the streets, lanes, parks or other public places in the latter city without the consent of the council of said city. He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 135. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to appropriate money to a Confederate monument, approved February |