The daily gazette., 1881-04-01
THE LEGISLATURE.
Special 70 the Gazette.
.DovHR. Mar. 31, 1881
nMNATE-MORNIN0a aKssIoN

SDOf1hs nAars OAI 1oo1
sENATE-MoRNING SESSION.
Senate met at Q q. m.
The bill to incorporate the Delaware
Heat, Light and Water Company was
upon Its FIRST reading.
The vote In relation to intemperance
was reconsidered and laid on the table
for future consideration.
The following bills were read by title
and referred: +.
Live stock bill for district s3 Sussex
county; Incorporation bill OF the Bran.
dywine Cornet Band; act In relation to
the town Of Milford; The bill In relation
to births, death and marriages of the
city of Wilmington; an act TO amend
chapter 125 Of the Revised Code; an act
20 repeal chapter 81 Of volume 16 Laws
Of Delaware; the bill to incorporate the
Kent County Paper Manufacturing
Mr.. Registrars Muskrat bin was read
BY title and referred TO the Committee
on Finance.
The following bills were passed:
The bill to incorporate the Frank.
fort Oyster Planting Company; tbs act
10 incorporate the Capelle Hardware
Company; the bill to incorporate the
CuIbrath Marsh Company; the act in re-
lation to the Duck Creek Improvement
SOnPahyj nuppiotnout w tno uiii 10"
relating TO taxes. ThIs bill authorizes
school district collectors to secure the
payment Of taxes by attachment process.
The following bills were read o frat
time:
House bill for the Improvement Of the
city OF New Castle (which under suspen.
sion Of rules was referred 10 the Com
mittee on Corporations.
The House amendments TO the j. & B.
and tho B. g. Il. r. R. bills were con-
ourred in.
Adjourned.
aENATE-AFTERNoON SESSION.
Senate met at 8 p. m.
The vote by which the act for the snp-
preston OF intemperance passed the
Senate was reconsidered. Section II
was stricken out and the bill a. amended
wss passed.
Bills were passed a. follows 10 rela-
to the Superintendent OF Free Schools
giving him an assistant); In relation to
the Dover River improvement Com.
pany; incorporating the st. Jones River
Transportation Company.
The following Heuse bills were read
twice referred: appropriatlng 81 200 for
the State Militia; to divorce Nathaniel
Holmes; for proteotlon against fires from
burning bruse.
Adjourned.
HoUsE-MoRNINa SESSION.
=House met ut q. m.
The militia bill was taken up and
passed, after Mr.. Bradford's ameDnment
limiting the annual appropriation to
81 200.
The bill incorporating the Roman
Catholic Male Protsctory OF Whining
ton, was passed.
Mr.. T. NJ. Williams introduced bill
supplementary to the loves Cross
Roads School bill Under suspension
Of the rules the bill was read three
times and passed,
The House bill for the analysis Of fer
tIlisers was passed.
The bill laying out Q new road In Little
Creek hundred, Kent county.
Mr.. Swayne introduced bill making
some slight notifications Ia the preserib-
cd mode of assessing real estate.
The Senate resolutions reducing the
rate Of interest on the j. g. b. and b. &
r. 4. r. mortgages, after being amend
Ad SO rs to provide for q similar reduc-
ton of interest on the second mortgage
on the j & b road held by the Old Do.
minion Steamship Company, was CON-
CURED in.
The Senate billincorporating the Far
msrs' Market Company tGregg& b Bowel
Of Wilmington, was read twice and re-
ferred.
The bill establishing the Houston
school district was read twice and refer
red. The House bill empowering the
city of New Castle to borrow 1000 To
be expended in making public improve.
ments should q majority Of the voters OF
the city favor the creation of such q
loan, was passed. The Senate substitute
for the seibyville public schools bill was
read three times and passed. The bill
anthorizing the Delaware Railroad Com.
pany TO construct q permanent bridge
across Murderkill Creek was passed.
The bill divorcing Samuel and Matilda
Tippett was passed by vote Of 10 to 8.
The Senate bill for the improvement OF
the streets ofDelmar wes read.
The Senate bill incorporating the
Gregg. Bowe Carriage Company, sof
Wilmington. was read twice and re-
The Senate bill Incorporating the At
iantic and Caribbean Navigation Com
pany was passed.
The bill amendatory to tn 70 ,sharter Of
the Wilmington and Great Valley Torn
pike Company was passed.
Mr. Graham introduced bill FOR new
road In Milford Hundred, was read twice
and referred.
Mr.. McNeal introduced bill 70 divorce
Annie e. and Robert Davis.
Mr.. Register presented q remonstrance
hkhlubb LIE COubtApjoB DILL
The bill to alter and amend the act to
raise revenue for State and county pur-
poses was read twice and referred.
Bill topTohibit stock running at large
In district No. 1859, Sussex county. and 10
prescribe certain duties OF prothonotaries
and clerks of the peace, were read q sec-
Ond time and referred.
Adjourned.
HoUsE-AFTERNooN SESSION.
House met at the usual hour.
The Holmes divorce bill was taken up
and passed by the following vote:
Ayes-Cahall, Eastburn, Jones, Nc
Neal, Moore. Register, Robinson. Stay
7. N. Williams, Woodkespsr. Speaker
Nays.Bradford, Graham, Townsend.
A. G. Will tams-3.
iMr. Van Burkalow changed his vote
ke able to move for o reconsideration.1
The bill Incorporating the Morning
News Publishing Company was passed.
The Senate bill TO amend section 10,
chap. Q, Revised Code. (requirlnG the cost
The Senate bill fin relation 10 free
schools was read twice and referred.
The Senate eiil supplementary to the
charter of the Mispillion Navigation Co..
The Senate bill 10 incorporate the Della
ware Elevator Company. was read twice
the divorce committee reported ad-
veraely upon tho petitions Of Robert A.
/ Baxter and Sarah O. Watson. and favor
Hadley, submitting. with the latter re-
port BILL, (which was real
The bill to divorce samuel II. and
4 hannah III. Otwell was read q second
/ time and referred.
The Senate bill In relation TO INES and
Il fnrfaftnraa - r1Aaq0d