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The Morehouse clarion., 1880-05-28
STATE NEWS.

carved each other with knives IN
Monroe recently. |
The wife of Gov. Wilt Las
been presented. with supecb |
residence in New Orleans.
Farmers are cutting oats n
East Feliciana. The crop is said
to be good.
The Sparta Times claims as
beautiful young ladies as any
town of the Sta,e. he except
Bastrop, of course.
The Ouachita Telegraph was
made up last week without the
assistance of its talented editor
ish.
The Donaldsonville Chief CO.
incides with the Providence Re-
publican in it's advocacy of Gen.
Grants nomination for the Pres
dency..
The city of Natchitoches is
lighted by street lamps owned
by her enterprising merchants.
Wish Bastrop had such a con-
venience. as.#.
The Chronicle wants the par
ish seat of Grant to be removed
from Colfax to Rock Island. The
two places are only one mile
apart.
The Patriot Democrat, pub
lished at Clinton, wants Gov.
Wilt to resign instanter. Some
men have some very absurd
wants. They are never satisfied.
Mr.. E. E. Kidd, of Jacks on
parish, witnessed a few days ago
an army of birds that were
"charmed'' by the "glittering eye"
Of monster chicken snake.
Rev. L. G. Kellis, of Monroe,
has just returned from the
Southern Baptist Convention,
which has been in session in
Louisville, Kentucky.
The Richland Beacon thinks
that Gen. King will go before the
Congressional Convention with
more strength than he had when
he was nominated: We think SO
too.
The Columbia Herald says
that even in Monroe four men
will vote for King whore one
will vote for Richardson Better
do like Capt. Boatner, "Col.
Bob"
The people of Homer are
willing away the dull dull days
by punching fish-hooks through
the carcass of squirming worms
which they drop ''among the
monsters of the deep"
Old~ Charley Nelson, of Rich.
land parish, was tried recently
in the District Court at Rayville
for whipping small boy tc
death, and was found guilty o.
murder without capital punish
ment,. iae.z4
The editor of the Sparta Times
offers copy of his paper eact
week for a year to the first per
son that will give him a bottle o
blackberry wine. The Times il
certainly q cheap paper, or it,
editor is a dear lover of wine.
I M. M. Gwin, who was arrested
in this parish last year for steal
ing horse from a negro il
Richland, was found guilty las
week by the District Court o
that parish. When the yerdic
was read to Gwin, he attempted
to cut his throat with a piece o
glass.
In Grant parish a few night
ago, some of the "culled bred
ronD mat Of thnir ohuroh RI die
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-05-28
MILLINERY STORE.

Having just received a large ana ,n VI
ried assortment of Millinery Goods, su y
as straw hats, laces, ribbons, a!tln, y.
flowers, and everything belonging toa ~
millinery business, | am prepared W q.
commodate the ladies, who are re4u'''
ed to call and examine my goods ~
store-In the room adjoining NV ~
Collins. NINE Vi. a. WIN -
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-05-28
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Preaching at the Methodist Church in
Dastrop first aud third Sundays III each
month. Sunday School at 9 O'clock A :.
N. Island DeSiard second and fourth
Sundays. Pine Grove third Sunday at
3 o'clock p. NJ Lawhead's Mill first
Sunday at 3 NJ.
r. M. MCKEE. Pastor.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-05-28

Divine services will be held at the
meeting house of the congregation Bnai
Shelom every Friday evening at half
: d e c,ii-ar,l---a,ad- Saturday mornings
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
Public General Lars.

Sec. 0. (a) When any person shall be con-
victed of larceny in any court of this State,
and such court shall be of the opinion that
the interests of public justice will be best pro-
NOTED by sentencing the person 30 convicted
to the Maryland House of Correction instead
of the Penitentiary, it shall have power to
sentence such person to be confined in the
Maryland House of Correction instead of the
Maryland Penitentiary; provided that the said
term of confinement in the said Maryland
House of Correction shall not be for less
period than may now, or hereafter be lawfully
imposed for the offence of which such person
was SO convicted, and that such person so sen-
fenced to confinement in said Maryland House
of Correction be not sentenced to be confined
therein for longer period than three years.
Sec. 9. d. Any person, not insane. who is
convicted of being tramp shall be sentenced
by the Justice of the Peace before whom such
offender is tried, or by the Court before whom
such offender il tried, to confinement in the
Maryland House of Correction for period of
not less than two months nor more than one
year.
Sec. 8. (c.) When any person is convicted in
any Court of this State of assault and battery,
riot, or any other misdemeanor punishable
under the laws of this State by Imprisonment
in Jail, or by fine and imprisonment in Jail,
Such court snail nave power TO sentence
such person to be confined in the Maryland
House of Correction provided that the said
term of confinement in the said Maryland
House of Correction shall not be for less
period than two months.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from and after the date of its
passage, and that all acts, or parts of acts, in
consistent with the provisions of this act, be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
HERMAN STUMP, JR.,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 2, 1880.
WIN. 7. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy Of an act Of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January session,
$780,
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGGINS
Secretary of the Senate
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
CHAPTER 2S2.
RAILROAD CROSSINGS.
AN ACT

