The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-01-30

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to alter the dividing line between New Salem
and Shutesbury, passed to be engrossed.
HOUSE. MIR. Bemis of w from a select
committee, reported bill regulating Licensed
Houses, which was read once
Mr. Shaw from the committee on Finance
reported on the subject of taxing Sheep, Ma
chlnery, unmproved lands, and Saltworks that
the committee DO discharged from the further
consideration thereof; accepted.
MIR Shaw frem the committee on Finance re-
ported bill to apportion and assess Tax of
- dollars which was read once
Ordered, That Messrs. Fuller of c. Salston-
stall OF 5. Appleton of b. Choate of l. Corbett
of w. Howe of T. Clark of n H. Hartwell of
NJ. Worthington of L. Minot of ID. Taber of f.
Hale OF b. Fish of F. being one member from
each Congressional District in the Common
wealth be committee to consider in what
manner the Legislature shall direct the appoint
ment of Electors of President and Vice Pres-
dent OF the United States, at tbe ensuing cleo
ton.
Mr.. Calhoun of S. from the committee on
Education, reported a bill to incorporate the
Trustees of Lancaster Academy, which was
read once. Also bill to incorporate the Pro-
prietors of Milford Academy, which was read
twice
The House then took up for consideration,
agreeably to assignment, the bill to establish
County Commissioners, &c.-the 9TH section
of the same was passed to third reading as
amended.
FRIDAY, Jan. %.
SENATE. The following message was re-
ceived from the Governor, read, and ordered to
! lie on the table:
Gentlemen of the Senate and
House Of Representatives
The Board of Internal Improvement have
Just now furnished me with their report in ref
erence to a railway from the city of Boston to
Providence in the state of Rhode Island, togeth-
er with a memoir of the survey and plan of
the routes, by the Engineers, and an estimate
of expense for the construction of the work
The manuscripts are so voluminous as to
create claim upon your indulgence, in permit
ting me to transmit the originals, that without
delay they may be at the disposal of the Legis-
lature. They will be found to present enc0ur-
aging considerations to the proposed improve
ment.
By the Report and Survey, the following
propositions appear to be established That the
Railroad may be constructed on either of two
routes, designated as Eastern and Western, with
little preference in the election between them
and in length of way no greater than the pres
ent Turnpike Road
hat tuC lLOlIdlttlSS Oh country through Tic
whole distance, may be reduced for the track of
the road to an elevation at most of 80 feet in
mile, except in single short section, where it
will not exceed 60 feet.
| That horse power will be most expedient for
I application to the uses of this Road That the
power Of a single horse, working seven hours in
q day, and travelling at the rate of three miles
IN hour, will be equal to the draft over the Road,
d at least eight tons weight inclusive of the
weight Of the carriage, except ON the section of
greatest inclination, where additional power
maj conveniently, and with little expense, be
applied. And that the same power of single
nors, working three hours day, will convey
carriage with twenty-five passengers, at the
speel of nine miles an hour.
That the best mode of constructing the Road,
will be with foundation Tracks Of Grarite, hav-
ing fiat bar Of iron secured by bolts to the up
per surface of the stone, on which the wheels of
the carriage are to move.
That one set of Tracks, with suitable offsets
and short side Tracks, at equal distances on the
road, will be sufficient for the convenient
commodation of the Travel.
That the expense of constructing the Road
IN the most thorough manner, with durable ma
terlas, will not exceed eight thousand dollars
per mile, and with proper additional allowances
for ottsetts, and occasional side Tracks the
whole expense will fall short of three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the COM
pensation which may be eXacted for land taken
for the use of the Road, which it is suggested
will probably be inconsiderable
That from satisfactory estimates and calcula-
/ lions upon the present travel and occasion of
transportation, the net income of receipts from
the use of the Road, after deducting all charges
! for keeping 1t in repair, carriages &c and upon
saving OF one half in the present cost of trans
portaton, Will amount to a sum exceeding sixty
thousand dollars per annum
| That the construction of the Road would be
of great public advantage, and profitable in
Vestment of capital
These positions are sustained by a mass fin
formation, representation of fact, calculations
! and deductions, and force of argument which
will recommend the whole matter of the Re-
port TO your careful attention and if made pub
lie, by being printed cannot fail to create gem
eral interest in the subject
have thought proper to present this synop-
Sis of the contents of the Report, that the re-
suits might be understood by the members of
the Legislature, in anticipation of the probable
opportunity which can be afforded to them midi
Vidually, for examining its pages.
LEVI LINCOLN.
Council Chamber January %, 1928.
The bill from the House for the more speedy
decision Of civil actions, taken up, discussed
| ana rejected.
The petition of Kirk Boot and others for
Bank in Lowell, was taken from the files and
committed-sent down for concurrence.
HOUSE. Mr. Washburn of L. from the Sc
lect committee to whom was referred the bill in
addition to an act for the support and regula-
ton OF Mills, reported the same in new draft
which was adopted and the bill in its second
reading, made the order of the day for to-lnor-
row.
Mr. Lewis of P. from the committee on the
subject of so amending the Constitution as to
reduce the number of Representatives in the
General Court, reported that it is nexpedient at
this time to take any further order thereon.
Laid on the table