The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-01-28

against the proposed change of boundary
between the counties of Lincoln and Frank
lin, which was referred TO special Commit |
tee, to which was referred I'll. B. No. 733.
The Committee on Military Affairs re-
ported an Act entitled an Act to establish a
Metropolitan Police district. and to provide
for the government thereof, and recon-
mended that it pass with the following
amendment
Insert after salary Of ofSuperintending Com
missioner, ETC., in section Il, $4,000 in lieu of
$1,000 and after salary of Financial Com
missioner, etc., 81 800 in lieu of $2.40O; and
after Clerical Commissioner, etc., $l,700 in
lieu of So, 400; and after Captains, etc, ST.
200 in lieu of ST. 1900; and after Sergeants,
insert 81 900 in lieu of $1,000; and after
Patrolmen, insert 5000 in lieu OF $780, as
now provided in the bill.
Mr.. Harris requested to have entered
upon the journal a motion to reconsider the
question of the passage of 5. j. L. No.
30.
During the reading of the bill Mr.. Rogers
of Marshall, moved to postpone the special
order for IL O'Clock, S. i. No. 426, so as to
continue the consideration of the bill be-
fore the House.
Mr.. Street moved to table the motion Of
Mr.. Rogers. Lost. And the motion made
by Mr.. Rogers, prevailed; yeas, 4S, navs, 40.
And it was ordered that one hundred and
fifty copies be printed, and the bill made
the special order for Friday next, at II
o'clock.
Special order, S. B., an Act to reduce the
expense of the Judiciary Department of
the State, was postponed until Friday at l
O'Clock.
The Committee on claims reported, an
Act to incorporate the National Guards
Military Company of Columbus, Mississip-
pi, and recommended that it should not pass,
and the bill was indefinitely postponed.
An Act making an appropriation for the
from
Committee on Appropriations, and referred
to the Committee Of the Whole.
The House went into the Committee of the
whole for the purpose of considering the
| bill, and after some time spent therein, the
! Committee rose, and through its chairman,
| Mr.. Street, reported the bill back to the
House, and recOmm ended its passage with
the following amendment: Strike out $lO,-
900 and insert $4,000.
The amendment was adopted and the bill
as amended was read the third time and
passed.
Yeas Messrs. Applewhite, Avery,
Brunt, Byrd of Franklin, Byrd OF Pearl,
BOYD of Warren, Bufkin, Cock, Champlin,
Cessor, Chamberlin, Christmas, CoWart,
Chandler, Cotton, Chiles, Crecelius, Deval,
benson, EckfOrd, Feemster, Ford FOXWOrth,
! French. Gill, Green, Gayles, Graham, HOr-
ton of Pontotoc, Handy, Harris Huggins,
Johnson of DeSoto, Jones, kendrick, Leg
gett, Lynch, Landers, Mackey, Monroe, Nc
| Cain, McNeese, Nathan, Patterson, Palmer,
Peal, PeytOn, Packwood, Reese, Rogers of
Marshall, Rogers of 1alobuSha, Randolph,
Richards of YaZoo, Richards of LOwndes
| Spight, Stevens Smith of Tunica, Smith of
Jasper, Stocks till, Street, Stone, Shorther,
! SmOthers, Sykes, Simmons, SOuthWOrth,
! Truehart, Tate, Thompson of LCwndes,
! Thompson of Greene, Tison, Wilbourne
Williams, Weatherly, White, Walker OF
Alcorn, Walker of Monroe, Wynn, Mr.
| Speaker-S0.
| NayS-NOne.
The Committe on Ways and Means re-
! ported an Act to provide for the payment
of certain Mississippi bonds, recommending
its passage, and the bill passed.
The Committee on Contingent Expenses
repc rted an Act to repeal an Act entitled an
Act to provide a clerk for the office of At
torney General, recommending its passage,
and the bill passed.
The Committee on Ways and Means re-
ported an Act to authorize compensation
! for lahor required to be done under the pro-
visions of an Act of the Legislature approv-
| ed April 6, 1874, in relation to lands delin-
quent for taxes, with the accompanying
! amendment:
Amend section l, by adding after the
word taxes in third line, OF
second page the following, viz: Except taxes
of 1874, which said clerks are hereby requir-
ed to pay over in full, less commissions on
| the same.
Add at enQ OF SecClOn i. HTOFlUeu not
more than two hundred dollars shall be al
lowed any one clerk under the provisions OF
this Act; the amendment adopted and the
bill passed.
The Committee on Elections reported S
B "A bill to be entitled an Act in relation
to elections; and the bill passed.
Mr.. Mccain introduced III. B.--An Act
to amend the Code Of1S71, in relation to the
exemption laws.
Mr.. Street moved to amend by way of RI
der by adding to section 2; and three hun
dren bundles of fodder; the amendment was
adopted.
Mr. Champlin offered the following: Pro
vided that all personal property of any heaG
of a family, be exempted from sale under
execution, and shall not be liable for any
debt contracted hereafter; lost, and the bill
passed,
BY Mr.. Peyton.-An Act to require the
railroads of this State to fence their respec-
tive roads; referred.
BY Mr.. Champlain-An Act to establish
a ballast ground for Pascagoula harbor; re-
} ferred.
The Governor submitted the report of the
disposition of the Executive Contingent
Fund for the year 1874. And also the an
nual report of the Superintendent and other
officers of the Mississippi State Lunatie
Asylum for the year 1874.
, The following House bills were taker
| from the calendar and in0pfnitalu ,,oct