The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-03-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DAY.
FRIDAY, March IA, 1884

| House met pursuant u Appointment
Mr.. Cameron introduced an act to re-
quire the Auditor of Public Accounts to
place certain lands on the assessment
rolls of the State Passed.
| The special committee appointed to
investigate the case of the State Super
intendent of Education, that they ogan.
lied on the day of their appointment
and promptly proceeded to the taking
of testimony and had made some pro-
gress in their work, when they were
waited upon by quite number of the
members of this House and assured by
them that the session of the Legislature
was so near its close that it would be
| impossible for the case to receive that
consideration to which its Importance
entitled it and they therefore deemed it
| best that the committee be at once dis
charged, concurring as the committee
did in this view of the subject, they con-
| sumated with General Smith and several
of his friends, gentlemen of the highest
character, an arrangement that will in
| their Judgment lead to the removal of all
causes of complaint in the premises or
to the prompt vacation of the office by
General Smith.
March 7, SS4.
JNo. w c. WATSON, Chr'm,
f. A. Rowan,
J. X. MCNEELY,
A. w. BRIEN,
l.. r. DALE
Report received and Committee dis
charged.
To require the superintendent of edu-
cation So Of 10 RI via tho
public common schools. tenate amend
ments cOncurred in.
To empower the Governor to appoint
commissioners to confer with Mississippi
River Commissioners, and for other pur-
poses Passed.
For relief of A. II. Arthur, ID. j.
Foreman, J. lancet, Geo. w. Hawkins,
s. H. Kemper, H. NJ. Quackenboss and
w. G. Raum, of Warren county. Pass
ed.
Mr.. Murray of Tippah, on behalf of
the House presented Hon. HI. G. Will
hanson with magnificent cane. The
recipient accepted the gift in an eloquent
speech which was received with much
applause.
Act authorizing the survey and sale
of certain marsh lands belonging to the
State of Mississippi, lying on the banks
of the east and west Pascagoula and
Pearl rivers and other streams. Passed.
For the relief of w. ID. Waugh and
j. ID. Burke: Senate amendments con-
Cured in.
REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE.
The Joint Special Committee of the
II oa,x.s1au nd
report on what change if any were re-
quired in the printing law, of the State
and to report as to the manner in which
the public printing has been done since
1876, and as to whether or not the law
in relation thereto has been complied
with, respectfully report that after a
careful and thorough investigation, that
through there has been a discrepancy in
the printing of the acts of 1882, it was
the result of an inadvertanee, a desire
on the part of the printer to conform to
the uniform style of printing the laws
and as full equivalent for any damage
the State may have sustained by said
inadVertance, it has been agreed between
your Committee and the State Printer
that the latter shall pay the State the
sum of $500 out of the first money due
him for public printing, and it is further
agreed that the acts of 1884 may be
printed in the style of the acts of 1882,
and that the State Printer voluntarily
agrees to reduction of 20 per cent. on
All works done by him for the State
since the LIST day of january, 1884, in
accordance with the bill DOW pending in
both houses making reduction of 20
per cent. for work hereafter to be done.
Respectfully submitted,
J. w. G. WATSON,
f. A. ROWaG,
G. r. DALE.
T. 81. STEVENS,
Committee on part Of House.
E. T. SYKES,
GEORGE HARVEY,
III. r. JEFPoRDS.
Committee on part Of Senate.
By general consent the report was
withdrawn for amendment, and no fur
Their action taken--a Joint Resolution
having been adopted providing for q
speciaI commission to determine and GET
tie the whole matter
Tee amendment made by the Com
mittee set forth the fact that in the Acts
of 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1880, the Public
Printer Inserted more matter than the
law required.
To amend section $50. Code, relating
10 escheated property. Passed.
House adopted report OF the Confer
ence Committee on the appropriation
bill. and concurred in the amendments
therein recommended.
To authorize the board Of supervisors