Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-03-17
DoyER. March 18th. 1865

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Dover, March 18th, 1865.
The Senate to-day defeated the bill to
allow the city of Wilmington to borrow
$4,000 in order to fill its quota and
save its citizens from draft! The bill
passed the House without much difficult
ty, but the Senate says, ono" can
not imagine what was the reason which
influenced this action, except it be polit-
ical-the so-called democratic hatred to
the chief city of the State because it is
bulwark of loyalty. All the New Castle
Senators voted for the bill, and all the
Senators from Kent and Sussex voted
against it.
The bill granting right OF way through
the State to the Columbia and Port De-
poslte Railroad Company, has passed the
Senate, there being only two votes against
it. Your readers may remember that it
passed the House by majority vote last
week.
The Breakwater and Junction aid bill,
as amended by the Senate, passed the
House yesterday. The bill provides for
the issue Of State Bonds to the said Rail.
road Company to the amount of S40O, 900
as follows When $50, 900 additional
stock is subscribed and actually paid in to
the company, the State to make and de-
liver Its bonds for $4,000; when
eoo,OOO more additional subscriptions
are made and paid in, $4,000 in bonds
to be delivered when $4,000 more ls
subscribed and paid in $sS, 900 In bonds
to be delivered, and when $4,000 more
is subscribed and paid in, $4,000 in
bonds to be delivered. The State to is-
sue and dispose of $4,000 other bonds
in order to meet the Interest en- the bonds
delivered to the Company for two years.
Ihe company to execute first mortgage
on the road from the Junction at Har-
rlngton to Lewes in favor Of the State
for the sum of 100000. The company
to pay to the State rs cents for every
passenger carried and twenty per cent on
all other business on the road, and the
iund SO derived to be first applicable to
the payment of the interest on the bonds,
and secondly to the principal of the mort
gage These are the general features Of
the bill and it was finally passed in the
House by vote of IA yeas to 4 nays
The nays were Messrs. Allderdice, Dun.
can, Dyer and Hohecker.
The bills increasing the fees of Jurors.
Witnesses, Commissioners, &c, passed
the Senate and is now q law. Jurors
Will hereafter receive 50 per day and
mileage and Witnesses 81 per day and
mileage. The bill increasing the fees of
Magistrates and Constables is still before
the Senate, but will no doubt pass. The
House has also passed bill increasing
the per diem of members of the Legisla.
ture hereafter to s..
Under the title of a bill to amend the
charter of the city of Wilmington a few
weeks ago, a proposition was introduced
into the House to prevent ministers OF
the gospel acting as members of the
Board of Education in your city. Seve-
raj debates occurred on this measure
which seem to have had some effect,
for the bill was badly defeated Yesterday,
yeas, II nays.
The bill to tax the Philadelphia, viii.
mington and Baltimore Railroad. for Of
fering inducements to persons to settle iu
the State of Delaware, which was intro
duced into the House under the title Of
An Act to protect native born Della
wareans from the impositions of the Phil
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimor,
Railroad Company" was lost in the Hous,
yesterday BY the following vote, yeas 6
nays 12.
Prize fighters and all persons concern
ed with any prize fight in this State will
hereafter meet their deserts. A yery
stringent penal law has been passed by
both Houses
The Skating Park Association Of vii
mington has been incorporated. x.