The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-02-16
REPoRTs on coMMITTEEs.

Mr.. Taylor, chairman, reported 10
amend section 9S1, Code of 1871, relating 70
breaches Of Injunction and % leRalize GER
tain publications, recommending that they
do not pass; also 70 prohibit the sale OF
seed cotton at night; TO provide for the SER
Vice Of process on partners and JOINT con
tractors, with substitutes. Recommending That
they do pass; also to amend section z5b9,
Code Of 1871, In relation to obtaining M on
ey, ETC.. under false pretenses, with the re-
COMMUNICATION that 1t do not pass
AR IHgln psot, chairman pro tenn, re-
ported the petition OF Mr.. Tho. Green, ask
Ing for relief and tor an appropriation o.
@30O The committee have Instructed me
70 return the petition, recommending tnat
no action be taken and asking that the COM
fnittee be discharged from the further con-
sideration of the same.
MIR. smith, chairman pro tenn, returned
House bill, recommending that 1t be re-
turned to the House for eDgrosslnent;
agreed TO.
All referred
By Mr.. Catchings To change the name
OF the county seat of Issaquena county from
MaTersviIIe to Hampton.
nv Mr. Mendenhall: To amend the priv
ilege tax law, approved March LIST, 1875.
nv Mr. REYNOLDS To create a Criminal
Court in the several counties OF the
SENATE BILLS.
TO provide remedy tor the substitution
of lost recoFdss passed.
To regulate tile mpensation of sheritfs,
and the Committees amendment to strike
out $50 cents per day for feeding prisoners
and insert as eents,'' was taken mp.
Mr. White, (eot.) moved TO strike out ''35
cents and insert rs cents" tabled by the
io YleasLMessrs. Allen, Barry, Ca,licott,
Carter. Everett, FITZGERALD, Furlong, Ora
ham. Hooker, Johnston, McCaskill, Nc Nell,
MendenlIalI. Nets. Morgan, Reynolds,
Sims. smith. Stone, Taylor, Terry, Thomp-
son. Thornton. and futile. p
Nays- Albright, Catchings, Gray, Griffin,
Pratt, Shirley, Stewart and White-S
Absent - Mes ard o, Ghaln'eTs fe"eii
MIR. REYNOLDS moved to strike out '51
cents per dav and no more" ana insert
Snot exceeding 81 cents per day" Mr
Johnston to strike out 80 cents ana insert
$40 cents !, adopted Mr. Thompson moved
tn amend bv providing that no allowance
ehalI be made until Boards OF supervisors
have examined the mittimus and discharge
and shall be satisfied that the account Il
correct. The bill was ordered engroSse q.
Mr.. REYNOLDS moved to take up I'll. Is. tc
afaeud the act funding the boating deot OF
Bolivar county, approved ApriI 9Th, 1874
carried and the bin passed.
LAWS By APPROVAL
Tne Governor informed the Senate that
he had approved the following Senate bills
To deslgn9te the legal holidays; to provide
for the discharge of county prisoners who
have commuted their sentences by Work on
public bridges, etc.; to authorize Lowndes
county to sell certain uncurrcnG funds: to
amend section 2312 Code of 1871 in relation
70 ACKNOWLEDGMENT of proof ofconyeyance
or deed for lands, etc.
LAWS BY LIMITATION.
The Secretary of State informed the Sem
ate that the following Senate bills had be-
come laws without the approval of the
Governor, by operation CT article 4, section
"a, of the Consultation. viz: To regulate
public printing, and to prescribe the duties
and paw of The public printer to repeal the
act incorporating the New Albany Hotel
Co, Union countys approved, March
81, 1873.
Mr.. Hooker, chairman, reported the pres
entation to the Governor, OF large number
of bills.
SPECIAL ORDER.
To repeal the act to encourage the intro
dueLion Of machinery and to establish fac
tories. approved April LIST, 1872. The COM
mittee's substitute to amend the act refer
red to, was read, discussed at length and
lost by the following vote:
YEAS-Messrs. Allen Callicott, Catchings,
Furlong, Grifiu, Hooker, McCaskill, Me-
Neil, Pratts@ Reynolds, Shirley, Smith,
Stewart, Stone, Tuttle-l5.
NAYs-Messrs. Albright, Barry, Carter, Ey-
erett, Fewell, FitzGerald, Graham, Johnston,
Ndendenhall. Nets, Morgan, Oldham, Sims,
Taylor Terry, Thompson, Thornton-17.
ABsEMT AND NOT VoTING-Messrs. Chal-
mers, Foote, Gray, Mcclure. Whites.
Mr.. Allen offered as an amendment to the
bill sprOgided that no property of any per-
son. library of any minister, or picture or
work of art or any church ediGce, or school
house, or other property, shall here
after be exempt from taxation." Mr.. Car
ter made the point of order that the amend
was not germane to the subject under cou-
sideration. The President, (AIr. Sims in
the chair,) overruled the point. Mr.. Few
ell appealed from the decision, pending
(which, the Senate adjourned.