| From the Lynchburg Virginian |
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| February 16, 1863 |
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| Salt |
| In the Senate of Virginia Thursday, the
Joint Committee on Salt reported the following preamble and
resolution: |
| Whereas, After due investigation the
testimony of the officers of the Virginia & Tennessee railroad
company has convinced us that for want of machinery sufficient
transportation cannot be furnished for supplying the people of
Virginia and the other Confederate States dependent upon the Wythe and
Smyth county salines, with the necessary quantity of salt, without the
detail by the Confederate States Government for their workshops and
for preparing lumber. |
| Resolved by the General Assembly, That a
Committee of three on the part of the House and two on the part of the
Senate be appointed to confer on the subject with the proper
department of the Confederate States Government and to urge in the
strongest terms the necessity of a detail of men for said purposes.
This was laid over, under the rules, and, upon motion of Mr. Thompson,
the report to the House being identical in its tenor and effect was
adopted in its stead. |
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