1849-1850 Session Information
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- Start Date: Dec 3 1849
- End Date: Mar 22 1850
- Notes: Session: December 3, 1849 to March 22, 1850
- Speaker:
Henry Laurens Hopkins
- Clerk:
George Wythe Munford
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Special Sessions:
| Name | Locality | Committees |
|---|---|---|
| Edmund R. Allen | Accomack | Clerk's Office (Chair) |
| Charles B. Ball | Loudoun | Register's Office |
| John S. Barbour Jr. | Culpeper | Executive Expenditures (Chair) Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections |
| Christopher J. Beirne | Monroe | Penitentiary (Chair) |
| James Bennett | Braxton, Lewis, and Gilmer | Register's Office |
| Thomas J. Boyd | Wythe and Pulaski | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Francis M. Boykin | Isle of Wight | First Auditor's Office Lunatic Asylums |
| James Brown | Bath and Highland | Executive Expenditures |
| Thomas Brown | Westmoreland | Treasurer's Accounts |
| William A. Buckner | Caroline | First Auditor's Office |
| William M. Burwell | Bedford | Banks Schools and Colleges |
| Thomas Buswell | Page | Militia Laws |
| Thomas B. Butt | Norfolk County | Register's Office (Chair) |
| William Cackley | Pocahontas | Second Auditor's Committee Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| John M. Campbell | Smyth | Bonds of Public Officers Clerk's Office |
| Thomas H. Campbell | Nottoway | Courts of Justice Public Libraries |
| Wyatt Cardwell | Charlotte | Agriculture and Manufactures Second Auditor's Committee |
| John Carroll | Grayson and Carroll . | Propositions and Grievances |
| Charles Carter | Albemarle | Schools and Colleges |
| Nathaniel C. Claiborne | Franklin | Schools and Colleges (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| Bowling Clarke | Campbell | Executive Expenditures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Thomas N. Clarke | Essex | Penitentiary |
| Thomas C. Clopton | Gloucester | Clerk's Office Lunatic Asylums |
| Henry E. Coleman | Mecklenberg | Banks Schools and Colleges |
| Eustace Conway | Spotsylvania | Courts of Justice |
| James Cook | Wood, Wirt, Ritchie, and Doddridge | Claims |
| James W. Cook | Greensville | Penitentiary Treasurer's Accounts |
| William M. Cook | Roanoke | Finance Roads and Internal Navigation |
| James B. Dorman | Rockbridge | Militia Laws (Chair) Schools and Colleges |
| Joseph L. or S. Duckwall | Morgan | Armory Bonds of Public Officers Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Talbot S. Duke | Jefferson | Privileges and Elections |
| Isaac B. Dunn | Washington | Finance |
| William H. Edwards | Franklin | Executive Expenditures Finance |
| James H. Ferguson | Logan and Boone | Courts of Justice (Chair) |
| Louis C. H. Finney | Accomack | Bonds of Public Officers (Chair) |
| Beverley R. Fleming | Halifax | Agriculture and Manufactures Banks Propositions and Grievances |
| Henry D. Flood | Appomattox | Privileges and Elections |
| William W. Forbes | Buckingham | Militia Laws |
| James S. Garrison | Princess Anne | Public Libraries Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Hervey George | Tazewell | Trade and the Mechanic Arts (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
| Samuel C. Gibson | Amherst | Banks Claims |
| Madison Gilmore | Botetourt | Enrolled Bills Propositions and Grievances |
| Lewis Grantham | Berkeley | Clerk's Office Public Libraries |
| James W. Gresham | Lancaster and Richmond County | Claims |
| Robert G. Griffin | Southampton | First Auditor's Office |
| Peter Guerrant | Floyd | Armory |
| John Haas | Shenandoah | Penitentiary |
| Charles S. Hall | Randolph and Barbour | Courts of Justice |
| Allen C. Hammond | Berkeley | Claims |
| George D. Happer | Norfolk County | Armory |
| David Hargrave | Surry | Enrolled Bills Penitentiary |
| Joseph W. Harper | Dinwiddie | Militia Laws Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| William O. Harris | Louisa | Agriculture and Manufactures Claims |
| Benoni E. Harrison | Prince William | Treasurer's Accounts |
| Lewis E. Harvie | Amelia | Banks (Chair) Agriculture and Manufactures |
| Robert Henderson | Northumberland | Armory |
| William Hicks | Mason, Putnam, Wirt, and Jackson | Propositions and Grievances |
| Hiram Hill | Fayette and Nicholas | Propositions and Grievances Second Auditor's Committee |
| Benjamin Hiner | Pendleton and Highland | Armory Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Henry Laurens Hopkins | Powhatan | |
| James R. Houser | King and Queen | Claims Register's Office |
| William M. Hume | Fauquier | Armory |
| Edward B. Jacobs | Warren and Clarke | Armory Enrolled Bills |
| Mortimer H. Johnson | Taylor | Banks Finance |
| Alexander Jones | Chesterfield | Propositions and Grievances (Chair) |
| Garrison Jones | Marshall | Register's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Edward D. Kernan | Russell | Privileges and Elections |
| Zedekiah Kidwell | Marion | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| John R. Kilby | Nansemond | Armory Courts of Justice Public Libraries |
