Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-23
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY, March %.

SENTE. Sundry petitions SC. were presented
and referred.
Reports from Committees. BY Mr. Kuhn, from
the committee on Mercantile Affairs and Insurance,
that the House resolve concerning ocean postage
ought To pass; also resolve concerning Minols
Ledge Light House. ra2, A,e N.
By Mr. Hubbard from the Committee on Parish.
es and Religious societies, inexpedent legisate
on the subject of exeniptng from taxation pop
erty held by religious societies a ministerial fund.
Orders Adopted. On motion OF MIR Torey, that
the Committee on Probate and Chaucery consider
the expedency Of increasing the salary OF the Judge
OF probate Of Hampden county
Reports Accepted. Leave &C., petition of
Daniel Davis, Of John Spring and others inexpedi-
ent to legslate relative TO the location ofHghways;
inexpedent, Sc, relative to changing the time OF
holding a term of the Court of Common Pleas in
Essex. y 1851
Passed to be Engrossed. Bills concerning the
Charles River Railroad Company inreation to the
Midway Branch Railroad Company; to change the
name Of the Paper Manufacturers Mutual Insurance
Company; Resolve concerning Literary and Scien-
tihc Exchanges with foreign countries.
The bill concerning the militia was taken up,
amended and passed to third reading. sd t9sa
The bill in relation 10 the Boston and Maine Rail-
road, and the Salem and Lowell Railroad, was pass
ed to be engrossed ts
The bill for dividing the cities and large towns of
the Commonwealth into single representative dis
tlCtSS was HpCCtdhy desISiCu loI NUTS udN neAt DIT
II O'Clock.
On motion of Mr. Hazewell, the Committee on
the Library were instructed to consider the expe-
diency OF providing for obtaining abstract of the
in the office of the Secretary of State, under
the National Census Of $780, SO as to illustrate the
progress in population and wealth ofeach city and
town of the Commonwealth.
HoUsE.-Petitions, &C., presented.-Of sundry
parties for an agency for the detection of counter
feiters OF Cyrus Pierce and others, that the State
furnish 'Swans Patent Improved Planetarium'' to
all schools in which the State has patronage, and
astronomy is taught; of Jonathan Waite, OF North
Brook6eld, that the State will erect monument in
Salem or Danvers, to the memory of the so called
witch and wizard martyrs who executed dur
ing the days of the "Salem witchcialt,'' wherever
their ashes can be found. SeyeraIly referred.
Mr. Netteton of Chicopee, offered order, d.
recting the Sergeant-at- Arms TO to be added
to the scroll 10 the eagles beak, over the Speakers
char--ssGod save the Commonwealth of Massachu-
seus''--thea additional words--'"and the Union of
the States" The order was laid over, under the
rule.
The orders of the day were taken up at half past
10 O'clock. +l2
The report that it is inexpedent to legisate on
an order concerning the repeal OF the law concerning
the taxing OF banks, was laid on the table motion
of Mr. Coolidge Of Boston, who moved to amend by
substitut ng bill, which ordered to be printed.
Ordered TO third reading. Bills, to protect III
ties to real estate derived from aliens; regulating
the fisheries in Palmer river; to incorporate the
Hampton Savings Bank in Springfield; Resolves,
concerning the survey of the surface Geology the
State; on che petition of the Overseers of the Poor
of the town of Grafton; authorizing Ebenezer w.
Holway TO build wharf. ai
Passed to be engrossed. Bills, to incorporate the
town Of Winthrop, with amendment; to author
Use the organization Of the American Tube Works
Corporation; to incorporate the Cary Improvement
Company; to incorporate the. Boston Young Mems
Christian Association.
Another long debate took place on the bill con-
corning the Eastern Railroad Company and the
South Reading Branch Railroad, and after an hour
and a half spent in debate, was recommtted to the
Special Committee which reported it.
Reports Accepted.-Reports nexpedient, &c., on
the petition Of E, Bishop and others.
Leave, &C., on the petition of Abijah Ellis and
others.
Bills to authorize Jonathan II. Young to build
wharf; to authorize the Boston Society Of Natural
History 10 amend its constitutions; concerning the
Mariners Mutual Marine Insurance CO.. severally
ordered to third reading.
Bills passed to be engrossed-To authorize John
b. Parker and his associates to build wharf, pro-
viding for the enlargement of the State Reform
School; to incorporate the Mount Vernon Cemetery
Association; to incorporate the Fitchburg AgricuI
tural Society; Resolves on he petition Of Charles
Brigham; on the petition of John Jewett; on the
petition of Chauhcey lsbelI. to incorporate the Sa-
lem Lyceum; tor the repair of the wharfat Captains
Island; in relation to the State Arsenal at Cam.
bridge; Bills concerning judicial proceeding in the
Courts OF Dukes county; to incorporate the propri-
etors of the Odd Fellows Hall in the city of Boston
The bill for the appointment of two additions
Commissioners of Insolvency in the county of Wor-
cester, was rejected by a vote of AS to So.