Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
LegislatiYe Notes.

After some discussion the bill to |
give So to any officer arresting an un-
licensed drummer was amended and
its provisions were made to apply to
nOn-residents, and provides in addition
that any officer who accepts bribe
and allows his prisoner to escape shall
be guilty of a misdemeanOr. 1t then
passed without division. The bill
amending the hdbeds corpus act giving
the Judge in vocation the power to
punish for contempt was also passed.
The bill to increase the salary of the
Coroner of New Castle County to 81 900
and the Coroner's physician to $400
was passed, the act to apply to the
present incumbents. Mr. COoch intro
duced an act providing that the Levy
Courts of the three counties shall pub
lish in phamphlet form for distribution
an itemized account of it's expendi-
lures.
On Thursday in the House a long
discussion was had over Mr.. Messick's
appropriation bill to aid the schools.
Nothing definite was done, but bill
was agreed upon by committee to ap-
propriate $4,000 to be distributed
! between the counties on the basis of
the number of children attending
school in each as ascertained from the
enrolment of the preceding year, the
quota of each county to be divided pro
ratio in New Castle and according to
the existing system in Kent and Sus-
sex counties, and no school district is
to be entitled to a share in the appro-
priation until it has raised by taxation
| ON auonnnf aOual IN SIC cl, 40 Of ba m ~
preparation.
The Local Option bill passed the
Senate by the following vote: yeas,
Belts, Cavender, Mustard, Roe and
Speaker Cooper. Against Chandler
Cooper, Horsey and Houston.
The joint committee on site for the
new library building, and a possible
executive mansion, has reported in
favor of purchasing the Jump property
for $1,000.
Five or six members of the new Joint
committee of conference upon the re
sqscitated immigration bill have agreed
to report in favor of triple-headed
commission.
The House passed Monday afterneoE
bill designed to suppress, utterly anC
! absolutely, the peripatetic quacks who
infest the street corners of Wilmington
f almost continuously and the public
places of other towns in the State al
, long as the people have any money t.
! spare. If this bill passes 20 one but ;
graduate of some reputable medica
college will be allowed to open a tran
sient Office or conduct a transient busi
, ness as o physician in the State, and {
: nonresident without this qualification
will be required to pay d license o
: 5000 per year before entering upol
' such transient business. The idea i
r to exclude quacks entirely.
5 In the House yesterday petition
( was presented from colored men @
East Dover, Laurel, Bridgeville an
e Red Lion, asking that schools for col
0 ored people be left under the manage
ment of the Delaware Association 70
t the Education of the Colored People
B, and asking az appropriation of 5000
t in aid of the schools from members {
b the Sussex County bar asking the pas
# sage of the judiciary amendment {
the constitution for the repeal of tn
II tax on manufacturers.
& The bill to authorize the city of Wi
mington to borrow $3.50, 900, passed tn
Q Senate, and was amended by strikin
e out everything except the power