| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| January 27, 1865 |
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| Senate |
| Mr. Keen, of Pittsylvania, by
leave, offered a joint resolution, providing that, in the opinion of
the General Assembly of Virginia, the interest of the Army of Northern
Virginia imperatively demands that the track on the Piedmont railroad
(forty miles between Danville and Greensboro') shall be laid with a
track so that the engines on the Virginia and North Carolina railroads
shall be able to run over the entire line {the
common gauge in the two states was 4 feet 8 inches; only the Richmond
& Danville, Virginia & Tennessee and Norfolk & Petersburg
RRs were 5 foot roads.}; and, to the end, a
committee of two on the part of the Senate and three of the House of
Delegates shall wait upon the President of the Confederate States and
confer with him as to the importance of the subject. |
| The President appointed
Messrs. Keen and Logan as said committee on the part of the Senate. |
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