The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-02-23
TIKI, LEGISLATURE.
FEiIDA \.

FRIDAY.
in the Maryland Senate bill to authorize
the comptroller to settle and adjust all
claims against receivers of public moneys
for the use of the State which have accrued
during or before the year 1879, was called
up, and an amendment adopted changing
the year up to and during 1878. Senate
bill to define the duties of the comptroller
relative to the apportionment of the school
tax fund, etc, was considered and then
postponed till Thursday next. House bill
requiring that in non-prosSed cases the
plaintiff shall pay the cost of the case be-
fore bringing new suit was discussed, and
an amendment was adopted "unless the
court in which such action was pending
shall otherwise direct" The Senate then
adjourned until Tuesday next. In the
House MIR. Mitchell presented petition
j from the citizens of Baltimore in favor of
the abolition of the distraint law. Mr.
Braice, of Allegany. offered an order for
the appointment of a special committee of
| live to thoroughly investigate the manage
ment of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal;
! laid on the table. A special committee of
five was appointed to inquire into and re-
port what legislation may be necessary
consequent upon the ALTERATION to settle
the boundary line between Maryland and
| Virginia. Senate bill authorizing the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company to
issue bonds to the extent of $500 600 for
the purpose of putting and keeping the
| canal, IN repair, etc, was taken up and
passed to its third reading, all the amend
ments offered and being voted down. The
House then adjourned till Monday.
MONDAY.
| The Sapata # Noryl,pS ,,,s so. ., 90,
sion. In the House, Attorney General
Gwinn sent a communication of his opinion
that Maryland and Virginia have equal
rights to fish the Potomac river, but neither
can fish the shores of the other. A bill
was engrossed looking to the admission of
colored persons to practice in the State
courts. a bill was passed creating two
voting precincts in the Eighth district of
| Baltimore county; also a bill requiring
four terms of Baltimore County Circuit
Court. Sundry other bills OF local
| character were passed.
TUESDAY.
In the Senate of Maryland, numerously-
signed memorial was presented from the
| liquor dealers of Baltimore against local
option laws. A number of bills were
| passed, among them one amending the law
of Inheritance by creating an annuity in
| lieu of widows dover, and otherwise
amending the law as to allotments to par
! ceners; also amendatory of the attachment
| law, allowing the sale of personal property
! pendente lite; also amending the general
incorporation law; also to enlarge the
powers of the Baltimore Union Orphan
Asylum, that is to sell its property and
close up its affairs.
In the House, the bill to allow a greater
rate of interest than 6 per cent when special
contract is made was engrossed to third
reading. The enacting clause was stricken
from the bill providing for the issue of at
tachments before debts become due.
WEDNESDAY,.
! In the Senate of Maryland, leave was
given to report bill expounding the word
"white wherever it occurs in the code
! Untavorable reports were adopted on the
| bill extending jurisdiction of justices of
the peace to cases of petty larceny, aud
| the bill to permit a person to testify in his
| own behalf without cross examinaiio ion
| tending to criminate himself: also to pre-
vent husband and wife from testifying
against each other; also to repeal the law
authorizing the appointment of grain
weghers.
In the House, petitions were presented
for repeal of the law requiring Maryland
| planters to send their tobac o to Baltimore
| for inspection and market. Leaves were
granted to introduce a bill to transfer the
States stock in the Chesapeake and Ohio
! Canal Company to trustees of the preferred
bondholdels; also to authorize the canal
company to issue new bonds in exchange
for those authorized by act of 1914; also
for sale of the States interest in the canal.
The Senate bill authorizing the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company to issue $500, 900
OF bonds were passed by Il vote of IS yeas,
10 nays. The LEGAL option bill was taken
up, and much discussion was had on the
motion to refer the bill to the ways and
| means pending which the
House adjourned.
THURSDAY.
In the Maryland Senate, the bill amend
ing the charter of the Board of Trade of
Baltimore, providing for arbitration, was
made the order for the 2Sth. \ bill was
passed changing the terms of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore County. The bill to
prescribe and define the duties of the comp
troller of the treasury, relative to the APP
portionment and distribution of the school
fund, &c., was called up and debated until
the hour of adjournment.
In the Housessn order was adopted that
the Judiciary committee examine and re-
port if the constitution permits the Legis-
lature to appropriate any sum to pay
the agent, servant or contractor who has
done the State House repairs. The motion
to refer the local option bill to the com
mlttee of ways and means was called up,
and the motion was rejected-yeas 81, nays
AZ; motion to strike out the enacting
clause of the bill was rejected--yeas Il,
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