Returns of the Election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, Etc.-Continued. GOVERNOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ATTORNEY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH STATE TREASURER John R. Saunders Harry K. Wolcott J. Thomas Newcome B. O. James T. X. Parsons F. V. Bacchus Charles A. Johnston J. W. Flanagan Thomas E. Jackson Returns of the Election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Etc. GOVERNOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ATTORNEY GENERAL Continued. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH H. Adolph Muller Theodore Nash Petersburg. Portsmouth. 2,009 200 2,823 457 6 16 Radford. 639 325 Richmond. 11,864 3,073 8 29 422722 Staunton. 993 438 1 185 1,041 365 8 184 947 401 197 984 387 Suffolk. 200 962 398 220 725 84 15 756 16 1 11 710 88 21 737 Williamsburg. 63 21 714 64 21 202 48 14 221 38 1 12 219 45 16 226 38 16 213 42 Winchester. 18 753 487 6 809 418 4 11 794 434 21 847 426 14 748 415 50 THE SPEAKER of the House of Delegates declared E. Lee Trinkle duly elected Governor of this Commonwealth for the term prescribed by law. THE SPEAKER of the House of Delegates declared J. E. West duly elected Lieutenant-Governor of this Commonwealth for the term prescribed by law. THE SPEAKER of the House of Delegates declared John R. Saunders duly elected Attorney General of this Commonwealth for the term prescribed by law. THE SPEAKER of the House of Delegates declared B. O. James duly elected Secretary of the Commonwealth of this Commonwealth for the term prescribed by law. THE SPEAKER of the House of Delegates declared Charles A. Johnston duly elected State Treasurer of this Commonwealth for the term prescribed by law. On motion of MR. OLIVER, the joint assembly adjourned. The following were presented and referred under Rule 37: To the Committee on Agriculture and Mining: By MESSRS. OZLIN and LONG: A bill to provide for the gathering and compilation of agricultural statistics of the State. By MESSRS. OZLIN, LONG and COMMINS: A bill to prevent the sale of inferior and worthless vegetable seed in the State of Virginia. By MESSRS. OZLIN, LONG and COMMINS: A bill to require persons, firms and corporations engaged in the business of threshing of grain to keep accurate account of the amount of grain threshed by them, and to make reports thereof to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration. To the Committee on Asylums and Prisons: By MESSRS. TAYLOR and WILLIS: A bill to amend and re-enact section 2073 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. To the Committee on General Laws: By MR. JONES of Highland: A bill to amend and re-enact section 3594 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920. By MESSRS. PITTS, JONES of Richmond city and WILLIS: A bill to provide for the training of public health nurses, school nurses. and other social and public health workers, creating a commission for this purpose, and appropriating the sum of $10,000.00 per annum for the work. To the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation: By MESSRS. PITTS and SMITH of Albemarle: A bill imposing public duties on persons, firms, corporations and associations operating motor vehicles over the public highways and streets of the Commonwealth for the transportation of passengers and freight for a fare, charge and compensation, defining them as common carriers, and as such, public service corporations, and providing for the control and regulation thereof by the State Corporation Commission. To the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation: By MR. McCOTTER: A bill to authorize the school board of Templeton school district, in Prince George county, to borrow money, not to exceed $18,000.00, for the purpose of paying off the present indebtedness of the district and for the erection of school buildings for white and colored at Disputanta. By MR. MCCOTTER: A bill to repeal section 5, chapter 67 of an act of assembly of 1916, approved February 26, 1916, entitled an act to appropriate the sum of $25,000.00 for the proper administration of the affairs of that part of Bland magisterial district, Prince George county, Virginia, known as Hopewell, and its suburbs, to prescribe the method whereby the said appropriation shall be expended, and to provide for the payment thereof to the State treasury and to relieve the city of Hopewell of the payment of the said sum of $25,000.00 into the State treasury. On motion of MR. PITTS, the House adjourned. JOHN W. WILLIAMS, RICHARD L. BREWER, JR., Speaker of the House of Delegates. Clerk of the House of Delegates. MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1922. Prayer by Rev. W. W. Weeks, D. D., of Grace Street Baptist church, Richmond, Va. On motion of MR. ADAMS, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with. THE SPEAKER and Clerk signed the Journal as provided by Rule 3. A communication from the Senate, by their Clerk, was read as follows: In Senate, January 13, 1922. The Senate has agreed to Senate joint resolution providing for an investigation of the State highway department, No. 1; in which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates. MR. NORRIS, the member-elect from Lancaster and Richmond counties, and MR. CHARLES F. SMITH, the member-elect from Dinwiddie county, presented themselves at the Clerk's desk and were duly sworn in as members of the House of Delegates, taking and subscribing the oaths required by the Constitution. The following communication was received from the Governor: COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Gentlemen of the General Assembly: GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, January 16, 1922. That a great American may be fittingly honored, a national committee of representative men and women has undertaken to establish the Woodrow Wilson Foundation through which public service will be encouraged and conspicuously recognized in this and future generations. A nation-wide appeal |