The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-03
SENATE.

esal to The Herald.
Austin, Jan. 2e.--The senate met pursuant
Ito adjournment.
Roll called quorum present
Prayer by the chaplain.
Tho reading of the journal was dispensed
with.
TIE committee on commerce reported
favcrably onshe bill to prevent foreign sail
ors and crews from labonng in harbors and
on wharves in tho state beyond the ships
tackle.
Reports Of committees were received as
follows: -,
Judiciary committee No. lon the bill
and amendment in reference to the powers
and rights of married women. Reported
feyorably on the minority report.
BY Judiciary Committee No lon
the bill to validate certain acts OF
notaries public. Reported favorably.
The same committee-Unfavorab on
senate bill No. rs, empowering nine jurors in
certain cases 10 return verdict Minority
report adopted.
By same committee -Favorably--o senate
bill No. 81, In reference TO change of crimi-
nal and civil jurisdiction of Wharton
county.
Bills and resolutions were introduced as fol-
lows:
A bill to amend section 1886, of the civil
CODE. Referred
A bill TO amend section 1902, of the code.
Referred.
A Joint resolution TO substitute for Sec
ton |, article s, Of the constitution another
section.
A bill 10 amend section 2671, Of the civil
code in reference TO guardianship. Referred.
Senate bill No. 10 was postponed, on
motion, Till Wednesday next and made the
special order.
A majority Of the committee on constitu-
tional amendments reported back joint
resolution No. 20, with amendment, and rec
ommending its adoption, fixing the taxation
for school purposes ct twenty-five cents on
the one hundred dollars and one dollar poll
tag. The minority reported was substituted
fixing tbe tax on the one hundred dollars at
twelve and half cents and one
dollar poll tax, The minority sub
stituta aas adopted, in which
thirty-seyen aud half ceats was also fixed
as the maximum Of taxation for general pur~
poses, aud the bin engrossed.
ilhe bill TO amend chapter 10, section Y,
being bill No. 40, Of the code, was read the
second time end amended and engrossel
The bill to amend section 435 of the crim-
inal code, in reference TO transfer Of ;ndict-
ments, was read the third time and passed.
(, The bill 10 remove the disabilities ofniinors
over nineteen years of ego was read the third
time and passed.
The bill to amend section 1547 of the code
was finally read and passed, providing for
the time Of holding justices courts.
The regular call was suspended and sem
ate bill No. "a. was taken up, defining who
are officers Of the state entitled to fees. Post
poned.
A memorial by Senator Patton was re-
ferred,
Senate bill No. 25, amending sections 1862
and 4566 Of the code, was read the second
time, amended and engrossed.
The petition of citizens FROM Bandera
county was referred.
Senator Buchanan, of Grimes, from the
committee on engrossed bills, reported sem
ato bills Nos. "a, 46, 4e, and 81, correctly
engrossed.
The president appointed Senators Swain,
Lair and Burton q committee TO visit the
penilenlisry.
A message was received from the governor,
and the reading suspended.
Tho senate adjourned till Saturday morn
ing at ten o'clock.