AN ACT
An act to repeal section seventeen of the act OF
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter
two hundred.and forty-two, relating to the
crossing by railroads of roads and streams of
water, aud to re-eaacl the same with amend
ments.
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland That section seventeen of
the act OF eighteen hundred and seventy-six,
chapter two hundred and forty-two, be, and the
same il hereby, repealed, and the following is
re-enacted IN lieu thereof.
Section II. That it shall be lawful for such
corporation, whenever it may be necessary in the
construction of its road, to cross any road,
highway or stream of water, to divert the same
from its present or existing location or bed,
provided it is not navgable stream; and it
shall he lawful for such corporation, or for any
railroad corporation, heretofore Incorporated
under any general or special law, whose railroad
now crosses or may hereafter cross any public
or private road or highway, TO carry said road
or highway over its tract by an oyergrade cross
ing, or to carry it under its track or tracks by
uudergr ade crossing; and to make such cross
ings, such corporations may divert any road or
highway so crossed, or to be crossedfrom its
present or existing location, and for entering
upou, uthluR VI dPpiOpIldtluS any DullulHSi
gardens yards or other lands, which may be
necessary for the new route and location of said
road so diverted. said corporation may proc ed
as in case of land necessary for its railroad I'M
der the powers given to it by law, but said cor
poration shall without unnecessary delay, place
such road or highway or stream, in such condi
ton as to not impair its former usefulness; and
provided, such corporation shall be liable for
damage caused by the diversion of any stream,
and when said new road is properly laid out,
completed and constructed by said company,
with such oyergrade or undergrade crossing, in
a manner satisfactory to the county commits
sioners of the county where said road is located,
missioners, to close the old road and grade
pany, to close the former grade crossing.
Section 2, And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
HERMAN STUMP, JR.,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 10, 1880.
VIM. 7. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an act Of the General Assembly
Of Maryland, passed at the January session,
1880.
MILToN Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
EUGENE HlGGINs,
Secretary of the Senate.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30

AUTES.
AN ACT

AN AGE
To appropriate the sum of twelve hundred dol
lars, for each of the years of eighteen hundred
and eighty and eighty-one to ''F. Knapp's Eng
lish and German Institute" for the training
and education Of INDECENT mutes.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, That the Governor be,
and is hereby authorized, to contract with +.
Knapp, of the City Of Baltimore, for the tuition
of twelve INDECENT deaf and dumb mutes, for
the years eighteen hundred and eighty and eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-one, at cost not ex-
ceeding twelve hundred dollars per year. and
tIoller is hereby directed to draw his warran MT
on the Treasurer for said sum, and the Trearurer
is hereby directed to pay the same.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of the Delegates
HERMAN STUMP, JR.,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 10, 1880.
WIN. 7. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a cor
rect copy ofan act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January Session,
1880.
MLToN Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
Public General LM9US.

sold by virtue of any power contained
in any mortgage or bill of sale, the filing of
the petition by or against the insolvent, as
hereinbefore provided shall not disturb the
right of the trustee or other person so adver
Using to proceed with such sale, unless other
wise ordered by the Court having jurisdiction
in insolvency.
Sec 27. 1t shall be the duty of the several
clerks of the Courts of this State, wherein any
proceedings in insolvency may be pending
under any of the provisions of this article, to
have and keep book, to be called "Insolvent
Records" in addition to the book in which
he may keep docket entries of said proceed
ings, in which said book of "lnsolvent Re-
cords" whenever any real estate shall have
been sold by said trustee, the said clerk shall
record the petition of insolyent or creditors
as the case may be, all conveyances relating
to said insolvents estate, to the preliminary
or permanent trustee, and the trustees report
of the sale of said real estate, together with
all orders of the Clerk of Court giving efficacy
thereto, for which said record the said clerk
shall receive such fees as are now allowed him
for recording sales of real estate under DEGREES
of Courts of Chancery in this State, and in all
sales of real or leasehold estate to be made by
the permanent trustee under the provisions o I
this article, the same shall be made in the
county or city wherever the said real or
leasehod estate ID situated, and after due ad
vertisement of such sale in at least one news-
paper published in such county or city.
Sec. %. A discharge duly granted under this
act may be pleaded by simple averment,
that on the day of its date such discharge was
granted TO the party, and setting the same
forth in its exact words, and certified copy
of said discharge shall be sufficient evidence Of
the fact of said discharge.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
HERAN STUMP, JR,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 1st., 1880.
WIN. T. HAMILTON,
Governor Of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing il a
correct copy of an act of the General Assem-
bly, Of Maryland, passed at the January ses-
sion, 1878.
MILTON y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGGINs,
Secretary of the Senate.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
CHAPTER %.
Alta CHMENTS.
AN ACT

