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Show January 27th, in the Council, the bill to amend the City Charter was reported back, by a majority of the committee with recommendations for an amendment empowering the corporation to borrow $250,000, either by issuing bonds or otherwise, providing the citizens should vote in favor thereof. The report of the minority of the committee, Councilors Smith and Caine, dissented to the recommendations. Reports received and bill laid upon the table. In the House, a motion was put and carried that the committee on appropriation consider the matter of putting upon the appropriation bill $2,000? for the opening of a road from Escalante across the Colorado river. A letter upon the same subject was referred also. In the Council, on January 28th after the usual preliminaries, Councilor Snow presented a report from the committee on counties, H. P. No. 7, "A bill for the organization of San Juan County;" reported back with the first section amended, altering its boundaries, and attaching it to the 2d Judicial District, also with slight amendments in section 2, and recommended its passage as amended. On motion of Councilor ? the report was accepted. The question of the proposed amendment to the City charter again coming up, the motion was renewed that the Council do not concur in the report of the majority of the committee, regarding the privilege to be granted the city of borrowing $? providing the people sustain such action by vote. The motion being before the House, Councilor Caine made an able and extended speech in support of his position, advocating the passage of the original bill empowering the city to issue bonds that should be exempt from taxation of those bonds. The motion before the Council was then put and lost, and the bill and report referred to were given to the committee on revenue. The bill to extend the boundaries of Davis County, so as to include Antelope Island and a portion of the waters of the Lake, was read and discussed at some length, and an amendment proposed to the effect that a portion of Salt Lake City now lying in Davis County, revert to Salt Lake County, at the same time as the other proposed changes should be made. The bill was then recommitted? for further consideration. In the House, a petition from 131 citizens of Ashley's Park, Wasatch County praying for the forming of a new county to be called Coal? County, with the county seat at Ashley, was read and referred. The chief reason assigned for the desired change was that Ashley was so far removed from the county seat of Wasatch, and the roads between almost impassable two-thirds of the year. The bill providing for special elections and filling of vacancies was reported back without amendment, by the committee, and after some discussion and a slight amendment, passed the House. A bill rewarding convicts and commuting their sentences for good behavior, was presented, read and referred to the committee on judiciary. In the Council, on the 29th, a message was received from the House, announcing the passage of a resolution deprecating the recent action of the Comptroller of the Treasury in reducing the ???? members of the Legislature. The same message also announced the appointment of a committee, which, the Council concurring, should consist of four Representatives and three Councilors, to prepare a memorial to be sent at once to the Congress of the United States. In the House a bill prohibiting marriage in certain cases, referring to miscegenation, was referred to the committee on ?. On the 30th, Mr. Carrington presented the biennial report of Hon. [Honorable] John Taylor, the Territorial Superintendent of District Schools, which was read. In the Council, Councilor Harrington submitted a report from the committee on judiciary, stating that said committee had considered "An act conferring exclusive original jurisdiction on Justices of the Peace," and recommended some amendments. The report was received and its recommendations adopted. Councilor Cluff submitted a report from the committee on roads, bridges, &c., reported that said committee had considered the petition of August Neilson and others, and asking an appropriation of $3,000 to aid them in opening a road between Mary's Vale and Sevier Valley in Sevier Canyon, and recommended that $?,000 be placed in the appropriation bill for that purpose, provided the County Courts of Sevier and Piute Counties appropriate $500 each for the purpose, and recommending certain provisions in regard to drawing said amount. |