The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-17
9laslrille Muiou.
WM. CAMERON d co., Publishers.
WEDNESDAY, JANuARY x. lsss.
TESSESsER LE6ISLArURK.
SENATE

JANUAET l6FH, 1850.
The Senate uie. st I0AM PRAYER b.
ReS. Mr.. Allen.
Mr.. Frazier, OF Wilson, introduced Senat
bill No. Zss, 10 Increase the school fund o
the State Of Tennessee. This bill provide
that the investment made by the Governt ?
1 Secretsry OF Sats and Comptroller n thl
Seven Thirty Securities Of the Goyernmen
I OF the United States. amounting 10 SGlS, ,25O
| with all accrued interest, which IS tue pro
cseds of the sale OF the coin captured by
the military forces OF the United States II
the State OF Georgia, as part OF the assets o.
| the Bank Of Tennessee, shall be by then
| pa 10 the Superintendent Of Public IN.
struetion, who shall receipt for ana enter
credit in favor Of the State Of Tennesses fol
the same, and shall hold said funds as psri
| Of the School Fund Of this State. Passed
! first reading.
! Mr.. Cate introduced Senate bill No. $50
| 70 amend an Act passed the sth of MAY,
1860, Increasing the compensation OF Judges.
| This bill allows the Judge Of the Supreme
| Court, hereafter appointed or elected, sal
| ary OF $500 per annum, and that each
Chancellor, Circuit and Criminal Court
| Judge, except County Judges Of Special
Courts hereafter sppointed or elected, a sal
ary Of -, 900 per annum. Passed first read
ing.
Mr.. Frazier, Of Knox, introduced Senate
bill No. 2Ol, to incorporate the Knoxville
Ice aud Water Company. Passed drst read
ing.
Mr.. Frazier also introduced Senate bill
No. 262, 70 incorporate ihs Ureka Mining
Company. Passed first readiDg.
Mr.. Bowen introduced Senate bill No. 263
for the benefit of famers and planters.
This bill repeals so much Of section 1852 Of
the Code as requires that fences Of every
planter around his cleared land shall be live
eel high, and provides that all such fences
shall be deemed sufficient when they are
equal 10 :he average fences in the commu-
nifty where such planter resides, and that
ell owners Of stock or animals shall be liable
in damages for all trespasses of such stock
or animals upon the premises Of others, pro-
yided that such premises be enclosed with
fences ordinarily equal to the fences in the
community where the party injured resides;
and all laws or parts Of laws inconsistent
with this section be and the same are here
by repealed. Passed first reoding.
DEATH OF HKSRT WINTER DAVIS.
Mr.. Trimble offered Senate Joint Resolu-
ton and Preamble No. -, that
WHEEEAs, II has ever been a time hon
ored custom Of the American people to pub
licly express a. just appreciation Of the char
acter and services If those distinguished
men of marked career whose lives have
been devoted 10 our free government when
the " busy hand Of death shall have gath
cred them in the eternal harvest, therefore,
be it
Resolred, By The General assembly Of The
State Of Tennessee, That, in the demise OF
the Hon. Henry Winter Davis, Of Maryland,
the nation has lost q statesman, humanity a
friend, aud liberty a fearless advocate.
Res0lUeG, That the General Assembly Of
the State Of Tennessee recognizes in the late
Henry Winter Davis, the pure patriot ami
the upright moral citizen, whose devoted
love to the Constitution aud Government of
his country was founded upon the divine
right Of liberty.
RcsolUed, That from the character of his
public services through a brilliant and
eventful career, and in the triumphant
manner in which he ever yindicated the
holy cause Of Freedom, the name Of Henry
Winter Davis, of Maryland, is fairly euti-
ed to be enrolled upon the scroll OF honor,
with the names Of those pure patriots gone
before, whose memories are recorded by
every true American, as the Champion Of
Liberty.
Resoired, That these resolutions and pre-
smble thereto, be spread upon the minutes,
and an engrossed copy thereof, duly certi-
fed by the Speakers of both Houses, be for
warded by the Secretary Of State, 10 the
family OF the late Henry Winter Davis.
Adopted.
House bill No. 293, 10 amend an act to
establish a system OF internal improve
rnents.
Amended by appropriatiDg SIlJ,OOO for
the Edgefeld i Kentucky railroad, for the
East Tennessee X Virginia railroad, $780,
Ot0; for the Mississippi Central railroad,
$500 900, aod for the Memphis i Charleston
rsilr ad, $3.50, 200. As amended, the bill
passed IT'S third reading.
The Common School bin was then taken
up, pending the discussion Of which the
Senate adjourned to 10 N. tomorrow.