Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-18
THELEcISLATuRE.

The report of the Board of Agriculture made its appearance, last week. It is a volume of 400 pages, giving the doings of the board for the last year in detail
 The resolution which passed the House and was afterwards reconsidered, provid- ing for calendar of business, is thus summarized by the Palladium:
 When committee report is presented 1t must be by the chairman of the com mittee rising in his seat, and as the re- ports are presented they are numbered in regular sequence by the clerk. The busi- ness received in day is then catalogued logue forms the daily calendar, which is to be printed and distributed every morn
 ing with the journal. Every day then
 each member will have before him a com
 plete list of the business on the speakers table up to the opening of the session The different measures are to be taken up
 only in the order in which they stand cn the calendar, unless otherwise ordered by a two-thirds vote of the House.
 The new school law makes provision for the representation of minorities on the boards of school visitors Each voter is to ballot only for a bare majority, or in case, of even numbers for only half as
 many as are to be'elected. Then the fixed number whose names shall stand highest shall be declared elected, and in case of 8 tie he whose name stands first on the larg- CT number of tickets shall be elected.
 Remonstrances continue to pour into the legislature desiring reduction of rail road fares and freights. ,. A5ASl
 The attornies of the insurance compa- nies are willing now, it is stated, to let their taxation remain as it is
 Sendte. On Tuesday of last week the
 bill appropriating SIG, 900 to the Lakeville School of Imbeciles, was again discussed. An amendment was adopted requiring the trustees to give bonds that the appropria- tion should not be diverted from the in tended use, and the bill passed. The
 Education bill then come up and the com pulsory amendment was passed by Q vote of II to 9. Senators Turrill and Chapin
 both voted in the negative. The bill giv- | ing women the right to vote in mu-
 nicipal affairs. was rejected. A resolution
 extending the time for the Ridgefeld and New York railroad company to secure the ! right of way, was passed. ..l- On Wednesday the Constabulary bill ! was taken up, Messrs. Potter and Cotton 1 speaking in favor and Stoddard and Budd | against it. It was then passed by the fol- ' AO"AuS NOOCs--aH-
 -Wadsworth, Ives, Potter, Brown,
 Glover, Burnett, Cotton, Chapin, Turrill, Hurlburt, Stannard, Maxwell-12. Nays-Pond, Mills, Stoddard, Elmes, Perkins, Budd, Woodward Q2th)-7. MT. Woodward of the Twelfth, was ap- pointed on the committee to report when the general assembly can adjourn. On Thursday the Temperance bill was
 recalled from the House and referred back to the committee because it had never been regularly passed on and examined by that committee before it's passage. A
 bill raising the fees of Common Pleas judges to g, 1000 was referred. The peti- tion of women holding property for its ex- empGon from taxation was rejected. A resolution was passed adding to the grand list of Hartford the insurance stock which had been stricken of by the board of re-
 lief. The expenses in the POnd-COle cleo tion case then came up, and the former was allowed $732; the latter, $624. The Constabulary bill comeback again and was made the order of the day for Tuesday. On Friday 8 amendment of the Canaan Savings Bank charter was adopted. It was resolved to hold afternoon sessions this week. A resolution appropriating $15, 900 to the Connecticut industrial school was passed. A resolution releas ing Jane B. Pratt from the State Prison passed. g Esa&E@ s4 l&
 House.-Ona Tuesday of last week, va rious business was referred; among other things, a refnonstrance against the pro- posed Litchfeld county District Court, and resolution validating the title to the parsonage in New Preston. The pro- posed new rule, requiring the keeping of a calender of the business of the House, was then discussed. The bill for pre- servatfon Of game was debated and re- jected. e As~ 4 On Wednesdsy, the resolutioh providing a calendar of business was passed. The resolution allowing towns through which the Central Railroad is to pass to bond themselves for its construction was argued and passed. After considerable discus sion, the amend dment of the charter of the Conn. Western R. R, Go. was so amended as to, alloy the building a branch to New Britain on consent of a majority of the stockw, A resolution was passed providing for the distribution of the private acts of the State as compiled by the committee of slSTO. e'1EaN9 @7ANs& tas3aA4 &shfs43 ,asiA
 On Thursday the speaker got muddled with the new calender and it's action was suspended. by a reconsideration. The house begins afternoon sessions next week. The education bill then came up, and af- ter 8 long discussion the compulsory amendment was added and the bill made the order of the day for Tuesday. ssE
 On Friday the bill protecting fish inf Macedonia brook was passed. The reso- lution incorporating the Canaan Savings Bank wefRaH 6 4
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