Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-06

SENATE Reports from Committees. = Mr.
Loud Of Norfolk, from the Joint Special Com
nittee appointed to consider and report at
what time the several Committees of the Leg
stature may make their final reports, that there
are three Committees, viz,--the Committees
on Towns, Railroads and Mercantile Affairs
and Insurance,-that cannot finish their bust
ness before the LIST of April, and that the
others may probably finish in a fortnight from
this date. Placed in the orders of the day.
By Mr.. Mansur Of Worcester, Committee on
Manufactures, bills to incorporate the Doug
lass Reservoir Company, the Lyman Mills
Company, and the Bigelow Carpet Company
Mr.. Ellis of Plylnoth, on leave-introduced
bill to prevent further injury and destruct-
ion of life on railroads or on railroad trains
read once and ordered to be printed.
Passed to be engaossed.-Bills to change the
name of the Bethesda Baptist Society in
Charlestown for the transfer of persons com
mitted to Houses of Correction from one coun-
ty to another; in relation to arrests in actions
of tort additional, to the act to incorporate the
Boston Asylum and Farm School for INDECENT
boys.
The motion to reconsider the vote rejecting
the Charles River Railroad bill, was debated
by Messrs Cutler of Middlesex, and Whit
man of Worcester, in its favor until the hour
Of adjournment.
Enthusiastically Petitions aooye presented
and referred. Passed TO be enacted. Bills, to
incorporate the Boston Iron Works; in addition
to an act concerning the manner of voting in
certain elections; to change the location of the
Suffolk Cordage Company; to increase the cap
ital stock of the East Boston Dry Dock Com
pany; resolve, on the petition Of the society
for the employment Of female poor.
Reports Of Com,nsittecs.-B Mr. Kinsman,
of Newburyport, Committee on Elections, bill
concerning fees of witnesses in cases of con-
tested elections Of members Of the House of
Representatives.
Bv Mr.. Brown, Of Salem, Committee on
Towns, leave to withdraw on the petition of
Calvin Stone and others, for new town, to
be called Belmont. Accepted
By Mr.. Pond, of Boston, from the commit
tee on Claims, report on the order relative to
the Commission on Massachusetts claims
N. P. Banks had succeeded in procuring re-
port of an intelligent committee in Congress,
in favor of the payment of the claims in ques-
ton, and that the subject remained as it stood
at the date Of Mr.. Bankss commission as
agent. The sum of $3.50 "a had been paid
to said agent, being at the rate of $500 per
diem, and his necessary expenses. There is
no person now in commission for this pur-
pose.
By Mr.. Colburn, Of Dedham, Committee
on Railroads and Canals, bill to extend the
time of the State loan to the Norwich and
Worcester Railroad.
After good deal of discussion, the House sus-
pended the rule in relation to the time of re-
turning orders of notices in the cases of sun
dry petitions.
The Dill concernlng Ooun1y commissioners
was amply discussed by several members, after
which It was ordered to a third reading.
The bill in addition to an act to incorporate
the Metropolitan Railroad, after being dis
cussed, was laid on the table.
Passed to be engrossed. Bills, to incorpor-
ate the MedEord Gas Light Company, and the
Franklin Locomotive Company.