MAYOR'S JURISDICTION.
Mr. Howard's bill [S. 85], to prescribe the jurisdiction of Police Judge's and Mayor's Courts in towns and cities, being read the second time with a favorable Committee report--
Mr. COMSTOCK doubted the propriety of limiting the jurisdiction of Mayors in such cases.
Mr. HOWARD stated the objects of the bill. It is designed to confine the original jurisdiction of Mayors and Police Courts to the corporate limits for which such Court was organized. It does not limit the powers of such Courts except in the matter of original jurisdiction. Persons from every part of his (Decatur) County have been taken before the Mayor at Greensburg, and many, for most trivial offenses, fined a dollar or two, which they unrighteously paid because unable to leave their business and go to the County seat at an expense of less than from $10 to $25. The present law works great hardship, and for reasons obvious to Senators this wrong should be remedied by the passage of this bill.
Mr. TRAYLOR--Parties who violate law should be arrested.
page: 174[View Page 174]Mr. HOWARD-This bill does not bar arrest in any part of the County if the offense were conmmitted within such jurisdiction as provided in the bill.
On motion by Mr. HENRY, the bill was indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Foster's bill [S. 119] to legalize acts of Trustees of Monroeville, Allen County, being read the second time--
Mr. FOSTER said this bill was exactly similar to a bill passed last session concerning New Haven, in the same County. There being no objection to this bill from any quarter, he hoped it would be passed.
The report of the Committee was concurred in, and the bill ordered engrossed for the third reading.
