The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-17
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TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

TUESDAY, Oct L.
/ The Speaker appointed Messrs Newman, Wood
OF Hardeman, and White, joint committee TO con-
fer with Messrs. Mcigs and Cooper in conformity
with a resolution adopted yesterday
( Mr.. Cavtt: A bin to establish conventional
interest-lcgalising as high rate of interest on
money loaned as ten per cent, &c; passed first
reading and referred to Judiciary Committee.
Mr. habry: bill to remove the branch Of the
Bank OF Tennessee from Sparta to McMnnville;
passed hrst reading and referred to Committee on
Banks
The bill to authorize the Commissioners to
pend $1,000 of monies already appropriated, in
clearing the drift out of the mouth of Forked Deer
river, was taken up and passed on second reading.
E Mr.. Bartlett: A bill TO abolish the usury laws
and to establish a conventional interest making
contracts as TO interest legal but where not speci-
he'd the legal rate to be six per cent; passed first
reading and referred to judiciary committee.
Mr. Harris: A bin to abolish the quart law"
passed first reading and referred to committee on
( Tipping.
The following bills we're passed on their second
reading:
For the benefit of Columbia Academy in McMnn
county-amended on motion OF Mr.. Little, so as its
I provisions shall apply to Unionville Academy in
Bedford county.
To charter the LaGrange Female Academy.
To amend the laws regulating the Beams Station
! Turnpike road.
| To charter the Nashville Printing and Publishing
/ COmpany-amended, on motion of Mr.. BuIlen, so
! that ii may be repealed by the Legislature whenever
it shall be apparent that the public good shall re-
| quire it.
! Mr.. Burch: A bill to be entitled act the better
| 10 secure costs in prosecutions for msdemeanor;
passed first reading and referred TO Judiciary com
mittee
The following bills were passed on third reading:
! To charter the Clislean Society of the Baptist
Female College at Brownsville.
! To incorporate the Methodist Church at Carriers
Station in Greene county.
The Houee adjourned to o'clock, P. N.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The following bills passed on third reading
TOamend the internal improvement law of the last
session-authorisng the Mississippi Central and
Tennessee Railroad Company to divide any surplus
Lhat may exist of the 100000 appropriated for the
bridge over the Hatchie river between the bridges
across the Forked Deer, on said road and the two
forks Of Obon, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
ayes 81, noes %.
To incorporate the Nashville Academy of Music
and the Fine Arts.
To authorize the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com
pany to borrow money.
To change the name of Sampson Stuart.
MIR. Kinney: A bill to repeal all laws now in
force in this State prohibiting the sale Of spirtuous
liquors in less quantities than quart; passed first
reading and referred to Committee on Tipping.
Mr.. Fielder A bill 20 repeal the tipping laws in
force in this STATE; passed first reading and referred
to Committee on Tipping.
Nr. Rudd: A bill to repeal the acts Of 1921, Oh.
Sc, and 1927, ch. SO passed first reading and
TERED TO Judiciary Committee.
Mr.. Colbun: bill for the relief Of the heirs of
Samuel Sahell, OF Bount county; passed first read.
ing.
Mr Brown of Davidson Mr. Cavitt in the chair:)
A bill 10 amend an act to authorize the Jews Of
Nashville 10 purchase burial ground aud to erect
a synagogue, &c; passed first reading.
hr. Brown, OF Madison: A bill to amend the
criminal laws OF this State; passed FIRST reading and
referred 10 Judiciary Committee.
The House then adjourned to 10 o'clock to NOR
morning