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sioner of the revenue for each of the four magisterial districts of Wise county, instead of only two commissioners for the entire county, as at present.

No. 157. Senate bill to give consent of the State of Virginia to the purchase or acquisition by the United States of America, of certain real estate in the city of Portsmouth.

No. 44. House bill to declare Russ' Rock and Little Carter's Rock, situated in the Rappahannock river, between the shores of Richmond and Essex counties, a natural oyster rock, bed and shoal and to include the same within the Baylor survey.

No. 87. House bill to repeal the charter of the town of Upperville, in the county of Fanquier.

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.

On motion of MR. WALKER,

H. B. No. 163. A bill to revise, arrange and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the Commonwealth, was made a special and continuing order for tomorrow immediately after consideration of S. B. No. 18.

On motion of MR. HOLT. the Senate adjourned until tomorrow at 12 o'clock.

O. V. HANGER,

Clerk of the Senate.

B. F. BUCHANAN.
President of the Senate.

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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 14, 1918.

The House of Delegates has passed House bills entitled an aet to prevent damage and injuries by dogs and to provide compensation to owners of stock so injured; to provide for license on dogs

and to provide for penalties for violations thereof, No. 107; an act to require the clerks of courts to keep a separate book to be known as the Federal farm loan mortgage book and to provide how farm loan mortgages shall be recorded, No. 52; an act to amend and reenact an act approved February 17, 1890 (Acts 1889-90), as amended by an act approved February 12, 1892 (Acts 1891-92), as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900 (Acts 1899-1900), to protect the owners of bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs, crates and boxes, used in the manufacture and sale of soda waters, mineral or aerated waters, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, soft drinks, or other beverages, medicine and perfumery, and to fix the punishment for unlawful buying, having, handling, using, trafficking in, or disposing of such bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs, crates, and boxes, and to provide when and how a search warrant may be issued to discover and obtain the same, and to declare and define what shall be deemed unlawful buying, having, handling, using, disposing of. dealing and trafficking in the same, No. 56; an act to amend and re-enact section 3418 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the appointment of commissioners to execute deeds, No. 70; an act to amend and re-enact section 3158 of the Code of Virginia in relation to special juries, No. 73; and an act to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg, No. 90. In which they request the concurrence of the Senate.

H. B. No. 107. A bill to prevent damage and injuries by dogs and to provide compensation to owners of stock so injured; to provide for license on dogs and to provide for penalties for violations thereof, was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

H. B. No. 52. A bill to require the clerks of courts to keep a separate book to be known as the Federal farm loan mortgage book and to provide how farm loan mortgages shall be recorded; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

H. B. No. 56. A bill to amend and re-enact an act approved February 17, 1890 (Acts 1889-90), as amended by an act approved February 12, 1892 (Acts 1891-92), as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900 (Acts 1899-1900), to protect the owners of bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs, crates and boxes, used in the manufacture and sale of soda waters, mineral or aerated waters, eider, ginger ale, milk, cream, soft drinks, or other beverages, medicine and perfumery, and to fix the punishment for unlawful buying. having, handling, using, trafficking in, or disposing of such bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, kegs, crates, and boxes, and to provide. when and how a search warrant may be issued to discover and obtain the same, and to declare and define what shall be deemed un

lawful buying, having, handling, using, disposing of, dealing and trafficking in the same was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

II. B. No. 70. A bill to amend and re-enact section 3418 of the Code of Virginia in regard to the appointment of commissioners to execute deeds-was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

II. B. No. 73. A bill to amend and re-enact section 3158 of the Code of Virginia in relation to special juries; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

H. B. No. 90. A bill to amend and re-enact all acts creating and amending the charter of the city of Lynchburg; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns.

MR. GARRETT, from the Committee on Finance, reported with amendments:

II. B. No. 97. A bill to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21st, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions.

He, from the same committee, reported with amendments:

II. B. No. 31. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for State money aid, in addition to convict labor, for the improvement of public roads, approved February 25, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1910, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved February

29. 1916.

He, from the same committee, reported with amendments:

II. B. No. 32. A bill to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles. locomobiles, and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910; and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; and to further provide for the payment of fees collected under this act into the State treasury, and the expenditure of same in the maintenance and construction

of State aid roads and bridges, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 24, 1916.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments:

S. B. No. 259. A bill to repeal section 5, chapter 67, of an act of Assembly of 1916. approved February 26, 1916, entitled an act to appropriate the sum of $25,000.00 for the proper administration of the affairs of that part of Bland magisterial district, Prince George county, Virginia, known as Hopewell and its suburbs, to prescribe the method whereby the said appropriation shall be expended, and to provide for the payment thereof to the State treasury; and to relieve the city of Hopewell of the payment of the said sum of $25,000.00 into the State treasury. And he, from the same committee, reported without amend

ments:

S. B. No. 200. A bill to regulate the situs of taxation of bank stock.

MR. GAYLE, from the Committee on Insurance and Banking, reported without amendments:

S. B. No. 227. A bill providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion or suit on life insurance policies, and to define the period after which such policies shall be incontestible.

And he, from the same committee, reported without amend

ments:

S. B. No. 229. A bill prescribing the style of type in which conditions and restrictive provisions of insurance policies shall be printed, and to define the time in respect to which insurers may limit the right to institute suit or action upon such policies.

MR. GRAVATT, from the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation, reported without amendments:

H. B. No. 124. A bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county to borrow money and to issue bonds for the purpose of securing national and State aid in the building of roads.

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He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 184. A bill to amend and re-enact an act approved March 20, 1916, entitled an act to authorize the board of visors of Wise county to invest, use and apply any part of the sinking fund created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of the $700,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds, dated February 1, 1911, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds issued for the Richmond magisterial districts, dated March 1, 1913; and in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of Wise county road bonds issued for the Gladeville magisterial district, dated March 1, 1913, and to

grant to the board of supervisors of said county the additional authority to invest, use and apply any part of said sinking fund, and any part of any sinking fund now or hereafter created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of any road bonds of said county now or hereafter issued for the said county, or for any of the magisterial districts thereof, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of such county or district road bonds, now or hereafter issued, and in and to the purchase and holding of any school bonds now or hereafter issued by any school district of said county.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 187. A bill to provide for the expenditure of a surplus now in the hands of the road board of Boydton magisterial district, Mecklenburg county.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments II. B. No. 189. A bill to provide for the expenditure of any surplus of the 1915 bond issue which may remain in the hands of the road board of Bluestone magisterial district of Mecklenburg county. And he, from the same committee, reported without amend

ments:

H. B. No. 191. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for making, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county, approved March 6, 1900, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1904, approved March 13, 1908.

MR. BUCHANAN, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 298. A bill to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules reg ulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauf feurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910; and further, to provide for licensing dealers and garages and for running motor vehicles for hire, and to prescribe penalties for violation of this act. And to further provide for the payment of fees collected under this act into the State treasury and the expenditure of same in the maintenance and construction of State aid roads and

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