Arizona citizen., 1873-02-08
HOuSE PROCEEDINGS.

Met as per adjournment. All present.
 Prayer. Yesterdays journal read and
 approved. Mir. Jacobs for Pima delegation,
 reported back in favor of indefinite post
 ponement the petition of citizens of Gila Bend settlement for annexation to Mar
 icopa county. MT. Redondo, for Yuma delegation, reported back favorably and without amendment, bill to better
 enable Yuma county to construct county buildings which was subsequently, passed
 by sixteen Ayes, and the Nay of MT. Wickenburg-Mr. Larkin being absent.
 MT. Montgomery, for Pima delegation, re-
 ported back and in favor of indefinite post
 ponement, the act to empower the recorder
 to translate and transcribe Spanish records
 of Pima county. MT. Brinley offered 3
 concurrent resolution to authorize the print
 ing of 1000 copies of the reports of the | Superintendent of public instruction auditor
 and treasdrer Gin one pamphlet), one-half
 to be done in THE CITIZEN office and one | half by The Arizona Miner. Memorial for
 aid to sink artesian wells, was read second time and referred to committee on agricul-
 ture. Act to prescribe fees for sheriff, as. sessor and collector of Pima CO.,, read twice 1 and referred to Pima delegation. Act to appropriate lSl COG 10 each county money for educational purposes, cad twice and re-
 terred 10 ways and means committee. Bill
 to change nume of VII ian Henry Me
 DonougH to Sidney Willis Carpenter read
 twice and referred to it's iutroducer Couu-
 eli bil to provide for obtaining statistics
 read twice and referred 10 ways and means ss....-..,ec. Council bill to locate the capi tai at Phenix was tabled. Act relating to rlS hroo ,l lS toLa frot fa, referred to Pima delegation. Act to amend chapter eleven, Howell Code, slightly amended and passed by Ayes, Messrs. Allen, Brinley, Behan, Cole, Davis, Glea- son, Henry, Jacobs. Montgomery, ROwell, Larkn, Redoudo. Sweeny, Wickenburg, Mir. Speaker-5. Bill creating county courts was considered in committee of the whole. Act Co divorce Mary Ju-- Mans berger from Samuel $. Mansperger was read second time and referred to the Yavt- pai de'egauon. On Mr. ROweils notion aji0uraed to 6.30 p. la.
 EvESING SESSION. Met as per adjourn meut. All present. Bill to amend chapter ten, Howell Code. on crimes and punish ments, was considered in committee ot the whole, and house @4JO~t-c-.
 TWENTY NINTH DAY. February 3.-Met as per adjournment. All present. Prayer. Saturdays journal read and approved. Reports of committees: Mir. Brinley re- ported certain act presented to Governor for approval, and others correctly enrolled MI. Smith favorably upon memorial asking Onation of lands to aid in sinking artesian wells MT. Allen favoraby upon bill to obtain statistics; MT. Powell favorably upon acts amending section one of an act fyln" co~ue1ceme1fs, terms and oNplra- tion 0f Territorial and county offices, and to amend chapter forty-eight, Howell Code, of proceedings in civil eases, and uufayor- ably upon one jo amend chapter twenty i four Ul Howell Code ou elections Mir | Montgomery with amendments and favor ! ably upon act 10 amend chapter ten, Howell ! Code, of crimes and punishmerts (Mr. 1 Speaker was here excused because of sick | ness and MT. KoweII took the chair); MT. | Larkin favorably upon bill to change name | of William Henry McDonough to Sidney | Willis McDonough; MT. Davis for com mittee of whole upon act to create county | courts, with amendments and favorably | MT. Smith favorably and with amendments | of act relating to marks and brands; MT. Behan favorably upon act to divorce M. J. Mansperger from Samuel S. Mansperger. Introduction of bills: By MT. Gleason to | locate the capital at Prescott on and after September l, 1873; by MT. Behan to amend election law so as make the election of Delegate to Congress on the first Monday n September in 1874 and every two years thereafter; by MT. Redondo to authorize he town of Yuma to levy special tax to ,uild levee. Concurrent resolution to print 1000 of certain reports (one-half at The Arizona Miner and one-half at THE ARIZONA CITIZEN offeesl passed by the ollowing vote: Ayes, Messrs. Allen, Srinley, Cole, Davis, Gleason, Henry, Ja- obs, Montgomery, RedOndo, Stonehouse,
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