Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-19
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Wednesdar Merning. April 19, 1882.
The General Assembly.

Closing Up the Business of the Session. Relief for Attorneys Assigned by Courts on Capital Cases Other Matters of General Interest.
 HARTFORD April IS, 1882. Special correspondence of JOURNAL AND COURIER. The Legislature assembled for the. last week of the session today the House con- vening at II a. m. and the Senate at 12:30 D. m. In the House MT. Robertson, of New Haven, presented bill for a public act which provides that the superior court may allow to the counsel appointed by the court to defend any person on trial before it for any offense, the punishment of which may be capital or imprisonment for life, reasonable compensation for his services, not exceeding ten dollars per day. This act shall take ef- feet from it's passage. He asked for sus- pension of the rules, which was adopted, and it was referred to the Judiciary committee and the rules suspended and the bill imme- diately forwarded to the Senate. Other business transacted in Senate and House to day was as follows. | Senate. The Senate convened at 12:30 o'clock, Lieutenant Governor Bulkeley in the chair. 1 Prayer was offered by Chaplain Sage. A bill relating to costs ln criminal actions, ! allowing the same to be taxed in favor of the l States attorney, came from the House re I ceived. The Senate concurred and the bill l was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. Business on the calendar was disposed oi l as follows:
 Resolution de repairing State prison and I bill de dogs, verbally amended by the Com mittee on Engrossed Bills, were passed. | Resolution authorizing the Governor te appoint commission of five persons, two O. whom may be women, whose duties it shal be to inquire into the condition and care O. children in almshouses passed.
 Bill providing that bodies of persons wht have died from cholera, diphtheria, scarle fever, smallpox or other pestilential diseas | shall not be buried in town further removes than the next town to the one in which tn death may have occurred, unless prope certificate of the cause of death IS furnished passed.
 The bill conferring upon women the righ l to vote in school district meetings whic came over from the last session, was report ed favorably by the Committee on Judiciary
 Senator Bradstreet as a member of tn committee opposed the bill as prejudiclal t the interests of education and it was rejecte in concurrence with the House.
 Resolution appropriating $2,5oO for tn purchase of books for the State library passed.
 The resolution appropriating $1, ,602.30 t the special commission on the revision of tn liquor laws was read the second time.
 The report of the chairman of the commii | sion on improvement at the State insane hos pital was accepted and ordered on file.
 Senator Seymour introduced a resolutio ordering the printing of 6,oOO copies of tn revised liquor law.
 The bill authorizing the organization C stock companies fof the propagation of oys ters, and empowering the same to receiv grants from the State, provided the stock holders be all residents of Connecticut, ws passed.
 . At 1:4O the Senate adjourned until Wednes day at 1O:30 &. m.