The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-04-07
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

SUBSTITUTE Dill providing that the
State pay jury board and othercosts
in all cases where the State is now
liable by law; that the county shall
be liable for all the rest at the end
Of each quarterly term. The cap
ton was amended and the bill pass
ed with only one dissenting vote.
The senate bill to employ an Of
fetal stenographer in each judicial
circuit has been rejected.
Mr.. Harwood's uniform ballot
bill has been amended to conform
to the house bill, the latter substi-
tuted, and an amendment tackled on
limiting the variations to an eighth
Of an inch in length and sixteenth
in width.
The house has passed a bill pro-
yidiug for an appropriation Of $22,-
600 for the Confederate Soldiers
Home.
Mr.. Newsome's resolution rela-
tive to the appointment of members
of the assembly to visit the charita-
! BILE institutions of the State atstated
periods of the year created lively
breeze in the house Friday. He
made a savage attack on the asy-
lums, and said that the treatment of
the unfortunate insane in some in
situations was a shame and disgrace.
The resolution was tabled.
Mr.. Goodwin presented a memo
rial Friday from the Confederate
association at Memphis praying fol
an annual pension of $500 a year
, for Mrs. Jefferson Davis. The bill
| to pension Mrs. Davis was subse.
quently withdrawn by its author
{ Mr.. Shelton introduced a resolu.
ton in the house Friday to submit
amendments to the constitution Oh
the subject Of elections, roads, anC
Q fences. The object of the amend
}, ments is to leave to the counties thu
regulation Of these matters. BY
9 vote of 27 to ID the Democratic eau
1 Gus has decided to push the amend
d ments through the assembly and lie
!. the constitutional convention idej
S gofor the present. Wednesday til,
: senate adopted the resolution by
It two-thirds vote.
Mr.. Henderson's bill, making tn
seduction of a female under 81 year
Of age felony, punishable 10y i'm
prisonment for not less than thre
nor more than ten years, passed tn
= senate Friday, only Mr.. Coates vol
ing in the negative.
The senate has passed the age c
y consent bill, but slightly differer
= from the measure as it came frol
the house. The bill was made tn
special order Friday morning, an
l. several amendments prepared b
n the Judiciary committee took prec,
IS dence. The Observation-Disclosures
i it crime, punishable by hangini
" to carnally know a female under
r. years of age, and provides that
Or shall be felony, punishable by
ct term of years in the penitentiar
Of in case the female be over IL al
is under l6 years Of age, A provi
at was also inserted requiring the
n. male to make oath as to her form
tn character. A motion to strike o
the proviso prevailed, ena the b
as amended was substituted for t
he house bill without dlssentingvo
te; The bill as amended by the sena
ty, has been concurred in by the hou
IS; by vote Of &C yeas to 4 nays.
to The senate bill which provid
le; for the disposal of unclaimed asse
IN, after five years in the hands of 6
us ministrators or executors, the p,
M Of the estate remaining unclaim
In to be paid into the county treasu
no has passed third reading.
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