The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-04-04
Legislative Resume

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the session had cost. the people HiHety-sie
thousand fire hundred dollars. 1t was re-
ferred to the Finance Committee with
instructions to introduce a bill, which
means that another appropriation will be
made. An act for the relief of j. G.
Moore, Aleorn's sheriff of Noxubee
county, providing that the suit instituted
by the State upon his official bond shall
be suspended for sixty days to give him
time TO pay the money which he has col
lected as tax collector, and which he has
not accounted for, passed. The bill au-
thorizing the addition of a female branch
to the Oxford University, with female
vice president, was passed, after an
amendment offered by Gray, that there
| should be mo distinction on account of
trace, color or previous condition
among the pupils received, had been
upon motion of Mr.. Lyles indefinitely
postponed. An act to allow Boards Of
/ Supervisors to correct errors in delin-
quent and insoivent taxes, was passed
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also, joint resolution allowing mileage
to the Hospital Inspecting Committee;
yeas, 10; nays, none Also, an act
to encourage the growth of WOOL
House-The notice of the Audi
tor of Public Accounts that ninety-six
thousand five hundred dollars has ''gone
where the woodbine twineth, and that
new appropriation is needed, was dis
posed of as in the Senate. A bill APP
propriating So, 900 to certain officers who
were sent TO Missouri for two of Alcorn's
defaulting appointees, the Sheriff and
| Chancery Clerk of Winston county, but
who only succeeded in bringing the
latter named back, was passed after the
rejection of an amendment, offered by
Mr.. Sessions, to reduce the amount to
81, 600 The Senate funding bill, Ito
fund the outstanding debt contracted
prior to January 1st, 1922 passed.
Yeas S. all Republicans, including
Mr., Armstead of Carroll. Nays A
all the Conservatives and Democrats and
Messrs. Everett and Higgins, Kepubli-
cans. Papers relative to contesting Mr..
Leonards (of Hancock election were
presented by Mr.. Lindsey the appointtee
of the House to (mis) represent jackson
and Harrison counties. A resolution
relative to the annexation of Mobile
county, Alabama, to Mississippi, which
was offered by Mr.. Mcintosh, was passed,
also a resolution granting leave of alb
sence to VIM. +. Barksdale, District
Attorney of the 18th District. An act
granting leave of absence for sixty days
to H. r. Pease, Superintendent of
Public Education, went over under
the rules, after an amendment offered
by Mr.. Sessions, to strike out ''days"
and insert years" had been tabled, on
motion of Mr. Willing, by vote Of 40
to %.
WEDNESDAY,, 9th. Senate.-A long
list of the defaulting appointees of Alcorn
and the military Governors was received !
from the Auditor of Public Accounts,
having been drawn out of him by the
resolution appointing an investigating
committee. In the communication the
Auditor says, in some instances, which he
particularizes, suits have been brought
upon the defaulters bonds, but in many
cases nothing has been done 70 recover
for the people or the State their lost
money, for the reason that many of the
military apprentices were required to
give no bonds. A resolution asking land
grants to the Ripley and Ship Island rail
road from Congress, passed. The fol-
lowing general bills were passed: An
act to allow the taking of testimony in
chancery after three months, introduced
by Mr.. Steele; An act to amend section
2410, Revised Code, 1871, in relation to
corporations, introduced by Mr.. Watts
the act to quiet tax titles, introduced into
the House some time since by MIR. McIn-
tosh a general revenue bill; an act to
re-district the Circuit and Chancery Dis
tricts of the State, and reduce the num-
Der of Judges, Chancellors and District
Attorneys, similar to a bill defeated in
the House by the Republicans; the
House bill for the protection Of State and
city property from fire, good bill and
the House bill to pay certain officers
50, 900 for bringing one of Alcorn's de-
1,,,I+;po aproiY.+aaS from Missouri hack :
to the State. A bill, introduced by Mr..
Gibbs, was passed, which suspends the
operations of an act passed this session,
which repealed the proviso to section 4
of the act of 1871, granting swamp
lands to the Mobile and Northwestern
Railroad, which proviso excepted lands
forfeited for non-payment of taxes from
the grant. A bill for the same purpose
had already been introduced by Mr.. 1
Lowry in the House. The Social Equal
ity bill of iniquity, which had been lost
after its passage, again came up by copy
Of it being, on instructions from House,
to the Senate. Mr.. Bennett .
moved to indefinitely postpone, pending
which motion the Senate adjourned upon ,
motion of Mr. Morgan, yeas, 10, nays,
IL. House. Sessions presented
petition from the citizens of the unfortu-
nate et-bagger-ridden city of Natchez, I
praying for reduction of the salaries of
officers, which was referred to
4 committee CONSISTING of Messrs Ses-