Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-04
JACKSON. MISS.
Legislative Praceedfngs-The State Cap.
ital to Remain at Jackson.

Legislative Praceedfngs-The State Cap.
ftal to Remain at Jackson.
Special to the Appeal.l
JACKSON, MISS, March 3.-,Senate.-
introduced Providing for perfection of
checks between the Auditor and sherifs;
to extend the jurisdiction OF justices OF
the peace in the First and Fourth Districts
of Adams; for the relief OF S. J.. Richard
son; providing for an additional trustee
for the University OF Mississippi;
to incorporate the Meridian and
Grenada Railroad Company. The fol-
lowing House bills passed the Sem
ate: For the relief OF the deaf and
dumb children of w. G.. Spivy; explana-
tory of an act amending an act to ascer-
tain the outstanding indebtedness of
liquidating levee districts; to create an
additional constable in District 2 in Yala
busha for the relief of J. r. Berry; re-
pealing the game law as relates TO the
killing of deer and turkey in Jasper;
TO authorize Desoto county to purchase
certain bridge; to extend the license
of ]. Nelson, of Meridian; to authorize
Tippah county to provide for the payment
of certain warrants; to incorporate the
Associate Reform church of Bethany, in
Lee county, aud TO prohibit the sale OF
liquors within three miles thereof; to
change the time of holding the municipal
election in Redland to empower the Gov
ernor to appoint an additional constable in
beat 4 of Neshoba county; to amend the
road laws of Monroe; bills prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors at and near
the Cumberland Baptist church, keon-
vile; Pleasant Hill church, Christian Rest
church, Fannin, Ocopola College, Augusta,
Centerville, in the First Supervisors Dis
trict in Lee and the Third in Prentiss; in
certain portion of the Second District in
Alcorn; Moxolushia Academy and Hester
chapel and Hernando; bills severally
amending the charters of the towns OF
Columbus, Bay st. Louis, Corinth, Water
Valley, Summit, Wesson and Greenville;
| to incorporate Sylvarenee, in Smith coun-
| ty; to incorporate Poplar Springs.
Two hundred House bills were taken up
| in the Senate and referred to committees.
House.-Bills passed; Severally for the
relief of III. Linden and S. L. Carhorough;
l Senate bill for the relief of ]. w. Lambert;
| to amend the law in relation to guardian
| and ward; to incorporate the Sunflower
| Navigation Company; Senate bill to in
4 corporate the Macon and Tuscaloosa Rail-
| road Company Senate bill to pay back to
W. II. Benton, a crippled Confederate
soldier, S25; Senate bill to compel
railroad companies whose railroads
cross Big Black river to build
drawbf.dges; Senate bill to incorporate
1 the Port Gibson and Alabama Railroad
Company; Senate bill TO amend the char
ter of Port Gibson; to prohibit the sale
of whisky in Houston; Senate bill to
| amend the charter of Chiekasaw Springs
Institute at Okolona; Senate bill TO in
crease the powers OF the county election
commissioners; Senate bill TO create two
additional justices of the peace in Bolivar;
to authorize the Governor TO appoint
counsel TO defend certain suit pending
in the nited States Supreme Court,
wherein Mississippi is defendant; Sem
ate bill to confirm the consolidation
OF the Hatchez Wharf and Elevator Com
pany and the Bluff City Railway Com
pany; Senate bill to provide for the pay
ment OF outstanding teachers warrants in
| Adams; Senate bill to amend the regis
tration laws of Natchez; TO amend the
charter of Magnolia; TO exempt from taxa
ton moneys loaned in the State by non
| residents.
The bill providing for the removal OF the
seat of government from jackson to Merid-
ian was lost by vote of SO yeas to 46
nays
The committee of fifty from Meridian
leave Tor home tonight on the 10 80 O'Clock
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