Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-04
TO ADJOURN AT NOON FRIDAY.
The Legislature Finally Fixes the
Hour of Dissolution.


Various Items of Legislative business
| Yesterday - Defeat of the Artisans
Savings Bank S0tary Public Bil.
| Special Dispatch 10 Gazette and Journal.
DOVER, May 3.-Both legislative
bodies assembled at to.15 o'clock this
morning.
The Senate lid not concur in the
House amendment 10 Inc Senate Joint
resolution in relation to final adjourn
ment. As an amendment to the amend
ment the Senate fixed the time at 70
o'clock, noon, Friday.
The House conGurred in the latter
amendment.
The House passed the House bill
tsubstitute) in relation to free text books
for the free schools of the State.
The Senate killed the House bill to
increase the power Of the notary public
of the Artisans Savings Bank
The House concurred in the Senate
amendment to the House bill requiring
m annual assessment for Wilmington
hundred. The amendment reduces the
pay of an assessor to $500 per annum.
The House also concurred in the
Senate amendment to the House bill
authorizing each City Council of Will
mington to elect its own officers. The
amendment reduces the salary OF the
clerk of the market from $3.50 to $500.
The Senate amendments to the House
bill to incorporate the Peoples Mark It
House Company were concurred in by
the House.
The Senate passed joint resolution
allowing Superintendent of Public
Schools Gray, of Sussex county, pay
for visiting public schools, and the
House concurred in it.
The following bills were passed by
the Senate; 10 amend the charter of
the Middletown 81 Odessa Narrow
Gauge Railway Company; to decrease
the appropriation to be made by Kent
county Levy Court for the maintenance
of the streets of Dover; to incorporate
the Dover IL Camden Electric Railway
Company.
The House passed the following
Senate bills; To change the election
place in south Milford; to incorporate
the Philadelphia & Frederca Steamboat
Company.
The Senate passed the House bills
making valid certain deeds and to
authorize the recording of certain deeds
in New Castle county.
The House amendments to the Senate
bill to incorporate the Newport Iron and
Steel Company were concurrcd in by
the Senate.
The Senate passed the House bills
making valid certain deeds, and to lay
out public road in St. Georges hun
bred.
In the House the House bill to pre-
vent neutrality-suspicious. and distraints
was reported unfavorably.
BY unanimous consent Representative
salisbury introduced bill in relation
to sheriffs sales in Kent county.
The Honse bill in relation to registra-
ton, with amendments, was passed by
the House.
The lloHaGtook recess until 3 O'Clock.
The SENATE took o recess until o'clock.
col" MOORE On THE LOOKOUT.
Chtuae. N arc came to town at noon
TO ght ANY bill that may.come up in
selerence to increasing the membership
Of the Board Of Directors of the Street
and sewer Department. If another bill,
naming Mr.. Carpenter, is troduced, it
is positively asserted that the Senate
will kill it.
he WAS TOO LATE.
Assessor O'Hara also came down this
morning to fight the bill reducing the
pay of the assessor of WILMINGTON hun
dred, but the House had concurred in
the Senate amendment previous to his
arrival.
NOME FOR THE AGED.