The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1882-02-25
mississippi Legislature.
Special to the Appeal |


have passed the House, were pass
ed: To authorize the Birmingham
and Northwestern railroad to ex.
tend their road in Mississippi; to
incorporate the Vicksburg and Mis-
sissippl railroad; to amend the act
Incorporating the city Of Holly
Springs; to protect growing crops
in Claiborne county; to amend Sec
ton 223O Of the Code; to incorpor.
ate the Greeneyille GAsIight Com
pany; to amend the act incorpora.
ting the town Of Bogue Chitto; to
authorize the clerks of Hancock
and Ierrv counties to employ stem
ograpPe rs, to incorporate the town
ocooha; to authorize Boards of Su-
Per 0isors to insure public buildings;
60 aid in the suppression of the traf.
fic OF stolen seed cotton; TO amend
the act to incorporate the town Of
O8yka; to incorporate the towns Of
Cletonia, Tupeio, Shannon and Sal
tiilO; to incorporate the GreenYille
Times Company and Natchez Ice
Company; for the protection Of
sheep in Adams county.
The governor has approved the
act to ratify the incorporation ofthe
Memphis, Selma d Brunswick rail.
road. Also the act to aid in the
construction Of the Memphis, Sell
ma and Brunswick railroad.
General Hancock has telegraph
ed his inability to comply with the
kind invitation of the Legislature to
visit the capital, on account Of
pressing business.
The overflow in the upper dis.
trlcts creates alarm among mem.
beers from that section, and a speedy
adjournmentlS looked for.
llouse,--Senate bills passed: An
act permitting parties to testify in
their own behalf in all criminal
cases; to require judges to specially
instruct grand jurors to inquire in
to the treatment OF prisoners in
county jaiIs; to authorize taxpayers
to sue On certain official bonds; to
empower Marshall county to Dor
row money to build a Jail; to incor-
porate the Pioneer Compress and
Manufacturing Company: liquor
bill repeating the one pint clause;
to incorporate tho G~reenevi'le
Land Improvement Company.
House bill to encourage the in
vesluent o! capital in the State
was Indefinitely postponed.
JACKSON, Feb. 22.--Senate.--Bills
passed: To prevent the sale Of liq-
uors in the first supervisors district
of Prentiss county; to incorporate
the WalthalI Bar Law Library As
ISOLATION; for Tue relief Of sufferers
from floods in the Yazoo delta; that
no more bills be introduced in Ell
Their house after the 25th instant;
to prohibit the sale Of liquors in the
town Of Fulton.
Bill tabled: TO repeal section 81
of the Code.
Bills referred: 70 amend the rev.
enue laws; to amend the law in re.
IatioA to the State revenue agent,
amendatory to the act incorpora.
ting the Port Gibson, Utica and
Crystal Springs Railroad Company;
to amend the section of the Code
regarding the violation of the Sab.
bath.
indefinitely postponed: To define
the rights Of the State revenue
agent; TO encourage4he intruduc.
tion of machinery and the estsb-
liShment Of factories in The State.
Iouse.--Blls passed; Supplement
tai act to incorporate the UnianAid
Association; 10 amend sections 1913
and 81 Of the Revised Code; to.
make the Office of superintendent
of public education elective; to in
corporate the Howard ASSOCIATION
OF Claiborne county. 1cE la
indefinitely most To encuur-