The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-03-22
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY,

MONDAY.
The House of Delegates of Maryland
was in session on Monday night, and
passed number of Senate bills, incIud-
ing one to regulate traction engines on
county and other roads, and another in
creasing the salary of the clerk of the
police commissioners from 81, 800 to
$1,000, and changing the title of the
office from clerk to secretary.
TUESDAY,
The Senate on Tuesday passed Senate
bill to punish bribery ut election pr;-
maries and nominating conventions; also
House bill to enable the Western Mary
land Railroad to lease other lines, and
Senate bill prohibiting the marriage of
white persons and persons of African
descent to the third generation. The
bill was defeated to elect county school
commissioners by the people. The bill
Furnishing fraudulent refusals to pay for
barreled corn at the stanpard weight of
335 pounds was amended SO as not to i'm
prison for debt and then passed. In the
House Of Delegates the bill was amended
for an asylum for incurables to be located
at Spring Grove instead of at Pikesville
arsenal and ordered to third reading.
The bill prohibiting ground rents for
longer than fifteen years was ordered en-
crossed.
The Legislature is rafting off its work
at rapid rate. The Senate on Wednes-
day night passed the bill for settlement
with the Reading Railroad. The Joint
resolution was passed looking to an
amendment of the constitution of the
| nlted states to annual railroad tax ex-
emptlons in the States Two ciyil-ser-
vice reform bills were introduced. The
House OF Delegates passed the bill to re
duee marriage licenses to 60 cents, and
1t now goes to the Governor for approval.
The House also passed the bastardy bill:
the Appropriation bill for 1885; the police
Uniform bill, and other House bills to es-
tablish home for imbeciles at Spring
Grove and regulating the omissions of
executors, &c. Bills were read the sec
end time to increase the pay of police
captains: to transfer Baltimore and Ohio
bonds and the money to be received from
the Reading settlement to the sinking
funds OF maturing State loans; the Will
klnsoh tobacco bill; the oleomargarins
Dill; the labor statistics bill. and the ap-
preparation bill for 1886 The enacting
clause was stricken out of the bill, on
melton OF MIR. Seebo, which under guise
OF protection from disease was intended
TO keep Western slaughtered meat out of
the market. Bills were reported favsra-
bly, to abolish distress for rent and to
change the mode of drawing juries in
Baltimore city.
THURSDAY.
In the Senate on Thursday the Balti-
more and Ohio elevated ralraad bill was
laid over until next day. House bill al
lowing policemen to lay aside their uni
form when off duty was referred to the
city Senators. The bill prohibiting po-
litical assessments was defeated. Senate
bills were passed regulating the truck
trade of State tobacco warehouse whar-
yes: to require notice in writin. before
increasing assessments on property. The
Senate passed House bills authorizing
the appointment of station house matrons
in Baltimore city, and to increase the
penalty for carrying concealed weapons
in the city. In the House of Delegates
the appropriation bill for 1886 was passed.
Both the general appropriation bills have
been sent to the Senate. The House
passed the bill for maintaining the sink
ing funds and sent it to the Senate. The
Reading Railroad settlement bill has
gone to the Governor. The beef mo-
nopoly bill was defeated beyond redemp-
ton. The Alleghaney county liquor pro-
hlbition bill was defeated Unfavorably
report was adopted on bill regulating the
practice of medicine