Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-31
MnssaeI.usett. LegisIature.

WEDNESDAY, March ~.
SENATE.-Reportso of Committee on Mercan-
tile Affairs, &c. BY Mr.. Hobart, bill to incor-
porate the proprietors of the Quinsigamond
House in Worcester.
Passed to be engrossed. Bills to incorpor-
ate the Peoples Five Cent Savings Bank in
Boston; the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank;
the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank, and the
South End Savings Bank.
An order was adopted for the additional APP
pointment of members of the Senate, and 10
of the House, to attend the funeral of Jonathan
Harrington.
The orders of the day were taken up, and
the bill to annex part of North Brookield to
Brookfeld, was referred to the next General
Court.
The report, leave to withdraw on the petit
ton of the fremont Bank, was next taken up,
when Mr.. Kinball moved to amend by the
substitution of bill to give the bank an in
crease of capital in the sum Of $3.50, 900,
which was adopted 10 to 8, and the bill re-
ceived its first and second readings, and was
ordered to third reading by the following
vote:
Yeas-Alvord, Aspinwall, Boardman, Bor-
den, Brastow, Cutler, Faulkner, Field, Has
kell, Healy, Hobart, Kimball, Paine, Parker,
Perkins, Pingree, Prince, Reynolds, Warren.
Nays-Davis, Holland, Hubbard, Kellogg,
Mitchell, Murdoch, Wilbur.
HousE.-Passed to be Enacted.-Bills to
extend Sargent's wharf at Gloucester; in adj
dition to an act to incorporate the Boston
Chemical Company; to incorporate the West
Cambridge Gas Light Company to incorpor-
ate the Woburn Gas Light Company to in
corporate the Winchendon Savings Bank; to
incorporate the Provincetown Gas Light Com
fba EaA Riuar Dol
Company; to incorporate the Housatonic Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company resolves con-
corning models Of fruits and animals; to au-
thorize the Adlutant General to enlarge the
Manual Of Arms.
The orders of the day were taken up, and
the bill to establish the salary Of the Governor
: came up for consideration. 1t was amended
by striking out the sum of $4,000, and insert
ing $500 instead and further so as to apply
its provisions to the current political year. 1t
was then ordered to be engrossed.
The Ten Hour Law. The House then took
up the bill concerning the employment of per-
sons by manufacturing companies. Mr..
Benchley OF Worcester, made very eloquent
speech in favor of the bill. He contrasted the
operation of the unrestricted system of Eng
land with that substituted by the ten hour
law in that country, and showed that the
llOldl anu bOCldl ROOu CiIeCLS were Sucn as to
make similar provision in this country abso-
lutely necessary, in order to prevent the eff
fects which the English ten hour law had been
| designed to cure.
The debate was continued by Messrs Foote
of Lowell Wood Of Fitchburg, and others,
and the bill was refused third reading with
out a count. Mr.. Ware of Fitchburg then
moved reconsideration, and the motion went
into the orders of the day.
THURSDAY, March 80
SENATE.-Seyeral reports of Committees
were referred and the Special Committee OIL
the Hoosac Tunnel reported that the bill ought
to pass. Placed in the orders of the day.
The vote referring to the next General
Court, the bill to set off part of North Brook
field to Brookfeld, was reconsidered, and the
bill placed in the orders of the day. Ad.
journed.
HoUsE.-Pdssed to be Enacted. Bills. in
addition to an act to incorporate the CAMBRIDGE
Railroad Company to incorporate the Pro.
testant Episcopal School Of the House of Mass
achusetts for Orphan Boys; to incorporate the
Greenfield Gas Company; toincrease the CAP.
ital stock of the Salisbury Manufacturing
Company.
Order adopted for committee to conside,
and report when the session of the Legisla.
ture may be brought to close; that on ant
after Monday next the House hold two SEES
sions day.
The Orders Of the day were taken up, anc
debateable matters were passed over.
The bill to incorporate the Upton Hote
Company, was recommitted to the committee
Passed to be Eagrossed. Bills, establishin
the salaries of Warden and others of Stat
Prison--(amende SO as to make the Warden
salary $500 instead Of $4,000: toincorporat