The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-05

By Mr. Fortune: To regulate liens be- |
tween landlords and tenants, employer and
employee.
By Mr. Bailey: To create the Office OF
Stat. supply. aud purchasing agent
By Mr.. McLaurin: To authorize the
Chancery Clerk of Jasper county 70 keep
separate book for recording deeds Of trust
and mortgages.
By Mr.. McNair: To repeal an oct . en-
courage the introduction OF machinery and
the sstab 1Hsf Of facs2slssz Agesa q /
By Mr.. Jarnigan: To repeal the act
to amend section 2s42 Code of 1871, In rela-
ton to bail after conviction.
By Mr.. Yellowley: To amend the act es-
tablishing the fees of certain officers, page
l37 laws of 1875, so far as relates to Justices
of the Peace.
outstanding school warrants of Jones
county.
By Mr. Leigh: To defray the expenses of
the House Investigating Committees. The
bill which appropriates 5000 was consid-
passed ;yeas, 81; nays (Edwards), L; abb
sent, 21
By Mr.. spight: For the relief of certain
illeg itimate children of VIM. Stephen, de-
ceased, of Tippah county.
By Mr.. OvertOn: To allow Richard Gray,
Treasurer ELECT of Noxubee county, to file
a bond as Treasurer Of the county.
By Mr.. Bassett: Fo legalize the assess
ment of taxes of Neshoba county for 1875,
and to extend the time of collecting the
| taxes.
The Senate bill to consolidate the corpo-
| rate acts of Batesville, Pamela county, was
passed. - E@H
:. REPORTS OF. COMMITTEES.
Mr. benson, chairman, reported the bills
to authorize the Board of Supefyisorss0f
DeSoto county to pay to 8. JsRadshis sal-
ISIS; for the relief Of Jacob Father OF
Union county; for the relief Of =. c. COBB,
of Lee county. With the Recommendation
that they do not pass : also, for the relief of
Elizabeth E. Henry, q minor, of Madison
| their passage
For the relief of Sandy Jefefson-with-
out recommendation also, that the Com
mittee had considered the memorial of j.
Willis, Architect and that the State was
dne him nothing.
! The bills were severally taken up and
disposed of, either by indefinitely postpon-
! ing or tabling.
Mr. Powell, chairman, reported: To repeal
| an act to amend an act for the regulation
and support of the Penitentiary, approved
Feb. 26, 1876; also, to amend an act entitled
| an act for the regulation, control and sup
port of the Penitentiary, approved March
%, 1872-with substitute, and recommend
ed that they do pass.
\ The substitutes were adopted, anu the
bills were severally taken up and passed.
4 Mr.. Hogan. chairman.repo-ted To amend
the road laws of the State-with a substi-
tute; To protect the crops in certain Super
vsor's districts in Warren county, in this
State-w:th a substitute, and recommended
their passage; also. to encourage the rails
ing of provisions in this State, recommend
ing that it do not pass. The first two bills
were passed. as recommended and the last
was indefinitely postponed
Mr.. Leigh, chairman - reported the bill
for the relief of j. A.. Shelsbn. j. rTippah
county; To repeal the anti-iiquOr law OF
the Masonic Institute, Rankin county, and
recommended that they do pass, and the
bills were passed.
BY Mr. Mnldrow: To incorporate the
town of Whitfield, Oktibbeha county
passed.
By Mr.. Fearherston To repeal an act In
relation TO the assurances OF mandates by
the clerk of the Supreme court; referred
Adjourned.
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