The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-19
LIKE THEIR PASSES.
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speetive limits by local taxation, but
no such laws shall take effect until
the same shall have been submitted to
vote of the qualified voters in each
militia district, school district
or municipal corporation and approved
by a two-thirds vote of the qualified
voters voting at such election. and the
General Assembly may prescribe who
snaIl vote on such question"
This measure does away with the
IDEA OF having the question recommend
ed by two successive grand juries as
is the present plan.
Against Any Sort If Gambling.
The bill by Senator Matthews of the
Twenty-third district prohibiting gam
bling with cards. dice, billiards, ten
pins and the like, was also passed by a
vote of 81 to .. This measure provides
that any person VINO shall play and bet
for money or other things of value at
any game whatever, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor.
Three new bills were introduced by
members of the Senate. One of these.
by Senator Perry of the Thirty-thir
district, provides for an amendment to
the constitution, so as to limit the tax
rate to five mills. The one by Senator
Park of the Thirty-seventh district,
seeks to amend the Code so as to
change the hours of labor of persons
employed in cotton or wooden mills from
eleven to ten hours a day.
The House bill by Mr. Harden of
Chatham, to provide compensation for
deputy sheriffs and bailiffs of Superior
and City Courts in counties having
cities with populations of more than
$4,000, and less than $4,000 was passed.
This bill will now go to the Governor
for his approval.
The following bill was passed by the
Senate:
BY Senator Symons of the Fourth-To
fix and prescribe the boundaries of
land adjacent to or covered by or Dor
dering on all tide waters of this state,
and to prescribe all rights of the own
ers of such adjacent lands within such
boundaries, and to define navigable
tide waters.
SanatOriums Get an Increase.
The State Sanatorium will get an in
crease in it's maintenance fund of $40,-
900 this year. if the recommendation of
the Appropriations Committee of the
House, to be embodied in the general
appropriations bill, is adopted by the
General Assembly. This was decided
during meeting of the committee to-
day after considerable discussion.
The report of the committee will car
ry a maintenance fund for the institu-
ton of $3.50, 900. Last year the sanato-
rum received 1920, 900.
The committee adopted the amend
ment of Mr.. Slaton of Fulton, giving
the School of Technology a mainte-
nance fund of $4,000 a year, instead
of $4,000 as was carried in the pro-
posed general appropriations bill. The
North Georgia Agricultural College at
Dahlonega was given $4,000, instead
of $1,000 as last year.
The Ways and Means Committee of
the House this afternoon adopted an
amendment to the general tax bill by
which each liquor dealer will have to
pay a specific tax of $50 for each coun-
ty into which he ships liquor to any
one except a liquor dealer. The object
of the amendment is to tax those who
ship liquor into dry counties. If a Sa-
vannah liquor dealer, for instance,
ships liquor to consumers in forty
counties in that section of the state,
he will have to pay an annual tax for
that privilege of $1,000 in case this
amendment should become a law. A
hard fight will be made on it,
The only other change made this af-
ternoon was a reduction of the tax on
bucket shops from $4,000 to S1,500, this
latter being an increase of $500 over
last year.