Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-01-30
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.

THURSDAY, Jan. 90.
SENATE.-Petitions, &c Presented and Referred
by Mr. Walker, OF Trustees and Students OF the
1uaboag seminary in reference TO the liquor law.
communication was received from the Secre-
tary NJ state accompanied by documents showing
the rah OF voters TO population in the Common
wealth aid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Report OF Committe-By Mr.. Kuhn-Mercantle
AfaIs and luSurance-an act to incorporate the
Boston and New Orleans Steamship Company
Ou motion of Mr.. Beard, II O'Clock to-mor-
row was assigned the time for choice of Ser
geant-at-Arms on the part of the Senate.
The orders of the day were taken up, and sun
dry papers therein advanced one stage.
The bill TO exempt certain persons from taxa
ton " taken up and discussed on a constitution
al technically.
Pending the discussion the Senate adjourned
INVESTIGATIONS &c. presented and referred
OF the Boston and Lowell Railroad Co. for leave
to construct brannh track in Lowell; of 1hos.
Haskell and 80 Others of Gloucester, to be set off
separate town of Martin Perkins and others
of Plympton against the right Of J. b. Nye to a
seat in the House from that town; of John Wall
ton and others for the erection of monument in
Peppereil over the remains of Col. Prescott
Reports of Committees-By Mr.. Davis, of Wor
cester-Judiciary An Act on the petition Of the
Mayor Of Roxbury, in further addition 10 an act to
establish the city Of Roxbury.
By Mr.. Mansur of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
port confirming the right of JAS. X Fellows, A. r..
OIoWH. Eiuh'y CpdululiS, JESSE f. Fd'HsWoi'n,
VIM. s. Robinson, Erastus Douglass, Luther b.
Morse. and Luther Eames, of Lowell, to seats in
the House from Lowell
Mr.. Abbott of Danyers, presented the memorial
of Thomas Emerson and eighty. lone Others, stock
holders in the South Reading Branch railroad,
praying for an inquiry into the doings of the Eas
tern Railroad Company. whether the same are not
in violation and forfeiture Of their charter, and
for relief from the same Referred to a special
committee and ordered to be printed.
MIR Earles order of yesterday taken from
the table on his motion, and adapted.
This order directs the committee on the Judc-
larry to consider whether any legislation is neces-
sary to extend the jurisdiction of Police Courts
and Justices of the Peace in cases of larceny and
is intended to rectlly defect in law Of last ses-
sion, by which the most trifing larceny if com
mitted in any building must necessarily 60 to the
Court of Common Pleas
Ordered-On motion of Mr. Prince of Wnches-
ter. That the Committee on the Judiciary be in
structed TO consider the expedency of providing
by law that IN all controversies at law. the parties
thereto may be competent witnesses.
The bills previously passed to be engrossed were
passed to be enacted.
The orders of the day taken up, and the
order offered by MIR KnbalI of Boston on Tues
day, to cause committee to inquire into the ex-
pediency OF causing prisoners sentenced to hard
labor to work out the term of their sentence by
extending the term to cover all time lost by
loathsome diseases or confinement for bad behavior
in the prison was adopted