Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-02-16

Nate Rushing, and constitute her lawful hei or E D. Rushing of Independence county" was taken up and read three times and passed House joint resolution No. 2, was taken up. and Senate amendment thereto read and con ! cured in
 Senate bill No 137, ito incorporate the president ard trustees of the Charlottesville male and female academy in Calhoun county. I and to prevent the sale of sprituous liouors within two miles of Charlottesville" was taken up and read three times and passed. Senate bill Mo- 13l, for :he relief of the l widow of Thomas B. Walters, deceased" Read l three times and passsd. House bill No. 90, "to revive an act to in. corporate the town of Lewisvile." was taken 1 up, and Senate amendment concurred in. Senate bill No. $, Ito exclude from residing in the State of Arkansas, all free colored per sons, mulattoes and negroes of the African race . and Tor other purposes" was taken up, and on | motion ot MT. Duval, was laid on the table for I the present.
 Senate bill..No. 136, "to permit the Mem ] phs ani Little Book railroad company to coG- soildate sad companies into one compaIy, to | be known and called the Central Pacific rail- road company" was taken up, read twice, amended and read the third time and passed.
 
 parties from recovering more costs than dana ges for trespass for slanderous words spoken" was taken up, and read the first time, and on motion of MT. Crawford, was rereected. l Senate joint resolution No. 28 "relative to the appointment of mail agent on White riv- CT mail routes,' taken up and read three times and concurred in. l Senate bill No. 97, "t to constitute certain acts of individuals high msdemeanors," was taken up, and read three times and passed. i House bill No. II, |" to fix the pay of ju- rors,' was taken up, and Senate amendment thereto read and concurred in.
 Senate bill No. 146, "to provide the clerks | office of each county in this State with copy of.Langtrees new sectional map of Arkansas" was taken up, and read the first time and re- jected.
 Senate bill No. 27, "to amend chapter 5l, part l2 of the Digest of the Statutes in relation to the punishment of slaves for felones," was taken up and read the first time and rejected.
 Senate bill No. 73, "to amend section 16 of chapter lOl of the Statutes of Arkansas" was taken up, and read twice and amended and re- ferred to committee on the judiciary
 Senate bill No S4 explanatory of section 23 of chapter 62 of the Digest, under the head of elections" was taken up, read three times and passed.
 Senate bill No 95, ito amend section 15 of chapter 101 of Goud's Digest" was taken | up, and read twice and amended, and read the third time and passed.
 Senate bill No. 10f, concerning pre-emp- tions," was taken up, and read twice and amend ed
 House adjourned until o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Saturday, Feb 5. House met.
 Prayer by the Chaplain.
 Mr. Bunch, from the committee on enroll ments, reported certain bills correctly enrolled.
 Mr. Bunch, from the same committed re- ported certain bills correctly enrolled.
 The call of counties was resumed
 Mr. Burns called up House bill Mo- 2l9 "to authorize the county court of Scarcy county to appropriate S2, 900 of the internal improvement fund of said county to pay liabilities inclrred by Scarcy county in making public improve ments," was read the third time and passed
 Mir. Taylor, from the county of Scott, intro- duced House bill No 336 {" to authorize the county court of Scott county, to borrow the in- ternal improvement funds of that county, for the purpose of building court house." Read three times and passed Mir. Duval introduced House bill No. 337, to provide for building bridges in Sebastian county,'' accompanied by a petition etc. Bill read three times and passed. Mr. Mcdonnell introduced House bill No. 33o, " to compel the collectors of revenue to describe the lands on which taxes have been paid" Read twice.
 Message from the Senate by their secretary, reporting certain bills passed by the Senate
 House took recess for 15 minutes in order to prepare the hall for the reception of the Sen- ate to go into the election of judge of the su- 1 preme court.
 Time expired Senate appeared in the hall of the House.
 Nominations were announced to be in order
 Messrs. H. M. Rector, II. Flanagin, F. w. Compton and B. c. Totten, were severalv ! nominated.
 On the third ballot MT. Rector was declared duly elected judge for and during the unex- pred term of Hon. c. c. Scott, deceased
 House adjourned. Monday Feb 2.
 House met
 Payer by the Chaplain.
 Mr. Speaker stated the Senates ratification resolutions to proposed amendments to the con- stitution by the last General Assembly would be taken UP, and the amendments were read the third time, and on their adoption were ratified by a two-third vote.
 House proposed amendment to the constitu- tion No. AS, viz:
 Resol0et, by the General Assembly of the State of Arhansds, That the 29th section of the 4th article of the constitution of the State of Ar | kansas, be and the same is hereby amended so that any county now established by law may be reduced to six hundred square miles, and that no new county hereafter 10 be established shall contain less territory than 600square, miles, Read the third time and rejected, two-thrds of the members not voting in the affirmative.
 Jont resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution No. B and 46, were read the third time and rejected
 Mr. Garland offered preamble and resolu- tlons in relation to the charter granted to the Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas navigation con- pany, organized for the purpose of removing | the obstruction to the navigation of Red river through the raft, and asking the influence of our delegationl Congress to procure such rights and ad from the government as will enable the company to proceed with the work, etc.; which was read three times and passed. Mir. Bunch, from the committee on enroll ments, reported sundry bills correctly enrolled.
 Mir. Bateman presented petition and mov- ed Its reference to the committee on petitions and memorials.
 Mr. McCoy presented the petition of J. S. Bennett and E. C. Swain; which was, on his motion, referred to the committee on petitions and memorials.
 Mir Hemingway introduced House bill No. 559, " to define the time of holding the circuit courts in Drew and Chicot countless" which was read twice, amended, and then read the third time and passed.
 MT. Carroll offered joint resolution to amend the constitution so that the representation in the Legislature be in proportion to the white male population, and that when a county has not sufficient population, it be apportioned with one of the adjoining counties which has an ex- cess, etc.. which was read the first time.
 On motion of Mir. Mitchell, the call of coun- ties was resumed, and House bill No. 337, "to compel the collectors of revenue to describe the lands on which taxes had been paid" was taken up, read the third time and passed.
 message was received from the Senate by | the hands of their secretary MT. Mckean presented petition of several hundred citizens of Sever county, praying the | formation of new county out of a portion of