| Richmond T. Lacy | Charles City and New Kent | First Auditor's Office (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| John A. Lancaster | Henrico | Enrolled Bills Penitentiary Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Douglass B. Layne | Alleghany | Claims (Chair) |
| Burdett A. Lewis | Brunswick | Courts of Justice |
| Charles S. Lewis | Harrison and Doddridge | Courts of Justice Schools and Colleges |
| Hiram Martz | Rockingham County | Second Auditor's Committee (Chair) Finance |
| Charles Massie | Goochland | Armory Clerk's Office |
| Joseph Mayo | Richmond City | Banks Courts of Justice Finance |
| John Marshall McCue | Augusta | Agriculture and Manufactures Enrolled Bills Propositions and Grievances |
| William P. Minter | Lee | Second Auditor's Committee |
| Robert C. Mitchell | Bedford | Propositions and Grievances |
| John Morris | Cabell, Putnam, and Wayne | Treasurer's Accounts |
| Theodorick Morris | Henry | Penitentiary |
| Griffith D. Neal | Pittsylvania | Propositions and Grievances |
| Morris D. Newman | Madison | Banks Schools and Colleges Treasurer's Accounts |
| John E. Nicholson | Sussex | Lunatic Asylums Second Auditor's Committee |
| Nelson Page | Cumberland | Agriculture and Manufactures Clerk's Office |
| George Pannill Jr. | Orange and Greene | |
| Spicer Patrick | Kanawha and Putnam | |
| Andrew Patterson | Rockbridge | Treasurer's Accounts |
| Albert G. Pendleton | Giles and Mercer | Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) |
| Charles Perrow | Nelson | Propositions and Grievances |
| Philip Pittman | Shenandoah | Agriculture and Manufactures Claims Enrolled Bills |
| Robert M. Powell | Hampshire | Militia Laws |
| William B. Power | Brunswick | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| Samuel Price | Greenbrier | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Charles Quillen | Scott | Claims |
| Robert G. Rives | Prince George | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) Public Libraries Roads and Internal Navigation |
| William J. Robertson | Patrick | Executive Expenditures |
| Jonas P. Schooley | Loudoun | Claims |
| Joseph Segar | Elizabeth City and Warwick | Treasurer's Accounts (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Hugh White Sheffey | Augusta | Lunatic Asylums Privileges and Elections |
| Alexander K. Shepard | Mathews and Middlesex | Armory (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
| Russell A. Smith | Montgomery and Pulaski | Bonds of Public Officers |
| Edgar Snowden | Alexandria | Finance |
| George W. Southall | James City, York, and Williamsburg | Courts of Justice Lunatic Asylums Schools and Colleges |
| George Stillman | Fluvanna | Enrolled Bills (Chair) Clerk's Office |
| William H. Stokes | Lunenberg | Armory |
| John B. Stovall | Halifax | Finance (Chair) |
| James French Strother | Rappahannock | Courts of Justice
Finance |
| Simon S. Stubbs | Norfolk City | Banks Claims Executive Expenditures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| William P. Stump | Hampshire | Claims Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Charles F. Suttle | Stafford | Agriculture and Manufactures First Auditor's Office |
| John W. Syme | Petersburg | Banks Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Samuel J. Tebbs | Fauquier | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Harrison B. Tomlin | King William | Public Libraries (Chair) Privileges and Elections Roads and Internal Navigation |
| George Townes | Pittsylvania | Courts of Justice Roads and Internal Navigation |
| John F. Wall | Frederick | Agriculture and Manufactures Register's Office |
| Robert Wallace | King George | Militia Laws Second Auditor's Committee |
| Francis Warman | Monongalia | First Auditor's Office |
| Egbert R. Watson | Albemarle | Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections |
| Nathaniel Wells | Brooke and Hancock | Schools and Colleges Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Felix B. Welton | Claims | |
| James G. West | Tyler, Doddridge, and Wetzel | First Auditor's Office |
| James W. Wheadon | Surry | Enrolled Bills |
| James S. Wheate | Ohio | Banks Bonds of Public Officers Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Stephen B. Wheeler | Preston | Propositions and Grievances |
| Robert J. T. White | Loudoun | Agriculture and Manufactures Militia Laws Schools and Colleges |
| William C. Wickham | Hanover | Bonds of Public Officers Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Edwin A. Williams | Mecklenberg | Propositions and Grievances Register's Office |
| Ira Williams | Fairfax | Armory Bonds of Public Officers Lunatic Asylums |
| John Wills | Campbell | Banks Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Algernon R. Wood | Frederick | Privileges and Elections (Chair) |
| William T. Wootton | Prince Edward | Agriculture and Manufactures Schools and Colleges |
| William C. Worthington | Jefferson | Courts of Justice |
| William B. Yancey | Rockingham | Armory Roads and Internal Navigation Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| George T. Yerby | Northampton | Lunatic Asylums (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
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