Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-21
TENNEssEE.


Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, February 20.-The fol-
lowing new bills were presented in the
House:
By Mr.. Hughes: To preserve peace
and prevent homicide.
By Mr.. Perkins: For the relief Of the
West Tennessee Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association and to encourage
manufacturing in Tennessee.
BY Mr.. Moffit: To protect policy
holders in fire insurance companies. The
bill requires every fire insurance COM
pany doing business in the State to make
a deposit of fifty thousand dollars in six
per cent. bonds with the Comptroller.
| BY Mr.. Orr: For the benefit of minors.
BY MIR. Haynes: To provide for the
| registration of certificates of redemption
of land from sales for United States
| taxes.
By Mr.. Haynes: To amend an act in
cooperating Bartlett.
BY Mr.. Wilson: To give County Judges
and Quorum Courts jurisdiction in liti-
gated road cases.
| By Mr.. Kerr: To facilitate the settle
meut Of estates of deceased persons.
| The Senate joint resolution to provide
for the trial of cases pending in the Su-
preme Court for the Middle Division OF
Tennessee was adopted in lieu of the
| House joint resolution. and amended as
| follows: provided, that no opinion of
said court or arbitrators shall be pub
| lished in the decisions of the Supreme
! Court, nor shall the same have any other
or further effect than TO determine the
particular cause wherein rendered, and
! shall be of no force as authority orprece-
dent in any other cause or eauses.n Con-
CURED in as amended.
House joint resolution, by Mr.. Over
! ton, that a joint committee be appoint
ed to examine into the fees of Clerks of
| County, Circuit, Chancery and Crimi-
nal Courts, and Attorney-Generals, and
to report any changes that may be
deemed necessary or just. Lies over.
At the suggestion of the Centennial
Commissioners, the House extended an
invitation to Hon. Bale PeytOn to ad-
dressed the General Assembly to-mor-
row afternoon in regard to the Cen
tennial celebration of American Inde-
pendence.
The following new bills were intro
duced in the Senate:
By Mr.. James: To authorize the or
ganization of cooperative associations.
By Mr.. Mcconnell, of Trousdale: To
make equal and uniform assessments of
property for purposes of taxation, and
to prescribe the duties of Revenue Col
lectOrs.
By Mr.. Snipes: To relieve the West
Tennessee Agricultural and Mechanical
Association.
By Mr.. Lacey: To regulate the bring
ing of suits by the State.
By Mr.. Patton: To amend the crimi-
nal laws of the State.
By Mr.. White: For the relief of Fede-
raj and Confederate soldiers, who have
heretofore been tried.
By Mr.. Mcconnell tTrousdale): To
make effective the laws against Reve-
nue. Collectors for embeZzlement.
By Mr.. Smithson: To extend the
powers of incorporated towns and cities.
BY Mr.. Morgan: To benefit public
schools in cities and towns.
BY Mr.. Smithson: To dispense with
the presence of the defendant in the
Supreme Court in certain cases.
By Mr.. Mcconnell (Blount): To au.
thoriZe counties, having no warehouses,
to contract with adjoining counties,
having warehouses, for the keeping and
working of county prisoners.
By Mr.. Hughes: To fix the rate of
taxation on telegraph companies.
The House bill on third reading, to
extend the provisions of all laws rela-
tive to Revenue Collectors and to Rail-
road Tax-COlectors, passed.
The school bill being the special order
for eleven o'clock tomorrow morning,
the Senate resolved itself into q Com
mittee of the Whole for the purpose of
considering the bill, Mr.. Coulter in the
chair.
Pendingthe consideration Of the forty
fifth section, the committee rose, report
ed progress, and asked leave to sit again
tomorrow.