AN ACT
To repeal and re-enact, with amendments, sec
ton fourteen of article ten of the Code of
Public General Laws, relating to attach
ments.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That section fourteenth of
article tenth of the Code of Public General
Laws, relating to attachments, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enaCted 80 that the
same shall be as follows:
Section IA No sheriff or other officer shall
levy by way of execution against the garnishee
more than the plaintiffs debt and costs, nor
more than what the said plaintiff shall make APP
pear TO be the value of the property and credits
attached in the hands OF such garnshee together
with such costs only as the garnishee shall put
the plaintiff to by denying himself to be in
debted to the defendant and contestng the
same; and upon any Judgment of condemna-
ton nisi against any garnishee for want of ap-
pearance or plea, the plaintiff shall be at liberty
to proceed and prove his case in the same man.
ner as in any judgment by default ex parte, and
not otherwise, by proof OF his debt, and also of
the amount of the assets of the defendant i'll the
hands of the garnishee properly subject to at
tachment, and no judgment of condemnation
nisi shall be made absolute without such proof;
provided, that in all cases in which garn-
return of the writ, the plaintiff may find in
terrogatories in the cause, which shall be served
by the sheriff upon the garnshee within ten
days thereafter, or if the garnishee shall be
nonresident of the State, shall be served upon
the garnishee by some person to be appointed by
the court in which the case is pending, and if
the garnshee shall fail to answer said inter-
rogatories within twenty days after the service
of the interrogatories upon him, then, upon
proof of such service, the plaintiff shall be en-
titled to Judgment against the garnshee for the
amount of the claim of the plaintiff for which
the attachment was issued.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
HERMAN STUMP,
President of the Senate.
Approved March 9, 1880.
VIM. 7. HAMILTON,
Governor Of Maryland.
We hereby certify, that the aforegoing is a cor
rect copy of an act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January session,
1880.
MiLToN Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of the Delegates
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
Public General ,LOeCS.

Section l No person shall, from the tenth
day of June, to the first day of October, in each
year, fish with hauling seine or drag.net of
any kind, within the Chesapeake bay, or any
of its tributaries lying northward of the follow
ing line, viz: beginning at Still Pond. in
Kent county, and drawn westward to Lego's
Point, in Hartford county.
Section 2. And be it enacted That any per-
son or persons violating any Of the provisions
of this act, upon conviction thereof before any
Justice of the Peace of the county in which
said act has been violated, shall pay fine of
fifty dollars one half of which shall go to the
informer, and any hauling seine, or hauling
seines, drag-net or drag-nets, and the boat or
boats, and material used in fishing the same,
are hereby declared to be forfeited, and the
Justice or Justices before whom said convic-
ton ard condemnation shall be had, il author
lied and directed to have said fishing appa-
ratus sold by the sheriff or constable making
said arrest, to the highest bidder, and the pro-
ceeds, together with half the fine, after deduct
ing the costs, shall be paid to the county COM
missioners of the county in which said offence
shall be committed, for the use of the school
fund of said county.
Section 8. And be it enacted, That any per
son or persons, on conviction, failing to pay
the fine as prescribed in the preceding section,
shall be Imprisoned in the county Jail of the
county in which said offence shall be commit
ted; provided, however, that any one, 50
offending, shall, upon conviction before any
Justice of the Peace of the county in which
said offence shall be committed, have the
right to appeal to the Circuit Court of the
county in which said offence shall be commit
ted, under the same restrictions governing
appeals from the decisions of Justices of the
Peace
Section 2. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passages
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
HERMAN STUMP, JR,
President of the Senate.
Approved April 10, 1880.
WIN. T. HAMILTON,
Governor of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegong is cor
rect copy of an act of the General Assembly
of Mary land passed at the January session,
| $780,
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk Of the House of Delegates.
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
[CHAPTER 260.1
FISH AND FISHERIES.
AN ACT

