The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-16
GENERAL COURT.
TuEsnAY. March s.

A resolve in favor of the town of North
bridge, was reported and passed to second !
reading.
was read again and rejected.
HOUSE. The committee on Education was
the bill relating to Public Worship, and the |
h;lI was committed to Messrs. Brooks, Melville |
of Boston, and Danforth of Plymouth.
The bill in relation to the Clerks of Courts
nassod to be engrossed. Mr.. Brooks moved
reconsideration of this vote, and his motion was
laid on tho table
The bill relating to County Commissioners
was further amended and passed to be engtoss-
ed.
WEDNESDAY, March 9.
SENATE The bill relating to Debtor and
Creditor was taken up. Mr. Lincoln moved to
strike out the Cd section of the bill, texempting
females from arrest and Imprisonment FOR debO
and the yeas and nays were,-Isas 10 Nays
10.
A resolve passed in favor of tho town OF
Northbfdge.
HOUSE. The bill in relation to county
Commissioners was passed
A resolve authorizing an inquiry IN relation
10 the expense of providing farmsTo, the STATE
Paupers, passed to be engrossed.
MIR. Ingalls, of Lynn, presented petition ioI
IN inquiry into the doings OF Mount Carmei
IIOdpe, which was iatd on the taule'
THURSDAY, March 10.
SEN.4TE A bill to annex part OF the
town of Paxton to the town OF Holden, IN the
county Of Worcester, was reported, ana passed
to e second reading.
Mr. Fowler. from the select committee to
whom was referred the resolves from the House
respecting the purchase of Farms for the sup
port, &c, of State Paupers, reported that the
same ought not to pass.
The resolve for furnishing the towns in this
Commonwealth with copies OF the Massachu-
sets Reports, passed IN concurrence
The bill relating to debtor and creditor was
taken I'M for consideration, and on the question
being put for the engrossment OF the bill, 1t was
decided in the negative: ,,.
Ysas-Mcssrs Thatcher, Everett, Phillips,
Motley, Dearborn, Cutler, o. Warner, Max
well, Wells Thorndike, Merrill, White, Bur
nell, GRAY, Fowler, Hoyt, Goodwin-l7.
.Naus-Messrs. Lincoln, Jr., Brown, Locke,
Inrraham, Baxter, Hastings, Mlxter, Holmes,
Walker, Webb, Varnum, Spaulding, Stearns-
Subsequently the above vote was reconsld-
HOUSE sundry resolves against allowing
the petition of the Grand Lodge were present.
ed and laid on the table
The Secretary Of State came IN with the fol-
lowing Message from the Governor, when was
To the Honorable Senate, &c.
have the high qualification of informing you
that have received this morning. warrant
drawn nv the Secretary Of the Treasury OF the
limited States upon the Treasurer, accompani
ed by his draft upon the Bank OF the ohtec
States at Boston, for the sum of four hundred
md nineteen thousand seven hundred ana ior
weight dollars and twenty-six cents, Tor Inc
,Isa If tha Commonwealth, under certain de-
of dated F6SDpc.
virtue of the act OF Congress OF 3IsI wa y fo.S0
providing for the settlement of the Massaehu-
sets Claim. AS [ am not yet favored with a
copy these decisions, the grounds of dis-al
lowance of any portion of the amount within
the sum of the appropriation made by Congress
is not precisely known
1t would be doing great violence 10 my owT
feelings, not to avail myself of the occasion. tC
express the entire conviction which a long anC
most frequent correspondence on this subject
with the Hon. John Davis, the Agent of the
State, has produced of his devoted attention
and able, assiduous, and efficient services, in
the investigation both of The principles and
items Of the amount, and in the maintenance,
by the exhibition of proofs and arguments, of
the rights and interest of the State; and it is
equally tribute of justice to acknowledge the
respectful and candid consideration and regard
which his representations have received by the
Secretary of War
Whatever further inquiry and examination
may be allowed, in the prosecution eft the resi-
due of the claim, will be inject of continued
attention OH the part of the executive.
By the terms of tho act of the separation of
the State of Maine, one third of the money OBJ
tanned on account of the claim, is due to that
government. Some order of the Legisa ture
will be required for the payment of the share
to which Maine may be entitled, from the
amount now received. LEVI LINCOLN.
Council Chamber, March 10, 1881.
The report granting leave for bill for thu
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, was indefinite
iy postponed.
SE.N.4TE. The resolve appointing Commits
sioners on the subject of the Pauper Laws, was
read again and passed.
The bill relating to Debtor and Creditor was
taken up, and committed to Messrs. White,
Gray, and Dearborn.
Mr. White, from the shove committee, after
wards made report thereon, accompanied with
a resolve for appointing commissioners to re-
wise the existing laws 10 relation to debtor and
creditor, and to provide for the equal dis;ribu-
ton of the estates of insolvent debtors. Sub
sequently, the bill was referred to the next
General Court
The bill to extend the charter Of the Millbu-
ny Bank was ordered to be laid on the table.
HOUSE. Several remonstrances were pre-
sented against the petition OF the Grand Lodge.
SATURDAY, March l2.
iSEN.ATE. The bill in relation to tho plea
of tender, passed to be enacted.
The bill to annex q part of the town OF Pax
ton to Holden, passed to be engrossed
The bill in relation to the powers and duties
of Sherifls was passed to be engrossed.
Yeas-Messrs. Stearns, Fowler, Gray, Bur
NELL Spaulding, Varnum, Merrill, Webb, Lo-
throp, Lincoln, Pope, Parker, Thorndiks, Wells,
Wilder, Walker, Maxwell. o. Warner, Mixter,
Hastings, Baxter, Brown, Phillips, Lincoln,
Jr.-24.
Nays-Messrs. Hoyt, White, Duncan, Holmes,
Cutler, Dearborn, Locke, Motley, Everett-9.
The petition Of the town of Barre, was refer
red to the next General Court.
HOUSE. resolve passed, relating to
payment to the State Of Maine on account Of