The daily gazette., 1883-02-22
YESTERDAY AT DOVER.
WHAT WAS DONE IN BOTH
HOUSES.
TWO RAILROAD BILLS PASSED.
State Library and the Ersation Of a
Governors Residence.
Especial Correspondence Of the C9a,ette.

peeted adjournment from this evening 4
Monday afternoon next. At the Afternoon
, session only Is members answered at rol
call, but this number was sufficient to pa,
incorporation acts to which there was n,
opposition, and all were accommodated b,
} an adjournment that permitted them to ak
the desired trains out 0f town. s
The proceedings, although they coveref
some important items, were monotonous
relieved only by clever little bon not O
Mr.. Cooch's during the m0rning session
The Committee on Private Corporations re-
ported, among other bills, the one relating
to despoiling graves, and when the Speaker
expressed surprise ut the reference Of such
bill to this committee, as he could see nc
connection between corpses and corpora
tioDs, Mr.. Cooch suggested that the simil-
artty lay in the fact that neither had any
souls.
The House passed Speaker Bates general
Incorporation bill and also the r., w. & b.
Railroad bills, authorizing the extension of
1 a through freight line from State Road
Station, on the Delaware Railroad, to a
| point near Edgemoor, on the main line and
to widen aud improve the tracks of the main
line. The bills were amended as mentioned.
In the proceedings below, and passed with
out dissenting vote.
Among the bills that were reported to the
| the bill to refund the money paid by private
parties for the construction of Third street
| bridge over the Christiana. 1t received the
| unanimous recommendation of the Commit.
tee on Municipal Corporations and will
doubtless readily pass the House as there
| appears to be no particular opposition to II.
The appointment of joint committee To
consider the advisability of improving the
State Library and erecting Governors resi-
a Lit Il 7
garded as a wise move.
Below are the proceedings of the day in
both Houses
IN THE HOUSE.
The House yesterday passed the General
Incorporation act and other bills as follows !:
Senate bill supplementary TO the charter of
FELTON,; House bill authorizing the p, w. g.
B. Railroad Company to construct branch
railroad from State Road Station to above
Wilmington and grain elevator at New
Castle, with an amendment requiring the
bridge over the Christiana, to be at least SEQ
yards above It's mOuth); House bill author
izing the p, w. & B, Railroad Company to
widen and improve its tracks (the word
"straighten" having been erased from the
title) with amendments; House bill for the
relief Of John d. Marshall and others; House
bills amending Section Z, Chapter 10, Revised
Code; amend Section 81, Chapter Q, Revised
Code; (these two bills req uire the Clerks OF
Peace and Assessors to arrange llsts of tax
ables alphabetically, according to the first
three letters of each Dame,)
Mr.. Watson gave notice of bill to amend
the charter of Milford and bill to amend
supplement to the charter Of Milford
The order of the day, DR.. Crawford's Anti
Bribery bill, was laid over until Tuesday
afternoon next.
Bills were introduced as follows: By Mr..
Comegys, to incorpoi ate the Delaware Loan
Association; by Mr.. Cooch, to amend sec
tion 2, chapter 127, Revised Code (abolish-
ing whipping and pillory in punishment for
murder in second degree); by Mr.. JustIs,
making 1t misdemeanor to abandon a team
ou the highway; by Mr. Barlow, taxing tel
egraph poles; by Mr.. Sutton, an amendment
TO the act for the suppression Of intemper-
ance, (prohibiting any Wilmington land
lord from obtaining liquor license for more
than one house,; by Mr.. Justis, an act for
the relief of incorporated towns, (prohibit-
ing the collection or dsbursing Of road tax
therein, by the county,; Senate bills incor-
porating the Seidell u Hastings Company;
consolidating school districts Nos. 62, So,
"a and IS, Georgetown; Incorporating the
town of Frankford; reincorporating the Del
aware Avenue Club Stables; incorporating
the Delaware Lodge, No. $40, of Harugari;
amending the charter of the Black Swamp
Ditch Company; incorporating New Castle |
Lodge, American Protestant Association;
requiring the issuing of scire .fdcids on mort
gage to be recorded; giving Trustees of the
Poor power to swear in new members.
Petitions were granted as follows By Mr..
Williams for new road in South Murder
kill hundred; by Mr.. Perry for a stock law
for districts s and 153, Sussex county by
Mr. Bates asking that the Ninth Ward be
divided into two election districts. The fol-
lowing joint resolutions were read and
adopted authorizing Jon Il. McFee, Insur-
aDce Commissioner, to have 800 copies of
his report printed appointing joint COM
mittee to take into consideration the pro-
priety of purchasing the property adjoining
the State House for the erection thereon OF
State Library building and an executive
mansion and to to report by bill or other
wise; appointing the following State Direc-
tors Of the Farmers Bank For the Principal |
Bank at Dover, Robert Clifton,
Samuel W. Hall and Edward Lord
for the Wilmington Branch, John
Joseph L. Carpenter, Jr.; for New Castle
Branch. T. Eliason, David Boulden and
Albert Silver; for the Georgetown Branch
Hugh Martin, Ebe W. Tunnel and Charles
b. Houston. Can of these are reappoint-
ments except that of Joseph l.. Carpenter,
Jr., who succeeds John P. Allmond as a
director of the Wilmington Bank, the latter
having become a stockholders' director;
authorizing the Committees on Private and
Municipal Corporations, Revised Statutes
and Claims and Accounts to employ Jointly
clerk.
The claim of the Every Evening Publish
ing Company for $2l0.09 was referred to
the Committee on Claims and Accounts.
The bill to pay B. Frank Townsend
$1S, 900 for Third street bridge was reported
iavorably, and will come up on Wednesday.
Mr.. Williams gave notice of a bill TO
sfraighten the public road between Camden
and Dover. The general Incorporation bill
was taken up for final reading and passed.
The House amendments 10 the Immigra-
ton bill were insisted on and committee |
OF conference asked.
Notice was given by Mr. Lowe of a bill |
to lay out a new road near Brenford, Kent |
county. and by Mr.. Sutton of supplement |
to the bill exemptiDg wages from attachment. |
The Speaker named Messrs. Lowe, Comegys. |
Watson, Perry aud Jnstis MS members Of !
the joint committee on purchasee of the |
Jump property, and Mossrs. Crawford. |
Watson and Cooch as members of the con. |
ference committee on Immigration bill
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate joint resolution authnriZ- t
ing the State Treasurer TO pay 70 Janes |,
Kirk y Sou the sum of S44S.pO, for sta
tionery, was adopted. The House Joint res |
olutions appointing directors ofthe Farmers, |
Bank OF Delaware aud 70 the printing and !