Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-06
TgsNEssEE LEclsLATUnE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY. February 4
NIGHT SESSION.

NIGHT SESSION.
House Bills on 1iird Read;pg-To authorse jas.
Hagar TO erect a dam across Stones river-indeG-
nitely postponed
Requiring the sale Of land or slaves to be adver-
tised in newspaper; REJECTED, ayes25, noes 30.
To repeal the act TO protect the Homestead; re-
jected, ayes IT, macs So:
To incornerate the Fountain and the Niagara
Fire Companies OF Knoxville; passed.
TO authorise grand uries TO send for witnesses in
Of disturbance OF public worship and in cases
Of suspected violations OF the law regulating the
sale OF sprituOus liquors; passed. ayes 81, noes %
SENATE
TUtsDAY Feb s.
The Senate adopted bill to amend she Reel Foot
Lake court law, IN lieu Of House bill to improve
the criminal laws of this State and passed il on %
reading.
Senate bin to amend the practice Of Circuit Courts
passed on 80 reading.
The Senate took up House bill endorsing bonds
Of the Nashville ard Chattanooga Railroad and the
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, Tor $4,000
each 10 aid in constructing a railroad ON Chatta-
nooga to Cleveland, and endorsing $500 00O OF
bonds Of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
Company, with bill in lien off red by Mr. Ellis.
The bill in lieu provides, in substance, that all the
railroad companies entitled to State aid shall have
the privilege OF issuing 200 per mile income
DyiiNSsNNibu gfdlo ~ piONlNNi Ndiu Noihpd~
MES within six wears from the issuance of said bonds
shall deposit 20 per cent per annum, as a sinking
: fund, to paw said bonds said bonds 10 be endorsed
by the State interest TO be paid semi annually; and
provided further, that the East Tennessee and
Georgia and the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Companies shall er)y the privileges Of this act;
but that they are authorized to issue income bonds
aforesaid, for $50 GOO each ten wears to aid in
constructing the Chattanooga and Cleveland Rail
road
Messrs Ellie and II II advocated the bill.
And the Senate adjourned for dinner.
AFTERNOON Session.
T session was consum ID ii; considering the IN
finished business without final vote The bill 10
lieu rejected, aud pending an amendment 10 the
original bill, the Senate adjourned to 81, a N to-
morrow
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
TUESDAY, February 5.
AdccrtjSi,,g Sales-On motion of Mr. Newman,
the House recou-iltrei the vote e, citing the bill
requiring the sale Of land aud negroes be adver-
tis'd in some ne~spaper, and it then passed
upon its third reading. ayes "a, noes 49,
Innate Aegirm-Prnding the consideration Of
Senate bill for the benefit OF the Tennessee Hospi.
I'll for the Insane.
The House adjourned TO O'Clock, p N.
AFTERNOON SIS ION
Lnaatic Asalqm-Seratc bill for the benefit of
the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, further
considered aud passed on its third reading, with
slight amendment; ayes A, noes rs
Ho'lse bills on Third reading-To charter the Bank
OF America OF Tennessee; passed ayes 81, noes 3D.
For The benz t OF stayors Ia certain cases. passed
ayes "a, noes 81.
To incorporate the East Tennessee Farming
Grape-growing, Stock raising and Manufacturing
CO.. passed.
For the benefit of revenue collectors and con-
stables; passed. ayes 3S, noes Is
Requiring the clerk of the Supreme Court at
Nashville to collect and arrange the law brary be-
longing to the STATE; passed, ayes 81, noes IS.
To appropriate $4,000 each to the Hiwassee and
Ooed's rivers to improve the navigation of the
same; rejected ayes 23, noes So
For the relief Of John S, Petway and DR.. James
Overton; passed, ayes SO, noes %.