Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1863-02-27


ing the past week -
BILLS PASSED THE sENATE.
An act to incorporate the Union Hotel Co.
A bill to incorporate the Green Branch Ditch
Company
a bill 10 change the name of Bayard Quigley.
A bill to divorce Eliza A. Scott
A bill for the appointment of an additional
Trustee of the Poor for Wilmington.
A bill to change the name Of William Thomas
Voshell.
bill to change the name of Hardscrabble to
Jasper.
A bill to abolish the Court Of Quarter Sessions.
A bill for the benefit of Public officers.
joint resolution for the relief Of School
District No. SO. in Kent county
A bill to enable james W. Smith to- locate
vacant lands.
A joint resolution for the relief of Abraham
Cannon.
A bill to enable the executors of Chas Smith,
deceased, to extinguish certain ground rent.
A bill to repeal the act creating q Board of
Fire Wardens in Wilmington.
A bill to enable Constables to appoint deputies.
A joint resolution to print 5000 copies OF the
report of the joint committee on military inter
ference.
A bill to authorize james X. Lyman to lay out
public read in New Castle County.
BILLS PASSED THE HOUSE.
A bill to divorce Sarah C. Elliott.
bill to incorporate tho Brandywine Mills
Railroad,
A bill TO prevent illegal arrests in this State.
A bill 10 amend the charter of the town Of
Dover.
A bill to rebind certain record book
bill to authorize the Prothonotary of Sussex
County to procure new seal of office.
a bill to amend Chapter IL of the Revised
Code, SO as to require collectors to give dupli-
cate receipts for taxes when applied for.
bill to confirm the little OF Thomas II. Way
to certain lands.
A bill to amend Chapter 55 Of the Revised
Code in relation to the killing of game, amend
ed, so as to prohibit the killing of any partridge,
&C., between the 10th of February aud the lst
of November Of each year, aud so as to make it
applicable only to that portion of the State lying
south of the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal.
A bill to enable james X. Lyman to lay out n
private road.
A bill to make judgments obtained before JUS
tees Of the Peace against executors, lien on
the real estate of the deceased.
a bill for the more effectual protection of game.
A bill to authorize the Clerk of the Orphans
Court in Sussex County, to transcribe certain
index.
A bill to amend the net to incorporate the
town of MIddletown,
A bill to amend the act in relation tu illegiti-
mate children.
A bin to lHy out public road in Broad Greek
Hundred.
A bill to divorce John IL. Barr.
BILLS LOST IN SENATE.
bill TO lay out public road in Milford HID.
Kent County.
bill to repeal the act to lay out Il public roaC
to Ross Crossing, &C., was indefinitely post
poned
BILLS LOST IN THE HOUSE.
bill for the benefit of the Imbecile, Indi
gent, lnebriate and Insane of this State
a bill to divorce Willen Warren.
bill exempting the Wilmington Institut
from taxation.
A bill In aid of the Junction and Breakwate
Railroad Company, was indefinitely postponed
This bill authorizes to draw lotteries
Sc, for twenty years in consideration of tn
sum of $4,000 to be paid in forty equal semi
annual instruments.
A joint resolution making on annual appro
priation of 5000 to each of the Agricultural Sc
cieties of the State, was indefinitely postponed
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
On Tuesday, the Speaker presented commu
nicatiOn from the assistants to the AttOrne
General Messrs. Robinson and Rodney III re
spouse 10 the resolution of the Senate, stain
that proceedings had been instituted against Ii
assignee of the lottery grant and would procee
to issue as other suits. Read.
On Thursday, in the House, Mr.. Duncan il
PRODUCED bill to incorporate the Brandywiu
Mills Railroad Company. Read
In the Senate, on Thursday afternoon, NJ
Williamson reported bill to increase the Sta
appropriation to the Pennsylvania Institutio
for the Blind, &C., to eleven hundred dollars
Read.
In the Senate, on Friday afternoon, the spel
ker presented communication from A.
WOotten, in response to resolution of the Sc
ate relative to the proceedings against the ASST
nee of the lottery grant. Read.