The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-02-28
Legislative Notes.

The House has passed the following bills
To amend the charter of Bel Air.
To exempt the Hartford County Agricultu-
raj Society from county taxation.
Governor Jackson has signed the following
bills
To amend the game law for Hartford couu-
ty. This bill limits the cunning season from
election day to the last day Of December.
Asserting to the requests of VIM. Wool
sey for the benefit of the public roads of Har-
ford county, and authorizing the county
commissioners of said county to accept the
same and carry them into effect.
The Senate has confirmed the appointments
for Hartford and other counties.
In the House, on the Goth instant, Mr..
Richardson, of Hartford, rising to a question
OF privilege, said that an article appeared n
the Baltimore San intimating that the mem
bers of the Legislature were being controlled
by corrupt lobby, which he pronounced
false and slanderous, and if The Sun did not
contain an humble apology by the next morn
ing. he would be heard from again.
Mr.. Poe made an earnest speech in the Sen
ate, last Friday, in advocacy of the Australi-
an ballot system.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal lease bill
passed the House, on the 21st instant. All of
the Hartford delegates voted for it.
Resolutions were adopted unanimously by
the House that the committee on elections
should report bills for ballot reform.
The bill TO amend the charter of Havre de
Grace has been favorably reported and read
twice in the House. The Belt Railroad bill
has been read second time in the House.
The bill 60 refund A. Lingan Jarrett.
Clerk ofthe Circuit Court for Hartford coun-
ty, money enormously paid into the treasury
was also read second time, on Tuesday.
A petition was presented in the House, on
Tuesday, through Mr.. Preston, from A. II.
Hughes, Jr., and 30 others, asking for the re-
peal OF the local option law for Hartford coun-
ty; and another from 400 citizens, to the
same effect, also petition protesting against
an amendment to the charter of the Bel Air
Turnpike Company.
Mr.. Mitchell has obtained leave for bill TO
regulate and designate the number of en-
ployes in the Legislature and to specify their
duties.
MIR. Mitchell on Monday obtained leave for
q bill to define the duties OF superintendent
OF public buildings at Annapolis.
MIR. Preston, of Hartford, was also granted
leave for bill to give each employee of the
Legislature $25 worth of stationery
Mr.. Silver has obtained leave to introduce
in the Senate bill authorizing the County
Commissioners of Hartford county to grant
an annual pension OF $50 each to VIM. Greed
and E. A. Reed.
MIR. Richardson has leave for a bill to
punish prize fighters.
The bill to repair the Havre delGrace Hay
Scales has been read twice in the House.
Chief Judge Alvey, in the Circuit Court
for Washington county, has rendered his de-
cision in the canal case. in which he holds
that the act of 1874 was a contract between
the bondholders, the canal company and the
State which cannot be impaired. The COM
pany being insolvent he has decided to ap-
point receivers for it, requiring them to as
certain the actual condition of the canal, the
amount required to put it in good repai r, and
the feasibility of operating it again with q
reasonably certain prospect of not only pay.
Ing expenses but yielding revenue applica-
BILE to the payment of the interest on the pre-.
ferred debt.