The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-02-28
1aGtsatsstppt AeptsIature.
From the Mississippian.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
FRIDAY, January 81.

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| hartman of the committee on proposition
nd grievances, made report on the peti
on of sundry citizens of the city Of Vicks
urg, praying for the erection of q hospital a
hat place, presented memorial to Congress
citing forth the propriety and importance
If such an institution at that place, and ask
ng aid from the General Government to &C
complish the work. The memorial was reaC
The first time.
A message was received from the Cover
nor, in relation to schools and colleges, anC
also in regard to other matters Of state poll
| cy. Five hundred copies of the message anc
accompanying documents were ordered tC
be printed for the use Of the house.
Throughout the day the house was enga.
ged in considering, mainly, the general or.
ders on the table; but no discussion of gen.
eral interest took place.
SATURDAY, Feb. /.
The house was occupied to-day in dispos-
ing of number of bills, in their different
stages; among them number of bills from
the Senate.
bill which originated in the house passed
finally, repeating that clause in the law pass
ed at the last session ofthe Legislature, con-
corning crimes and punishments, which gives
to the counsel for the accused the right to
make the closing argument before the court
or jury.
Mr.. Bell introduced a resolution propos-
ing an adjournment of the legislature, to
January, 1871, on the 18th inst. The reso-
luton was laid on the table.
The bill from the senate introduced by
Mr.. Walton) to suppress unauthorized bank
ing, with some slight alterations, passed the
house. This bill provides that no person or
company, not expressly authorized to issue
bank mites, shall, after the expiration of sixty
days, issue, alter, or in any wise put into
that Equality of paper known usu-
ally as shinpIGsters, under a penalty of fine
and imprisonment; and that, from and after
the 4th of July next, no individual or indi-
viduals shall offer to pass any such paper,
issued prior to that time, under like penal
ties.
MONDAY Feb. 3.
Mr.. Murchison presented the memorial Of
A. Fisk, A. G. Henderson and VIM. St. John
Elliott, committee on the part of the Agri-
cultural Bank, to present statement of the
affairs of that institution, upon the various
matters which have been submitted for the
action of the legislature. The memorial was
read and 200 copies ordered to be printed.
Several accounts and petitions were then
and referred to appropriate COM
mittees.
Among other reports from standing and
select committees, Mr.. Kendall, from the Sc
ect committee appointed on that part of the
Governors message, relating to the conduct
Of the United States Attorney for the South
ern District of Mississippi, R. M. Gaines,
ESQ.,, made report, which was read, and
200 copies ordered to be printed. The re-
port, in effect, declares, that no grounds for
censure against Gen. Gaines exists; it was
received and agreed to by the house.
Mr.. Moody, from select committee, re-
ported bill to provide for the improvement
Of the navigation of Leaf and Pascagoula RI
vers.
Mr.. Dobyns introduced bill to amend the
laws in force concerning divorce and alimo-
ny, which (the rule being dispensed WITH
was read three several times and passed.
Mr.. Ruff, from the joint select committee
ON internal Improvements, made report OF
considerable length, in regard TO the subject,
which was read.
number of other reports were made by differ
ent members, upon subjects heretofore referred
Mr.. Graves, of Amite, offered four several reso-
lutions declaring Tin effecD that the contract Of
marriage is eTctlGsiUe privilege-that all such
null and UOid and from and after the
passage of the act, then introduced, tall the
rights and privileges attaching under such con-
tracts, alLimmediately cease''-that if any mar
ned man or woman shall refuse to Telnqulsh the
exercise of privileges thus conferred, che, she or
they, shall be fined in the sum of $500 and mpri-
5oned in the penientiary for term not less than
one nor more than five years''-that "children
heretofore begotten under the existence OF any
marriage contract in this state,'' be declared il-
egitimate,1 &L. &c.
Mr.. Roberts moved the indefinite postponement
Of the resolutions, which motion was adopted, |
ayes "a, noes A.
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placed on the journals, but the motion was lost
The bill to be entitled tan act requiring the
several Banks in this State to pay specie, and for
)ther purposes, reported under the resolutions of
Zen. Speight, was taken up, and considered in |
Committee of the Whole, Mr.. Roberts in the
,hair Several amendments were made to the
bill, after which, the committee rose, and the bill
passed to its engrossment-ayes 46, noes q.
Two hundred and fifty copies of the engrossed |
bill were ordered to be printed, and the bill made
he special order Of the day for II O'Clock on
Thursday next.
Several petitions were presented, and referred
Reports from Select and Standing Committees,
we're then received.
Mr. Null offered the following resolution:
ResolUed, bytte Legislature Of the State Of issts
ippi, That all elections for Directors of the Uni
On Bank on the part Of the State, shall be by both
Which, according to the rules Of the house, lies |
one day on the table.
The remainder of this day was entirely taken
up with the orders of the day. Among other bills
considered, was bill to be entitled "An act to
the Judicial Districts of the State Of
Mississippi to change the times of holding the
Circuit Courts in the different counties in the
state, and for the purpose Of abolishng the Crim-
nal Court" The consideration Of this bill COM
sumed nearly the whole Of this day.
WEDNESDAY,, Feb. 5.
After the morning business, the resolution in-
troduced by Major Null, on yesterday, to provide
that the election for Union Bank Directors on the
part of the state shall be by the members Of both
houses voting utUG UOce, was taken up, and adopt
"a. The ayes and noes were called for, and the
vote stood-ayes 50, noes 81.
The orders of the day occupied the attention Of
the house throughout the day. This days ses-
zion, although one Of much labor, was not enli-