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NrspeciAl correspondence of The Gazette
DOVER, April 19.-At the morning session
Of the House to-day Mr.. Juetis introduced
an amendment to to the new Wilmington
| charter (hxipg the minimum salaries of the
Clerk OF Council at 81 500; City Solicitor.
81 200; Chief Engineer Surveying Depart
ment, $1,000; Executive Officers Board of
| Health, S5O0). The bill was afterwards
passed. Bills introduced: Senate bill for
the relief of Robert II. Jones; House bill in
relation to filing and arranging original acts
and resolutions. The act for publishing
the laws in newspapers was defeated Bills
were indefinitely postponed es follows: An
act in relation to the Clerk Of the Market in
Wilmington; to prevent railroads from
making special freight rates and increasing
| the freight rates for fruit over 1882; provid-
| ing that the excess of revenue in each county
| shall be divided between the State and
county.
A communication in favor of the educa-
tion of farmers SONS was presented by Mr..
Bates and read from DR.. Comegys of Gin
einnat, brother of Hon. j. p Comegys.
In the afternoon joint resolution appro-
priating $40 annually to the Dover Water
Department for water rent at the State
House was passed. The bill of Jacob G.
Lewis, S55, for ice, was referred to the Com
mittee on Claims. Senate amendment to
the House supplement to the charter of
Newport was concurred in. Toe Joint reso-
luton directing prothonotaries to sell the
remaining copies Revised Code at 81 apiece
was passed. Senate amendment striking
out the name of Thomas P. Hanson from
the Delaware immigration and Land I'm
provement Company's charter and substi-
tuting the name of Charles p. Houston was
concurred in. This was done in order to
render MIR. Hanson eligible for appointment
on the Board of Immigration Commission
ers.
Bills passed Senate bills extending Com
merce street, Smyrna, amending Chapter
391, Volume 16, Laws of Delaware.
Bills introduced Senate supplement to
the charter of the town of Lewes. Ad-
jOurned till p. m.
At the evening session of the House the
following bills were passed To incorporate
the Fair Branch Ditch Company; to increase
the salaries of the judges $500 each; to
amend the charter OF St. Georges; to amend
the charter of Lewes.
Senate joint resolutio in relation to ad-
journment was concurred in. The act ap-
propriating the oyster fund to the schools
was indefinitely postponed. The clerks
were directed to omit the reports of auditor,
etc, from the journals. The act amending
the charter of Smyrna was laid on the table.
In the Senate, bills passed: House bills to
vacate part of Sixteenth street in the city of
Wilmington, with an amendment requiring
the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad to
| erect their depot or buildings by May l,
| 1886; to amend chapter 1874, volume 16,
| Laws of Delaware, concerning the payment
of road taxes in Red Lion hundred.
| Mr. Belts offered a substitute to the bill
amending thc charter of the town OF New
port, which was read and passed. On
| motion of DR.. Chandler the House was re-
quested to return to the Senate the bill re-
lating to colored schools. Senate bill ex-
tending the jurisdiction of Justices of the
Peace in civil cases, relating to assault aud
battery, etc was laid on the table. House
bill extending their Jurisdiction in civil cases
to S20O was indefinitely postponed,
House bills, TO amend Chapter 800,
Volume Is, Laws of Delaware, relating to
oysters, and Il supplement tn Chapter ~,
Revised Code, entitled ''Of collectors, were
passed. On motion of Mr.. Cavender the
vote by which tue 'olored Scnool bill was
killed was reconsidered and the bill laid ON
the lablr.
This afternoon House bill regulating pri
mary elections in New Castle county and TO
punish fraudulent voting therein was indet-
nit,ly postponed.
House bill increasing the pay of members
of the & neral Assembly, and limiting
their pay to 60 days, was lost by vote OF
to 4.
House joint resolution in rela ion to taxes
was concurred in with trivial amendment,
also the Joint resolution appropriating $40
annually for the benefit of the Dover Water
Works and the joint resolution relating
to the sale of the Revised Code of 1874.
Bills passed: Extending the time of fish
ing in the Nanticoke river ten days, supple
ment to the charter of the town of Lewes;
House bills incorporating the Delaware I'm
migration and Land Co., to lay out new
public load in Mispillion hundred, an act
proposing amendments to Article VI, State
| Constitution (the Judiciary bilD, Messrs.
Horsey and Houston voting against it, con-
| cerning original resolutions, etc.
Introduced and read: By Mr.. Belts, re-
lating to printing the laws, House bills re-
districting the city of Wilmington, chang
| ing the salaries of certain officers in Will
mington, concerning original bills, resolu-
tions, ETC., concerning corporations. Under
| a suspension of the rules the above bills
were read a second time and referred. Ad-
| iourned to p. m.
In the Senate this evening Senate bill
relating to the publication of all laws
passed at this session of the Legislature in
| two newspapers of the State was reported
unfavorably and indefinitely postponed.
| Suudry claims against the State were pre-
selted and referred. Senate bill relating to
| the publication oil loJtefy advertisements IN
| newspapers was reported unfavorably and
lost by a vote of to 8, as follows: Yeas
Messrs. Belts, Chandler and Speaker Cooper.
Nays-Messrs. Cooper, Horsey and Mustard.
Not voting, Messrs. Cayander and Roe.
Absent Mr.. Houston.
The House amendment to the joint resolu-
Uion adjourning both Houses sine die to-
morrow was concurred in.
Bills passed House bills, redistricting
the city of Wilmington; relating to the sale
of the property located in Wilmington and
owned by the Trustees OF the Poor, and
changing the salaries of certain city officials
in Wilmington. The joint resolution in re-
lation to printing the journals was concurred
in. The House bill to increase the salaries
of the Judiciary was read twice and re-
ferred.
The Legislature will adjourn sine die, to-
morrow.
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He Fooled With a Strange Dog.