The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-03-18
HOUSE-FIFTY,SIXTH DAY.
MONDAY, March Is, 1856.

MONDAY, March Is, 1886.
House met pursuant to adjournment,
Speaker Sharp in the chair.
| Leave Of absence was granted to Messrs.
Millsaps, Tayl or and Collins
Memorial from Ship Island Railroad
Company received; referred to committee
on railroads.
! Messrs. Fowler, Carraway, Kendrick,
Causey and Bynum were added to the
committee on enrolled bills.
Act for the relief of w. j. Sick and I. G..
Flynn; passed.
Act to authorize the board of supervisors
of Alcorn county to settle certain claims;
passed.
Act to extend the powers of the cor.
porate authorities of the city of Water
| Valley, and to amend the charter thereof
passed.
Act to regulate the assessment Of real
property in the counties of Kinds and
Washington; Senate amendments cons
Cured in.
Act to incorporate the Hill City Street
Railway Company; Senate amendments
concurred in.
Act TO compensate w. T. Rush, sheriff o.
Kemper county for certain services; con-
sidered in committee of the whole Mr..
Hoyle in the chair. Recommendation the
bill do pass; report received and bill
passed.
Act to change the time for holding the
circuit court in the counties OF Newton,
Neshoba and Jasper Senate amendments
concurred in
Act in relation to fences in Claiborne
county; Senate amendments were concurred
in.
Act to allow the circuit clerk of Tippah
county to employ deputy during the
terms OF court; passed.
Act to incorporate the Classify Lock and
Dam Company, of Tallahatchle county;
Senate amendments concurred in.
Act to amend act to provide for the pro-
lection of crops in any supervisors district
or territorial division OF Tippah Benton,
Marshall, Pamela and Union counties, APP
proved March II, 1884; passed.
Act for the relief of w. j. Rsbson, Maria
Rabson and Mrs. Eliza Julian; passed.
Act to amend act to provide for the
abolishing of the Office of LiquidatiDg
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 been paid, and
for other purposes, approved March 10,
1884; passed.
Act to repeal section 20, and the proviso
of section 5 of an act to incorporate the
board of levee commissioners for Bolivar,
Washington ard Issaquena counties, and
for other purposes, approved Nov. q, 1855,
and to section of an act to more effect
ually protect levees in the Mississippi Levee
District amendatory of the laws pertaining
to said district, and for other purposes;
passed with amendment.
The subcommittee to whom was referred,
by the Joint committee to investigate public
officers, the matter of the investigation Of
the survey of Lowry Island and the expens
diture therefor by resolution of the House
of Representatives Feb. "a, 1886, made a
report. The report was ordered spread
upon the Journal, and two hundred copies
ordered printed.
Report of Committee on Public Printing:
Mr.. Burkirt introduced an act to require
the Auditor of Public Accounts and Treas
tursr to make monthly reports to be pub>
lished in the official journal; passed.
The House resumed consideration of the
report of the committee on ways and
means, Mr.. Selman in the chair.
An act to create State Board of Equali-
zation, and for other purposes; indefinitely
postponed. :,
Act to provide for the assessment of lands
after sale by the State or the United States;
indefinitely postponed.
Act in relation to taxation of property in
his State; indefinitely postponed.
Act to amend section $50 Code, being ex.
emption to disabled Confederate soldiers
Act to amend section 49l Code, in rela'
ton to assessors lists; passed, and motion
to reconsider was tabled.
Act to repeal act of of the Code of 1880
and to require the payment Of taxes to the
tax collector of the counties; indefinitely
postponed, motion to reconsider tabled.
Act to repeal all acts exempting the
property Of all corporations for pecuniary
profits in the State from taxation; inde6
nitely postponed, aud motion to reconsider
tabled.
The committee appointed to conferr with
Hon. Jefferson Davis offered a report
which was received and the committee dis
charged.
At lbs D. M. the House adjourned.