Journal of the Senate of Virginia

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Commonwealth of Virginia, 1875

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Page 118 - A majority of the members elected to' each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and shall have power to compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalty as each house may prescribe. SEC. 7. The House of Delegates...
Page 39 - You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. WITCHES vanish. BAN. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Page 328 - That a committee of two on the part of the senate and three on the part of the...
Page 12 - Resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate concurring) , That a committee of three on the part of the House...
Page 45 - The members of the General Assembly shall receive for their services, a compensation, to be fixed by law; but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the session at which such increase may be made. No...
Page 43 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two in districts bearing odd numbers, shall vacate their offices at the end of two years, and those elected in districts bearing even numbers at the end of four years...
Page 91 - Love ; have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the following report : Your committee, after taking considerable testimony from Messrs.
Page 119 - Neither house, during the session of the general assembly, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
Page 14 - For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God : but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing ; whose end is to be burned.
Page 277 - That his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

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