The daily gazette., 1883-03-03
M MAGISTRATES POWERS rNoKEAsED
The bill 10 Let Them Try $500 Gases
Passed at DOver--Iegislative DOings.

| Passed nj Dover--I.egislative D0ings.
lspecai correspondence OF the Gazette
DOVER, March Sat the greater part o.
yesterdays session Of the House a bar
quorum was present. Speaker Bates, VIII
was absent Thursday when the vote wa
taken on the bill to pay B. +. Townsend ant
others $4,000 for Third street bridge, re.
corded his vote in the negative.
A petition for Local Option law wa
read from citizens Of Kent county [80voter
and 80 non-voters.l
Bills were introduced as follows: By Mr.
Comegys TO incorporate the jackson q
Sharp Company Beneficial Association; b,
DR.. Watson to incorporate the United
Daughters of Solomon Of Milford; stock Law
/ for districts and 1888, Sussex county; stoci
| law for district 156. Sussex county. Senate
bill amending the charter of Lewes: BY Mr.
Comegys to amend the charter of Middle
| town. iI
Bills were passed as follows For the re-
lief Of Martin f. Walkers administrators
doing away with the advertising OF Regis
trar Frazers weekly reports; to divorce
Sadie Fowler from Percy Fowler; Senate
bin 30 incorporate New Castle Lodge Ne 8
L IAmerican Protestant Association; Senate
bill to incorporate the seidel 81 Hastings
Company; Senate bill toextend the time for
| recording the act incorporating the Della
ware Avenue Club Stables; stock law for
District 80, Sussex county; House bill to
prevent owners of hotel properties from
licensing more than one saloon; stock law
for District 4215, Sussex county.
Bills were read second time as follows :
10 change the course or a new public road
In Mispillion hundred; to encourage the de-
struction Of crows In Sussex county; to
change the course of a public road in
Milford hundred the act to raise revenue
for the State so as to require venders of live
stock to take out licenses.
Mr.. Cooch presented petition signed by
III. Dickson and so others for a constitu-
tiOnal convention and for law paying the
New Castle Levy Court salary, instead of
by the day
The Judiciary Committee favorably re-
ported the bill to increase the Jurisdiction
of justices Of the peace in civil actions from
cases involving 500 to cases involving $500.
1t was passed without dissenting vote.
Adjourned to Monday at 4.15 p. IN.
IN THE SENATE.
The bill authorizing Thomas W. Wilson
to straighten the public road leading from
Smyrna to Dover was made the special order
,iOr Tuesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Introduced and read By Mr.. Mustard
TO amend chapter 4lS, volume IA, Laws OF
Delaware (giving owners of hotels at water
ing places the privilege of procuring half
yearly license); by Mr.. Mustard, regulating
the practice of Pharmacy in the State OF
Delaware; by Mr.. Cavender, supplement
to the act incorporating the Delaware Rail
ware Company; by Mr.. Chandler, to incor-
porate the st. Johns school of Falkland;
to lay out new road in Mispillion hundred.
Bills passed House bill, to lay
out new public road in Mis-
pillion hundred, Kent county; Senate bills,
authorizing the town council of Dover to
borrow $4,000 for the benefit of the water
works; to incorporate the town OF Laurel;
to amend the charter of the town of Lewes;
to incorporate the Diamond State Joint
Stock Company of Wilmington.
Read second time and referred To
amend Chapter Is, Revised Code Militia
bilD; consolidating school districts Nos. 23
and 16l, Sussex county; to amend Chapter
6S, Revised Code, respecting usury; House
bills, to incorporate the Milton Library
Association; for the payment Of SIS, 900 to
B. 4. Townsend and others; for stock law
in school district 63, Sussex county.
The bill to lay out new public road In
South Murderkill hundred, Kent county,
was reported unfavorably, and ON motion
the further consideration of the bill was in
definitely postponed. -,
Adjourned to Monday at 4 o'clock, D. m.
The House Committee Municipal Cor
porations has decided to hold the Dover bill
until Wednesday next In order to get the
sense of the people. The bill will be acted
u pom according to Its merits.