Journal of the Senate of VirginiaCommonwealth of Virginia, 1889 - Virginia |
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Acker act entitled act to amend act to authorize act to incorporate act to provide agreed amend and re-enact AYES-Messrs Berry bill to amend bill to authorize bill to incorporate bills were taken Blackstone calendar clerk inform Code of Virginia committee for courts committee on county committee on finance committee on roads concurrence therein Cornett Delegates thereof Dunn Echols engrossed and read entitled an act finance and banks further motion Gose Harrison Heaton Henrico county House bill entitled House of Delegates inform the House joint resolution Jones Jordan Lawless Lovenstein Lynchburg Moore motion the rules noes Norfolk presented railroad company railway company re-enact section read a second read a third read the second recorded as follows referred relation reported request their concurrence roads and internal rules being suspended Senate bill entitled Senate of Virginia Smoot Stubbs suspended therefor taxes twice read Virginia of 1887 vote was recorded Wickham Wise county
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Page 37 - Resolved (the Senate concurring), That a committee of three on the part of the House, and two on the part of the Senate, be appointed to prepare and report suitable and appropriate resolutions upon the death of Hon.
Page 9 - Senate thereafter: provided, however, that when any question is decided in the negative simply for the want of a majority of the whole Senate, any senator who was absent from the city of Richmond, or detained from his seat by sickness at the time of the vote sought to be reconsidered, may move its reconsideration. XIII. PETITIONS.
Page 9 - ... but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment, or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate...
Page 8 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
Page 387 - The county clerk, immediately after making the abstracts of votes given in his county, shall make a copy of each of said abstracts and transmit it by mail to the secretary of state at the seat of government; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state, in the presence of the governor...
Page 130 - He shall, when chosen, possess the same qualifications of judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals; and during his continuance in office shall reside in the circuit of which he is judge.
Page 8 - No member shall speak more than twice to the same question, without leave of the House ; nor more than once, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Page 479 - ... and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing...
Page 521 - There shall be a joint committee on the library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of Representatives, to superintend and direct the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for the library, and to perform such other duties as are or may be directed by law.
Page 9 - ... documents so withdrawn shall be preserved by the clerk. All petitions not finally acted on, may, with the accompanying documents, be in like manner withdrawn after the expiration of the session at which they were presented.