The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-03-07
THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE,
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY %, 1873.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I'd, 1910.
Senate-Special order being the con-
sideration o fSeuatc bill No. l47, to ap-
propriate money for the bcnift of the
State Deaf and Dumb Asylum was Ia
The bill appropriatcs $4,000 5000
being for the completion Of rear build
ing, $4,000 for the erection of a new
building for chapel and recitation rooms,
and $1,000 to furnish the new buildings.
The bill passed.
Senate bill No. l43, amending statutes
concerning Deaf and Dumb Asylum so
as TO authorize the employment of q
teacher in articulation. was read a third
time and passed.
Senator McGinnis introduced a Dill TO
create a board of commissioners to build
an addition to the State Capitol at JET
ferson with convict labor, appropr;ating
money therefor. The bill appropriates
$25O,000.
House-Mr. Shelley from the Com
mittee OF Judiciary, reported the fol-
lowing concurrent resolution, introduced
by Mr.. Brown O Andrew, recommending
that the same should be adopted:
Be it resolved by the House of Rep.
resentatiyes, the Senate concurringt there
IN:
Tnatat the general election to be holden
on the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November, IN the year 1914,
the following amendment to the Consti-
tuition abolishing the registration OF yo-
tiers shall be submitted to the le-
cal voters of said State, as provided by
law, to-wit:
The fourth section of the second ar
ticle of the Constitution of this State, re-
curing voters to be registered before vo-
ting, is hereby stricken out and forever
rescinded, and the following inserted in
lieu thereof, to-wit:
Section 1. The General Assembly
NAV provide by law for registering all yo-
tiers in cities and towns having popula-
ton of more than 5000 inhabitants.
Adopted.
WEDNESDAY.
Senate-The time Of tho Senate was
wholly taken up with debate on the bill
to authorize the Hannibal and St: Joe
Railroad to increase its capital stock:
House-Mr. Horton introduced a bill
to amend an act to amend section IL, artl-
Gle 2, chapter 1lS of Wagner's Statutes,
concerning taxation on railroad: Bill
provides the same penalty for railroads
for not returning list of property as
now applied to individuals. Referred to
Committee on WAYS and Means.
Mr.. Tatum introduced a bill entitled
an act to authorize the sale of property
of infants in certain cases. The bill
provides that in contingencies, when
such sale will be beneficial to the
infant, it may be made in the Circuit
Court. Referred to Committee on Ju-
dietary.
An act WAS passed providing that the
County Court shall select at least one
hundred and seventy-fve names of per-
sons having the necessary qualifications,
ofjurors, written on slips of paper and
placed in a box, and after mixing thor
eughly, the Clerk of the County Court,
so situated as not to see the names, shall
draw from the box, first, twenty-four
names who shall serve as grand jurors,
and then twenty-four for petit jurors.
A bill passed providing that persons
having deeds destroyed, or important
documents of any kind, may have the
same restored by proving, before a court
of record, the destruction OF such deeds
or documents.
The following substitute for Mr.. Col
Inns bill % protect female virtue came up,
and passed.
Sec. So. A man who shall. under the
promise of marriage, seduce and have
illicit connection with any unmarried
female Of previous good character, shall
be guilty Of felony, and upon conviction
shall be punished by Imprisonment in
the penitentiary not less than two years,
nor more than Eve years; provided that
co such conviction shall be had under
the provisions of this act on the testimo-
ny o the female unsupported by other evi-
idence, nor unless the Indictment shall
be found within three years after the
commission of the ~offense; and provided,
further, that the subsequent marriage OF
the parties may be p eaded in bar of a
conviction. This act to take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
THURSDAY.
Senate-Thc following bills passed the
SENATE:
Senate bill amending statutes concer-
ming the killing OF stock by railroad COM
pan:cs. 80 as to allowa reasonable attor-
ney's fee to the plaintiff obtaining judg-
ment from stock killed, in addition to
the value of the stock, and in lieu of the
double damages now provided by law.
House-A bill was passed defining the
manner and circumsa noes which shall