Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-30
MASSACHUSETTS, LEGISLATURE.

MONDAY, Jan. ~.
SENATE.-An order was passed for inquir.
ing relative to recording attachments upon
real estate, to prevent frauds in the transfer of
such real estate.
The Judiciary Committee reported that the
bill to amend Chap. 322, Acts of 1854, ought
10 pass, and it ordered TO a third reading
The motion to reconsider the vote agreeing
to the Constitutional amendment relative to
the election Of Shertts, Registers OF Probate,
&C., was carried.
Mr.. Maine, of Suffolk, renewed his motion
that the specific proposed amendment to the
constitution, and contained in the last article
of proposed amendments relating to the elect
ing OF clerks of the courts by the people, be
stricken out.
The President reversed his former decision,
and ruled that the motion to amend was ad-
missable.
Mr. Hall, of Plymouth, raised a point of
order that the bill was not in possession OF the
Senate, and appealed from the decision of the
Chair, adverse to his point of order. After
debate the decision was sustained.
Mr.. Names amendment was discussed at
great length.
In the course of the debate, Mr.. Andrews
of Franklin, asked if it was in order to ap.
peal from the Presidents decision that the ar
ticle might be amended. The President said
it was then too late to appeal.
The amendment was rejected by yea and
nay vote Of % to ), and the article of amend
ment was again agreed to-yeas %, nays 5.
Petitions were presented.-Of John B. Marks
for leave to extend his land on South Boston
flats to the Commissioners line and of j.
Burrll, of Weymouth, foi leave to sell real
estate belonging to his insane wife. Several
last year petitions were referred. Adj.
HoUsE.-The following acts were passed to
be enacted Bills to enforce the acts incor.
porating the Old Colony Insurance Company,
of Plymouth, and to authorize an increase of
capital stock; in addition to an act concern
ing County Commissioners; resolve for the
appointment of Commissioner to attend the
Exposition of the Industry of All Nations.
The petitions presented were those OF Lau-
renee Richards and others, for leave to erect a
wharf on the northerly shore Of South Boston
to the harbor line; of the City of Boston, in
relation to pauper accounts; of Jas. Elbridge,
for revision Of the Militia laws Of Daniel
Lawrence and ia others, against that Of Jas.
M. Usher and others, for a bridge over Mystic
River.
A message was received from the Governor,
covering a communication from the U. S.
Treasury relative to the cession CT jurisdic-
ton over certain lands i'll the town of Glouces-
ter.
Orders were adopted-concerning provis-
ion by law, that any amount of property, not
exceeding $500, owned or held by any house
holder Or person having a family, shall he ex-
empted from attachment or levy on execution;
that the Constitution be so amended as to pro
vide that balloting at all elections shall be by
sealed envelopes.
Orders were rejected proposing an altera-
tion of the law so that owners of woodlands
adjoining improved lands should fence the
same; that all attachments Of real estate shall
date from the time that the original writ, or
copy thereof, without the declaration, is filed
in the Office of the Clerk of Court for the
County in which the real estate is situated
that evidence of wilful desertion during a
period of less than five years, shall be ac-
cepted by courts before whom divorce cases are
tried, instead Of proof of desertion for five
years.
The several subjects in the orders of the day
were acted on, among them the resolve in favor
of Mary ID. Wells, widow of the late Judge
Wells, which was passed to be engrossed
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