Journal of the House of Delegates, of the State of Virginia, for the adjourned session, 1863

The governor's message, dated Jan. 7, 1863, includes such topics as: finances, salt contract and mode of distribution, penitentiary, compensation of clerks, forgery of warrants on the treasury, land office, act concerning slaves for work on fortifications, Rucker's case, Justices of the peace and other officers, legislative resolutions, lunatic asylums, William and Mary College, Virginia Military Institute, University of Virginia, extortion, prisoners captured by the state line, state rangers, report of the adjutant general, ordnance department, quartermaster general's department, free negroes and slaves, death of Hon. Wm. Ballard Preston, representation in the legislature, and Maryland.