Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-08
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Lieutenant Governor Bulkeley in the chair.
 Prayer was offered by Chaplain Sage.
 The resolution restoring forfeited rights to George A. Terry, of Windsor, was reeom- mitted to the Committee on Forfeited Rights.
 The resolution incorporating Heublin Brothers, to be established in New Haven, was continued to the next session in concur renee with the House.
 The bill declaring cider an intoxicating li- quor and regulating it's sale, which passed the other day, was recalled from the office of the Secretary of State and indefinitely postponed on a yea and nay vote.
 Business on the calendar was disposed of as follows
 Bill fixing the minimum term for sentences of imprisonment in the State prison, exec pt in cases arising under the tramp act, to one year 1; passed
 The bill appointing the three fish com mis-
 sioners of the State State commission for
 the designation of the limiss and boundaries
 of oyster grounds and to settle disputes aris-
 ing from the same (majority report of Com
 mittee on Fisheries) was passed. The bill requiring peddlers not inhabitants
 of Connecticut to obtain licenses from the selectmen of any town in which they may
 sell their wares by the payment of $25 per year was opposed by Senator Seymour on the ground that it would interfere with the bu si ness of commercial travellers. On a rising vote the bill was rejected by a vote of 8 to 6.
 Bill providing that justice of the peace may send 8 boy to the State Reform school,
 and also giving the officers of the schoo power to arrest boys who have escaped passed in concurrence.
 Bill requiring assessors of cities and bo- l roughs at the expiration of their terms o1 l office to deposit with their city or borough l clerks all tax lists filled with made out by | them passed. Senator Hoyt called from the table the pc tition of George H. Townsend < Brothers fol | permission to employ steam dredging or their private oyster grounds in New Haver harbor, and offered a substitute resolution to l the unfavorable report of the committee
 granting the prayer of the petitioners. Senator Hoyt supported the resolution as { matter of fairness and urged that Messrs Townsend brothers should have the same | privileges on their own grounds in New Ha. | ven harbor as other oystermen had in other | harbors.
 Senator Mills opposed the resolution o1 the ground that the oyster grounds in New l Haven harbor were close together, and iron l the character of the mud, which is easil, stirred up, would suffer much from stean dredging. Also the United States govern
 ment was spending between $5O,0Oo ant $6O, ,OOO per year in keeping the channe | clear, and this would prove of no avail i l the steam dredgers are allowed to stir up tn mud.
 The amendment was adopted and the bil as amended passed.
 At o'clock the Senate took recess un l til o'clock this afternoon. At the afternoon session of the Senate Sen | ator Coe was in the chair. Several bills o | more or less importance on the calendar wer l disposed of Among the bills passed wer
 the following: Providing that all pub
 lie acts except therein specially provide | shall take effect on the first day of May sub sequent to the adjournment of the Genera l Assembly; appointing commissioner to re l wise the laws relating to intoxicating liquors relating to the sale of medicines and poisons The resolution extending the boundaries o | the city of Hartford was indefinitely post poned.
 l A resolution that the final adjournmen shall take place on Wednesday next; passed Several resolutions paying clerk, dool
 keepers and messengers for services wer | passed.
 The Senate went into executive session an' | approved the following nominations: Vii i liam J. Atwater, of New Haven, to be com
 missioner of Tomlinson's bridge, and Luciu
 S. Fuller, of Holland, to be director in th
 Middletown Insane Asylum.
 On the conclusion of the executive sessio
 the Senate adjourned until Friday moruin | at 10 o'clock.