The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-23
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
SENATE-SIXTEENTH DAY.

SATURDAY January p, 1876.
Lient Gov. Davis (col } in the chair
Absent 8.
Leaves of absence were granted to Messrs
Catchings and Pratt.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Taylor, chairman, reported Fl. e.
10 amend section 1862 Code of ISL: I'll, B.
To provide for the discharge of prisoners
! IN Noxubee and other counties who have
/ commuted their sentences by labor on the
/ public roads. ETC.; Ell. b. To allow an addi-
tional constable in Smith county: to de-
fine and punish the crime of burglary in
| railroad cars; to amend section 80 Code
| of 1871, relating to the official bonds of Cir
cult Clerks, with the recommendation that
Iney 90 pass. In relation TO Justices of the
Peace recommending that it do not pass
Mr.. Barry, chairman of the special com
mlttee, reported: The probable cost of
printing Journals, 500 copies. good paper.
long primer type, per page, number of
pages In one copy, 81 %; LOCO copies, 50 IS
per page. The above estimate is reasona-
Bile and just, and considerably less than
heretofore allowed. The committee was
discharged.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
! All referred
BY Mr.. Hooker: To amend section 63l
Code of 1871, in relation to the trial of
causes in Circuit and Chaneery Courts: To
repeal the act amending the laws in rela-
ton TO the cotton weighers of Madison.
Holmes, Yazoo and Yalobusha counties
also to provide for holding the Circuit
Court in the county of Jefferson
BY Mr.. Thompson To amend sec. 1886 |
Code of 1871, relating to liens executed by |
tenants before partition.
BY Mr.. Barry: To authorize garnish-
ments in suits before judgments.
II
by which the anti-liquor law of Houston !
and New Albany was passed: carried. Mr..
Terry offered substitute to the bill which
was adopted, and the bill passed.
SENATE BILLS.
The following were passed To provide
for the discharge of prisoners of Noxubee
and other counties who have COMMITTED
their sentences by working on public roads,
ETC.; 10 define and punish burglary in rail-
road cars; to amend the act amending the
Code OF 1871 in relation to official bonds of
Circuit Clerks of certain counties. Mr..
I cote: to amend by adding Neshoba, At
tala jefferson, Pontotoc, Lafayette, Perry.
Pearl, Marion and Green; and the bill was
re-committed. The bill 10 relation to Jus
ices of the Peace was indefinitely post
Doned, ~
HOUSE BILLS.
The bill to amend Sec. 1859, Code of 1871
vas taken up and several amendments Of
ered, pending the consideration of which
he hour for the special order arrived.
SPECIAL ORDER
The bill to regulate the Public PRINTING
hd TO prescribe the duties and pay of the
1uDllc Printer came up ..-.-...-..--z l.
MI. CarterS amendment allowing So O0 {
instead OF $500 per page for 5000 copies of q
ne laws, was adopted. r
Mr.. Barry moved TO reconsider rho voto. a
arried. ---.-'~"'V - '''' WV :.
Mr.. Allen offered as substitute for tba n
the following: For two thon ;,
ana copies thereof the sum Of 81 "a npr +,
age Tor the whole number of pages i'm one h
olume, and for an additional one tlonsand n,
Oples, 9l 10 per page to be paid for on de- u
very rs now required by law Adopted h;
MT. Graham moved to table the substi- RI
lite. Carried. - ''V'- VI
Mr.. Sims moved to amend after the n
ords shall not publish the Cons titution T
the State or of the United States, "pro- III
loed that such amendments to the Consti- as
ltlon OF the state as may be adopted from Ct
Lne w Time, small also be published in such vi
Mr.. Barry offered eubstitute for tbo hI
como section: Providing for the pubIica- tn
On OF one thousand copies of the Journals tn
~ 20 per page, the manner and stvIe oil on
- 'A'''i NC ~
Mr.. Johnston opposed. wi
Messrs Barry and Sims favored mr.
hg the consideration the Senate adj DR.
sal
COMBINATIONS. he
ne senate in executive session has CON. lay
lned the following County Superinten0 no
ls OF Education: David Carr Att.Io TIL