Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-03-17
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.


HOUSE, CoETINUED.-Mr Booths amendments to
the Lawrence City Bill rejected, and the bill
then passed 10 a third readiog.
The Bill for the sale of the Public Lands in Maine
was hen taken up, and the discussion thereof con
tnued ill the House adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, March l6.
SENATE. Petitions, &C., presented aud referred
By MIR Phillips, remonstrance Of Baxter b. WIFI
ney and others against the division of Worceste
County.
Mr. Brnley, hom the 81 Committee on Towns
repol ted bill 10 incorporate the town of Norl
Reading.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration of tn
orders of The day.
Passed to be engrossed. Resolve on petition
Worcester City Guards. Bills, to change the nam
of the Bristol County Coal Mining Co, 10 incorpo
rate the Jamaica Plain Gas Light Co, the Dedhal
Gas Light Co, the Northampton Gas Light Co, tn
Worcester Co. Carpet Mills, the DunneIl Manuiac
turing Co, the Pucumtuck Hotel Co; to increas'
the capital Of the Fairhaven Branch Railroad Con
poration; to Incorporate the Town of Nahant; ad
ditonal act relating to Banus Of Marriage; reatlv
TO Agricultural Societies. Adjourned.
House. Petitions presented and rtiened.
citizens Of North Btidgewater, that the name
that town be changed to = Augusta" of citizens
Harvard and West Boy lston, severaly against ID
the division of the County Of Worcester; OF sundl
parties against the repeal af the liquor law.
Passed to be enacted. Bills to lncorp orate III
Magouset Fishing Company; to incorporate tb
Ware Gas Light ComAey; to authorize the launto
Branch Railroad TO subscribe TO the Taunton an
MddlebDrO' Branch Railroad; in,addition to an az
to set off part OF Dedham and annex it to Walpoe;t
revive the charter Of the Taunton and Middleton
Railroad Company; to incorporate the Commerce.
Mutual Marine Insurance Company; to incorporat
the Pawucket Gas Light Company to incorporat
the Abingdon Savings Bank. ResoIves--n additio
to a resolve authorizing the Board of Education
appoint agents; on the petition OF Elias e. David
son, administrator
The orders of the day were taken up.
Under a suspension of the rules, the bill for th
more speedy trial Of actions at law passed to b
engrossed
Reports accepted. Asking to be discharged fror
the consideration Of the petition of A, Nj. Bigeow
leave to withdraw on the petition of Overseers
the Poor Of Southbridge; petition of Ezeki,
Stevens and Others; leave sc. on petition OF Ne'
Salem Academy.
Passed to be engrossed-Bills, in addition TO a
act to establish the city of Cambridge; in additio
TO an act concerning alewives in Herring River; t
increase the capital stock of the New England Wors
ted Co.; to incorporate the American Linen Co.
10 change the name Of the Sd Congregational SOce
ty in Chelsea; to authorize the lst Congregations
Society in Arlington to sell real estate; incorp
rate the Boston French institute; TO cede to tb
United States the jurisdiction certain lands
Tisbury; TO authorize Reuben c. Case to build
wharf; TO authorize Gilbert Smith and others
build a wharf at Harwich; authorizing the Bosto
Baggiug Company to increase their capital; col
corning lunatics iuriously mad; concerning Wa
River Railroad Company; to establish the city
Lawrence. Resolves, concerning the ventilation
School Houses; on the petition Of Julia Ludingtop
The Annual Report Of the Attorney General wa
presented, and ordered to be printed.
1.-THE number of prosecutions during the past yea
was 1888. There were l443 convictions, 209 ac
quias, 1914 mol posd, 85l still pending, 465 case
in which no bills were found, SO not arrested, u
deaul-ed in recognizances; and the whole cost
$72,772 I5]
The House took up the subject of the sale Of tn
public lands in Maine, the question being on th
adoption of a les of amendments Ivy Mr. Boyd o
Boston. After debate thereon, the first part Of NJ
Boyd's amendment was put TO division, aud mega
tived by vote OF 40 to AZ.
The other amendments were then withdrawn by
Mr. Boyd, who minated that he would call tor the
yeas and nays on the final passage the bill.