Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of VirginiaCommonwealth of Virginia, 1895 |
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act approved February act approved March act entitled act to amend act to incorporate act to provide Alexandria county amend and re-enact Assembly AYES-Messrs B. R. Harrison bill to amend bill to authorize bill to incorporate bill was read bills were read Boaz Buhrman calendar Carter H charter Code of Virginia Committee for Courts commonwealth's attorney county court Dickenson county Diggs Dorton E. W. Smith entitled an act February 24 following House bills Galleher Gose Harwood Hathaway House bill entitled House engrossed bill Hubard Hundley James McC Keesee Maupin McCann message was received Miller motions severally Norfolk penitentiary Pilcher Pittsylvania county Propositions and Grievances Rambo Randolph Harrison re-enact an act re-enact section read a second read a third read twice reconsider the vote recorded as follows Reddy relation relief reported request the concurrence Richmond SAUNDERS Segar Senate bill entitled Stovall Surgener T. T. Powell Taliaferro taxes Williams Wise county
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Page 12 - ... if there be no appeal the decision of the chair shall be submitted to. If the decision be in favor of the member called to order, he shall be at liberty to proceed ; if otherwise...
Page 12 - Any motion or proposition may be withdrawn by the mover at any time before a decision, amendment, or other action of the body upon it, except a motion to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave of the House.
Page 9 - Whenever a Committee of the Whole House finds itself without a quorum, the chairman shall cause the roll to be called, and thereupon the committee shall rise, and the chairman shall report the names of the absentees to the House, which shall be entered on the Journal...
Page 118 - ... there is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Page 8 - All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise specially directed by the House, in which case they shall be appointed by ballot; and if, upon such ballot, the number required shall not be elected by a majority of the votes given, the House shall proceed to a second ballot, in which a plurality of votes shall prevail; and, in...
Page 10 - Upon the call of the House, the names of the members shall be called over by the Clerk, and the absentees noted : after which the names of the absentees shall again be called over, the doors shall then be shut, and those for whom no excuse, or insufficient excuses are made, may, by order of those present...
Page 120 - Be it resolved by the Senate of Virginia, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly of Virginia...
Page 142 - Those provisions of a statute which affect the time and place of the election, and the legal qualifications of the electors, are generally of the substance of the election, while those touching the recording and return of the legal votes received, and the mode and manner of conducting the mere details of the election, are directory.
Page 13 - As many as agree that, &c. (as the question may be), say AYE ;" and after the affirmative vote is given,
Page 12 - The new State shall take upon itself a just proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to the first day of January, 1861, to be ascertained by charging to it all State expenditures within the limits thereof, and a just proportion of the ordinary expenses of the State Government, since any part of said debt was contracted; and deducting therefrom the monies paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth from the counties included within the said new State during the same period.