Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-06
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
Important Bills Introduced aud Ad-
vanced Ycsterday-The yicks-
burg PabIic schools.
An Agricultural Experimental station
The Sale of LiquOrs-New
Railroads.

Special to the Appeal
| JACKSON, Miss, February 5-Sendte.-
The Senate did a big days work in pass
ing bills, mostly of the House. One bill
was introduced, it being an act to estab-
lish an agricultural experimental station
in connection with the Agricultural and
| Mechanical College. 1t appropriates
| $4,000 per annum therefor. Referred to
| the Committee on Agriculture, Commerce
| and Manufactures.
BILLS PASSED:
Joint resolution, authorizing the em-
| ployment of experts to aid the committee
in investigating offices.
Three bills, incorporating respectively
the Macon and Tuscaloosa, the Mississippi
River and Deer Creek, and the Aberdeen
and Fulton Railroad Companies.
Also passed the following House bills:
To prohibit the sale of liqttor in Wayne
county; also in Buena Vista, and within
five miles of Fellowship church, in Web
ster county; to repeal the law PROHIBIT
ing the sale OF Intoxicating liquors in
JOnestowf, Crahoma county to authorize
the supervisors OF OktibbAha to pay for
the dockets of justices of the peace to
ment of the public schools in Vicksburg
for the relief of Robert c. Sharp, of
Lowndes; to make the office of cotton
weigher OF AlcOrn county elective; to in
corporate Muldoon, in Monroe county; to
change the boundary lines of Marion,
Pike and Lawrence counties; to amend
the charter OF Corrtland; to authorize
Clay county to purchase certain records;
to change the time of holding the Circuit
Of
were amended by the Senate.
HOUSE BILLS DEFEATED IN THE SENATE.
TO provide for a deputy clerk during
the terms of the Circuit Court in Mont
gomery to furnish the clerks of Quitman
county with George and Anderson's Di-
gest; for the relief of J. =. Hudson to de-
crease the bond of the constables OF Harri-
son county; to amend the law as TO bend
for rent in appeals in cases of unlawful
entry and detainer; to permit the sale of
wine from native grapes near Oxford; to
INCORPORATE the Oktibbeha Lumber and
Manufacturing Company.
HOUSE Bills INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
To provide for the taking and preserva-
zion OF testimony IN criminal cases; to
authorize the supervisors of Yazoo county
to dispose OF the old Jail; to secure the
faithful collection of delinquent personal
taxes; to create the Office OF county engin-
eer; to amend the law abolishing the
office of liquidating levee commissioners;
to abolish the office of tax-assessor and to
require justices of the peace to make the
assessment; to tax dogs, and for the relief
OF sheep and hog-raisers; for the protec-
ton of domestic fish ponds; to prohibit
the manufacture, sale and gift of liquors
in five miles of the town of Alcorn for
the relief and protection of druggists to
amend the law relative to the scholastic
year; to prohibit circuit and ehancery
courts from allowing accounts except
when itemized and verified by affidavit;
amending the law in regard to chancery
rules.
BILLS PASSED.
To authorize the supervisors of Yalo-
busha to- settle with NJ. III. Thorpe; to
prevent scaling of baled cotton; to author
ize the supervisors of Yalobusha to pay
J. II. Carr for enumerating educatable
children; to amend the charter of Louis
vile; to empower the Governor to fill
vacancies in county Offices in certain cases
to regulate the terms of and appointment
of professors in the University of Missis-
sippi.
SENATE BILLS.
To repeal SIN act to equaliZe assessment
of taxable property; for the relief of j. j.
Anderson, of Union; 10 amend the law
apportioning students of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College; for the relief of
Wait, of Tate, and Hawkins, of Desoto; to
prohibit the sale of liquor within two
miles of Lebanon or Pleasant Hill
churches.
Telephone connection between jackson
and Brandon was completed to-day. Citi-
zens OF both places have been conversing
with each other to-day