DRAINAGE AND WET LANDS.
Senator Bell's bill [S. 75] to enable the owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same, and protect such land by a system of levees, etc., was read the third time.
Mr. GILLUM said this bill does not cost the County where the improvement is made on single cent. It makes the County Commissioners and Engineer Supervisors, the same as gravel roads.
The bill passed--yeas, 74; nays, 0.
Mr. CAUTHORNE introduced a bill [H. R. 531] fixing the meetings of the County Board of Equalization for the present year, which was read the first time. He moved to suspend the constitutional rule that the bill may be read the second time by title, the third time the by sections and put upon its passage. He said this is a bill of great importance, otherwise the tax bill would be a perfect failure.
The motion was agreed to, and the bill was read the second time by title, the third time by sections and passed--yeas, 70; nays, 0.
