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Bills have been introduced into the Virginian Legislature to regulate the new relations of and protect the Freemen in all his rights. We suppose they will pass, and then there will be no necessity for the longer continuance of the "Freedman's bureau" in
the State:
The bills proposed are as follows:
No. 32, to punish insurrection;
No. 33, to punish certain crimes;
No. 34, for registering marriages and legalizing marriages of colored persons;
No. 35, against unlawful marriages;
No. 36, in relation to the maintenance of illegitimate children;
No. 37, for the punishment of offences committed by negroes, provides "that for all criminal offences committed by colored persons, the punishment shall be the same as provided by law for white persons who may commit like offences,
and that bill
No. 38 regulates contracts for labor or service between white and colored persons, defines what shall be a day's or months' labor, requires contracts for a term longer than one month to be in writing to be binding on a colored person, &c., to be duly a
cknowledged before a justide, &c.
A day's work, "whether performed by a colored or white persons" is to be "ten hours of actual labor," and months' work to be "twenty-six of such days."
No. 40 requires apprentices to be taught reading, writing and arithmetic.
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