The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-02-20
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20.

The house met at 10 a. M, Speaker
Thomas in the chair. Prayer by Rep
resentative Coody. Quorum present
Mr.. MCGEE, chairman of the com
mittee on public Buildings, offered 6
report stating that it would be neces
sary for said committee to visit Ger
tain public buildings, and asked leave
to do so. Adopted.
The following bills of interest were
introduced:
Mr.. Ethridge, H. B. 160-To prevent
any person who is addicted to the use
of morphine, opium or cocaine, or
who is in the habit of becoming in
toxicated from practicing medicine;
Public Health and Quarantine.
Mr.. Ethridge, H. B. 161-Amend
section 4010 of the code of 1892, so as
to allow trustee to vote for teach
er who is related to him or pecuniarily
dependent upon him under certain
conditions; Education.
Mr.. Hathorl, H. B. 166-Authoriz-
ing the creation of new county to
be called Lamar" Local and Private
Legislation.
Mr.. Kimbrough, H. B. 167-Provid-
ing for the making of a new code;
Judiciary.
Mr. Cavitt, H. B. 169-Amend an
act for pensioning Confederate SOL
diers, etc.; Pensions.
Mr.. Knox, H. B. 170-Ameld Sec
ton 4061 of code 1892. SO as to pro-
vide compensation for teachers who
attend county institutes and provide
penalties for teachers not attending;
Education.
Mr. Heidelberg called up joint reso-
luton in relation to fertilizers, and
summoling the State chemist to ap-
pear before committee on agriculture;
adopted.
H. B, 43-Amend certain sections of
code of 1892, defining vagrancy, was
called up and read third time. This
bill makes the following persons va
grants: Persons wandering or stroll |
ing in idleness, who are able to work !
and have no property to support them; |
persons leading idle, immoral or prof |
ligate lives, who have no property to |
support them; all persons able to
work, who have no visible means of |
all able-bodied persons who
Oaf, loiter and idle in the cities,
owns and villages for the larger por-
ion of their time without any regular
and without any visible
means of support; persons who have
| fixed abode, who have no visible
to support them, and who live
~ stealing, or by trading or barter
ng stolen property; every common
gambler or person who for the most
art maintains himself by gambling;
very able-bodied person who shall be
eggi1g for a livelihood; every COM
1on prostitute who has no other
leans of support; every keeper of a
ouse for prostitution; every keeper 1
public house of gambling or gam
lg; every person who shall desert |
is wife or family without just cause;
very able-bodied person who lives {
'ithout employment, having no visible |
leans of support. All persons able a
} work and do not work, but hire out c
leir minor children and live upon
leir wages; all persons over 16 years c
age and under 81, able to work and i
not work and have no property to
lpport them and not attending some b
EDUCATIONAL institution; every person f
no is an habitual drunkard, and a
axes a practice of being habitually n
'unk in public places. o
The bill was introduced by Mr.. Cal D
n Wells of Kinds county. who ex- h
aimed the provisions of the bill in
| able manner. The bill provides
at every vagrant shall give a bond Ii
$3.50 for his good behavior for the Il
riod of one year. ST
Mr.. Hicks moved that 400 copies of pt