Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-02-16
Legislative Proceedings SENATE.
 February l, 1859. Evening session.

EVenlnS session. House bills resumed. House bill to aid the cause of education in Calhoun county, was taken up and passed. House bill to grant a charter to Jonathan Hardin to build a toll bridge across Cadron Creek in Conway county, was taken up and passed.
 House bill for the benefit of the Princeton male and female academy, was taken up and passed.
 House bill to provide for making and repair ing levees in Desha and Phillips counties, was taken up and passed. House bill for the relief of the county scrip holders of Lafayette county was taken up and passed.
 House bill to charter the Warren male and female seminary was taken up and passed. House bill to change the name of Maria M. Kinney of Conway county and make her the lawful heir of James N Nicholas of said coun- ty, was taken up and read twice. Mr. Rosson moved to refer 1t to the commit tee on memorials-lost. Mir. Watkins to the committee on enrolled bills-lost.
 Mr. Davies to the committee on the peniten- tiary-lost
 On motion of Mr. Trmble the bill was read the third time and passed. House bill to furnish Searcy county with the Arkansas reports, was taken up and passed. Senate adjourned Wednesday,, Feb. 9
 Senate met. Prayer by the chaplain and roll called.
 Present, 23 senators. House bills on their first reading taken up House bill to incorporate the Arkansas insti- | ute for the blind, was passed. l, -.l. Al | ing of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, was taken up, read twice and refer | red to the committee on elections. Several other bills of no importance to the | public were taken up and referred. A message from the House of Representa- | tives received, stating that they had passed | Senate bill giving permission to county courts to employ county attorneys. | Also, Senate bill to cause all school funds to | be paid directly to the commissioners of com mon schools in the several countles-as we'll as several House bills which were transmitted for the action of the Senate. House bill to compensate judges and clerks | of elections in several counties in this State was taken up and amended so as to apply to all the counties, and passed. The bill gives to | each of the judges and clerks of elections one dollar day. House bill to change the line between the counties of Polk and Montgomery, was taken up and passed. House bill for the relief of w. G. Murphy, late sheriff of Randolph county, was taken up | and passed. House bill to aid in the construction of rail- | roads in Pulaski county, Arkansas was taken | up, and after several intellectual attempts to amend the bill, it was passed by the following vote:
 YEAs-Messrs. Carrgan. Clark, Davies, | Floyd, Gaines Gould, Jones, McColloch, Meek | lin, Pennington, Redmond, Rosson, Strman, | Terry, Trimbe, Watkins and MT. President | Fletcher-17 NAYs.-- Messrs. Askew, Craighead, Douglas, l Marshall and McCreery--5. House bill to amend the charter of the city | of Little Rock, was taken up aud passed. On motion of Mr. Redmond the use of the | Senate chamber was teEaered to the l. 0. 0. F. | of Little Rock for the purpose of giving aparty on the evening of the 9th inst.
 Recess until 21s o'clock, P. M. Evening session. House bills resumed. House bill to incorporate the town of Hope field, in Crittenden county, taken up and passed.
 House bill establishing State road was taken up and passed. House bill to incorporate the Magnolia female institute, was taken up and passed.
 House bill to provide for the election of tax assessors in and for the counties of Ashley, Poiusett White, Crittenden, Washington, Franklin and Scott, was taken up, and on mo- tion of MT. Clark, Scott county was stricken out of and exempted from the provisions of the bill. It was then passed House bill, more fully to define the duties of the several land agents in this State, was taken up and passed (The bill requires the agents to state in the certificates of purchase granted by them whether the purchaser paid scrip or money, and the purchaser when paying scrip to indorse his name on lt.) House bill to incorporate the Rescue Fire Company of Batesville, was taken up and pass ed.
 House bill to regulate the duties of the as- signees of property for the payment of debts, was taken up, read twice and referred to the committee on the judiciary.
 Several other bills of no public importance were taken up and referred to committees.
 Senate adjourned.
 Thmsaay, Feb 3.
 Senate met. Prayer by the Chaplain, and roll called
 
 ing several Senate bills as passed, and transmit ting number of House bills for the action of the Senate.
 On motion of Mr. Douglas, the Senate con cured in the amendmentof the House to Sen ate joint resolution, providing for the payment of the expenses incident to the funeral of Hon. B. H. Smithson--the appropriation therefor amounting to S3O3 50.
 MT. Clark, from the joint committee on the landed interests of the State, presented an able and elaborate report, which was accompanied by three bills, one to preserve and protect the rights of the State to certain lands. another to authorize and make appropriation for transcrb- ing certain records in the auditors office, and another concerning the grants of lands to thls State for internal improvement, seminary and Saline purposes.
 message from the Governor informed the Senate that he had approved and signed an act to incorporate Hampton, in Calhoun county, also act concerning the Cairo and Fulton railroad and it's two branches also an act to dis tribute the new digest, and two other acts of private character.
 Pursuant to order, Senate bill to provide for the correction of errors in the sale of State lands was taken up, and after being amended somewhat was passed
  which Mr. Craghead moved to postpone inde- finitely, but the motion was lost by tie vote; anl the bill was made the order for Monday next. This bill provides for investing swamp lands in railroads as recommended by the Co., vernon in his message.
 The name of MT. McCreery was added to the committee on swamp and overhowed lands.
 Mr. Trmble from the committee on enroll | ments, reported several bills correctly enrolled.
 Senate adjourned
 Ftaay Feb. 4.
 Senate met.
 Prayer by the chaplain and roll called
 Twenty-Five senators present.
 Mr. Watkins asked and obtained leave of ab- sence for MT. Askew, who was sick.
 Mr. Terry introduced bill to repeal in part an act authorizing Pulaski and other counties to levy road tax. On motion of Mr. Clark, amended so as to exempt Sebastian county from the operations of an act authorizing that and | other counties to levy road tax Passed as amended.
 Mr. McCreery introduced a bill to constitute Louinis A. Humphries the heir Of John B. Humphries, both of White county. Passed.
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