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Resolution to authorize the Governor to suspend the law of the 3rd October 1862, to further provide for the Public Defence, so far as it applies to those Counties whose loss of Slaves has been so great as to interfere with the Agricultural Products of said Counties. 1863 122 (1863.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0816 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. No. 3. -eamble and Resolutions in rlatidt' the Disorderly Practices at, the Virginia Military Institute in connection with the Cose of Cadet Wil- lam A. Daniel. . AdoptedMareh IS,19M.'' Preamble Whereas it appeai, upon satisfato'y evidence adduced before the general assembly, that Cadet William A. Daniel, then ajunior cadet of the Virginia military institute; was on the eleventh day of Novem-. her eighteen hundred and sixty-tvo, subjected to an unorovoked and cruel infliction of personal violence by cadets of the institute, and that no adequate protection was afforded him by the officers of the institution against a repetition of such violence: by which means said Cadet Daniel has b en driven from the institute, and Oractieally denied the benefits of its instrution : and whereas it appears also that the practice of such wanton violations of good order and hu- manity hai been of long continiance abd without proper restraint, at said institute: Therefore, Unqualified con. 1. Resolved, that this general assembly herbby expresses its un- demination qu:difled condemnation of such practice, as violative of good discip- line, unjust to the peaceable and orderly cadets, injurious to the efficient administration of the institute, and unworthy the chivalrous character of our southern youth. Instruction to 2. That the officers of said institution be and are hereby instructed ofIcere to adopt such regulations and discipline .in reference to said practice of wanton punishment of junior cadets, as will effectually discontinue Disapprobation, and repress it; and that it is the.opinion of the general assembly, upon the facts before them, that th6 efforts of the officers of said institute to suppress the vicious practicb complained of, havxe not been such as meet with the approbation of this general assembly. Requirement 3. That the officers of said institution be and they are hereby re- quired, if Cadet William A. Daniel shall so desire, to reinstate him as a cadet of said institute, without prejudice to his position therein Duty of oficers on accdunt of his withdrawal therefrom in November last. And if the facts stated by him, in his letter to Mr. Robert Dahney, be sub- stantially established, it is the further duty of said officerd to drop from the rolh the name of every cadet who participated ii the outrage. 'No. 4.-Resolution to authorize the Governor to suspend thle-law of the 3rd October 1862, to further provide for the P.ublic Defence, so far as it applies to those Counties whose loss of Slaves has been so great as to Interfere with the Agricultural Products of said Counties. Adopted January 27,1863. Action'of law of Resolved by the general assembly, that the governor be and he is October 1862 s*epdod hereby'authorized to suspend the action of the law passed October

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