Litchfield enquirer., 1830-05-27

The joint committee on the State Prison made report. that, in their opinion, the State Prison ought tobc enlarged and rec commended the erection Of 50 additional cells, at an expense. not exceeding $4OOO. The resolution, after an amendment. passed.
 Bill for public act to regulate the selling of distilled spirits. read first time.
 Report of the Cashiers of the several Banks in this State, laid upon the table for the use of the members.
 Bill for public act in relation to the as- sessmcnt and collection oftaxes, read second time. The bill was advocated hy MT. EIls- worth, who moved an amendment, which was adopted.
 Bill for an act for the regulation of civil ac- tiOns, read second timc-advocated by Mr. Ellsworth, and opposed by Mcssrs. Burrall and Holhrook, the latter of whom moved an indefinite postponement, On motion Of Mir. Burrall, the bill was amended. The motion to postpone was withdrawn. The bill was then laid on the table.
 Bill to repeal an act, for the settlement of estates, testa;e, $c. passed m May, lsa9, read second time.
 Biz for public act, entitled aa act for the due observance of the Sabbath, which was laid upon the table on its third reading. was now taken ups the question being upon the pas sage, an amendment was proposed, aud car ried, The bin passed.
 l Atternooa,-B for an act concerning iai,s and jailors. read thlrd time. Messrs Martin anl Gray remarked fn favor of the biu, and Mir, Kellogg, ia opposition, Bin lost, ! Bill for the regulation of civil actions was read the third time and lost, ayes 4s, noes 99. 1 MT. WoodrnA, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Isaac Lea venworth and others, reported aill for their relicf-Passed
 Resolution declaring the last annual meet. ing Of the Hospital Society illegal due notice nor haVlng been given. passed.
 "Wednesday Daov17sn9, Mag i9,
 Commttee on the Report of the Agents of the Eagle Bank-Messrs. King, Baldwin, Woodruff, Marks of B., Loomis. Shailor' Warning and Perkins.
 Proposition of Yates & M'Intyre on Lotte. ries referred.
 MT. Brinsmade, from the committee on new towns &c., to whom was referred 4he petition of Horace Brainard and others, re- ported bill for their relief Report accept ed, and bill in form passed.
 Bill for an act concerning crimes and pun 'shments, read a second time and laid upon | the table.
 Remonstrance of the citizens of the town ot berIlh' m relation to pedlars and hawkers referred. Bill for regulating the election of directors ofbanks and other interpretations, read a se- cond time.
 Bill for constituting the town of Haddam a Probate district, read second time.
 BIl concerning the foreclosure of mortga- ges, read second time, and on motion of MT. Ingham, laid on the table.
 Bill Tor regulating the assessment of taxes, read third time and passed.
 Bill to secure the citizens of this State free dom of opinion in matters of religion, was now taken up. the question being on amend. ing the bill. A long debate ensued, in which Messrs. Lowry, Whittlesey, and Woodruff, took part against the bill, and in favor fthe amendment, and Messrs. Mussey, Lathrop, Gray and Ellsworth in favor of the original blll. MT. Burrall moved to amend the a. mendment, by providing that the witness be- I'eve in Supreme Being. Both amendments were then agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read third time tomorrow at o o'clock.
 Atfernoon.-Ths being the time assigned for the choice of Comptroller of public ac- counts for the year ensuing. the House pro- ceeded to ballot for the same-whole number of votes given in was 195. of which Elisha Phelps had l07, and was elected. s.- ...
 Bill appointing John Q. Wilson, Chief Judge, and Benjamin lsaacs and Jedediah Graves Associate Judges for the county of Fairfield, passed.
 Bills appointing R. Booth Judge of Pro- bate for the District of Danbury, Benjamin lsaacs for Norwalk, Charles Hawly for Stam- ford, David Hill for Fairfield, Fitch Wheeler for Stratford, Samuel c. Blackman for New town, passed.
 Bill for the appointment of Justices of the Peace for the county of Fairfield, passed. Blll for repeating an act authorizing the im- prlsonment of females was read third time.
 MT. Gray spoke in opposition to the bill.- He looked forward. he said. with great anx- ety to the time when imprisonment for debt would be entirely abolished. He could see no reason for passing this bill at this late pe- riod. He alluded to the case of d widow be- ing committed for the sum of 6S cents the sums he said were generally small. He be- lievedthe object of the mover was self inter- est. a.
 Mir. Hinman said, that the bill now on the table had been in operation four years, and that every year since its passage, a successful attempt had been made to repeal the act in this House, but was rejected in the Senate. He was not, he said, in favor of allowing any privileges to any one class of society. The operation of this law was not understood.-I He had, he said, as favorable an opinion of women as any gentleman on the floor; but as the law now stands, the creditor can get no redress. A woman may run m debt to any amount. get her property converted into