The Legislature.
Senate.--The bill to provide for the completion of the
Covington and Ohio railroad and construct a branch thereof, was reported with amendment.
The special committee on the resolution as to what measures may become proper to be adopted by the Legislature in view of the recent act of Congress known as the military act, so far as it may affect the officers of the
State, made a lengthy report, which was ordered to be printed.
The following bills were passed:
A bill to establish an army agency in the city of
Richmond.
A bill to amend and re-enact sections 2d and 7th of an act for improving the navigation of
Willis river, passed January 28th, 1817.
A bill to amend and re-enact an act authorizing the Court of Appeals to hold its sessions at other places than at
Lewisburg, passed March 12th, 1863.
And a bill to authorize an appropriation to pay for tobacco injured or destroyed by fire at the
Public Warehouse.
The consideration of the subject of salt was then resumed and continued till the hour of adjournment.
House.--The following bills were passed in the House of Delegates yesterday:
A House bill appropriating the public revenues for public purposes for the fiscal years of 1863 --'4 and 1864--'5.
And Senate bill to increase the salaries of the
Professors of the University of Virginia, and providing for the education of soldiers disabled in the service.
The subject of salt occupied the balance of the session.