Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-25


ments to House bills, and passed the fol-
lowing Senate bills
Providing an additional method for clos
ing mortgages on personal property be-
fore the debt is due.
Regulating the rate Of legal advertising.
Making it lawful for a married woman
to act as prOsecutriX.
Preventing the Railroad Commissioners
or their Secretary to represent any rail-
road in the courts.
Furnishing the sale Of adulterated arti
cles of food.
Prescribing the oath for jury commits
siOners.
Amending the act regulating the pub
licatiOn of the Supreme Court reports
Amending section 4157 of the Code as
drawing jurors in Justices Courts.
Making the second term of Justices
Courts the trial term in certain cases.
Giving disabled soldiers limbs every
three years.
Prescribing when the statute of limita-
tlon shall run against an unrepresented
estate.
Incorporating the Vigilant Live Stock
Mutual Insurance Company.
The bill requiring the Commissioner of
Agriculture to have the soils of the State
analyzed was advocated by Mr.. HOge and
Mr.. Humber, but being in the nature
OF an appropriation, and coming from the
Senate, was tabled.
The bill amending section 529 of the
Code was lost, as was also the following:
Allowing creditors TO redeem property
at tax sales.
Establishing a branch college at
WalthOurville.
The Governor has signed the following
bills:
Incorporating the Merchants and Plant
er's Bank of Forsyth.
Amending the street tax law of Darien.
Requiring railroad property not used in
operating the road to be taxed where
located.
Authorizing Americus to control small
pOX cases.
Prohibiting liquor selling IN Franklin
county and also in Miller county.
Incorporating BrOwnwood
Amending section 400 and 1917 of the
Code.
Repeating the act amending section
4l94 of the Code.
Paying the Eariy Comfy Ne,cS for ad-
vertisIn@.
supplying Notaries Public with Codes.
Paying the expenses of bringing the
records of the old Medical Board to At
lanta.
At the afternoon session the Senate bill
prohibiting the driving of any kind of
live stock into Georgia from other States
for grazing, passed; as did also the fol-
lowing:
To amend section 49S of the Code so as
to prevent the enticing of servants or
farm laborers from employers.
The resolution to give the North Geor-
gia and Marietta Railroad 80 able-bodied
cOnvicts to complete that road came up,
and Mr.. Beauchamp, of Pike moved to
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pay for these cOnvicts at the same rate as
the convict lessee companies pay.
Mr.. klmsey, OF White, opposed and
read from previous acts to show that the
Governor was authorized to make this
division of the cOnVicts, without impair
ing in any way the rights of the lessee
companies, for the purpose of completing
this railroad enterprise.
Mr.. Middlebrooks. of Newton. also adyo-
Gated the resolution, and was followed by
Mr.. Jordan, of Hancock, and Mr.. Watts,
of Stewart, and Mr.. Bartlett, of Bibb, on
the same line.
Mr.. Beauchamp advocated his amend
ment, but it was voted down Oyerwhelm-
ingly, and the resolution was adopted by
lO2 yeas to nays, amid prolonged aP-
plause.
The bill introduced by Senator McDOn-
aid, creating a branch college at Way
cross, was lost by u yeas to Ga nays.
The bill regulating the manner of dis
posing of cases on the Supreme Court
docket was tabled.
The bill changing the time Of holding
Laurens Superior Court, passed.
The bill fixing the time and manner of
the trial of mandamus cases, passed.
The bill regulating publishing and post
ing of notices under section 145J of the
Code as to no fence elections, passed.
The bill amending section 1885, letter ID
of the Code, as to pupils in the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, passed.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate, after little Skirmish on
the disagreement over the amendments TO
the Berrien county liquor bill, commit
tee of conference was created.
The Senate passed the following bills:
Prohibiting fishing and hunting on GER
tain lots in Dodge county.
Giving a liquor law to CatOosa county.
Amending the act creating the Orphans
Home of the North Georgia Conference.
Requiring the butchers of Macon to
keep record of the cattle killed for the
inspection of grand juries.
Requiring trains to stop before crossing
other railroads.
Incorporating the Mechanics Mutual
Insurance Company of Atlanta.
Providing only one grand jury for DoOly
county.
Authorizing WaycrOss 10 levy a tax for
an arteSian well.
Incorporating the Planters Loan aud
Trust Company.
Charterng the Manufacturers In
surance Company.
Amending section 1908 of the Code in
regard to Ordinaries' clerks.
Prescribing the costs Of dismissed or
withdrawn cases in the Supreme Court.
Amending section 460S of the Code.
Making penal Otfense of the selling or
encumbering of personal property held
under conditional sale.
Amending section 4441 of the Code.
Regulating illegal hunting.
Incorporating the Turtle and Altamaha
Canal Company.
Amending section 42l4 of the Code in
regard to decisions i'm chambers.
Relieving the securities of the Bibb Tax
Collector.
Making Flint river lawful fence in
Macon county.
Giving EchOls county a liquor law.
Amending the act Incorporating the
Rome and Chattanooga Railroad.
Giving Greene county a liquor law.
Repeating the act creating Road Com
missiOners for Worth county.
ApprOpriating $4,000 for the Railroad
Commission for printing.
Paying the Penitentiary Committees
stenOgrapher.
Paying the contingent expenses of the
General Assembly.
Giving extra pay TO pages and the jour
naliZlng clerk.
Increasing the pay of the guards of the
capitol building.
Paying for repairing the capitol and
Executive Mansion.
Paying for repairing the University
building of Athens in the sum of 100000.
This bill passed amidst applause on ac-
count of the appropriation.
Amending the act authorizing the Au-
gusta and Atlanta Boards of Trade to
have arbitratOrs.
Repeating the act as to insolvent costs
so far as Burke county is concerned.
Amending section 2464 of the Code as
to widows estates.
Changing the time of holding Douglass
Superior Court.
The resolution passed asking GeOrgia's
Congressman to secure liberal apprOpria-
tiOns for the Savannah river below Au-
gusta.
Senator Lamar announced that the COM
mittee had selected Mrs. Gregory as the
artist to paint Governor Stephens por-
trait.
At the afternoon session the Senate read
House bills the first and second time.
THE HILL MEMORIAL SERVICES.
At the night joint session, n resolution
offered by Mr.. Humber, to appoint COM
mittee to wait on Governor Mcdaniel and
the Capitol Commission and escort them
to the hall. was carried. Messrs. Hum
ber, Hoge and Geer were appointed.