Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-04-23
MASSACHUSETTS Lee STATURE.


AFrkRNoo = SESSION.
Petition presented. and referred OF o. P.
Drake and others 10 be incorporated as the Met
ropoiRan hydf Carbon Gas Light Co.
M motioA Of Fairhaven, asked leave to pre-
sent 1--WE additional sections and schedule OF
forms, reported by the Special Committee, at an
addition to the bill 10 amend the present liquor
law.
The special assignment, the bills 10 relation to
banks, was again taken up, and the blli to lncor-
porate the Hopkinon Bank, TSl00 ,0001 was
passed to be engrossed-lOS 10 l0I
The bill to Incorporate the Howard Banking
| Co. in Boston, [$50O,0001 was opposed by
Messrs Nayson Of Amesbury, and Usher, of
Meif0rd and advocated by Alessrs Thurston of
Lancaster, and Miggin of Boston, and was re-
ected yes los, nays I27.
Mr. Ihurston Of Lancaster, advocated the bill
10 incorporate the Metcacomet Bank, in Fall
River, capital 100000.
MIR Nayson Of Amesbury, thought the amount
OF capital proposed was excessive. On his mo-
ton, the bill was amended so as TO reduce the
capital to $500. 900, and the bill passed to be
eugrossed. as ameuded-ll8 TO So
The bill TO incorporate the National Bank, in
Boston 1880, 00O1 was ordered to be ebgrossed
yeas Il2, nays So.
The bill to incorporate the Pittstield bank,
E y. 'oool was passed to he '"s'''''d-l0' to
The Broadway Bank in South Boston, $780,
0O0] was ordered to be engrossed-yeas ia,
nays so.
The bill to incorporate the Wamesit Bank, in
Lowell, $500, 000l, after some debate, was
passed to be engrossed-97 20 81
The bill to incorporate the Webster Bank, in
Boston, ISL 500, 0OO], after some opposition,
was passed to be engrossed without count
FRIDAY, April %.
SENATE.-Reports of Committees.-By Mr..
Wright from the Committee on Towns the bill TO in
corporate the town Of Norfolk in a new draft,
changing the name to the town Of Farnum
The orders OF the day were taken up. The first
matter was the bill TO incorporate the Springfield
and Harrington Valley Railroad
MIR Clark supported the bill, and Mr. Gilbert
strongly opposed its passage.
HousE.-Mr Morton of Farhayen moved a re-
consideration Of the vote by which the House pass.
ed 10 be engrossed Yesterday the bill 10 incorporate
the Webster Bank
Motions were also made to reconsider the votes
whereby the House refused pass to be engrossed,
the bill TO incorporate the Howard Bank, of Bos.
ton, and the Eliot Bank, Of Boston; and the vo 9
whereby The House passed to he engrossed the bill
to incorporate the Wamest Bank in Lowell
BY leave, Mr. Thayer of Worcester, introduced
bill, which was read first lime and referred to the
Committee on Banks and Banking; to incorporat,
the "Bank of Mutual Redemption, in the city OF
Boston; allowing the several Banks in the State to
subscribe To its stock an amount not exceeding 8
per cent. of their capital. The bank to 60 into op
Grafton when $4,000 shall have been subscribed
| TO issue no bills of a denomination less than $40.
and its circulation in case be to exceed IL the
amount OF its capital stock.
The House took up the subject Of the several
bills Tor the incorporation of banks, specially as
slgned-when the bill to incorporate the Woburn
Bank, capital $780, 600, passed to be engrossed
j by division vote of l08 to 100
The following bills were seveially passed to be
engrossed:-ro increase the capital stock Of the
Gloucester Bank, 100000, by vote OF lOI to SO;
OF the Cambridge Market Bank $50, 900, by vote
OF III to 16i to increase the capital of the Bank
North America, in Boston, $25000O by vote O.
liz to l06; to increase the capital of the Machnst's
Bank, in Taunton, $50 900. by vote Of I13 to 80
to increase the capital Of the Warren Bank, in Dan
vers, $4,000 by vote of ll2 to 81.