CONCERTS AND THEATERS.
Mr. Parrish's bill [S. 18] to amend the title of an act concerning licenses to vend foreign merchandize, to exhibit any caravan, menagerie, circus, rope and wire dancing, puppet shows and legerdemain, ap- page: 70[View Page 70] proved June 15, 1852, coming up in order, it was read the third time.
Mr PARRISH. The title of the act referred to in this bill does not include the giving of concerts and theaters; and it has been held by the courts that inasmuch as they are not mentioned in the title, the act. as far as it relates to them, is void; consequently the proprietors of such exhibitions refuse to pay license. I wish to amend the title so as to cover these cases.
The bill was then finally passed the Senate by yeas 35, nays 0.
