The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-09
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
BILLS PASSED THE HOUSE AND
SENATE.
School Trustees and LeVee Commits.
slOners Contradictory Bat.
terry for the Coast.
ESPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.I


JACKSON, Miss, March s.-Sendte. -
Bills passed; To change the time oil
holding the Circuit Courts of Clay to
amend the liquidatlng levte act; II
amend the stock law of Pamela; to
provide for the erection OF two school
houses in Greenville; to amend the
charter Of Natchez.
House bills passed the Senate incor-
poratiDg the towns of Laurel, Ocean
Springs, Atlanta and Knoxville; acts
amending the charters of the towns of
Jamestown, Scooba, Bolton, Raymond,
and two bills amending the charter Of
Kosciusko; to incorporate the Tokeba
Bayou and Wolf Lake Navigation and
Improvement Company; to amend
the charters OF Blue Mountain Female
Academy, the McComb City Steam
Engine and Hook aud Ladder Com
pany, and the Planters Cotton Press,
Compress and Storage Association OF
Vicksburg; amending the stock laws
of Jefferson; 10 establish barbed-wire
fences in distriCtI and 5 in Talla.
hatchie; for the relief If B. F. Crook;
to authorize Claiborne county to build
a school-house |, to authorize the build
ing OF q school-house at Altssia by
the supervisors Ct Lowndes; to pro-
vide for the election of a public co.
ton-weigher in the city Of Grenada;
to authorize the transcribing of Ger.
tain old records in Leake; to create a
Board of Pilot Commissioners for
Natchez haTbor; to authorize Warren
county to settle with Mattingly q
Cunning; TO authorize Scott county to
have certain land record book tran.
scribed to authorize Oktibbeha coun.
ty to sell certain lands.
Combinations by the Senate: As
trustees Of the Industrial Institute and
College for White Girls, j. j. Thorn.
son for the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict; j. Nee Martin for the Seventh
District; ID. l.. Sweatmsn for the State
at large. AS Lsvee Commissioner TO-.
Lsflore county, t. S. Mayse.
HOUSE.
The act 10 relation to fences in Clai-
borne county, passed; to Incorporate
the town Of Attention, passed to es-
tablish heavy artillery battery on
the sea coast, passed; to provide for
the payment of levee taxes by rail-
roads doing business in the Levee Dis.
trict, passed; to amend the act to in
corporate the Ysz)o Delta Company,
passed; for the relief of Circuit and
Chaucery clerks OF Sharkey county,
passed; TO provide for the election OF
Railroad Commissioners, passed; to
gra1t an extension of time for the set
Element of certain judgments on
county, passed; the act re-
quiring the State Treasurer 10 cover
into the State Treasury any cash bal
ances remaining from appropriations
and for other purposes, passed; the
act providing for the better manage
ment of the public institutions of the
State, passed.
Pending the consideration of the
appropriation bill the House ad.
ourned.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL,
as it passed the committee of the whole
)f the House, gives TO the Natchez Col
bred College the sum OF $l0O0-$l5OO
was asked for, but compromise was
made on that amount.
COL. M'RAE's BILL
o establish heavy battery of ar
illery on the seacoast, asking for a
mall appropriation in order to secure
he appropriation made by Congress of
5000 to erect heavy batteries slong
he coasts of the States, met with little
at the start, but on
icing explained passed by unani.
nous vote.