Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-17
MEssIssIPPI LEGISLATURES.
The Usual Routine Business In BeIh
Houses Transacted.

Special TO the Appeeld
jackson, February I6.-Senats Bills re-
fefred: To encourage breeding OF thorough
bred stock; to reimburse Adams county for
expenses incurred in conveying lunatics to
asylums; to provide more speedy payment Of
expenses for keeping prisoners; to amend the
act dividing Yalobusha into two court dis
tricts; for the protection of life and property
against the ravages of hydrophobia; act to
impose a tax on railroads that discriminate
in their freight or passenger rates and
charges; to levy a privilege tax on persons
ceiling liquors 81 quantities less than FIVE
gallons and not more than one; iu relation
to hospital at Vicksburg; TO require employ
mebt OF convicts on works OF internal i'm
prOvements and to provide 70 the support Of
the peniteutisry v lout loss to the State,
Bib pasa4ds For fbe relief Of Hs.-iT-f----~
vens; to make an appropriation Tor the com
pletion of the Mississippi asylum for The
blind; to authorize the sheriff Of Warren
county to employ a janitor; to remedy the
evil caused by the burning OF the courthouse
OF Union county; to compensate persons Tor
trespass by stock; to incorporate the town Of
Bay st. Louis; in reference to sherih's fees.
Alter hard struggle last night the rail-
road commission bill was left pending under
u
morning that motion was lost and the bill
was laid upon the table.
House.-Bills passed: To incorporate the
Mi sissippi Valley Railroad Company; TO re-
quire railroads to build twenty miles OF road
within three years from date OF charter; to
incorporate the Gulf and Ship Island Rail
road Company; to incorporate the Tennessee
and Mississippi River railroad; to incorpor-
ate the Tennessee and Mississippi Railroad
hea o,ho
and Northwestern Railroad Company; to ex-
empt the capital stock OF the Memphis,
Selma and Brunswick Railroad Company
from taxation for twenty years; TO repeal in
part the act amendatory to the act to incor-
porste the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus
Railroad Company; an act for the settlement
of the litigation between the State and the
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad Com
pany.
These are mostly Senate bills, and it will
be seen that the railroad legislation il on
quick time.
Bills referred: Act to authorizes suits
against receivers and lessees for railroad
companies in the courts OF the State; to pro-
vide artificial limbs for MANNED Conieder-
ate soldiers of the State; 10 authorize the
liquidating leyee company to make allow
ances in cases where State patents have been
issued for the same land; to afford additional
remedies fer the collection OF debts secured
by lien; TO prevent the sacrifice OF property
under deeds of trust; to ratify and confirm
the several acts OF consolidation Of mortgage
and sale of certain railroad companies; in
relation to printers fees; to prevent extor-
tiou and discrimination in rates charged for
the transportation OF passengers and freights
en- railroads in The State; 10 incorporate the
Mississippi and Arkansas Railroad Company;
to incorporate the Macon and Eutaw Rail
road Company.
Rscommitted: To authorize the Memphis
and Vicksburg Railroad Company and the
Mississippi Valley and Ship Island Railroad
Company to effect a consolidation.
The Jackson Miss Comet has been pur-
chased by Mr.. K. X. Jayne. who announces
that it will be thoroughly Democratic with
out being bitterly partisan.