Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-03-19
THE LEGISLATURE.
A Large Amount of Work Done
Yesterday.
Special to Commercial Herald.
HOUSE,

oANNoON3 N41o5sS N1hICu lO,-OlllS
passed: To authorize the board Of SUI
pervisors Of Alcorn county to settle
certain claims; to amend the charter of
Water Valley; to compensate w. I.
Rush for services rendered.
The house concurred in senate
amendments to acts to incorporate the
Cassidy Lock and Dam Company Of
Tallahatchie county; to regulate assess
ments in Kinds and Washington coun-
ties; to incorporate the Hill City street
railway.
For the relief of ]. w. Robson ct al,
passed.
To provide for abolishing the office
Of liquidating levee commissioners and
the suspension of the liquidating levee
tax, as soon as it will be ascertained
that the debt for which said tax
was provided has beer, paid; passed.
Act to repeal section twenty-three
and proViso of section FIVE of act to in
corporate the board of levee commits
sioners for Bolivar, Washington and
Issaquena counties, and to repeal sec.
tion seven of an act more effectually to
protect levees in the Mississippi levee
district, amendatory of the law pertain
ing to said district, and for other pur-
poses, passed, with the following
amendment: Strike out the portion that
repeals section seven of acts of 1882.
The subcommittee on public Off
GERS reported on the survey of Lowry
Island. The report was ordered spread
on the journal and 250 copies ordered
printed for the use of the members.
Act to require the auditor and treas
uTer to make monthly reports, to be
published in the official journal, passed.
Act to create State board of equal
ization was indefinitely postponed.
This was the bill making the railroad
commissioners and auditor State
board of equalizers and originated in
the Senate.
Act in relation to assessors, lists,
pasted.
To repeal the act Of the code of
1880, and to require the payment of
taxes to the tax collector Of counties
was indefinitely postponed.
TO repeal all acts exempting the
property Of all corporations for pecu-
mary profits in the State from taxa.
tion was indefinitely postponed.
The committee appointed to confer
with Hon. JEFF. Davis reported
Act to fix the liabilities Of insurance
companies doing business In this State
was lost on third reading.
Act requiring express, telegraph, in
surance and telephone companies to
pay taxes on their earnings was in
definitely postposed.
The house refused TO concur In the
senate amendment making appTopria-
tion for exhibits at the Exposition;
also act to incorporate the VicksbuTg,
Yazoo Delta s. Northeastern railway
company. A committee of conference
was appointed.
The house concurred in senate
amendment to provide an additional
constable In Warren county.
A concurrent resolution, providing
for constitutional amendment, was
lost.
SENATE.
A memorial from the Ship Island
railroad company was read.
Act to change the time of holding
circuit court in Clay county passed.
TO protect purchasers of swamp
lands in good faith and for other pur-
poses, referred.
The special order Of the day, act to
create board of control of the peni-
tentiary and for other purposes.
Mr.. Boyd offered asubstitute, known
as the Ship Island railroad bill, which
passed.
To require telegraph companies t.
, deliver messages within reasonable
, time. Hour amendments were amend
ed by the senate and cOncurred in.
. The act to compensate the State
printer on account of the acts Of 1885,
was referred.
The Gulf and Ship Island railroad
: bill provides that Hamilton, Hoskinl
} & Co., shall continue the lease Of thu
penitentiary until Its expiration IL
January, 1887. and after that time th'
railroad commissioners are constituted
a board of control, for the penitentiar!
and instructed to lease the convicts Il
the Gulf and Ship Island railroad com
pa y until January, 1892, the compan.
! to assume all liabilities that may b,
due by the present lesses and issue tt
!, !, the State twenty thousand dollars an
J. nually of its first mortgage
7 bonds. The bill does not ALLOW
: the convicts to be sub-leased for an,
: : purpose except to railroads or leye
: contractors, and provides that Cne-hal
of the convicts shall be constantl
worked on the road till Its completion
or the expiration Of the elease, from tn
: time the company assumes control. A
! there is no other bill under considers
!, tion the house is very likely to pas
IS this one.
SENATE.
d JACKSON, MISS, March 16.-Th
time Of the senate was consumed in tn
consideration Of an act to make apprt
l. priations. The bill, with the amend
n ments recommended by the fnanC