The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-01-29

.,,;o,og fr,n ;7ll p 1920. to be abou, 81
y -. .,,,sr thc increase OF population during
Toe - therefore satisfied that the old system
,onlency 10 increase the evil ; ami be bet
- the one W. hal aioptci would check AZ
- g,s therefore opposed 20 the Duh
ar .r,,c,,rr. had waited IN hopes some 9TH
.+ia,,,n ,v,nd have risen to advocate the
M hr4 "a they hal not be was unwilling that
-" f.;.-b.r,l stories which had been tod OF eX-
- mi nayiar for-he support of dead men
- "a y, ,aans,Fered The committee Of &C
..,nt. IN Massachusetts,, were sharp ana had
It's siffei with great care the pauper ac-
,Is. they male IL a rule 10 cut down almost
- accornt they would allow \ town but
:, m for pauper whose support cost $500
sa5bc believed that the state made more money
-. II the people, than the people out the state
r.. Gentleman from Lincoln (Parsons) has
c-,rcl till he believes he has worked hinlseI i
ITO right conclusion, but he thought that on
..b;acts of this nature, things were less falla-
...ons ihan figures, ana what applied to hfassa-
rhasatts might not apply in Maine. We have
10 saia no large towns: Portland IS the most SO ;
~ can afford 10 sustain the prescnt system,
has 176 licenses. she also ships of her poor
s,rnc put them up NJ auction, and get rid OF
t.n,n in various ways, still we have pauPcrs.
Let this bill become law, NC can look INTO me
expence OF support, and examine the pauper ac-
counts we have government IN tie iniusr oi
N and shall not be cxposei to the imposition 70
Which Massachusetts, on the p2upcr accounts
have been subject, aud il we Ind that lnconVeli-
;ancce ard evils do arise it will then be time to
repeal il bv this bill the overseers OF the poor
are compeued 10 make oath to their accounts
we cannot suppose they viii perure themselves
ond render false account. He said lac had eN-
pected there would have been an opposition TO
This bin. and that lie should have heard sonle
arguments brought against it, but he had not
heard any vet, which should have the weight OF
feather.
MIR. ADAMS replied, that the gentleman from
Warren had said we had furnished no argu-
ment but we are fortunate, he observed, III
deriving them from the gentleman hHnseh, VINO
has asserted that town in Oxford under the
old system had a number of pauPers, and now
has none. an argument for which, sir, said he, |
thank the gentleman for II we had no arguments
before think we have an unanswerahie one
now : and the gentlemen all round me are say
ing that the same thing has happened IN their
towns Writ then is more conclusive than that
the present lazy hag manifest tendency rapidly
TO diminish the number Of paupers
Mr.. Parsons, also stated that there we're for
mcrly state paupcrs in Phipsburgh but now there
are none and he said too that if It was found
easy for towns to cheat the committee OF ac-
counts in Massachusetts, who il had beea re-
marked were proverbialiy sharp, he thought they
might easily cheat MS.
MIR GARDNER rose merely to state that ne
thought the gentleman from Warren IN an or
ror respecting the sun which under his bill
would be paid into the state treasury, for be said
that the county Of Cumberland paid more for
licenses in proportion to its population than any
other county the basis therefore which the
gentleman had assumed was Incorrect
The Yeas and NAYS were then taken on the
question, and it appeared there were AZ IN the
affirmative, ard 80 in the negative, so the bill
was rejected.
Col. TEACHER then gave notice that he should
move for a reconsideration.