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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0681 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS.
one hundred and fifty copies thereof, to be distributed by them among
tile people.
Compensantion 2. Resolved, That for the services hereby required, the said clerk shall
therefor. receive fifty dollars, nnd the public printer shall be paid for printing and
mailing the same in the manner in which lie is now paid for extra print-
ing ordered by the house of delegittes.
No. 20.-Resolutions for distributing certain copics of Gallaher's Register of the
Debates of the Virginia Reform Convention.
lAdopted March 14, 1851.]
Preamble. Whereas certain copies of Gallaher's Register of the Debates and
Proceedings of the Virginia reform convention are to be delivered by
the publisher to the secretary of the commonwealth, and by him hold
subject to the order of the legislature : Therefore,
Gallaher's Regs. 1. Resolved by the r'eneral asstmbly, That the secretary be directed to
'tot of Debates of
Mi., how transmit to the librarian of the several states and of the congress of the
con~venion, bo tanmtoh
distributed. United States, and to the clerk of the house of delegates for his office,
and to the clerk of the senate for his office, each a copy of said Register
of Debates and Proceedings when the same shall have been bound; also
one copy to the president of the United States for the use of the presi-
dential library.
Copies for mer. 2. Be it further resolved, That out of the copies not otherwise appro-
ers oflegisa. priated, each member of the present general assemhly shall be entitled
to one bound copy of said Register, to be delivered at the same time the
bound copies of the Journal of the house of delegates and of the senate
are delivered.
No. 21.-Rltesolition authorizing the public printer to dispose of certain copies
of the Code of Virginia.
[Adopted February 11, 1851.]
Public printer Resolved by the general assembly, That the public printer be and lie is
authorizedtodlk, hereby allowed to sell one hundred and ten copies of the Code of Vir-
P00oCopic of ginia left upon his hands after supplying the numbor required by the
commonwealth: Provided, The same shall not be sold at a less price
than is charged by the commonwealth.
No. 22.-Resolution concerning William, a lunatic slave.
[Adopted March 24, 1851.1
Preamble. Whereas negro slave William, a felon convicted in the county of Fau-
quier and his punishment committed by the executive for transportation
out of the limits of the United States, has, since lie was removed to the
penitentiary, become lunatic and unsaloablc : And whereas humanity as
well as other considerations' make it proper that corrective rcmclics
should be applied to his case, which cannot be well done at said institu-
tion :
Willam, aluna- Be it therefore resolved by the general assemnbly of Virginia, That the
tic, to b re of the
moved to Eastern su-erinteident pcnitentiary cause the said slave to be removed to
asylum. the Eastern lunatic asylum for the proper corrective treatment in that
institution; and the ollicers of the said institution are hereby directed to
When restored receive him therein as a state patient; and whenever the mind of said
to sanity to b i i e i w sld
returned to rcnj. Willam i restored to sanity they will cause im to he returned, to-
tetdary. gethior with a certificate of the fite, to the superintendent of the peniten-
tiary for sale and transportation.
ERRATUM.
Page 33, 8th and 9th lines, strike out the words the salary of the reporter
not being included in said cost.
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