The daily gazette., 1875-02-04
2hs Dei0,odre Legislature. |
DOVER. February 3, 1875.
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Specially reported for the Gazette.
HoUsE.-The House met at 10 A. m.
Messrs. Broadway, A. II. Phillins
J. W. Phillips, France and Conweli
presented petitions for a better law to
regulate the sale of intoxicating Ii
quors. The petitions are signed by
several Thousand persons. On motion
OF j.. W. Phillips Special Committee
oi tlye to be known as the Committee
on Moral Reform.
MIR. Collins of the committee reported
favcrably on Senate bill to amend
section y, chapter %, volume IA. Della
Laws; also, favorably. House bill to
prescribe punishment in certain often
ces; also, favorably, bill to amend
chapter IL. Revised Statutes, as pub.
llshed in 1874, entitled of "coilectors;'
also, recommended an amendment to
the bill to make personal property
liable to taxation in the school dis.
trict where it is situated.
Bill to incorporate Hiram Lodge,
No; 2! A. F. A. Masons, of Seaford,
and bill to amend section 8, chapter
"a, volume IA, Delaware Laws, were
passed.
MIR. j. W. Phillips, introduceda a bill
to authorize Henry Todd, the present
Register in Chancery and Clerk of the
orphans' Court of Kent county, to
transcribe or copy into suitable book,
The index of the recognizances of said
Court; also, a bill to incorporate the
Bridgeville cemetery company, at
Brid1geville, Delaware. Both We're
read.
On motion OF Mr.. Bird, bill to
amend section 3, chapter 81, Revised
Code, of 1852, as published in 1874,
READ the second time and referred to
committee on Revised Statutes.
Bill toprevent live stock, geese, &c. :,
from running at large in school dis
tricts 46 and 1888, Sussex county, was
on motion of Mr.. G. H. Phillips. AS
amended it was read the second time
and laid on the table for the present.
Two remOnstrances relative to the
subject.
On motion of Mr.. Nowland, bill to
prevent live stock from running at
large in school districts 81 and 148,
sussex county, was read the second
time and referred to the committee
on Roads. A remonstrance on the
subject was also presented by Mr..
Frame and read. The accompanying
papers were also referred.
Mr.. Baldwin offered Joint resolu-
ton, as follows, which was adopted:
ResotUed, That the Centennial Com
missioners on the part of the State of
Delaware be authorized to place the
old State House bill now in the H.
brary, in some suitable place in the
Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia,
next year, as one of the relics of an
tiquity connected with the early his
tory of the State, to be returned again
BY the commissioners.
On motion of Mr.. j. w Phillips
bill to prevent live stock from run
ming at large in Seaford Hundred,
Sussex county, was read the second
time and referred to the Committee on
Roads. A petition of 115 signers was
also read and referred.
On motion of Mr.. Nowland, bill
making January 1st, and February
22d, legal holidays was read the sec
ond time
Mr.. Pyle in the chair; Speaker
Holcomb took the floor and presented
letters from tiZens of New Castle,
explaining why they wished their
names withdrawn from the remon-
STRANGE to vacating parts of certain
streets in New Castle.
Mr.. Holcomb rcsuming the chair;
Mr.. Broadaway obtained second
reading of bill to change the name of
Sarah Ann Barker to Lulu Annie
Stevens.
On motion of Mr.. Nowland, bill to
amend chapter 12, Revised Code, as
published in 1874, entitled "of collec.
tors, " was read third time and passed.
1t also requires the whole name of an
individual to be always given, so as
not to let there be an appearance OF
several persons in the same indi
vIdual.
Mr.. j. w. Phillips introduced bill
to prevent live stock from running at
large in North West Fork Hundred,
Sussex county. Delaware, which was
read the first time,
Mr.. Broadway introduced bill to
amend chapter 65, section 3, volume
12, Laws of Delaware which was read,