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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0783 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS.
company and other parties, as if the same had been entered into
under tim name and style of the Petersburg southern insurance
company.
No. 6.-Resolution authorizing pay to Commissioners appointed to audit
and pay expenses incurred by tho Invasion at Harpers Ferry, for services
rendered by them.
Adopted April 4, 1861.
Resolved by the general assembly, that the auditor of public Amount
accounts shall be and he is hereby authorized to pay out of the appropriated
appropriation lheretoforo made, for the expenses incurred by the
invasion of the state at Harpers Ferry, the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars to each of the commissioners appointed to audit and
settle claims for said expenses, as compensation for their services.
No. 7.-Resolution to grant to Angus W. McDonahl exclusive right of
publishing certain Mlanuscripts obtained by him from Eifhgand.
Adopted March 28, 1861.
Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, that Colonel Angus flxclu ive
t_. right to
W. Mc])onalh shall have the exclusive right and privilege of print- A. W. MlcDonald
lug and publishing such portion of the manuscripts obtnincd by him
from England, and mentioned in his report to the governor of this
commonwealth, of date the third day of February eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, and communicated by the governor to thi general
assembly, as lio may deem proper: but this resolutiin it1ny be
rescinded, and the authority hereby given revoked, at the pleasure
of the general assembly.
No. 8.-Joint Resolution for tMe relief of the Contractors on the Covington
and Ohio Rail Road.
Adopted April 3, 16Q.
Whereas the present state of afrairs has occa'sioned embarrass- Preamble
ment to the contractors on the Covington and Ohio rail road, that
will prevent many if not all of them from executing their contracts,
unless some relief is afforded : And whereas the failure on the part
of said contractors to execute their work will occasion great loss to
the state: And whereas all the existing embarrassments were not
conftenplated by either of the parties to said contracts when the
same were entered into:](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0783&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)