Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-29
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.

SATURDAY, March %.
SENATE. Several petitions were received aud
referred.
Reports of Committees-By Mr. SewaI, from
the special committee, TO which was referred the
resolutions of The Legislatures Of New Hampshire,
Delaware, and New Jersey, bill further to pro-
tect personal liberty.
Tie bill is very similar to the law Of Vermont
on the same subject, and was laid on the table.
and ordered to be printed.
BY Mr.. Lawrence, from the COMMITTEE on Pro-
bate and Chancery, bill concerning the powers
of guardians.
Passed to be Engrossed-Bilis concerning Saw
ings Banks aud Institutions for Savings; on the
petition of the Overseers Of the Poor of Cav
Head; to authorize Darius Perry to extend his
wharf; to Increase the Capital Stock of the Bos-
ton Gas Light Company; to authorize Ebenezer
w. Howay to build wharf; to authorize Jona-
than ii. Young to build wharf
HoUsE.-Sundry Petitions, &c, were pre-
scented, and severally referred.
Reports from Commitees-By Mr.. Clarke of
Nonhboro', Committee on Railways and Canals.
bill to extend the Agricultural Bra CHI Railroad,
The Chair announced Alessrs Gooch of Melrose.
Shaw Of Bridgewater, Merrill OF GroveIand, G.
HuwIand of New Bedford, and Varnum of ora
cut, as the Special Committee on the petition for
inquiry into the proceedings of the Commas
seners for locating the proposed new Insane
Hospital.
Pass, TO be Enacted-Bs concerning the
Mariners Mutual Marine Insurance Company:
to authorize John b. Parker and his associates TO
build a wharf; to provide for The preservation
and management of the Sawtell School Fund in
the town Of GrOton; 10 protect titles TO real estate
derived tom aliens; 10 incorporate the Mount
Vernon Cemetery Association Resolve on the
petition of the Overeers of the Poor in The town
of Grafton.
The orders ofthe day were taken up and sundry
bills and resolves were advanced to their third
reading.
Passed to be engrossed-Bis regulating the
Fisheries IN Palmer River; toauthorize the Bos.
ton Society Of Natural History to amend its Con-
sltutlon; to change the name of the Paper Man
ufacturies Mutual In urance Company; to au-
thorize the organization Of corporation bv the
name ofthe Serpentine Paint and Fire Brick Com
pany; TO incorporate the Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy Resolves, on the petition of Alex
ander Houston; concerning SCOTS System Of
Infantry Taclicks.
Reports accepted ii is inexpedient to legis
laie on an order concerning banks and banking;
leave, &c. petition of Samuel Adams; iaex-
pedient, &c, on order relative to exempting
Ministerial Funds from taxation mex pedient, &c,
on an order concerning witnesses; inexpedient,
&c, on an order concerning Sudges of the Su
preme Court; leave, &c, on the remonstrance Of
lchabod Spooner and others, against the right of
Martin Knight to seat in this House as Repre-
sentative from Hull; inexpedent, &c, relative TO
reducing the time allowed for foreclosng of mort
ages, &C.; inexpedlenl, &C., on cranberry mead
ows, swamps, low lands, &C.; leave, &c, on the
petition Of the town Of Truro.
At half past II O'clock, the House went into
committee of the Whole, on the Liquor Bill.
MIR, Lord Of Salem, resumed his unfinished
speech against certain details of the bill.