Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-12
THE LEGISLATURE.
A Number of Combinations by the
Senate.
Special to Commercial Herald.
SENATE,

mittee appointed to report on the dis
tribution of the executive fund for the
years 1882, 3, a, and s, reported that
the expenditures made were supported
by proper vouchers.
The act to amend the act to provide
for abolishing the Office of liquidating
levee commissioners aud the suspen-
sion of the liquidating levee tax,
passed.
Act to insure the better working of
the public roads in Jefferson county,
was referred.
Act to amend section lis Of the code
in relation to registration and poll
books, was referred.
Act to regulate privilege taxes on
shows, was referred.
Act to establish a lecture bureau of
the Alcorn A. and M. College, was re-
ferred.
Act to secure uniformity in publish
ing the acts of the legislature was
referred.
Act to incorporate the Planters Cot
ton Press Compress and Storage asso-
citation, passed, the vote to indefinitely
postpone having been considered.
Act for the erection of two school
houses in Greenville, passed; to incor-
porate the Tokeba Bayou and Wolf
Lake Navigation and Improvement
company of Yazoo county, passed.
Senate combinations: Trustees of
the Industrial Institute and College
for white girls: j. j. Thornton, for the
sixth congressional district: j. McC.
Martin, for the seventh congressional
district and D. L. Sweatman, for the
State at large,
AS levee commissioner: For Lehore
county,. S. Mayre.
Senate bills approved by the COVER
nor: Authorizing the sale of por-
tion of the Georgia Pacific Railway
Company to allow owners of lands
contiguous to existing stock law dis
tricts of Union, Tippah and Benton
counties to have the same included in
said district ; for the relief of Rufus
f. Larned ); to authorize the appoint
ment of stenographer for the circuit
courts of the ninth judicial district
to provide reasonable compensation
for the clerk of the circuit court of
Washington county for services rem
dered in certain cases to provide for
the payment Of deputy circuit clerk
in Washington county; to authorize
the board of supervisors of Washing
ton county to pay for computing the
registration for the year 1879.
HOUSE.
Act to authorize the sale Of certain
lands in Oktibbeha county, passed; to
amend the act to incorporate the
Adams County Building and Loan AS
sociation, indefinitely postponed; to
levy an additional school tax in Frank
lin county, tabled; to authorize a
transcribing of records in Leake
county, passed; to provide for the
election Of a public cotton weigher in
Grenada, passed; to encourage horti-
culture in Oktibbeha county, tabled; to
build public schoolhouse in Lowndes
county, passed; act in relation
to fences in Claiborne county, passed;
TO establish heavy artillery battery on
the sea coast, passed ; to provide for
the payment of levee taxes by railroads
doing business in the levee district,
passed to amend act to incorporate
the Hszoo Delta company, passed; for
the relief of the circuit and ckancery
clerks of Sharkey county, passed to
provide for the election Of railroad
commissioners, passed,
The house has been engaged the
greater portion of the day in consid-
ering the appropriation bill. The
salary of the superintendent of the
blind asylum and Of the superintend.
ent and assistant superintendants of
the lunatic asylum at this place and
Meridian were raised five hundred dol
lars per year. with the proviso that if
they maintain their families out of the
fund of the institution they shall pay
as much percapita as it cost to main
tain the inmates, the same to be de-
Quoted from their salaries.
HOUSE.
JACKSON, March 9.-Act to change
the time of holding circuit court in
Clay caunty, passed.
The report of committee on contin-
gent fund was received.
Act to prescribe the manner of sell
ing the sulphate and other preparations
of morphine, passed.
Act to prevent the pollution of wa
ters of lakes, ponds and streams by
throwing the carcasses of dead animals
therein, passed.
Act to abolish the board of immi.
grafton and agriculture, passed.
Act to encourage and facilitate the
construction Of telegraph and telephone
lines, passed.
Act to reduce the salaries Of State
officers, passed.
Act in relation to the Industrial In
stitute and College at Columbus,
passed.
The senate amendments to the
following bills were concurred
in; for the relief of citizens
of the town of Beauregard; in relation
to the collection Of public revenue in
Warren county; in relation to swine
running at large in Jefferson county;