An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
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Chap. 199.—JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the Sense of the General
Assembly of the Loss sustained by the State in the Resignation of
Judge Wm. T. Joynes.
Agreed to March 12, 1872.
1. The general assembly has received with profound sensibility
the announcement that Judge William T. Joynes had ceased
to hold his distinguished place in the judicial service of the
state. Reasons sufficient in his judgment having induced his
resignation, it is fit that the state, by her assembled represen-
tatives, should, while acquiescing in the separation, express her
sorrow for the absence from her councils of one so useful and
distinguished, and her sense of a loss so difficult to be re-
paired.
Judge Joynes combined in rare union and degree the quali-
ties which make the eminent jurist and judge. From youth
he had, with an ardor which reached enthusiasm, devoted fine
abilities to the pursuit of a profession said to be of all the most
jealous and exacting of those who would achieve its honors and
rewards, and early laid the foundation on which was built up a
solid and enduring legal reputation.
In all respects he was highly qualified for the judicial office.
With manners genial and kind, a temper singularly free from
bitterness, an acute and penetrating mind, a power of patient
attention never execeded, and a conscientious and pains-taking
sense of duty, he attained a measure of usefulness and fame as
a judge certainly not surpassed by that of any contemporary.
Strongly impressed with these sentiments towards the retiring
judge, the general assembly would impress them durably on
the archives of the state as a merited tribute of her respect
and approbation.
2. Resolved, That this proceeding be communicated to the
senate, with the request that it concur therein.