The daily gazette., 1883-04-18

hands of the trustees appointed for the sale
of the property in Wilmington. To amend
Chapter XVIII, Revised Code, Section 10,
relating to elections so as to do away with
voters having to swear to their age and re-
quiring them to offer actual proof of the
fact. Concerning the propagation of fish
in Spring Mill Pond by T. B. Coursey, after
having been amended so as to allow people
TO fish in the pond with hook and line.
House bills to vacate part of Sixteenth
street, " ilmington (for the Baltimore and
Philadelphia railroad depot); for the regu-
lation OF primary elections; Immigration
and Land Improvement Company; Senate
bill for the arrest Of professional thieves.
The Senate bill for the protection of
shippers of frUit, eggs, vegetables, etc., was
indefinitely postponed.
On motion OF Mr.. Frasher the vote by
which the report of the Committee on In
creased Pay for the Judiciary was rejected
on Friday last was reeonsidered and the bill
recommitted. The possibility of its passage
is very remote.
WHAT THE SENATE DID.
In the Senate the following, signed by
Messrs. Belts, Chandler and Hous-
ton, was adopted The Committee on
Finance, to whom was referred that part of
the Governors message, relating to the
statements of the financial condition of the
Farmers Bank, beg leave to report that
they have been unable to obtain the whole
of said statements for the two years past
and hence cannot make an intelligent re-
port upon the subject. They have such rea-
sonable assurance, however, of an unofficial
character as to make them think the hank
and its branches are in satisfactory condf-
tion.
Introduced and read: By Mr.. Roe, an
act to encourage education (being bill to
amend the charter of the Fair Branch Ditch
Company; House bills: to lay out new
public road in Mispillion Hundred; author
izing the Mayor and Council of Wilmington
to sell the city sand lot By Mr.. Cooper,
ar act in relation to practice and pleading
in civil cases (being substitute for the act
recently passed in relation to insane per
sons). House bills, to enable Thomas b.
Conway to stock his mill-pond with fish !;
substitute for the bill giving Trustees of the
Poor extra compensation an act to estab-
lish a Board of Water Commissioners for
the city Of Wilmington; to amend chapter
IS, Revised Code, entitled "of general cleo
tions." By Mr. Mustard, an act to amend
chapter IS, vol. 16, laws of Delaware Ire
lating to the salary Of county treasurer of
Sussex).
Bills were passed as follows: Port
Wardens bill with amendments ac-
knowledged to be satisfactory to all con-
cerned; to amend the act in relation to insane
prisoners (being substitute for a similar
bill passed few days ago); Senate bill re-
lating to the recording of deeds and other
conveyances; to amend Section 21, Chapter
IS, Revised Code, Changing the time of
closing the polls from to o'clock;
House bills, changing the time of holding
the Courts Of Chancery; relating to the
Courts of Chancery.
House bill to amend chapter 1873, Revised
Code (applying to statue limitations under
seal of ten years. was reported unfavorably
and indefinitely postponed. Senate bill re.
lating to Life Insurance Companies Eek
empting companies doing business on the
assessment plan from paying the 2l5 per
cent tax on their receipts) was indefinitely
POSTPONED. The House amendments to
Senate bill regulating the practice of phar-
macy were concurred in. The House
Joint resolution in relation to the
Jump property (making 1t discretion
ary with the Governor in regard to
removing the stables in the rear of the
property was non concurred in by the fol-
lowing vote: Yeas-Chandler, Horsey,
Speaker Cooper-3. Nays-BetIs, Caven-
der, Cooper, Mustard, Roe-5.
In both Houses all bills introduced were
read a second time under suspension of the
rules.
Somehow an error got into the dispatch in
the GAZETTE yesterday about the passage
of the Water Commission bill. 1t stated
the salary to be $500 when it should have
been $500.
THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.
The a; pointment OF Insurance Commits
sioner will be made on Saturday. The
chances of Mr.. Cooper are very bright and
the indications are that he will be appointed.
He is most extensively recommended; in
deed It's not often that man has such
backing for position, and leading Demo-
Gratis all over the State have freely mixed in
urging his appointment. Mr.. Cooper's
| youth is the only argument against him,
| but he is capable in every way, and he is the
choice of the young Democracy (Which if
certainly entitled to some consideration and