The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-03-20
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS.

FORTY-FIRST DAY.

JACKSON, March IL, 1873.
Mr. Watts moved that the Committee o.
Penitentiary be allowed to employ "a clerk
| Carried.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bills were introduced an,
| referred:
BY Mr. Caldwell: An act to lease certain
State lands, and TO increase the schoo
fund.
| Judiciary Committee.
| By Mr. Cassidy An act for the relief o
| Mary B Yaunkin. PASSED..
| By Mr. Bennett: An act to provide for thu
| payment of rewards offered by the Gov
ernor for the apprehension OF escaped fel
| onS.
| Judiciary Committee.
| BY Mr. Warner:
/ An Act to remove the disabilities o
Horace G Brown. Passed.
| By Mr.. Alexander:
! An Act to incorporate the New Albany
| Hotel Company.
Com Mittee on Finance.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS.
An Act appointing an agent for collecting
] the amount due from the United States to
| the State of Mississippi, on account of lands
| in the State etc.
Mr. Abbott moved TO amend the amend
| ment by striking out 40 per cent" and
| inserting 10 per cent" Lost.
Mr.. Abbott moved to indefinitely post
pone the bill. Lost.
MIR Duncan moved to reconsider action
had whereby the Senate refused to adopt
the committee amendment. Carried.
Mr. Abbott moved to amend the committee
amendment by striking out t'2O per cent, "
and inserting t'l5 per cent Tabled.
And the committee amendment was
adopted.
And the resolution, as amended, passed.
). J. Res, an Act proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution OF the State, was
indefinitely postponed.
:. j. Res. an Act proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution OF the State.
Mr. Abbott moved to indefiditely post
pone the committee amendment.
Mr. Cassidy moved to amend, by SuOsti-
tuting the following:
Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution re-
lative to an amendment to the Constitution
Ofthe State OF Mississippi.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of the
State of Mississippi (two-thirds of the mem
bers of each House agreeing thereto), That
it be and is hereby proposed TO the electors
of this State, to vote at the next general
election, upon the approval or rejection of
the following amendment To the Constitn-
tiOn of this State, as substitute of sections
: and of article Z, of the present ConStitu-
ton, to wit:
All male inhabitants OF this State. except
idiots and insane persons, twenty one years
old and upwards, who have resided in this
State six months, and in the county one
month, next preceding the day of election
at which said inhabitant offers to vote, and
who are not disqualified by reason of any
crime, are declared to be qualified electors.
Mr. Mcclure moved to table. Carried.
And the bill was ordered printed.
5 B No 80, an Act to change the burden
OF proof III certain cases. Carried.
The substitute of the committee was
lost.
An act to amend an act to amend an act
to incorporate the jefferson County Me-
chanics and Manufacturing Company.
Passed.
II J Il No 81, an act in relation to slavery
in the Spanish Islands.
Referred to the Committee on State and
Federal Relations.
FURTHER INIRoDUcrIoN OF BILLS.
The following bills We're introduced and
referred:
An act to change the name OF Fred
McAVoy. Catherine McAvOy, and Surina
McAvoy, of Jefferson county, Miss.
An act supplemental to, and amendatOTy
of an act TO authorize the sale of reports of
decisions of the High Court of Errors and
Appeals, and of the Supreme Conrt of this
State.
An act to amend section 2O46 of the Re
vised Code of 1871.
An act for the relief of w. w. Chisholm
Sheriff of Kemper county.
An act to authorize a new assessment in
Washington county.
An act to incorporate the East Ward
Ferry at Grenada, and turnpike road north
of Yalobusha river.
BY Mr. CALDWELL
An act authorising the State Treasurer
and Auditor of Public Accounts to make a
new deed to certain lands sold by the State,
where the deed had been destroyed.
Finance Committee.
Also S B. an Act to amend the charter Of
the city of Jackson.
Committee on Corporations
Senate adjourned.