AN ACT
To repeal chapter two hundred and seventy
six of the acts passed at the January session,
eighteen hundred and seventy eight, enti-
tied an act to repeal an act passed at the ses-
sion of the General Assembly of Maryland,
in eighteen hundred and seventy six, chapter
tow hundred and 6Gty-two, entitled an act
TO repeal an act passed at the session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, in eighteen
hundred and seventy four, chapter four hun
bred and twenty -one, entitled an act 10 re-
peal section two of article forty-one Of the
Public General Laws of Maryland, title
"Fish and Fisheries" and to re-enact the
same with amendments, and to substitute the
re-enact so as to read as follows, and to
amend and re-enact the same as amended.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, That the act passed at
the seesten of the General Assembly, eighteen
hundred and seventy-sight, chapter two hum
dred and seventy-six, entitled IAN act to re-
peal an act passed at the session of the Gene
raj Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hundred
and seventy.six, chapter two hundred and
fifty.two, entitled an act to repeal an act pass
ed at the session of the General Assembly in
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter
four hundred aud twenty-one of the Public
General Laws of Maryland, title, "Fsh and
Fisheries" and to re-enact the same with
amendments, and to substitute the following
in lieu thereof be, and the same is hereby, re.
pealed, amended and re-enacted 80 as 10 read
as follows
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
GCHAPTER 1901
MARYLAND HOUSE OF CORRECTION
AN ACT


MARYLAND HOUSE OF CORRECTION
AN ACT
To repeal section nine of the act of eighteen
hundred aud seventy eight, chapter four
hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act to re-
peal and re-enact with amendments, sections
two, three, eight, nine, ten and eleven of
chapter two hundred and thirty-three of the
acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at January sessi on, eighteen hundred
and seventy four, entitled 'An act to estab-
lish the Maryland House of Correction"
and to enact three other sections IN lieu of
said section nine SO repealed.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That section nine of the
act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,
chapter four hundred and fifteen, entitled "An
act to repeal and re-enact with amendments,
sections two, three, eight, nine, ten and eleven
of chapter two hundred and thirty-three of the
acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at January session, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, entitled AN act TO establish
the Maryland House of Correction" be, and
the same is hereby, repealed and that the fol-
lowing three sections be, and the same are
hereby, enacted in lieu of the said ninth sec
tion 80 repealed.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
Public General L0aCS.
[CHAPTER 292.
INCORPORATE COMPANIES.
AN ACT
AN ACT

lSiiAi LEN -oSs
INCORPORATE COMPANIES.
AN ACT
To supplement chapter two hundred and forty
two of the acts OF eighteen hundred and
seventy six, entitled can act TO repeal chap
ter four hundred and seventy six of the acts
of eighteen hundred and seventy" entitled
can act to provide for the creation and reg
ulation of incorporate companies in the State
Of Maryl land and to enact substitu there
for"
SEC. l. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, That the following section
be added, by way of supplement, to chapter
two hundred and furty-two of the acts passed
at the January session, eighteen hundred and
seventy-six.
Section =. And be it enacted by the Gene
raj Assembly of Maryland, That said chapter
two hundred and forty-two of the acts of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-six, does not and
shall not apply to or authorize the incorpora-
ton or construction of any elevated railroad,
or of any other railroad except a surface road,
and that no elevated railroad shall be incor-
porated except under special charter of the
General Assembly of Maryland, and no elevd-
| ted railroad shall be constructed in or through
| the city OF Baltimore, or in or through any of
the counties Of the State, except under a
special charter of the General Assembly of
Maryland.
Section -. And be it enacted, That all acts
or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act be, and the same are hereby, re-
pealed, and that this act shall take effect from
| the date of its passage.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
HERMAN STUMP, JR,
President of the Senate.
| Approved April 10, 1873.
WIN. T. HAMILTON,
Governor Of Maryland.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a cor
rect copy of an Act of the General AS
sembly of Maryland, passed at January
Session, 1880.
| MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-02-20

] NOs ran buy Pure and Good WINES AND
/ luQlOHs, In any dealrei quantity, packed
anl sent anywhere. by sending orders 10 the
old house of a.. a. flllARDS 4 co.,
Aug2od&w6m IS and 70 Kirby street, Boston'