The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-02-01
What Our Legislators are Doing.


Last Thursday II petition was presented
in the House from citizens of Hartford county
Tor the passage of an act granting the owners
or possessors ofSpesuiia Island the privileges
of fishing with shore or pound nets from the
shores of that island, beginning March of
each year and ending June 1 , the nets not to
extend more than 800 yards from the shore
Mt high water mark The petition further
states that fish have become so scarce that
fishing with hauling seines cannot be afford
ed.
Leaves to introduce bills have boen OBJ.
tanned as follows: By Mr.. McNabb, of Har-
ford, to do away with book fees in the public
schools; referred to committee on education.
BY Mr.. Silver, ofHarford, to repeal sections
of the law with regard to the tax on collater-
al inheritance, distributive shares and lega.
cies judiciary.
BY Mr.. McNabb, to regulate the hours
of sitting of registers of voters in Hartford
county, and to dispense with the presence of
the sheriff at the sittings. Referred to the
Hartford Delegation.
The Senate met again on Monday. Mr..
Allen presented petition from Hartford
county for change in the bastardy law, so
that colorcd women may be put on an equal
ity with white women Mr.. Allen said that
at the last session of the Legislature the de.
sired amendment was attempted, but there
was no certainty as to what became of the
bill. In the journal of the House of Delega-
ties, he said, the bill was recorded as having
had its enacting clause stricken out, but the
bill itself had been marked by the chief clerk
of the House as having been passed 1t had
been engrossed, signed by the speaker ofthe
House and by the President ofthe Senate, and
alterward approved by Governor Hamilton
1t was then printed with The laws, and in
some counties had been put in force. Az
there was doubt, however, as TO whether OF
not the bill really was passed, the object OF
the petition which he had presented was for
the enactment of a law that would settle the
question. Mr.. Allen took advantage of the
illustration afforded by the subjcctmatter to
say that all the books he ever saw the most
inaccurate and useless are the journals of the
Legislature and the indexing. He thought
special effort should be made at this session
TO get men to do this work wlo are Mt least
capable of reading and writing.
The House was not in session on Mon
day.
On Tuesday, on motion of Mr. Plowman,
of Han ford, il was ordered that the chief
clerk shall examine into the capacity and
ability of the committee and bill clerks in
competent ones To be discharged, and their
places supplied by others who ar, competent.
No employe is allowed to draw his pay with.
out he is actually performing his duties, and
he shall not absent himself without leave
from the chief clerk.
"A petition was received from Hartford
county, for an amendment to the game law of
that county, making it unlawful to kill pleas
ants, partridges and rabbits from Christmas
day until November Is of each year.
Mr.. II. Harris Archer has introduced Il
bill to authorize the Susquehanna Water
Power and Paper Company, of this county,
to acquire property by condemnation.
Apetition has been received by the Leg
islature from the Mayor and Council of Havre
de Glace against the passage of the bill to
limit the number of trains stopping at the
Susquehanna bridge, before crossing.