The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-19
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
DAY AND NIGHT SESSION OF
BOTH HOUSES.
Report Of the Committee on Peni.
teniiaries and PrisOns-Bills
and Resolutions.
lsrnoIAL 70 THE ArPEAL.I

Jackson, MISS, February lS.-Sn-
Gte.-Bills passed: House bill for the
relief OF l.. ID. Nickels of Pamela.
Senate bills passed: To authorize
Madison county to sell certain railroad
stock; the same kind of bill for Benton
county; to reduce the salary of Com
missioner OF Immigration, and to abol-
ish the BOARD OF Immigration and
Agriculture; 10 regulate the sale of
cotton in the. seed in Copiah; for the
protection OF Fellowship Cemetery, at
Starkyille ; to incorporate Cooper Nor
NAL College; supplemental to the
charter Of the Memphis, Birmingham
and Atlantic Railroad Company; au-
thorizing the Governor, Attorney
General and attorney for the Railroad
Commission to settle with certain rail-
roads damages on account OF Railroad
Commission suits; providing for fund
ing outstanding warrants of Issaquena
county; to amend the code relating to
compensation of officers; to ameIA
the act to ascertain che outstanding
indebtedness of the liquidating levee
district; for the protection of the pub
lie health and morals to prevent the
adulteration of dairy products and
fraud and deception in the sale of arti-
cles of food; for the relief of w. G.
Pigg & Co. of Noxubee; to change the
time Of holding the Circuit Court of
Grenada.
The Committee on Penitentiaries
and Prisons made an exhaustive re-
port as to the improvements and re-
pairs on the penitentiary and the
charges made therefor, etc.
Bills introduced and referred:
BY Mr.. Powell: Relative to certain
stock running at large in DeSoto
county.
By Mr.. Whitney: To authorize the
transfer of certain funds in Franklin
county.
BY Mr.. Yerger: To provide for the
payment of levee taxes by railroads in
the Mississippi Levee District.
BY the Committee on Penitentiaries:
Directing the Acknowledgement to in
stitute suit on the bond of the lessees
of the penitentiary, and to collect the
amount due the State.
By Mr.. Guyton: For the relief of |
certain physicians.
By Mr.. Harvey: To declare certain
railroad charters forfeited for non-use.
By Mr.. Houston: To amend the
law relative to pleading or proceed
ings in courts; to provide for the cleo
ton of members and to create State |
Board OF Equalization; to incorporate
the town of Houlka, in Chickasaw
county,; authorizing the supervisors of
Chickasaw to make an appropriation
to erect a school-house; in relation to
final records in Circuit and Chancery
Courts; to amend the charter of Buena
Vista.
The Senate has been in continuous
session all day, only taking a short re-
cess for dinner, and worked until 5 80
O'Clock pm, and hold another session
tonight.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Cutrer introduced bill proyid-
ing for a general local option bill,
piahsh - assssff. I, IT,, special order for
Wednesday next. Mr.. NorrelI of
Yazoo offered a substitute therefor.
Bills passed: In relation to the sale
of domestic wine; in relation to
bridges; to. prevent hogs from running
at large in certain parts of Warren; to
incorporate the town of Newton.
Bills introduced and referred: To fix
liabilities of insurance companies; to
grant extension of time for the pay
ment OF debts by certain persons; to
incorporate the town of Grays Mill
TO incorporate anew the town of Scoo-
ba; to authorize the trustees of the
State Female College to employ a
principal and assistants; to confirm
The jurisdiction of mayors and mar
shals to their corporate limits; to
amend the act dividing the State into
seven congressional districts to change
he time of holding the Circuit Courts
1f Newton county; to authorize the
of a lecture bureau; to
authorize the transcribing of the land
'ecords of Scott. \
The committee heretofore appointed
o investigate certain charges against
". l.. Lowe reported unfavorably.
Adjourned till 80 o'clock pm.
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