The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-20
HOUSE EIGHTH DAY.
WEpNIspAY. January I8. 1856.

House mel pursuant TO adjournment.
Leave Of absence grauted to Mr. Black
well from day to day.
The Speaker announced as the Com
mittee on part OF House to confer with
! Hon Jefferson Davis in reference to
making an address to the Mississippi
Legislature, on establishment of a home
fer INDECENT and wounded Confederate
soldiers Messrs. Jones, Of Claiborne,
Longstrect, Groves.
Message from Senate announced the
passage by that body of sundry bills
and the adoption Of resolution TO
make an appropriation to defray ex-
penses OF certain Investigations by the
Committee Oh Penitentiary aud risons.
On suggestion OF Mr., Elmer, IL. b.
No. 70: An act TO amend Section l70I
Code in relation to compensation of
officers Of elections, having been re-
ferred TO wrong committee, it was trans
ierred % Committee on Elections.
Mr.. Williamson, OF Carroll, offered a
resolution iustructlng Committee on
Penitentary to investigate certain con
tracts made by the Superintendent of
! the Penitentiary with the lessees thereof,
ana Ito ascertain by what authority of
law the same were mEde; what an--%~M-
was due The State January lst, 1886. By
said iessees, aGd whether the sum has
been paid into the State Treasury as
required by law; also to investigate the
management of the Penitentiarv, the
condition of convict camps. mode of
working them, treatment, &c., and to
report by bill or otherwise to the House.
Mr.. Jones, of Wilkinson moved to
strike out the preamble to above resoiu-
ton. Tabled.
On motion Of Mr. Burkitt, the resolu-
ton was adopted.
By. bIr. McRae: A Resolution TO have
300 copies. of said Resolution printed fer
benefit OF members was tabled, on mo-
ton OF Mr.. Hoyle.
On motion of Mr. Hoyle, the House
resolved itself into a Committee of the
| Whole TO consider above mentioned
Senate Resolution Mr.. BurJline in
chair.
/ Mr. Williamson, of Carroll, amended
as follows: After Senate Committee
insert. 'And the House Committee on
Peuiientiary' amend by striking out one
hundred and insert zone hundred to
each Committee" instead.
Mr. Gibbs, of Yazoo, moved that the
| House do concur in the Resolution as
amended; lost.
After further consideration, Com
mittee rose and recommended adoption
OF resolution as amended, which was
agreed to.
by Mr.. Cook: a resolution that the
Sergeant-at-Arms be instructed to pro.
cure bulletin board for the Committees
of the House, with list of Standing
Committees of House printed thereon
and time and place of me ting of said
Committees in blank. Further, that the
necessary amount be appropriated there
for from contingent fund of House.
Adopted.
= b., To amend seetion 2073 of Cod
4 of 1850, and the act approved February
2Sd, 1854 S4amendatory thereof in relation
to distrihutive share, to minor. To Ju-
dietary.
REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEES.
4 Sir. Collins, for Joint Committee on
Inauguration, asked fer further time,
and also for an appropriation of one
hundred and fifty dollars to defray ex-
penses of same.
On mott n, the House resolved itself
into a Committee of the Whole to act on
aforesaid appropriation-Mr. Gibbs in
the chair.
Mr. Burkitt rloved that the Commit
tee of the Whole report that the Resolu-
ton donot pass.
} Mr.. Selman amended by inserting the
: words "do rise" and report that it do not
pass.
: On motion Of Mr. Gibbs. the report oi
; the Committee of the Whole was adopt
ed.
On motion of Mr. Williamson, of Car
I roll, the Resolution was indefinitely
; postponed.
REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
i Mr.. Selnlan, for Committee on Judicis
/ nv: That II. i. No. "a. An act to ament
L Section 74l Code of 1880 in referene
: to control of Section Sixteen. Amend
Z ment provides that where no trustees ar
5 elected then Boards of Supervisors shal
e be vested with full and complete author
q ity to act with reference thereto. d
,, pass as amended.
4 That H. b. No. 29-An act TO amen
a an act providing for discharge of prison
L ers ia counts jails in certain cases an
g for other purposes, approved March 9th
y 1882. DO not pass.
d l.. w. MAGRUDER, Chm n
D, Mr.. Gwin, moved that Bill No. "A, /
n referred to special Committee of whic
4 Mr. Trigg shall be one, with instruction
ne to bring In a Bill reconsidering Section
d 1856, 739 and 74l of the Code of 1850 an
IN Incorporating Bill No. - for the COZ
as sideration of the House. Tabled. r
at ferred to Judiciary
le Fl. B. No. 2a Indefinitely pastpone'
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