The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-09
SENATE FIFTY FIRST DAY.
SATURDAY, March s, 1884.

MuTCll lOofs
Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Lit. Governor Stands in the Chair.
All the members present except Messrs
Hyer, Liddell. Mitchell, Roane, of Calhoun
Roane of Webster, and Terry.
Leave of absence was granted to Messrs.
Terry, Hyer, Simonton and Keith.
Senate bill 136-To increase the pay of
the county superintendents of education OF
jefferson and Franklin counties. Passed
House bill 906-To repeal chapter I,
acts 1882, so far as the same relates to
Franklin county. Passed.
ClHouse bill 7i4-To prohibit the sale or
giving away of intoxicating liquors in the
LIST judicial district of Pamela county.
Mr. Kyle offered an amendment, viii oh
was adopted, striking out sections and 6.
The bill then passed.
House bill 976-For relief of j. j. An
derson. tax collector of Union county.
Referred to the committee on Claims.
On motion of Mr.. Smith, the Senate
took up House message asking for COM
mittee of conference on
House bill 510-To facilitate the con-
struction of the Gulf and Ship Island rail-
road and for other purposes; and appoint
ed on said committee on the part of the
Senate, Messrs. Smith, billiard and Powell.
House bill ALTO amend an act to in-
corporate the Board of Levee Commission
ers for Bolivar, Washington and Issaquena
counties, and for other purposes, approved
March q, 1865, and the several acts
amendatory thereto.
Mr. Gayles offered the following amend
ment which was adopted; Add
SEC. -. Be it further enacted, That the
Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners
shall have authority, and the same is here
by given to them, to issue certificates of in
debtedness to be paid out of the tax col
lected in and for the year 1884, payable in
not more than twelve months after the pas
sage of this act and to an amount not TO
exceed fifty thousand dollars to enable them
to make necessary repairs on the levee dur
ing and after the present high water and to
guard more efficiently against breaks in
the same. Bill passed.
Mr.. billiard offered the following reso-
luticn which was adopted:
Whereas, In the opinion of the Ways
and Means Committee of the House, there
will be deficit in the State Treasury, il
the appror riations equal the amount of
the House bill and that the available sources
of revenue will fall short by 100000 or
more:
Therefore. Resolved. 1.-THE House concur
ring), That a committee of five on the part
of the Senate be appointed to confer with
the Wsys and Means Committee of the
House Tor such other committee as the
House may appoint which as Joint Com
mittee shall report to the two Houses such
measures as may be found necessary TO
meet the contingency of such deficit.
The following were appointed as the
on the part of the Senate:
Messrs. billiard, Noland, Walker, Boyd
and Reynolds.
The special order was taken up.
Senate bill No. 362-To abolish the 18th
and 18th circuit and chancery court dis
tricts and to reorganize the judicial dis
tricls of the State and for other purposes
Mr.. Harvey offered the following amend
nent, which was adopted:
Strike out all of the 18th line in section
and insert the following: In the county
Of Holmes on the 4th Monday of April and
he first Monday of November and continue
Is days; in Carroll, LIST district, on third
of May and fourth Monday in No
gember and continue IL days, and in ID |
district ON first Monday in December and
continue ~ days; in Madison on fourth |
Monday of March and September and con-
.inue "a days; in Lefiore on first Monday |
IF January and July and continue IL days. |
Mr.. Marshall offered the following sub
stitute for the bill and amendments, which |
vas, on motion of Mr.. Reynolds, laid on |
he table:
An ACT to abolish the 11th and 18th Ju-
dicial Districts Of the State Of Mississip- |
pi, TO create e new Judicial District and |
fl the terms of court therein, and for
other purposes.
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
lure of the State of Mississippi, That the
llth and 18th Judicial Districts of this State
be and the same are hereby abolished, and a
new Judicial district 10 be known az the
18th, is hereby created TO be composed of
he counties Of Adams, Warren and Shar-
Iey, the last named being hereby detached
rom the 4th Judicial District for that pur-
,ose.
SIC. 2. Be IL further enacted, That imme-
lately after the passage Of this act the
Governor shall appoint a circuit judge and
IlsO a chancellor for the district hereby
;reafed, who shall hold their respective