Show SEEKS REVISION OF POWER OF CITIES SENATOR ECKERSLEY PRESENTS BILL TO CHANGE LAW ON i WATER protection house home approves bill prohibiting tak i inn ing of livery rigs to any other place than represented to the owner revision of the law relating to the powers aers ot of city councils Is proposed in a bill introduced on oil february 1 by be senator 11 ator joseph eckersley Ecke raley which city uncials say will have a serious bearing on the municipal water supply it it becomes law the bill Is proposed to amend the present law by inserting a paragraph the jurisdiction ot of the city over ver water works to confine jurisdiction to land owned by such city and by the insertion of a proviso clause on the tha section giving jurisdiction for ten miles above the point from which the water la Is taken which says that this law nor any ordinance shall be con trued by the municipality or by the burts as authorizing tile the city to deprive any person of the ordinary and reasonable use of their lands and streams of water lowing flowing through them or in III which springs take their rise or to in any way impair the rights of the owner or limit the reasonable Bori able ordinary and customary use df at such property business in th alio 11 house looked up on oil february 1 a and 1 id while the committees to which more than fifty bills have been referred did not report many for third reading yet et the members introduced fourteen bills and two resolutions the livery mens bill which has been recommit tva to the judiciary committee wree times came up tip for final passage and am after being amended in minor details so that it would include the t taking aking of 0 an automobile as well as a horse the house passed it unanimously the bill makes it a misdemeanor to ride or drive an animal or vehicle to any other place than that represented to the owner or person in charge when the animal or vehicle Is hired george ceorge F goodwins Good bill providing that undertakings on appeal from justice courts might be dispensed with on the making of a pauper affidavit easily passed |