The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-07-07
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURES.
HUNDRED AND FIFTH DAY.
SENATE.
SATURDAY. July 2, 1870.
BILLS PASSED.

SATURDAY. July 2, 1870.
| BILLS PASSED.
To incorporate the town of Byram.
For the relief of Bryant Co., of Pamela
| county.
An Act to increase the Jurisdiction OF
Mayor and Recorder in the town of Water
Valley, in the county of Yalabusha.
An Act supplemental to An Act to incor-
porate the Mississippi Loan and Savings In
stitution.
An Act in relation to Insurance Compa-
MES.
| The following bills were introduced:
| An act to incorporate the Canton Gas
Light Company.
| An act to enable the city of Jackson to
purchase the Pearl River oil Bridge.
An act to amend an act to incorporate the
| town of Fayette, in Jefferson county.
AN act to allow Justices of the Peace ad-
ditional compensation in certain cases.
The following Majority and Minority re-
ports were submitted from the special Com
mittee in reference to the pay of the Com
mittee of Five:
Mr.. PRESIDENT:
The Special Committee of Three, to whom
was referred Senate Bill, 1876, Substitute
for the payment of the Committee of Fiye,)
have had the same under consideration, and
upon examination of the same the follow
ing members of the Committee recommend
that it do pass.
A. G. PACKER, Chairman.
j. II. PIERCE.
Report received.
Mr.. PRESIDENT:
The undersigned, member of the Select
Commute, to whom was referred substitute
for Senate Bill, to provide for the payment
of the Committee of Five, and making APP
preparations Cor the same, begs leave TO
su bmit a minority report, and respectfully
dissents to the report of the maj ority of said
Committee, for the following reasons, to-
wit:
LIST. The Acts of Congress known as the
Reconstruction Acts, did not confer upon
the Constitutional Convention the power to
appoint the committee of five, nor had the
Convention any authority to delegate such
power as said committee of five claimed
and pretended to exercise.
End. Ii the Convention had any such
right, and the committee of five were ever
recognized, they were clearly and unques-
tionably subject to the orders, the para
mount authority and control of the military
commander of the fourth military district.
3rd. The committee, including the Clerk,
did receive pay from the adjournment OF
the convention to the 10th of July inclusive,
amounting to five hundred and thirty dol
lars each, which was ample compensation
for all the service rendered the State, at
which time the military authorities direct
ed the pay of the committee of five to be
stopped.
4th. The committee on claims reported
this substitute as full and sufficient COM
pensation for all services rendered by the
committe of five, to which said committee
claimed to be entitled under the provisions
of section IA. of article II, of the Constitu-
ton, and said committee on claims were
not aware of the facts in the case, did not
know that the committee of five had re-
ceived any pay, and clearly intended to
apply amount fixed in the Bill to the pay
ment of services rendered the sixty days
next succeeding the adjournment of the
Convention. Your Minority, therefore,
recommends that said bill do not pass.
J. NJ. STONE.
Report received.