The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-04-09
Annapolis.


spections in this State, to take effect JAN
uary LIST, 1872, was amended by excepting
the weighing of live stock and the weighing
of hay, and passed the House, on the 31st
ult., by 81 yeas to 10 nays.
The Oyster Police Law has been ameneed
by an addition to the navy of two sailing
vessels. The Maryland navy will now con-
sist Of one iron-clad and tive sailing vessels
The number of guns each ship Of war is to
carry is not mentioned in the act.
The House refused to pass the bill con-
tinung the Department Of Labor and Ag-
riculture. They had evidently been read
ing The Wings structures on that Demo-
cratic bantling. After the second Monday
of January, 1872, the Department of Labor
and Agriculture will cease to exist.
The following amendments were reported
to the bill fer the protection Of Wild Fowl
and the "Oyster Navy" ordered to enforce
the law between the first of October and
April. The amendments adopted provide
that ''no person shall at any time shoot at
or shoot any water fowl flying about their
feeding grounds Or elsewhere over the
waters aforesaid, from any vessel, boat,
float, canoe or craft of any kind, contrary
to the provisions of this article, reserving.
nevertheless, to the citizens of the State of
Maryland the right to shoot from sink boats
on Tuesdays and Fridays, and from bat
teau canoe or other similar boat at pleas
ure, between the first day of April and the
first day of November, but no sink boat
shall be used for shooting wild fowl within
one mile of the shore of the Chesapeake
Bay or any of its tributaries, and nc person
shall at any time shoot or shoot at wild fowl
between the hours of JPN and JAM. during
the season for shooting wild fowl, nor shall
any person, under penalty of 500 and
six months imprisonment, shoot at any
wild fowl with the use of lanterns. refec-
tors or lights of any kind whatsoever, or
with the use Of what is commonly called
cannon, swivel or any such character of
gun.
In the report Of last weeks proceedings
of the Legislature, VIC find among the bills
passed by the House, one empowering the
Little West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church = to purchase and hold a burying
ground. Awhile the Legislature used to
be exercised with the "Lorer West Not
tingham Church" but that ancient Pres
! byterian institution has finally been termed
| the 50 Little" This is teo bad Mr.. Owens,
to allow your special protege to be dubbed
the Little
| The bill to authorize traders licenses to
| be sold with the stock of goods, was also
! passed by the House, and to authorize the
! Commissioners of Queen Anne's county to
levy sum Of money for the founding and
support Of schools for colorcd children
Also, Senate bill for the protection of fish
and fisheries in tins State.
! The bill TO amend certain portions of the
act Of 1867. incorporating the Cecil and
! Hartford Counties Boom Company, and re-
quiring said company to remove obstruc-
lions placed by them in the Susquehannah
river.
The bill 10 provide "that no tax of any
kind shall be assessed or collected on any
. iHoi VI hlIu VI vi ally llStlSt0c
bill of sale upon any property in this State.
was passed by the House On Thursday and
| sent to the Senate.
Gov. Bowie sent the following message
to the House Of Delegates, on Saturday
last vetoing the bill Incorporating Chester
town. Kent county:
Gentlemea Of tic House Of
Delegates Of Maryland:
return to the House of Delegates, in
which it originated. and for the further ac-
ton of the General Assembly, the bill en-
titled :" act to amend the Public Local
Laws Of Kent county, title Chcstertown
This bill, passed before proclamation
of Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
! tion of the United States by the President
and prior to the passage by the House of
i Delegates of the bill changing the Regis
tratisu law of the State to make it conform
to the Federal constitution. has been pre-
scented to me for my approval sinrc the &C
currence Of each. Had it been presented
to me before, would of course have signed
it. But the bill, passed at time when
only the white male citizens Of the State
were entitled to the elective franchise, very
properly confined the ballet to them in the
election OF the Town Commissioners of
Chestert0wn.
Now that since its passage by the General
Assembly, but before it could have become
a law by my signature, the franchise has
been extended to the colored race by the
Fifteenth Amendment, which our State
laws will doubtless be amended to conform
to, | am confident the General Assembly
will desire to so amend the bill as to make
its provisions compatible with those Of the
Federal Constitution, which Article 2d of
our own Bill of Rights declares '.shall be
the supreme law of the State
[Signed, ODES BOWIE.
After the message was read, the custe-
mary question was put to the House Shall
the bill pass, Notwithstanding the Govern
or's objection and the vote stood Yeas,
16; Nays, 10.
Mr.. Owens voted nay; Messrs. Richards
and Biddle being either absent or not vot-
/ ing. Sugar Teuehstone immortalized Port
Deposit by voting aye and "explained "
his vote by saying Il will never vote to
strike the word 'chite from anything as Ion.
as live 1t is reported that Mr.. Touch
stone proposes to relinquisl the ji4ck-
Sfnltn DuSlncSS OH account OIL It's name
Poor Touchstone All who are not hear
tily ashamed of this Copperhead fossil,
heartily laugh at him. Who would not
rather be dog and bay the moon than
such a'-delegate? And yet the man is a
fair representative of the whole Demo
cratic party in the State. The main differ
cnce between those who voted "no" and
Mr.. Tombstone is, that the fsrmer, as SELL
siblc men. seeing the inevitable, bew grace
fully to il. While the latter, on the prin-
cipe that children and fools speak the
truth. votes his real sentiments and the
sentiments of the whole CoPperhead party,
for that matter. Exit Tombstone Thou
vert 4 grand accession to the Democratic
party, when from the tail of sutte's
wagon thy yaulting ambition did lean into