Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-18
MISSISSIPPI LEGIsLATURE.
Perkins addeis COnfest-BilIs Passed,
t Referred and Postponed.

Special ts the Appeal
JACKSON, February l7.-Bills passed: To
authorize the Greenville and Bowie railroad
to run. a ferry; to amend an act Incorporate
ing the Stonewall Manufacturing Company;
to authorize tax assessors to enumerate the
educational children in the State; providing
for an investigation of the papers, books and
vouchers of the secretary and treasurer OF
the levee commissions.
Bills referred: For the relief of J. w.
Hannah; to secure to each county in the
State an equal proportion of the students in
the Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Bills indefinitely postponed: To amend the
Code in relation TO the time Of paying county
superintendents of education; to authorize
the boards of supervisors to exchange school
lands Tor other lands; to authorize the State
superintendent OF education to employ
clerk; to fix the time free public schools shall
be maintained, and to repeal section 713 of
the Code.
Bills tabled: To incorporate the Missis-
sippi Mutual Aid Association; to amend and
extend the provisions OF an act to encourage
the Introduction OF machinery and the estab-
lishment of factories in the State; to CONSOLE
date the public schools of jackson; for
the relief of III. NJ. Taylor; supplemental to
an act ratifying the organization of the Mis-
sissippi Central railroad and consolidation
with the New Orleans, Jackson and North
ern railroad into the Chicago, St. Louis and
New Orleans railroad; to incorporate the
Helena, Pontotoc and birmingham railroad;
to establish State female normal school; to
amend the statute of limitations.
Approved by the governor: To provide
for the registration of Union county war
rants; to incorporate the town of Hickory;
for the relief of w. p. Smith; for the relief
OF the Coff'eeville Guards; for the relief of
teachers of the public schools of Tate coun-
ty; % amend section 100 of the Code; to in
corporate the Gordon Cotton Mills Company;
TO incorporate the Canton, Aberdeen, Fulton
and Nashville Railroad Company; TO incor-
Porate the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad Company.
The committee on the Perkins w addell |
contest recommended that the contestants be |
heard Tor themselves, in person or by |
counsel.
The act in relation to the apportionment |
OF senators and representatives was made the |
special order for Monday next.
The act to regulate the sale of spiritusus,
vinous and malt liquors was considered in |
Committee of the Whole and indefinitely |
House.-Indefnitel postponed: Memorial |
TO Congress in relation to Federal court dis |
ricts; in relation to the erection of a United |
States building in Jackson.
Passed To amend the Code relative to
the public printing; to prohibit the purchase |
and sale of futures; to incorporate the |
Lefiore Lumber Company and Oil and
Mill Company; to incorporate the Union Aid
Association; Senate joint resolution instruct
ing congressional representatives to use their
efforts to restore the Vicksburg harbor.
Referred: An act for the payment of
Circuit Court judges, chancellors, ETC., in the
Eleventh and Twelfth districts; fixing the
lime to hold Chancery Court in the Third
district; to change section 8 OF article l OF
The constitution; to incorporate Shadesboro.